About Our Authors
Rohit Aggarwal (“Early to Adopt and Early to Discontinue: The Impact of Self-Perceived and Actual IT Knowledge on Technology Use Behaviors of End Users”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. His work lies at the intersection of social media, technology, and venture capital domain. His research interests include studying the avenues and challenges posed by social media and technical knowledge on business outcomes such as venture capitalists’ funding decisions.
Soon Ang (“Turnover or Turnaway? Competing Risks Analysis of Male and Female IT Professionals’ Job Mobility and Relative Pay Gap”) is Goh Tjoei Kok Chaired Professor of Management at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She is associate editor of Academy of Management Discoveries and past senior editor of MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and the Journal of the AIS. A multiple award-winning scholar, she has published in top journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Information Systems Research, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Social Forces, and others.
Ravi Aron (“Organizational Control, Incentive Contracts, and Knowledge Transfer in Offshore Business Process Outsourcing”) is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. His research focuses on the strategic role of IT in global delivery and sourcing of knowledge-intensive services and as an enabler of efficient and effective health care delivery. His research has appeared in journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, and the Harvard Business Review.
Indranil Bardhan (“Predictive Analytics for Readmission of Patients with Congestive Heart Failure”) is a professor in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He holds a Ph.D. in management science and information systems from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests focus on the role of information technology and its impact on operational capabilities, with a focus on manufacturing and healthcare analytics. His research has been widely published and has received more than 1,500 citations in leading journals. He serves as a senior editor at MIS Quarterly, and has previously served as associate editor of several major journals and international conferences.
Michael Barrett (“Information Infrastructure Development and Governance as Collective Action”) is professor of information systems and innovation studies at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University. He is interested in the role of social theory and discourse in understanding technology enabled processes of innovation and organizational change, knowledge exchange in cross-cultural and multidisciplinary teams, and service innovation. He serves as senior editor for MIS Quarterly and Information and Organization and is on the editorial board of Organization Science.
Panos Constantinides (“Information Infrastructure Development and Governance as Collective Action”) is an associate professor of information systems at the Warwick Business School. Previously, he held positions at Lancaster University’s Management School, and the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, where he also earned his Ph.D. In addition to an interest in research on information infrastructures and collective action, he is also interested in the coordination of multidisciplinary teams, and the consequences of service innovation.
Anna Ye Du (“Health Information Exchange as a Multisided Platform: Adoption, Usage, and Practice Involvement in Service Co-Production”) is a management analyst at Texas A&M University, College Station. She received her Ph.D. from the management science and systems department, SUNY at Buffalo. Her current research areas include operations and economics of cloud computing markets, and healthcare.
Chanyoung Eom (“Role of Social Media in Social Change: An Analysis of Collective Sense Making During the 2011 Egypt Revolution”) is an assistant professor of finance at the Hanyang University Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Oregon. His principal research areas include empirical asset pricing, market microstructure, IPOs, and financial econometrics.
Samer Faraj (“The Emergence of Online Community Leadership”) is the Canada Research Chair in Technology, Management, and Healthcare at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. He leads the research group on complex collaboration and serves as associate dean research. He is a previous senior editor at Organization Science and current senior editor at Information Systems Research. His research focuses on knowledge collaboration, new forms of organizing, and technology performativity in settings such as online communities and healthcare organizations.
Ram D. Gopal (“Health Information Exchange as a Multisided Platform: Adoption, Usage, and Practice Involvement in Service Co-Production”) is GE Capital Endowed Professor of Business and Head of the Department of Operations and Information Management in the 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.
Robert Wayne Gregory (“Paradoxes and the Nature of Ambidexterity in IT Transformation Programs”) is an assistant professor of information systems at IESE Business School. Previously, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Göttingen. He completed his doctoral dissertation at Goethe University Frankfurt, and received the Alcatel-Lucent dissertation award for outstanding performance. His research focuses on strategic IT management and digital business. His research has appeared in such outlets as MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research.
Fang He (“Perceived Firm Attributes and Intrinsic Motivation in Sponsored Open Source Software Projects”) is a senior researcher at the chair of strategy and innovation management at ETH Zürich. She earned her Ph.D. in management from George Washington University. Her research on online communities centers around understanding the reasons behind voluntary contribution. She is also interested in the role of leadership in fostering a range of prosocial or proactive behaviors.
Steven L. Johnson (“The Emergence of Online Community Leadership”) is an assistant professor in the management information systems department of the Fox School of Business at Temple University. His current research focuses on the structure of online communities, emergent leadership, and fostering engagement. His work has appeared in leading management journals including MIS Quarterly and Organization Science.
Damien Joseph (“Turnover or Turnaway? Competing Risks Analysis of Male and Female IT Professionals’ Job Mobility and Relative Pay Gap”) is an associate professor of information technology management at the Nanyang Technological University. He received his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University. He regularly participates at major international conferences including the International Conference on Information Systems, Academy of Management Meetings, and ACM SIGMIS-CPR. Current research interests are in the management technology professionals examining issues relating to careers, compensation, competencies and culture. He has published research in MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, and Communications of the AIS.
Mark Keil (“Paradoxes and the Nature of Ambidexterity in IT Transformation Programs”) is the John B. Zellars Professor of Computer Information Systems in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He holds B.S.E., S.M., and D.B.A. degrees from Princeton University, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Harvard Business School, respectively. His research focuses on IT project management. He has published more than 90 refereed journal articles in such outlets as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of MIS, and Decision Sciences.
Kirk Kirksey (“Predictive Analytics for Readmission of Patients with Congestive Heart Failure”) serves as the vice president of information resources for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and the senior chief information officer for Zale Lipshy and St. Paul University Hospitals. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Texas at Arlington. With an operating budget over $80 million, his 500+ employee organization oversees computing for the clinical, educational, research, and administrative missions of the organization, as well as an extensive data/telephony, data center disaster recovery, and support infrastructure. In 2009, he was appointed the University of Texas system fellow for health information technology.
David Kryscynski (“Early to Adopt and Early to Discontinue: The Impact of Self-Perceived and Actual IT Knowledge on Technology Use Behaviors of End Users”) has a BSE in chemical engineering and practiced as a process engineer, production analyst, and alternative fuels and raw materials manager for Holcim (US) Inc. He received his Ph.D. in strategy from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
Ying Liu (“Organizational Control, Incentive Contracts, and Knowledge Transfer in Offshore Business Process Outsourcing”) is an assistant professor at the school of information management and engineering at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She has earned her Ph.D. in operations and information management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current research focuses on quality control mechanism of IT enabled service outsourcing. Her research has appeared in journals such as Information Systems Research and Brookings Journal of Trade.
Magnus Mähring (“Paradoxes and the Nature of Ambidexterity in IT Transformation Programs”) is an associate professor in the department of management and organization at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research interests include IT project governance, IT-related organizational change, and dynamics of trust and control in projects within and between organizations. He has published in journals such as Decision Sciences, the Journal of the AIS, Information Systems Journal, and California Management Review. He currently serves as a senior editor at Information Systems Journal.
Vishal Midha (“Early to Adopt and Early to Discontinue: The Impact of Self-Perceived and Actual IT Knowledge on Technology Use Behaviors of End Users”) is an associate professor in the department of accounting and business information systems at Illinois State University. His current research interests include open source software development, information privacy and security concerns, and social media adoption.
Jan Muntermann (“Paradoxes and the Nature of Ambidexterity in IT Transformation Programs”) is a professor and Chair of Electronic Finance and Digital Markets in the faculty of economic sciences at the University of Göttingen. His research interests include the design and analysis of information systems, business intelligence and analytics, IT governance, and research methodology. He has published in journals such as Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, and European Journal of Information Systems.
Jeong-ha (Cath) Oh (“Predictive Analytics for Readmission of Patients with Congestive Heart Failure”) is an assistant professor in computer information systems at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Her research interests include healthcare analytics, IT in healthcare, and social media analytics. Her research has been published in Information Systems Research.
Onook Oh (“Role of Social Media in Social Change: An Analysis of Collective Sense Making During the 2011 Egypt Revolution”) is an assistant professor in the University of Colorado Denver Business School. He is interested in theorizing the work systems infrastructure, its techno-social dynamics in organization, and technology mediated collective sense-making under social crises. He is a recipient of multiple NSF funded projects. His research has been published in MIS Quarterly, Communications of the AIS, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, Information Systems Frontiers, and Information Systems Management, among others.
Gautam Pant (“Web Footprints of Firms: Using Online Isomorphism for Competitor Identification”) is an associate professor in the management sciences department at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. His current research focuses on searching, gathering, and analyzing online information to gain business intelligence. He was previously on the faculty at the University of Utah.
Ram Ramesh (“Health Information Exchange as a Multisided Platform: Adoption, Usage, and Practice Involvement in Service Co-Production”) is professor and Chair of Management Science and Systems Department, School of Management, SUNY at 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.
H. R. Rao (“Role of Social Media in Social Change: An Analysis of Collective Sense Making During the 2011 Egypt Revolution”) is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, management science and systems department, school of management, SUNY at Buffalo. He has co-authored over 150 archival journal publications. His research has been funded by NSF, DoD, and the Canadian Embassy. He is co-editor-in-chief of Information Systems Frontiers, senior editor at MIS Quarterly, advisory editor of Decision Support Systems and assoiciate editor at ACM TMIS. He has received best paper and best paper runner up awards at journals like Information Systems Research and conferences like ICIS.
Karen Ruckman (“Market Positioning by IT Service Vendors Through Imitation”) is an associate professor of strategy at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. She received her Ph.D. from the (now) Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include technology management, licensing strategy, and acquisition motivation in the biopharmaceutical and IT industries. She has published studies in the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Business Research, and the Journal of International Economics.
Hani Safadi (“The Emergence of Online Community Leadership”) is interested in understanding the role technology plays in organizing work and producing innovations that were traditionally conceived within the boundaries of established firms and businesses. His research focuses on open innovation in healthcare IT and the dynamics of online communities and social media. He had worked in the search engine industry with Yahoo! and Seekport. He also consulted on engineering projects involving machine translation, social networks, and electronic medical records.
Vallabh Sambamurthy (“Market Positioning by IT Service Vendors Through Imitation”) is the Eli Broad Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is a leading global expert on how firms leverage information technologies in digital innovation and competitive strategies. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Financial Executives Research Foundation, and the Advanced Practices Council.
Nilesh Saraf (“Market Positioning by IT Service Vendors Through Imitation”) is an associate professor of management information systems at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He researches the strategic behavior of IT vendors, diffusion of enterprise technologies, their organizational impacts, open source software, social networks and, recently, online social media. His research has been published in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information, and Information Systems Journal.
Raj Sharman (“Health Information Exchange as a Multisided Platform: Adoption, Usage, and Practice Involvement in Service Co-Production”) is an associate professor in the management science and systems department, SUNY at Buffalo. He received his B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT Bombay, and his M.S. in industrial engineering and Ph.D. in computer science from Louisiana State University. His research focus includes healthcare informatics, information assurance, and extreme events mitigation. He also serves as associate editor for the Journal of the AIS, and the Communications of the AIS.
Olivia R. L. Sheng (“Web Footprints of Firms: Using Online Isomorphism for Competitor Identification”) is Presidential Professor and Emma Eccles Jones Presidential Chair of Information Systems at the University of Utah. She received a B.S. from the National Chiao Tung University, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in computers and information systems from the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on web, text, and data mining. Prior to joining the University of Utah, she was on the faculty at the University of Arizona.
Harpreet Singh (“Early to Adopt and Early to Discontinue: The Impact of Self-Perceived and Actual IT Knowledge on Technology Use Behaviors of End Users”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. in business administration (information system) from the University of Connecticut. His areas of research include user-generated content, IT-competence, software innovations, and social networks.
Sandra A. Slaughter (“Turnover or Turnaway? Competing Risks Analysis of Male and Female IT Professionals’ Job Mobility and Relative Pay Gap”) is the Alton M. Costley Chair and professor of information technology management at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She has published over 100 articles in research journals, conference proceedings, and edited books, and received eight best paper awards. Her research has received support from NSF, DoD, Sloan Foundation, and others. She is a departmental editor for Management Science, and was senior or associate editor for other leading information systems journals.
Sebastian Spaeth (“Perceived Firm Attributes and Intrinsic Motivation in Sponsored Open Source Software Projects”) studied in Germany and Sweden, receiving his Doctor in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen. As senior researcher at the chair of strategy and innovation management at ETH Zürich, he conducted research on collaborative open innovation and collaborative business models. In 2013, he founded the Chair of Management and Digital Markets at the University of Hamburg, which he currently holds.
Georg von Krogh (“Perceived Firm Attributes and Intrinsic Motivation in Sponsored Open Source Software Projects”) holds the Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation at ETH Zürich. He received his Ph.D. from the Norwegian University of Technology and Natural Science. He specializes in competitive strategy, technological innovation, and knowledge management. He has conducted research in various industries including financial services, media, computer software and hardware, life-sciences, and consumer goods.
Niam Yaraghi (“Health Information Exchange as a Multisided Platform: Adoption, Usage, and Practice Involvement in Service Co-Production”) is a fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation. He is an expert on economics of healthcare information technology with a focus on health information exchange (HIE) systems. His research examines the network externalities in the healthcare market and their effects on HIE adoption and usage. His research is currently focused on analyzing the outcomes of HIE use in reducing the costs and increasing the quality of healthcare services.
Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng (“Predictive Analytics for Readmission of Patients with Congestive Heart Failure”) is an associate professor in information systems at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the Wharton School. His current research interests include advanced business analytics, social media analytics, and healthcare IT. He has published papers in Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and INFORMS Journal on Computing. He currently serves on the editorial board of Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and several other journals.
