About Our Authors

Gedas Adomavicius (“Coalition-Based Pricing in Ascending Combinatorial Auctions”) is a professor in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from New York University.

Amit Bhatnagar (“Providing a Window of Opportunity for Converting eStore Visitors”) is an associate professor of marketing at the Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He received a Ph.D. in marketing from SUNY–Buffalo and a B.Tech. in mechanical engineering from IIT, Kanpur. His research interests are in the area of Internet marketing. His research has been published in several journals, including Communications of the ACM, International Journal of Electronic Commerce,Journal of Business, Marketing Letters, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Retailing, and International Journal of Research in Marketing.

Martin Bichler (“Coalition-Based Pricing in Ascending Combinatorial Auctions”) is a professor in the Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich. He received his Ph.D. from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Previously, he was a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

Thomas F. Burgess (“Diversity of the Information Systems Research Field: A Journal Governance Perspective”) is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School after a full-time career in academia spanning 35 years. He has an MBA from the University of Bradford and a Ph.D. in computer studies from Leeds University. He initially dual-qualified as a manufacturing and mechanical engineer (Leeds Beckett University) before holding various posts in manufacturing and service companies prior to entering his career in academia. In higher education, he specialized in areas including management information systems and operations management.

Sanjeev Dewan (“Popularity or Proximity: Characterizing the Nature of Social Influence in an Online Music Community”) is a professor of information systems at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in business administration from the Simon School at the University of Rochester. His research interests are in the areas of the economics of information technology, electronic commerce, and impacts of social media. He has served as a senior editor at Information Systems Research and an associate editor at Management Science.

Matt Germonprez (“A Theory of Responsive Design: A Field Study of Corporate Engagement with Open Source Communities”) is the Mutual of Omaha Associate Professor of Information Systems in the College of Information Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He uses qualitative, field-studies to research corporate engagement with open source communities and the dynamics of design in these engagements. He is also a research member of the Open Community Data Exchange, a community exploring the complexities associated with the distribution and discovery of online behavioral data to overcome persistent research challenges that stem from the reuse of large data sets; both of these lines of research have been funded by the National Science Foundation. He is also an active open source community member, having presented design and development work at LinuxCon, the Linux Open Compliance Summit, and the Linux Collaboration Summit. He is the co-founder of the Association for Information Systems’ SIGOPEN and has published in MIS Quarterly, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, the Journal of Information Technology, Information Systems Journal, Information and Organization, and ACM Interactions.

Paul Grimshaw (“Diversity of the Information Systems Research Field: A Journal Governance Perspective”) is a research associate in the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds. He was awarded his Ph.D. by the University of Leeds. His research focuses on understanding and exploring mechanisms that meaningfully connect public and private sector institutions, with an explicit interest in networks, interorganizational relationships, and innovation occurring at the intersection between industry and research.

Zhen Hao (“Coalition-Based Pricing in Ascending Combinatorial Auctions”) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich.

Yi-Jen (Ian) Ho (“Popularity or Proximity: Characterizing the Nature of Social Influence in an Online Music Community”) is an assistant professor of supply chain and information systems at the Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in information systems at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He is mainly interested in understanding the impacts of information technologies on consumer choice. His current research focuses on the areas of social media, mobile, and location-based technologies in digital markets.

Kai-Lung Hui (“Technology Mergers and Acquisitions in the Presence of an Installed Base: A Strategic Analysis”) is a professor of information systems at the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his BBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include information privacy and security, IT policy, and electronic commerce. His research has been published in scholarly journals including Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of Management Information Systems, among others.

Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis (“Cost-Effective Quality Assurance in Crowd Labeling”) is a professor and George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow at the Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. He has received nine best paper awards and nominations, a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, and is the recipient of the 2015 Lagrange Prize in Complex Systems, for his contributions in the field of social media, user-generated content, and crowdsourcing.

Julie E. Kendall (“A Theory of Responsive Design: A Field Study of Corporate Engagement with Open Source Communities”) is a professor of management in the School of Business–Camden, Rutgers University. She is a fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute and a Past Chair of IFIP Working Group 8.2; she served as a vice president for the Association for Information Systems. She is a co-author of Systems Analysis and Design, now in its ninth edition. Her research interests include developing qualitative tools for systems analysts, researching Web presence for nonprofit organizations, including Off-Broadway theatres, and corporate participation in open source communities. She is an associate editor for Communications of the Association for Information Systems and served on the inaugural editorial board of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, functional MIS co-editor for Interfaces, and associate editor for MIS Quarterly; she has published in MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Organization Studies, and many others.

Kenneth E. Kendall (“A Theory of Responsive Design: A Field Study of Corporate Engagement with Open Source Communities”) is a Distinguished Professor of Management in the School of Business–Camden, Rutgers University. He is one of the founders of the International Conference on Information Systems and a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI); he is a past president of DSI and was awarded the Silver Core from IFIP; he was named Educator of the Year in information systems for 2010 by the Association for Information Technology Professionals. He is a co-author of Systems Analysis and Design, ninth edition. His research focuses on corporate engagement with open source communities, using storytelling as a methodology in information systems research, and developing new tools for systems analysis and design. He has served as an associate editor for Decision Sciences; he has published in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, and many other journals.

Lars Mathiassen (“A Theory of Responsive Design: A Field Study of Corporate Engagement with Open Source Communities”) is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, professor at the Computer Information Systems Department, and cofounder of the Center for Process Innovation at Georgia State University. His research focuses on development of software and information services, on IT-enabled innovation of business processes, and on management and facilitation of organizational change processes. He approaches innovation and improvement initiatives with a strong focus on people skills and collaborative processes while at the same time emphasizing adoption of state-of-the-art technologies and methods. He has published extensively in major information systems and software engineering journals and has coauthored several books on the subject including Professional Systems Development, Computers in Context: The Philosophy and Practice of Systems Design, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, and Improving Software Organizations: From Principles to Practice. He has served as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly and is currently serving in that capacity for the Journal of Information Technology and Information and Organization.

Eric Overby (“Electronic Commerce, Spatial Arbitrage, and Market Efficiency”) is an associate professor at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Emory University. His research interests include the effect of information technology on market efficiency and the migration of physical processes to technology-mediated environments. His research has appeared in journals such as Information Systems Research, Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, and European Journal of Information Systems.

Min-Seok Pang (“Politics and Information Technology Investments in the U.S. Federal Government in 2003–2006”) is an assistant professor of management information systems at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He received a Ph.D. in business administration from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and holds an M.S. in management and a B.S. in industrial engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests include IT business value, IT governance, and electronic governments. His research has been published in Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly.

Foster Provost (“Cost-Effective Quality Assurance in Crowd Labeling”) is a professor of data science and information systems, and the Andre Meyer Faculty Fellow in the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is a co-author of the best-selling data science book, Data Science for Business. His research has won many awards, including the INFORMS Design Science Award, IBM Faculty Awards, and best paper awards at the ACM SIGKDD Conference across three decades. He previously was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Machine Learning.

Jui Ramaprasad (“Popularity or Proximity: Characterizing the Nature of Social Influence in an Online Music Community”) is an associate professor of information systems at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. She received her doctorate in information systems from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, and holds a B.S. from the University of Southern California. Her main research interests lie in the impact of social media, the disruptive impact of information technology on the music industry, and understanding online platforms.

Gautam Ray (“Managerial Incentives and IT Strategic Posture”) is an associate professor at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. His research interests are in the area of impact of IT on firm scope and structure, and how does IT create value. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Information Systems Research, Management Science, Marketing Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Strategic Management Journal.

Lionel P. Robert Jr. (“Extending the Concept of Control Beliefs: Integrating the Role of Advice Networks”) is an assistant professor of information at the School of Information, University of Michigan. His research focuses on how technologies alter teamwork and how technologies can be used to improve teamwork. He has published in Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Arun Sen (“Providing a Window of Opportunity for Converting eStore Visitors”) is a professor in the Department of Information and Operations Management at Texas A&M University. He received a Ph.D. in information systems and an M.S. in computer science from Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include healthcare informatics, data warehousing, and e-commerce. He has published 56 research papers in journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Sciences, Information Systems, and Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

Nicky E. Shaw (“Diversity of the Information Systems Research Field: A Journal Governance Perspective”) is a senior lecturer in operations management based in the Logistics, Information, Operations and Networks (LION) subject group at Leeds University Business School. She obtained her Ph.D. from Sheffield University prior to joining Leeds University. Her Ph.D. initiated her interest in performance management, which continues today in a wide variety of industry settings. Lately, her research has involved social network analysis.

Atish P. Sinha (“Providing a Window of Opportunity for Converting eStore Visitors”) is a professor of information technology management and the Director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He earned his Ph.D. in business, with a concentration in artificial intelligence, from the University of Pittsburgh. His current research interests are in the areas of business intelligence/analytics and healthcare informatics. His research has been published in several journals, including Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

Hemang Subramanian (“Electronic Commerce, Spatial Arbitrage, and Market Efficiency”) is an assistant professor at the Chapman Graduate School of Business, Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include the effect of information technology on markets, the behavior of economic agents, Internet and mobile entrepreneurship, and blockchain infrastructure.

Tracy Ann Sykes (“Extending the Concept of Control Beliefs: Integrating the Role of Advice Networks”) is an associate professor of information systems at the University of Arkansas. Her research leverages social network theory, methods, and analyses to understand technology-related phenomena. She also works to better understand organizational and societal diffusion of technologies in developing countries, particularly in India, and healthcare. Her work has been published in journals, such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and Production and Operations Management.

Jing Wang (“Cost-Effective Quality Assurance in Crowd Labeling”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in information systems from the Stern School of Business, New York University. Her research uses data mining and econometric techniques to study crowdsourcing, online labor markets, crowdfunding, and user-generated content. Her work has appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

Qiu-Hong Wang (“Technology Mergers and Acquisitions in the Presence of an Installed Base: A Strategic Analysis”) is an assistant professor at the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University. She received her Ph.D. degree from the National University of Singapore, and her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include information security, IT policy, and healthcare. Her research has been published or is forthcoming in scholarly journals including MIS Quarterly, Journal ofManagement Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, and Decision Support Systems.

Brian Warner (“A Theory of Responsive Design: A Field Study of Corporate Engagement with Open Source Communities”) is Manager of Open Source Engineering and Strategy at Samsung Electronics, and he is the Senior Open Source Strategist. Previously he was Director of Client Services at the Linux Foundation, where he was responsible for managing large multicompany collaborative open source projects. Prior to that he was on the Linux strategy team at IBM.

Ling Xue (“Managerial Incentives and IT Strategic Posture”) is an assistant professor at Georgia State University. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include IT strategy and governance, supply chain management and interorganizational systems, and emerging platform-based business models. His research has appeared in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Journal of Management Information Systems.

Brett Young (“A Theory of Responsive Design: A Field Study of Corporate Engagement with Open Source Communities”) is an assistant professor of management information systems and co-founder of the Center for Emerging Business and Entrepreneurship at Georgia Gwinnett College. He holds MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia State University. His research investigates organizational management of IT-enabled changes, user participation in online communities, and organizational participation in open source projects. Prior to academia, he worked as a systems implementation consultant with numerous large clients across the United States and Europe.

Xia Zhao (“Managerial Incentives and IT Strategic Posture”) is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Tsinghua University. Her research interests include electronic commerce, social networks, and IT governance. She has published papers in Journal of Management Information Systems, Production and Operations Management, and Decision Support Systems. She is a senior editor of Decision Support Systems.