About Our Authors
Gediminas Adomavicius (“Do Recommender Systems Manipulate Consumer Preferences? A Study of Anchoring Effects”) is a professor of information and decision sciences at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His research has been published in leading information systems and computer science journals, including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. He received the NSF CAREER Award for his research on personalization technologies.
Sinan Aral (“Research Commentary: Information in Digital, Economic and Social Networks”) is an assistant professor and Microsoft faculty fellow at NYU Stern and affiliated faculty at MIT. He studies social contagion and how information diffusion in massive social networks affects productivity, consumer demand and viral marketing. This research has won numerous awards including an NSF Career Award, four best paper awards at ICIS and the ACM SIGMIS Best Dissertation Award. Sinan was a Fulbright Scholar and is a co-organizer of the WIN Workshop.
Terrence August (“Licensing and Competition for Services in Open Source Software”) is an assistant professor of innovation, technology, and operations management at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego. His research interests broadly span information systems and operations management, including the economics of software, production and service management, and pricing and policy associated with information goods. Currently, as part of an NSF supported research project, he is examining the control of information security risk using economic incentives.
Indranil Bardhan (“Research Note: Business Value of Information Technology: Testing the Interaction Effect of IT and R&D on Tobin's Q”) is a professor in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research and teaching interests focus on the measurement of information technology-enabled productivity improvement, with a focus on manufacturing and healthcare industries. His research has received more than 1,000 citations in leading journals. He holds a Ph.D. in management science and information systems from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
Anitesh Barua (“Outsourcing Contracts and Equity Prices”) is the William F. Wright Centennial Professor of Information Technology Management at the McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University. His current research interests include outsourcing governance and migration in online social networks. Over 75 of his research articles have appeared in academic journals, refereed conference proceedings and edited book chapters. He serves as a senior editor at Information Systems Research.
Jesse Bockstedt (“Do Recommender Systems Manipulate Consumer Preferences? A Study of Anchoring Effects”) is an assistant professor of MIS at the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the University of Minnesota. His research focuses in two streams: behavioral economic issues in the use of information technology and the impacts of information technology evolution on consumers and markets. His work has been published in leading IS journals including Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, and MIS Quarterly.
Anindita Chakravarty (“Information Technology Competencies, Organizational Agility, and Firm Performance: Enabling and Facilitating Roles”) is an assistant professor of marketing at the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. She received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests are in empirical modeling of problems at the marketing-finance interface as well as studying how organizational capabilities create value. Her work has been published in several academic journals including the Journal of Marketing and Management Science.
Shawn P. Curley (“Do Recommender Systems Man-ipulate Consumer Preferences? A Study of Anchoring Effects”) is a professor of information and decision sciences at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan. His research interests are in behavioral decision theory and include the effects of feedback on behavior in combinatorial auctions, and user behavior with recommender systems. Recent research outlets include Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
Prabuddha De (“Product-Oriented Web Technologies and Product Returns: An Exploratory Study” and “Research Note: Continued Participation in Online Innovation Communities: Does Community Response Matter Equally for Everyone?”) is the Accenture Professor of Information Technology at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He has published in Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and other journals, and served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Management Science and Information Systems Research. He was named an inaugural distinguished fellow of the INFORMS Information Systems Society in 2009.
Debabrata Dey (“Research Note: A Dynamic View of the Impact of Network Structure on Technology Adoption: The Case of OSS Development”) is currently the Marion B. Ingersoll Professor of Information Systems at the Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle. He received his Ph.D. from the Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. Dey has a wide range of research interests and has published in leading journals, such as Management Science, Operations Research, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Management Information Systems, and INFORMS Journal on Computing, among others. He has also served as a senior editor for Information Systems Research and as associate editors for Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly.
Chris Forman (“Research Note: The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement on Open Source Software Project Success”) is an associate professor of IT management and Brady Family Term Professor at the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently a senior editor at Information Systems Research, and has previously served as an associate editor at Management Science and Information Systems Research. His research focuses on innovation in enterprise IT, including both the business process innovation that accompanies enterprise IT investment within firms as well as the strategies of enterprise IT suppliers.
Guodong (Gordon) Gao (“Research Note: The Value of Third-Party Assurance Seals in Online Retailing: An Empirical Investigation”) is an assistant professor in the decision, operations, and information technologies department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. His research interests include IT's impact on health care, quality transparency, and consumer empowerment. He earns his Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has extensive collaborations with industry partners. His research has been published in leading academic journals, and funded by multiple sources including NSF.
Suvankar Ghosh (“A Real Options Valuation Model for Generalized Meta-Staged Projects—Valuing the Migration to SOA”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the School of Business, University of South Dakota. A veteran of the IT industry, he received his Ph.D. in business administration from Kent State University. His research focuses on the valuation of investments in technology, decision-making models, and the adoption and diffusion of innovations. His research has appeared in Information Systems Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, among others.
Stuart Graham (“Research Note: The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement on Open Source Software Project Success”) teaches and conducts research on the economics of the patent system, intellectual property (IP) strategies, and the relationship of IP to entrepreneurship and the commercialization of new technologies. His research has been published in the journal Science, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Management Science, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He spent 2010–2013 serving the United States as the first Chief Economist appointed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Rajdeep Grewal (“Information Technology Competencies, Organizational Agility, and Firm Performance: Enabling and Facilitating Roles”) is the Irving & Irene Bard Professor of Marketing and Associate Research Director of the Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM) at the Smeal College of Business of the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Cincinnati. His research interests are in econometric examination and empirical modeling of issues relating to strategic marketing, business markets, and interfirm relationships. He serves as an associate editor for Journal of Marketing Research and area editor for Journal of Marketing.
Bin Gu (“Information Valuation and Confirmation Bias in Virtual Communities: Evidence from Stock Message Boards”) is an associate professor of information systems at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His research interests are in online social media, user-generated content, electronic commerce, IT business value, and IT governance. His work has appeared in top academic journals, including Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly, etc. He was awarded the 2012 Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence Award and the 2008 ISR Best Paper Award.
Jungpil Hahn (“Research Note: Continued Participation in Online Innovation Communities: Does Community Response Matter Equally for Everyone?”) is an associate professor of information systems at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His current research focuses on organizational adaptation and learning in open innovation and software development. His research appears in leadings journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, and Organization Science.
Yu (Jeffrey) Hu (“Product-Oriented Web Technologies and Product Returns: An Exploratory Study”) is an associate professor at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management. His research studies electronic commerce, Internet retailing, social media, and online advertising. He has consulted for many retailing and publishing companies and European Commission. He has published in journals such as Management Science and Information Systems Research. He is an associate editor of Management Science and Information Systems Research.
Wolfgang Jank (“Research Note: The Value of Third-Party Assurance Seals in Online Retailing: An Empirical Investigation”) is the Anderson Professor of Global Management in the information systems decision sciences department at the University of South Florida. He earned a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Florida and a master's degree in mathematics from the Technical University of Aachen (Germany). Prior to joining USF, he was an associate professor in the Department of Decisions, Operations & Information Technologies at the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business.
Rajiv Kohli (“Blunting Damocles? Sword: A Longitudinal Model of Healthcare IT Impact on Malpractice Insurance Premium and Quality of Patient Care”) is a professor of business at The College of William & Mary. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has held positions at the MIT Sloan School of Management, National University of Singapore, City University of Hong Kong, as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He was a visiting Gillings Fellow in Healthcare Management at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, England. Published studies have ranked Rajiv Kohli among the top 20 MIS researchers worldwide. He has served as a Project Leader in Decision Support Services at Trinity Health and a systems analyst at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, Baltimore. He has consulted with IBM Global Services, SAS Corporation, United Parcel Service, Motorola Mobility, Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., AM General, MCI Telecommunications, Westinghouse Electronics, and Wipro Corporation. Rajiv Kohli's research is published in MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly Executive, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, and Decision Support Systems, among other journals. He serves as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly and as a member of editorial board of several international journals. He is a coauthor of the book The IT Payoff: Measuring Business Value of Information Technology Investment, published by FT Prentice-Hall.
Prabhudev Konana (“Information Valuation and Confirmation Bias in Virtual Communities: Evidence from Stock Message Boards”) is the chairman of the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, William Seay Centennial Professor of MIS, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are business value of information technology innovations, virtual communities, and outsourcing and offshoring choices. He received National Science Foundation CAREER Award and other grants from IBM, Intel, and Dell. He has published numerous papers in prestigious INFORMS and IEEE journals.
Viswanathan (Vish) Krishnan (“Research Note: Business Value of Information Technology: Testing the Interaction Effect of It and R&D on Tobin's Q”) is the Sheryl and Harvey White Endowed Chair at the University of California, San Diego's Rady School of Management. His research focuses on science and technology-driven innovation and sustainable growth, new product design and development, project and operations management, and IT-enabled productivity improvements. After receiving his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Krishnan served as a professor and IC2 senior research fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.
Alok Kumar (“Information Valuation and Confirmation Bias in Virtual Communities: Evidence from Stock Message Boards”) is the Gabelli Asset Management Professor of Finance at the School of Business Administration of the University of Miami. His research focuses on behavioral finance and empirical asset pricing. His work has appeared in such notable journals as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, etc. In addition, his research has been covered by media outlets such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Xiaolin Li (“A Real Options Valuation Model for Generalized Meta-Staged Projects—Valuing the Migration to SOA”) is an assistant professor of e-Business and technology management with Towson University. He received his Ph.D. in management systems from Kent State University. Dr. Li's research emphases are the diffusion, impact, and valuation of innovations, and buyer-supplier relationships. His research has been published or accepted for publication in Information Systems Research, Journal of the AIS, Decision Sciences, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, and International Journal of Production Economics, among others.
Mingfeng Lin (“Research Commentary: Too Big to Fail: Large Samples and the p-Value Problem”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2010. His current research areas include user interactions in online social networks, information asymmetry in online peer-to-peer lending markets, and online labor markets.
Shu Lin (“Research Note: Business Value of Information Technology: Testing the Interaction Effect of It and R&D on Tobin's Q”) is an associate professor at the Craig School of Business, California State University, Fresno. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2006. His research interests are in the areas of corporate governance, information technology, and operations management. He has published papers in MIS Quarterly, The Accounting Review, M&SOM, and Production and Operations Management.
Henry C. Lucas, Jr. (“Research Commentary: Too Big to Fail: Large Samples and the p-Value Problem”) is the Robert H. Smith Professor of Information at the Smith School of Business, the University of Maryland. He received a B.S. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T. Professor Lucas' research interests include IT-enabled transformations, disruptive technologies, and the impact of information technology on organizations among others. He is the author of a dozen books and more than 70 articles about information technology.
Deepa Mani (“Outsourcing Contracts and Equity Prices”) is an assistant professor at the Indian School of Business. Her research interests are at the intersection of technology, organization and firm value, including studying the nature of technological advances, the organizational capabilities created and management interventions required of these advances, and the ultimate impact of these emergent organizational capabilities on firm performance. Her work has been published in leading information systems journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Sloan Management Review.
Nirup Menon (“Blunting Damocles? Sword: A Longitudinal Model of Healthcare IT Impact on Malpractice Insurance Premium and Quality of Patient Care”) is an associate professor of information systems and operations management at the School of Management, George Mason University. He has held positions at Texas Tech University, University of Texas at Dallas, IE Business School, and University of Oulu. He received his Ph.D. in MIS from the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Joe Nandhakumar (“From Knowing It to "Getting It": Envisioning Practices in Computer Games Development”) is a professor of information systems and head of the Information Systems and Management Group at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He earned his Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering. His primary research interest focuses on the interrelationship between people in organizations and information technology, and its implications for the nature of work, organizational interactions, and the design and use of information systems.
Gal Oestreicher-Singer (“Research Commentary: Information in Digital, Economic and Social Networks”) is an assistant professor at Tel Aviv University's Recanati School of Business. Her research studies the effects of visible networks on electronic markets. Her prior research has won the ACM SIGMIS Best Dissertation Award, an EU Marie Curie Early Career Award, an INFORMS CIST Best Paper Award, an ICIS Best Paper award, a MSI-WIMI User Generated Content Research Competition Award, and the Google-WPP Marketing Award. She received her Ph.D. from NYU in 2008.
Koray Özpolat (“Research Note: The Value of Third-Party Assurance Seals in Online Retailing: An Empirical Investigation”) is an assistant professor of supply chain management at the University of Rhode Island's College of Business. He earned his Ph.D. in supply chain management from University of Maryland, College Park in 2011 and his MS in electrical engineering from Colorado State University in 2000. He also holds a CIPS graduate diploma in purchasing and supply. Prior to joining the academia, he worked for the United Nations as a logistics systems analyst.
Nikiforos Panourgias (“From Knowing It to "Getting It": Envisioning Practices in Computer Games Development”) is an assistant professor at the Information Systems and Management Group of Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He has worked on funded research projects on the challenges of commercializing the innovation of “serious games” by computer games companies and the interdisciplinary collaboration in the design and development of computer games. For his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics he studied the design and development of the Euroclear ICT-based platform for the cross-border settlement of securities transactions.
JaeHong Park (“Information Valuation and Confirmation Bias in Virtual Communities: Evidence from Stock Message Boards”) is an assistant professor at the school of management at Kyung Hee University. He received his Ph.D. in management information systems from the Red McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. His current research examines economic value of social networks, online WOM effect, ecommerce activities and business analytics.
Gang Peng (“Research Note: A Dynamic View of the Impact of Network Structure on Technology Adoption: The Case of OSS Development”) is an associate professor at the Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State University. He received his Ph.D. from the Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests include technology adoption and diffusion, open source software development, and the impact of information technology. His papers have appeared in ACM Transactions on MIS, Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems.
Foster Provost (“Research Commentary: Information in Digital, Economic and Social Networks”) is a professor of information systems and NEC Faculty Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Machine Learning from 2004 through 2010, and along with two of the other authors of this paper conceived and organized the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN) from 2009–2012. Provost's research examines data science for business problems, much specifically focused on networked data. His work has won best paper awards, corporate awards, the INFORMS ISS Design Science Award, and many others.
Raj Raghunathan (“Information Valuation and Confirmation Bias in Virtual Communities: Evidence from Stock Message Boards”) is an associate professor of marketing at The McCombs School of Business, UT Austin. His work juxtaposes theories from psychology, behavioral sciences, decision theory and marketing to document and explain how emotions affect and influence decision making. His work has appeared in top journals, including the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research, etc. His work has also been cited in mass media outlets, such as, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.
Mohammad S. Rahman (“Product-Oriented Web Technologies and Product Returns: An Exploratory Study”) is an assistant professor, CCAL Leadership Researcher, and fellow, Center for the Digital Economy (CDE@) at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. He has published papers in Management Science. He has been awarded several grants, including a major Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant. He co-chaired 2012 INFORMS eBusiness Cluster and is co-chairing 2013 Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST).
Vallabh Sambamurthy (“Information Technology Competencies, Organizational Agility, and Firm Performance: Enabling and Facilitating Roles”) is the Eli Broad Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in 1989. He has expertise in how firms successfully leverage information technologies in sustaining superior performance through their business strategies, products, services, and organizational processes. His work has been published in several important journals and he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research.
Galit Shmueli (“Research Commentary: Too Big to Fail: Large Samples and the p-Value Problem”) is the SRITNE Chaired Professor of data analytics and associate professor of statistics and information systems at the Indian School of Business. She received her Ph.D. from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in 2000. Shmueli's research focuses on statistical and data mining methodology with applications in information systems and healthcare. She authors seven books and textbooks and has published over 60 peer-reviewed publications in management, IS, statistics, marketing journals and books.
Harry Scarbrough (“From Knowing It to "Getting It": Envisioning Practices in Computer Games Development”) is the director of Keele Management School at the University of Keele. Previously he was professor at the Information Systems and Management Group of Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He is co-founder of the IKON (Innovation, Knowledge and Organizational Networks) research centre at Warwick, co-author of Managing Knowledge Work and Innovation (2009, 2nd ed., London: Palgrave Macmillan), and former director of the UK ESRC programme “The Evolution of Business Knowledge.”
Hyoduk Shin (“Licensing and Competition for Services in Open Source Software”) is an assistant professor of innovation, technology, and operations management at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego. His research interests include forecast information sharing and investment in supply chain management, competitive strategies under operational constraints, economics of information technology, software and digital goods, and innovation in supply chains.
Arun Sundararajan (“Research Commentary: Information in Digital, Economic and Social Networks”) is an associate professor and NEC Faculty Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business. His award-winning scholarly research (about how information technologies change things) has been published in numerous leading scientific journals. His recent nonacademic writings have appeared in Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Along with two of the other authors of this paper, he conceived and has organized the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN) from 2009–2012.
Tunay Tunca (“Licensing and Competition for Services in Open Source Software”) is an associate professor of decision, operations, and information technology at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Stanford University in 2002. His research interests include economics of operations and technology management, theoretical and empirical analysis of procurement contracts and processes, service procurement and operations management, economics of security and digital goods, and the role of information and forecasting in supply chains.
Siva Viswanathan (“Research Note: The Value of Third-Party Assurance Seals in Online Retailing: An Empirical Investigation”) is an associate professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. His research examines the strategic and competitive impacts of digital technologies in particular, the implications of emerging technologies for market-segmentation, customization, and pricing across different verticals. Siva also studies online crowd-sourcing markets and the business value of online social networks. He is a regular participant in international conferences and industry forums and has published in top management journals.
Wen Wen (“Research Note: The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement on Open Source Software Project Success”) is an assistant professor of information, risk & operations management at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in information technology management and an M.S. in statistics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her recent research work addresses issues surrounding technological innovation and intellectual property rights.
Andrew Whinston (“Outsourcing Contracts and Equity Prices”) is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, a professor of information systems, computer science, and economics, and the director of the Center for Research in E-Commerce (CREC) in McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published over 300 papers in leading academic journals in economics, information systems, and computer science, and received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in information systems in 2005. He is the editor of Decision Support Systems and Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce and has been on the editorial boards of several major IS journals.
Chen Zhang (“Research Note: Continued Participation in Online Innovation Communities: Does Community Response Matter Equally for Everyone?”) is an assistant professor of management information systems at the Fogelman College of Business and Economics, University of Memphis. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University. Her research interests include IS leadership and strategy, open source software development, and open innovation. Her work has been published in journals such as Information Systems Research, MISQ Executive, and IEEE Software.
Jingjing Zhang (“Do Recommender Systems Manipulate Consumer Preferences? A Study of Anchoring Effects”) is an assistant professor of information systems in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in business administration (specialized in management information systems) from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Her research interests include personalization techniques, recommender systems, and human-computer interactions. Her work has previously appeared in journals including ACM Transactions on Information Systems and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems.
