About Our Authors

Ashish Agarwal (“Do Organic Results Help or Hurt Sponsored Search Performance?”) is an assistant professor of information management at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He has a Bachelors degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, a Masters in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in information systems from Carnegie Mellon University. His research work focuses on information search, online consumer behavior, and product strategies for software firms.

Izak Benbasat (“Designing Warning Messages for Detecting Biased Online Product Recommendations: An Empirical Investigation”) is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and professor at the University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and a Doctorat Honoris Causa from the Université de Montréal. He received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievements from the Association for Information Systems, and was conferred the title of Distinguished Fellow by the INFORMS Information Systems Society. He was editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research, and editor of the IS & DSS department of Management Science.

Min Chen (“Can Payment-per-Click Induce Improvements in Click Fraud Identification Technolgies?”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the School of Business, George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. from the Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests include economics of information systems, information security, and online advertising. His research has appeared in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and has been presented at premier conferences.

Ben C. F. Choi (“Embarassing Exposures in Online Social Networks: An Integrated Perspective of Privacy Invasion and Relationship Bonding”) is a lecturer in information systems at the UNSW Australia Business School, University of New South Wales. He has a Ph.D. and a B.S. in information systems from the National University of Singapore. His research interests focus on information privacy, social media, and mobile applications.

Vidyanand Choudhary (“Patching the Cloud: The Impact of SaaS on Patching Strategy and the Timing of Software Release”) is an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in management from Purdue University. His research interests include economics of information systems; business impact of analytics; use of recommender systems and search tools; impact of technology on corporate governance; marketing strategy and pricing of cloud and SaaS products; and pricing and product line design of information goods. He is a cofounder of the Workshop on Theory in Economics of Information Systems (TEIS) and his research papers have won best paper awards at ICIS and WITS.

Tamara Dinev (“Informing Privacy Research Through Information Systems, Psychology, and Behavioral Economics: Thinking Outside the “APCO” Box”) is a professor of management information systems and Department Chair at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University. Her research interests include individual and organization behavior related to information privacy and information security. She serves as senior associate editor of the European Journal of Information Systems, guest associate editor of MIS Quarterly on multiple occasions, and is track chair for the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS) and the European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS).

Kui Du (“Parenting New Acquisitions: Acquirers’ Digital Resource Redployment and Targets’ Performance Improvement in the U.S. Hospital Industry”) is an assistant professor in the department of management science and information systems, College of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston. He received his Ph.D. from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. His main research interest is at the intersection of information technology and strategy, with current research areas including the role of information technology in acquisitions, divestitures, and spin-offs.

Anand Gopal (Tigerblood: Newspapers, Blogs, and the Founding of Information Technology Firms”) is an associate professor of information systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. He has a Ph.D. in information systems from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are in the economics of information systems, focusing on software development outsourcing and offshoring, venture capital, and empirical software engineering. His work has been published in Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and others.

Brad N. Greenwood (Tigerblood: Newspapers, Blogs, and the Founding of Information Technology Firms”) is an assistant professor of management information systems in the Fox School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in decision, operations and information technology from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research investigates information availability and decision making in ambiguous environments and has been published in such leading outlets as Management Science, Information Systems Research, Productions and Operations Management, and MIS Quarterly.

Hong Guo (“Design of Consumer Review Systems and Product Pricing”) is an assistant professor in the department of management at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. She received her Ph.D. from the department of information systems and operations management at the University of Florida. Her research interests are economic analysis of information technology policy issues such as net neutrality, broadband network management, and public safety networks, as well as text mining in online social networks.

Il-Horn Hann (“Can’t Buy Me Love…Or Can I? Social Capital Attainment Through Conspicuous Consumption in Virtual Environments”) is an associate professor in the department of decision, operations and information technologies and Co-Director for the Center for Digital Innovation, Technology, and Strategy at the Robert H. Smith School at the University of Maryland, College Park. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and TU Darmstadt. His research appeared in Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of MIS. He serves on the editorial board for Management Science and Information Systems Research.

Oliver Hinz (“Can’t Buy Me Love…Or Can I? Social Capital Attainment Through Conspicuous Consumption in Virtual Environments”) heads the Chair of Information Systems Electronic Markets at TU Darmstadt. In his research he focuses on topics at the intersection of technology and markets. His research has been published in journals like Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Marketing, Journal of MIS, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Business & Information Systems Engineering, and in a number of proceedings (e.g. ICIS, ECIS, PACIS).

Kartik Hosanagar (“Do Organic Results Help or Hurt Sponsored Search Performance?”) is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated as a valedictorian from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS, Pilani) with a Bachelors degree in electronics and a masters in information systems, and has an MPhil in management science and a Ph.D. in management science and information systems from Carnegie Mellon University. His research work focuses on the digital economy, in particular Internet media, Internet marketing, and e-commerce.

Varghese S. Jacob (“Can Payment-per-Click Induce Improvements in Click Fraud Identification Technolgies?”) is the Senior Associate Dean and Lars Magnus Ericsson Distinguished Professor of Management Information Systems in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He obtained his Ph.D. from Purdue University. His articles have been published in various journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Journal of MIS, Psychometrika, and Group Decision and Negotiation. He serves on several journal editorial boards.

Yabing Jiang (“Design of Consumer Review Systems and Product Pricing”) is an associate professor of information systems and operations management at the Lutgert College of Business, Florida Gulf Coast University. She holds a Ph.D. in computers information systems from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester. Her research interests focus on employing economic theories and methodologies to study information technology-related topics such as new business models and pricing strategies in e-commerce, and incentive contracting in service facilities.

Zhenhui (Jack) Jiang (“Embarassing Exposures in Online Social Networks: An Integrated Perspective of Privacy Invasion and Relationship Bonding”) is an associate professor in the department of information systems of the National University of Singapore and AIS SIGHCI Chair-Elect. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. His research interests include social media, e-commerce, and information privacy. His work has been published in top information systems journals, such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of MIS, and top human–computer interaction conferences, such as CHI. He serves as the associate editor of MIS Quarterly.

Atreyi Kankanhalli (“What Motivates Contributors vs. Lurkers? An Investigation of Online Feedback Forums”) is an associate professor in the department of information systems and Assistant Dean (Research) of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. She conducts research in the areas of knowledge management, virtual teams and communities, and information technology-enabled innovation in service sectors. Her work has appeared in premium journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, and Journal of AIS. She is the recipient of the IDA Gold Medal and IBM Faculty Award.

Stephen K. Kim (“Discriminating IT Governance”) is the Dean’s Professor of Marketing at the College of Business, Iowa State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. His current research interests include new forms of interfirm governance, interfirm control systems, and incentive issues in marketing and sales. His research has appeared in Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research,Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and other marketing and business journals.

Sung S. Kim (“Embarassing Exposures in Online Social Networks: An Integrated Perspective of Privacy Invasion and Relationship Bonding”) is an associate professor in the department of operations and information management at the Wisconsin School of Business. His research covers broad issues related to online user behavior including habit, loyalty, switching costs, information privacy and security, gaming, community participation, and social networking. His research has appeared in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Journal of MIS, Journal of AIS, and Decision Sciences.

Allen R. McConnell (“Informing Privacy Research Through Information Systems, Psychology, and Behavioral Economics: Thinking Outside the “APCO” Box”) is a professor of psychology at Miami University, and he currently serves as editor-in-chief of Social Psychological and Personality Science. His service includes being president of the Midwestern Psychological Association, associate editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and associate editor of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. His recognitions include being named the inaugural James and Beth Lewis Professor, University Distinguished Scholar, and Professor of the Year in Psychology.

Chee Wei Phang (“What Motivates Contributors vs. Lurkers? An Investigation of Online Feedback Forums”) is an associate professor in the department of information management and information systems of the School of Management at Fudan University. He conducts research in the areas of social media, mobile commerce, and information technology-enabled innovation in service sectors. His work has appeared in premium journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Management Science, Journal of MIS, and Journal of AIS. He is currently a member of the Association for Information Systems.

Suresh Radhakrishnan (“Can Payment-per-Click Induce Improvements in Click Fraud Identification Technolgies?”) is the Constantine Konstans Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Corporate Governance at the University of Texas at Dallas, and a Visiting Fellow at various Asian universities. He has published in leading academic journals in accounting, finance, and operations management. His work on organization capital and charitable giving has been covered by major media, and presented at Microsoft CEO Summit and SAP Global Congress. His research interests include intangible assets, performance evaluation, and contracting.

Young U. Ryu (“Can Payment-per-Click Induce Improvements in Click Fraud Identification Technolgies?”) is an associate professor of management information systems at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include data science and security. His research papers have been published in various journals including Management Science, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal on Computing, and ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.

Shivendu Shivendu (“Versioning in the Software Industry: Heterogeneous Disutility from Underprovisioning of Functionality”) is an assistant professor of information systems decision sciences at the Muma College of Business, University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Southern California, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His expertise is in the field of information goods markets, information technology services contracts, online auctions, digital goods pricing, and economics of information security and privacy. Prior to moving to academics, he was a member of the Indian Administrative Service.

H. Jeff Smith (“Informing Privacy Research Through Information Systems, Psychology, and Behavioral Economics: Thinking Outside the “APCO” Box”) is the George and Mildred Panuska Professor in Business in the Farmer School of Business at Miami University. His research focuses on ethical, societal, and regulatory issues associated with strategic uses of information technology and on organizational impediments to successful implementation of information technology applications. He serves as a senior editor of Decision Sciences and has previously served on the editorial board of MIS Quarterly.

Michael D. Smith (“Do Organic Results Help or Hurt Sponsored Search Performance?”) is a professor of information systems and marketing at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Bachelors of Science in electrical engineering (summa cum laude) and a Masters of Science in telecommunications science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and received a Ph.D. in management science from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research uses economic and statistical techniques to analyze firm and consumer behavior in online markets for digital information and digital media products.

Martin Spann (“Can’t Buy Me Love…Or Can I? Social Capital Attainment Through Conspicuous Consumption in Virtual Environments”) heads the Institute of Electronic Commerce and Digital Markets at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. His research focuses on the impact of information technology on marketing. His work has been published in Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Marketing Science, the Journal of Marketing, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, the Journal of Retailing, the Journal of Interactive Marketing, and other journals.

Bernard C. Y. Tan (“What Motivates Contributors vs. Lurkers? An Investigation of Online Feedback Forums”) is Vice Provost at the National University of Singapore, where he was formerly Head of the Department of Information Systems. He is Shaw Professor of Information Systems at the National University of Singapore, where he has won university awards for research and teaching. He has served on the editorial boards of MIS Quarterly (senior editor), Journal of AIS (senior editor), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (department editor), Management Science (associate editor), ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (associate editor), and Journal of MIS (editorial board member); his research has been published in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Information and Management, Information Systems Frontiers, Information Systems Research, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Journal of Global Information Management, Journal of MIS, Journal of AIS, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Management Science, and MIS Quarterly. His current research interests are social media, virtual communities, and Internet commerce. He was the 15th president of the Association for Information Systems; he is a fellow of the Association for Information Systems.

Amrit Tiwana (“Discriminating IT Governance”) is a professor of management information systems at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia State University.

Bo Xiao (“Designing Warning Messages for Detecting Biased Online Product Recommendations: An Empirical Investigation”; “Embarassing Exposures in Online Social Networks: An Integrated Perspective of Privacy Invasion and Relationship Bonding”) is an assistant professor in the information technology management at the Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She received her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Her primary research interests include human-computer interaction, societal implications of information technology, and social media. She has published multiple papers in premier information systems journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Decision Support Systems. She has served as associate editor and (mini-)track chair for journal and prestigious international conferences.

Zhe (James) Zhang (“Versioning in the Software Industry: Heterogeneous Disutility from Underprovisioning of Functionality”; “Patching the Cloud: The Impact of SaaS on Patching Strategy and the Timing of Software Release”) is an assistant the professor in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He graduated with a Ph.D. in information systems from the Paul Merage Business School, University of California, Irvine. His research interests are in the economics of information systems, particularly, pricing and product strategies of information goods. Prior to receiving his Ph.D., he worked as an enterprise warehouse data modeler in the Oversea Chinese Bank Corporate Singapore.