About Our Authors
Margunn Aanestad (“Infrastructuring Work: Building a State-Wide Hospital Information Infrastructure in India”) is a professor in the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. Her research interests are towards the transformations that ICTs bring in medicine and healthcare services, which are analyzed from an information infrastructure perspective. Empirically, she studies the digitization of hospitals' information infrastructures, the introduction of collaborative solutions that also include patients, and the challenges of introducing minimal-invasive surgery and personalized medicine.
Miguel I. Aguirre-Urreta (“Partial Least Squares and Models with Formatively Specified Endogenous Constructs: A Cautionary Tale; A Rejoinder to Rigdon et al. (2014)”) is an assistant professor in the area of information systems and quantitative sciences, Rawls College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University. Before joining Texas Tech, he was on the faculty at DePaul University. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the University of Kansas, and his MBA in information systems and finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University; his undergraduate degree is in public accounting from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is interested in quantitative research methods, computer self-efficacy, human-computer interaction, technology acceptance and diffusion, and business analytics. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Communications of the AIS, Research Synthesis Methods, and the DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, among others and he is the incoming chair elect of AIS SIGHCI.
S. Balaji (“Lateral Coordination Mechanisms and the Moderating Role of Arrangement Characteristics in Information Systems Development Outsourcing”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. He holds a Ph.D. in information systems from Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests include a variety of topics in IS outsourcing, offshoring, and healthcare IT. His research has been published in journals such as MIS Quarterly Executive and Communications of the ACM, and in conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems and the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Jan-Michael Becker (“Conflating Antecedents and Formative Indicators: A Comment on Aguirre-Urreta and Marakas”) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Marketing and Brand Management, University of Cologne. He received his Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Cologne and his degree in information systems from the University of Hamburg. His research interests focus on improvement of structural equation modeling methods including PLS path modeling, as well as social media marketing, retail marketing, and bridging marketing and IS problems. He has published in leading marketing and information systems journals.
Anandhi Bharadwaj (“Efficacy of R&D Work in Offshore Captive Centers: An Empirical Study of Task Characteristics, Coordination Mechanisms, and Performance”) is a professor of information systems and a member of the graduate faculty at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University. Her research interests include organizational adoption and impact of information technology, digital business strategies, healthcare processes and systems, and technology outsourcing. She serves as a senior editor at Information Systems Research, an associate editor at Management Science, served as an associate editor of MIS Quarterly, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the AIS. Her research has been presented in leading journals such as Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science and at numerous national and international conferences.
Carol V. Brown (“Lateral Coordination Mechanisms and the Moderating Role of Arrangement Characteristics in Information Systems Development Outsourcing”) is currently a Distinguished Service Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. From 2009–2013 she served as editor-in-chief of MIS Quarterly Executive. Her research on IT management topics has been published in journals such as Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science. Her most recent field research and graduate curriculum development initiatives have been focused on IT innovations within healthcare delivery settings.
Sanjukta Das (“Optimal Management of Digital Content on Tiered Infrastructure Platforms”) is an associate professor in the Department of Management Science and Systems, State University of New York, Buffalo. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Connecticut. Her research has been funded by Google, among others. Her current research areas include server virtualization and operations and economics of cloud computing.
Adamantios Diamantopoulos (“Conflating Antecedents and Formative Indicators: A Comment on Aguirre-Urreta and Marakas”) is Chaired Professor of International Marketing, University of Vienna. His main research interests are in international marketing and (quantitative) research methodology and his work has appeared in, among others, the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Academy of MarketingScience, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Service Research, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Retailing, MIS Quarterly, and Organizational Research Methods.
Theo K. Dijkstra (“Conflating Antecedents and Formative Indicators: A Comment on Aguirre-Urreta and Marakas”) graduated in econometrics (cum laude) and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Groningen. From 1998–2010 he was head of research for an institutional asset manager. He is professor of econometrics, part-time, at the University of Groningen. He is an independent researcher, focusing on multivariate statistics (PLS) and multicriteria decision analysis.
Anna Ye Du (“Optimal Management of Digital Content on Tiered Infrastructure Platforms”) is a management analyst at Texas A&M University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Management Science and Systems, State University of New York, Buffalo. Her current research areas include operations and economics of cloud computing markets, and healthcare.
Ram D. Gopal (“Optimal Management of Digital Content on Tiered Infrastructure Platforms”) is GE Capital Endowed Professor of Business and head of the Department of Operations and Information Management, School of Business, University of Connecticut. He had held visiting professor positions at the Indian School of Business and the University of Texas at Austin. His current research interests are in the areas of big data analytics, information security, privacy and valuation, healthcare, online market design, and business impacts of technology.
Bob Jolliffe (“Infrastructuring Work: Building a State-Wide Hospital Information Infrastructure in India”) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. For the past six years, he has been involved with the Health Information Systems Project (HISP), supporting the design, implementation and sustaining of systems mostly in Africa, but also supporting some of the work in India. His research interests include radical (Marxist) theories of development, intellectual property, and ICTs. Prior to joining the HISP project, he worked with ICTs in Africa.
Jannis Kallinikos (“Patient Data as Medical Facts: Social Media Practices as a Foundation for Medical Knowledge Creation”) is a professor and head of Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics. His research focuses on IS and the governance of organizations. He has published widely in IS, organization studies, and sociology journals. Recent books include Governing Through Technology: Information Artefacts and Social Practice and Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World.
Elena Karahanna (“Conflating Antecedents and Formative Indicators: A Comment on Aguirre-Urreta and Marakas”) is the L. Edmund Rast Professor of Business in the Management of Information Systems Department, University of Georgia. Her research interests include technology acceptance, healthcare, IS leadership, and culture. Her work has been published in premier journals including Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science. She has served as senior editor for Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and the Journal of the AIS, and currently serves as associate editor for Management Science.
Paul M. Leonardi (“Social Media, Knowledge Sharing, and Innovation: Toward a Theory of Communication Visibility”) is the Reece Duca Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research focuses on helping companies to create and share knowledge more effectively. He is interested in how implementing new technologies and harnessing the power of informal social networks can help companies take advantage of their knowledge assets to create innovative products and services.
Roman Lukyanenko (“The IQ of the Crowd: Understanding and Improving Quality in Structured User-Generated Content”) is an assistant professor of decision sciences and information systems in the College of Business, Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research interests include crowdsourcing, information (data) quality, conceptual modeling, and business intelligence. His research has been published in Nature as well as leading conferences in information systems and computer science.
Deepa Mani (“Efficacy of R&D Work in Offshore Captive Centers: An Empirical Study of Task Characteristics, Coordination Mechanisms, and Performance”) is an assistant professor in the Information Systems Group, Indian School of Business. She is also the joint executive director of the Srini Raju Center for Technology and the Networked Economy, Indian School of Business. She studies the organization and business value of technology and innovation. Her research has been published in leading journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Sloan Management Review, and MIS Quarterly Executive.
George M. Marakas (“Partial Least Squares and Models with Formatively Specified Endogenous Constructs: A Cautionary Tale; A Rejoinder to Rigdon et al. (2014)”) is a professor of information systems in the College of Business Administration, Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from Florida International University and his MBA from Colorado State University. His research has appeared in the top journals in his field including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Management Science. He is also the author of five best-selling textbooks in information systems.
Antonio Moreno (“Doing Business with Strangers: Reputation in Online Service Marketplaces”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Wharton School (operations and information management program). He also holds a BA and MBA in electrical engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. His research focuses on empirical operations management and innovative business models in services and retail.
Arunima Mukherjee (“Infrastructuring Work: Building a State-Wide Hospital Information Infrastructure in India”) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. Her research interests are in understanding challenges and approaches in making information systems work in developing countries, within the broader context of using technologies for development. She has been part of HISP India for the past six years and works with various Indian states in design and implementation of information systems. Prior to joining HISP India, she worked as a journalist and a development practitioner.
Jeffrey Parsons (“The IQ of the Crowd: Understanding and Improving Quality in Structured User-Generated Content”) is university research professor and professor of information systems in the Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research interests include crowdsourcing, information quality, conceptual modeling, and recommender systems. His research has been published in leading journals in information systems, computer science, management, and science. He is a senior editor for the Journal of the AIS and has served as program co-chair for a number of conferences.
Arun Rai (“Conflating Antecedents and Formative Indicators: A Comment on Aguirre-Urreta and Marakas”) is Regents' Professor and the Harkins Chair in the Center for Process Innovation, Department of Computer Information Systems, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. His research has examined how firms can leverage information technologies in their strategies, interfirm relationships, and processes, how systems can be successfully developed and implemented, and research methods in information systems. He was named fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2010.
Ram Ramesh (“Optimal Management of Digital Content on Tiered Infrastructure Platforms”) is a professor and chair of management science and systems, School of Management, State University of New York, Buffalo. His current research focuses on healthcare analytics and cloud infrastructure availability modeling. He serves as an editor-in-chief of Information Systems Frontiers and an area editor of INFORMS Journal on Computing. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Institute, Google, Raytheon, Samsung, and Westinghouse among others.
Edward E. Rigdon (“Conflating Antecedents and Formative Indicators: A Comment on Aguirre-Urreta and Marakas”) is a Professor of Marketing in the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. He is co-founder and list owner for Semnet, an email discussion list devoted to structural equation modeling, with more than 3,000 subscribers worldwide. In recent research, he has worked toward the development of a unified understanding of multiple indicator methods, including composite-based methods and factor-based methods as alternative approaches within a broader family.
Christian M. Ringle (“Conflating Antecedents and Formative Indicators: A Comment on Aguirre-Urreta and Marakas”) is a professor of management and Director of the Institute of Human Resource Management and Organizations (HRMO) at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and he is visiting professor to the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Newcastle, Australia. His research addresses strategic management, organizations, marketing, human resource management, and quantitative methods for business and market research.
Sundeep Sahay (“Infrastructuring Work: Building a State-Wide Hospital Information Infrastructure in India”) is a professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. His research interests center on challenges and approaches to making health information systems work effectively in developing country contexts, with a key focus on India. This builds upon earlier research on the use of GIS in developing countries and on global software outsourcing arrangements involving Indian teams. Together, these research initiatives help to analyze the role of IT for development, and to interrogate the question of "Are ICTs making a better world in which we live?"
Kannan Srikanth (“Efficacy of R&D Work in Offshore Captive Centers: An Empirical Study of Task Characteristics, Coordination Mechanisms, and Performance”) is an associate professor of strategy and organization at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. His research is in the intersection of organization design and innovation, which he studies in the context of multinational firms. He holds a Ph.D. in strategic and international management from the London Business School. His research has appeared in leading journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal.
Detmar W. Straub (“Conflating Antecedents and Formative Indicators: A Comment on Aguirre-Urreta and Marakas”) is a Regents' Professor of the University Systems of Georgia, the J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor at Georgia State University, and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Temple University and at the Korea University Business School. He has over 195 scientific publications. He is immediate past editor-in-chief of MIS Quarterly and a former senior editor for Information Systems Research and the Journal for the Association of Information Systems. He won a LEO award for outstanding lifetime achievement in the IS field in 2012.
Yong Tan (“Feeling Blue? Go Online: An Empirical Study of Social Support Among Patients”) is the Neal and Jan Dempsey Professor of Information Systems at the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. His research interests include electronic and mobile commerce, social and economic networks, and economics of information systems. He has published in Information Systems Research, Management Science, and MIS Quarterly, among others. He served and is serving on the editorial boards of Information Systems Research, Management Science, and the Journal of Management Information Systems.
Niccolò Tempini (“Patient Data as Medical Facts: Social Media Practices as a Foundation for Medical Knowledge Creation”) is a Ph.D. candidate in information systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with a background in philosophy. His research focuses on organizations developing open and distributed networks for the generation, collection, and analysis of big amounts of data. In his dissertation centered on the PatientsLikeMe case, he focused on how social media technology supports the emergence of new organization forms, epistemic practices, and mechanisms of information production and network governance.
Christian Terwiesch (“Doing Business with Strangers: Reputation in Online Service Marketplaces”) is a professor in Wharton's operations and information management department and co-director of Penn's Mack Institute for Innovation Management. He holds a Ph.D. from INSEAD and a diploma from the University of Mannheim. He also holds a faculty appointment in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine. He has written multiple books and published extensively in many of the leading academic journals ranging from Management Science to the New England Journal of Medicine.
James Y. L. Thong (“Effects of ICT Service Innovation and Complementary Strategies on Brand Equity and Customer Loyalty in a Consumer Technology Market”) 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, the 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.
Viswanath Venkatesh (“Effects of ICT Service Innovation and Complementary Strategies on Brand Equity and Customer Loyalty in a Consumer Technology Market”) is a Distinguished Professor and Billingsley Chair in Information Systems at the University of Arkansas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on understanding the diffusion of technologies in organizations and society; his work has appeared in leading journals in information systems, organizational behavior, psychology, marketing and operations management journals. His articles have been cited about 35,000 times and about 10,000 times per Google Scholar and Web of Science respectively; in 2014, he was recognized by Thompson Reuters as one of only 95 high-impact scholars in business and economics, based on publications from 2000–2012; In 2012, he was ranked the 27th most influential scholar in management and 16th most influential among those who received their degree since 1991. In 2008, he was ranked as the 23rd most-cited scholar in business and economics based on citations from 1998 to 2007; in 2008, his MIS Quarterly (2003) paper was identified as a current classic by Science Watch and since 2009, it is the most influential article in one of the four Research Front Maps in business and economics.
Yolanda F. Wiersma (“The IQ of the Crowd: Understanding and Improving Quality in Structured User-Generated Content”) is an associate professor of landscape ecology, Department of Biology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her research interests include species-habitat modeling, citizen science, and boreal forest ecology. Her research is published in a diverse array of journals in ecology, conservation, and geographic information systems and she has co-edited a book on spatial modeling. She is Councilor-at-Large for the U.S. Chapter of the International Association of Landscape Ecology.
Xin Xu (“Effects of ICT Service Innovation and Complementary Strategies on Brand Equity and Customer Loyalty in a Consumer Technology Market”) is an associate professor of the Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include IT service innovation management, mobile computing, and human-computer interaction. His work has appeared in Information Systems Frontiers, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, MIS Quarterly, and Management Science.
Lu Yan (“Feeling Blue? Go Online: An Empirical Study of Social Support Among Patients”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. She holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the Foster School of Business, University of Washington. Her research interests include social media, social networking, and patient-centric healthcare models. Her recent studies investigate the impact brought by social media to healthcare, especially for patients with social diseases.
