About Our Authors

Edward G. Anderson (“Platform Performance Investment in the Presence of Network Externalities”) is an associate professor of operations management at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Ph.D. in management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has made seminal contributions to the field of joint intellectual property creation across the supply chain. His current research examines distributed innovation, operations by startup, and healthcare delivery.

Shantanu Bhattacharya (“Joint Product Improvement by Client and Customer Support Center: The Role of Gain-Share Contracts in Coordination”) is an associate professor of technology and operations management at INSEAD. He obtained a B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay in 1991, a MSEE degree from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge in 1993 and his Ph.D. in operations management from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. His research focuses on intra-firm and collaborative new product development and sustainability and closed-loop supply chains.

Frank K.Y. Chan (“A Framework and Guidelines for Context-Specific Theorizing in Information Systems Research”) is an assistant professor in the department of information systems, decision sciences and statistics at ESSEC Business School, France. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include electronic government, agile software development, and technology adoption. His work has appeared in Journal of the AIS, Information Systems Journal, Decision Support Systems, JASIST, and Journal of Operations Management.

Jianqing Chen (“Online Product Reviews: Implications for Retailers and Competing Manufacturers”) is an assistant professor in information systems at the Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin in 2008. His general research interests are in electronic commerce, economics of information systems, and supply chain management. His papers have been published in journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, and Production and Operations Management.

Lewis C. Chasalow (“A Framework and Guidelines for Context-Specific Theorizing in Information Systems Research”) is an associate professor of business administration at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA. He received a Ph.D. in management information systems from the Virginia Commonwealth University. He has worked as an IT director managing teams planning for and developing operational and analytical information systems in the telecommunications, information technology, and financial services industries. He has published research in systems development methodology, business intelligence, and information security.

Gurpreet Dhillon (“A Framework and Guidelines for Context-Specific Theorizing in Information Systems Research”) is a professor of information systems in the School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University. He holds his Ph.D. in information systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published in Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information & Management, and others. His research interests include the management of information security, ethical and legal implications of information systems, and aspects of information systems planning and project management. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Information System Security.

Kelly J. Fadel (“Evaluation of Competing Candidate Solutions in Electronic Networks of Practice”) is an associate professor of management information systems at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2007. His research areas include knowledge management, end-user learning, and post-adoptive technology use. His research has appeared in journals such as Information Systems Research, Communications of the AIS, and Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, among others.

Alok Gupta (“Joint Product Improvement by Client and Customer Support Center: The Role of Gain-Share Contracts in Coordination”) is the Curtis L. Carlson Schoolwide Chair in Information Management and the department chair of information and decision sciences at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. His research has been published in various information systems, economics, and computer science journals such as Management Science, ISR, MISQ, INFORMS Journal on Computing, CACM, JMIS, Decision Sciences, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Computational Economics, DSS, andIEEE Internet Computing. He received NSF CAREER award in 2001 for his research on online auctions. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Science, ISR, JMIS and various national and international research centers.

Sameer Hasija (“Joint Product Improvement by Client and Customer Support Center: The Role of Gain-Share Contracts in Coordination”) is an assistant professor in the technology and operations management area at INSEAD since 2008. The primary focus of his research is on contracting issues in outsourcing of knowledge and/or information intensive service processes. He is also interested in service process design issues with applications in healthcare, call-center, and humanitarian operations. Lately, he has also been working on general topics in the OM-Economics interface and behavioral operations.

Lorin M. Hitt (“Measuring Information Technology Spillovers”) is the Class of 1942 Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Department of Operations and Information Management. His research focuses on the economics of information technology (IT) and how IT investments affect consumers, organizations and markets. He received his Sc.B. and Sc.M. degrees in electrical engineering from Brown University and his Ph.D. in management from MIT.

Weiyin Hong (“A Framework and Guidelines for Context-Specific Theorizing in Information Systems Research”) is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of ISOM, School of Business and Management, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and emeritus associate professor in the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include human–computer interaction, user acceptance of emerging technologies, and user privacy concern. Her work has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of Management Information Systems, among others.

Ghiyoung Im (“IT-Enabled Coordination for Ambidextrous Interorganizational Relationships”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at the University of Louisville. He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia State University and a M.S. from the Stern School of Business, New York University. His research interests center on identifying digital resources and capabilities that promote learning in firms and interorganizational relationships. His research has appeared in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, and Information Systems Research, among others.

Matthew L. Jensen (“Evaluation of Competing Candidate Solutions in Electronic Networks of Practice”) is an assistant professor of management information systems and a co-director of the Center for Applied Social Research at the University of Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2007. He researches computer-aided decision making, knowledge management, human–computer interaction, and computer-mediated communication.

Young Kwark (“Online Product Reviews: Implications for Retailers and Competing Manufacturers”) is an assistant professor in information systems in the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2013 (Degree conferral date: December 28, 2013). She received her MBA from the Foster School of Business, University of Washington and had worked at LG CNS Co., Ltd. as a system designer. Her primary research interests are in user-generated content in online retailing and information security.

Thomas O. Meservy (“Evaluation of Competing Candidate Solutions in Electronic Networks of Practice”) is an assistant professor of information systems at Brigham Young University and FedEx Institute of Technology Testing Research Fellow. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2007. His research interests include the use of technology to augment human intellect, large group collaboration, and software development and testing methodologies and approaches.

Tridas Mukhopadhyay (“How to Attract and Retain Readers in Enterprise Blogging?”) is the Deloitte Consulting Professor of e-Business at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include strategic use of IT, business-to-business commerce, business value of information technology, economics of cyber security, and software development productivity. His recent papers on e-business examine Internet referral services, use of consumer information in email advertising and information personalization. His other research projects study the productivity and quality of software products and offshore software contracts.

Marius Florin Niculescu (“Economics of Free Under Perpetual Licensing: Implications for the Software Industry”) is an assistant professor of information technology management at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in operations, information, and technology from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and his B.A. in applied mathematics from Harvard University. His research interests include economics of free, diffusion and management of IT innovation, software business models, network economics, cloud computing, software quality management, dynamics of digital goods markets, and dynamic pricing. He has published in academic journals including Information Systems Research and Management Science.

Geoffrey Parker (“Platform Performance Investment in the Presence of Network Externalities”) is a professor of management science at Tulane University in the A. B. Freeman School of Business. He has made contributions to the field of network economics and strategy as co-developer of the theory of “two-sided” markets and networks. His current research examines distributed innovation, business platform economics and strategy, and the system level integration of renewable energy. He holds a Ph.D. in management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Srinivasan Raghunathan (“Online Product Reviews: Implications for Retailers and Competing Manufacturers”) is a professor of information systems in the School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He obtained B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT, Madras, Post Graduate Diploma in management from IIM, Calcutta, and Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh. His current research interests are in the economics of information technology and systems. His papers have been published in journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, various IEEE transactions, IIE transactions, and Production and Operations Management.

Arun Rai (“IT-Enabled Business Models: A Conceptual Framework and a Coevolution Perspective for Future Research” and “IT-Enabled Coordination for Ambidextrous Interorganizational Relationships”) is the Regents' Professor of the University System of Georgia and Harkins Chair of Information Systems in the Center for Process Innovation and the CIS Department at the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. His research has examined how firms can leverage information technologies in their strategies, interfirm relationships, and processes, and how systems can be successfully developed and implemented. He was named Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2010.

Nachiketa Sahoo (“How to Attract and Retain Readers in Enterprise Blogging?”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the School of Management, Boston University. His research interest lies at the intersection of statistical machine learning and social sciences, particularly on the topic of personalized recommender systems and expertise discovery strategies on social media. His research has been published in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, as well as in the proceedings of conferences in computer science and information systems.

Param Vir Singh (“How to Attract and Retain Readers in Enterprise Blogging?”) is Carnegie Bosch Junior Chair and associate professor of business technologies at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Singh investigates the economics of social technologies (such as crowdsourcing, blogging, enterprise 2.0, social networks, and open source). Specifically, he studies user behavior on social technologies to provide policy and design implications to foster innovation, learning, and knowledge sharing. His research appears in Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly.

Prasanna Tambe (“Measuring Information Technology Spillovers”) is an assistant professor of information, operations and management sciences at New York University, Stern School of Business. His research focuses on the economics of IT labor and on the diffusion of technical skills. He received his S.B. and M.Eng. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in managerial science from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Burcu Tan (“Platform Performance Investment in the Presence of Network Externalities”) is an assistant professor at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. She specializes in risk management in supply chains, and platform markets with network externalities. Her research agenda includes analyzing technology investment strategies in platform markets, and mitigating supply risk in global sourcing decisions. She received her Ph.D. in information, risk, and operations management from the University of Texas at Austin; and her M.S. and B.S. in industrial engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey.

Xinlin Tang (“IT-Enabled Business Models: A Conceptual Framework and a Coevolution Perspective for Future Research”) is an assistant professor of management information systems in the College of Business, Florida State University. Her current research focuses on digitally enabled business network management, strategic use of information technologies in interfirm relationship management, and technology innovation. Her research has been published or forthcoming in Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Operations Management, and other journals.

James Y. L. Thong (“A Framework and Guidelines for Context-Specific Theorizing in Information Systems Research”) is a chair professor and head of the Department of ISOM, School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the National University of Singapore. His research on technology adoption, human–computer interaction, computer ethics, and IT in small business has appeared in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Journal of the AIS, among others. He has served as an associate editor for Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly. He received the “2011 Best Associate Editor Award” from Information Systems Research.

D. J. Wu (“Economics of Free Under Perpetual Licensing: Implications for the Software Industry”) is an associate professor of information technology management at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in managerial sciences and applied economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and his B.E. in computer science from Tsinghua University. His research interests include enterprise software platform ecosystem, economics of cloud computing, contracting, electronic markets, and procurement auction. His recent work has been published in Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly. He currently serves as an associate editor for Management Science and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and a senior editor for Production and Operations Management.