About Our Authors
Hock C. Chan (“Deliberation Without Attention: The Latent Benefits of Distracting Website Features for Online Purchase Decisions”) is an associate professor in the department of information systems at the National University of Singapore. He has a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. His research areas include information systems, user-database interaction, and spreadsheet visualization. His research has been published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology.
Patrali Chatterjee (“Learning User Real-Time Intent for Optimal Dynamic Web Page Transformation”) is a professor of marketing at the School of Business, Montclair State University. She holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the Owen School of Management, Vanderbilt University. Previously, she was Vice Chair and assistant professor, department of marketing at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University. Her research on online advertising and social media, omnichannel retail, and the role of IT in transforming organizations has appeared in several books, academic journals, and been featured in the media.
Amy Wenxuan Ding (“Learning User Real-Time Intent for Optimal Dynamic Web Page Transformation”) is a research fellow at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China. She received a Ph.D. in information technology and cognitive science from Carnegie Mellon University. She specializes in data intelligence, scientific discovery, digital commerce, social computing for security, and risk analysis. Her research has appeared in Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Defense & Security Analysis, Journal of Defense Modelling and Simulation, Safety Science, and the Journal of Management Mathematics.
Rajdeep Grewal (“Cable News Wars on the Internet: Competition and User-Generated Content”) is the Townsend Family Distinguished Professor of Marketing at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. His research focuses on empirically modeling strategic marketing issues and has appeared in prestigious journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Strategic Management Journal, among others. Currently he serves as a co-editor for the Journal of Marketing Research and area editor for the Journal of Marketing; he also serves on the editorial board for several journals including Marketing Science and the International Journal of Research in Marketing. He has received several awards for his research including a doctoral dissertation award from the Procter & Gamble Market Innovation Research Fund, the Honorable Mention Award at the prestigious MSI/JM competition on “Linking Marketing to Financial Performance and Firm Value,” the 2003 Young Contributor Award from the Society of Consumer Psychology for his article in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and his article on incentive-aligned conjoint analysis was a finalist for the 2006 Paul E. Green Award and the 2010 O’Dell Award for best article published in the Journal of Marketing Research in 2005.
Zheyin (Jane) Gu (“Investigating Firm Strategies on Offering Consumer-Customizable Products”) is an assistant professor of marketing at the School of Business, University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in marketing from the Stern School of Business, New York University. Her research interests include digital marketing and analytics, online retailing social media, behavioral economics, and competitive marketing strategies. She has published in the Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, and Marketing Science.
Vijay Gurbaxani (“Social Capital and Contract Duration in Buyer-Supplier Networks for Information Technology Outsourcing”) is the Taco Bell Endowed Professor and founding Director of the Center for Digital Transformation at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. He received a Masters degree in mathematics (specialization: computer science) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Rochester. His research has appeared in Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Sloan Management Review, and Communications of the ACM.
Jack Shih-Chieh Hsu (“The Role of Extra-Role Behaviors and Social Contents in Information Security Policy Effectiveness”) is an associate professor in the department of information management, National Sun Yat-sen University. He received his Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Central Florida. His research interests include various behavioral issues in e-commerce, information security, and software project management areas. He has articles published or accepted in Information Systems Research, Decision Sciences, Information Systems Journal, Information & Management, Decision Support Systems, and others.
Yu Wen Hung (“The Role of Extra-Role Behaviors and Social Contents in Information Security Policy Effectiveness”) is a Ph.D. candidate in information management at National Sun Yat-sen University. Her research focuses on behavioral issues in information systems development management and control and e-commerce. Her research has been published in academic journals (Information & Management, International Journal of Information Management) and in international conference proceedings (Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Workshop on Information Security and Privacy).
Frago Kourandi (“Net Neutrality, Exclusivity Contracts, and Internet Fragmentation”) is an economist at the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Market, & Competition Monitoring Unit. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business. Her areas of interest include industrial organization, regulation and competition policy, and network economics.
Jan Krämer (“Net Neutrality, Exclusivity Contracts, and Internet Fragmentation”) is a professor of information systems at the University of Passau. Previously, he studied industrial engineering and management at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received a doctoral degree in economics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research interests include pricing of digital services, economics of information systems, information systems policy issues, and the design of electronic markets.
One-Ki (Daniel) Lee (“How Does IT Ambidexterity Impact Organizational Agility?”) is an associate professor, management science and information systems department at the College of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston. He received his Ph.D. from the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests involve strategic IT management, IT-enabled dynamic capabilities, global IT project, and agile risk management. His work has appeared in several journals including Communications of the ACM, Information & Management, and the Journal of Global Information Management.
Shibo Li (“Learning User Real-Time Intent for Optimal Dynamic Web Page Transformation”) is an associate professor of marketing and Weimer Faculty Fellow at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He received a Ph.D. in industrial administration (marketing) from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are consumer dynamics, analytical customer relationship management, and digital marketing. His research has appeared in Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and the Journal of Interactive Marketing.
Kai H. Lim (“How Does IT Ambidexterity Impact Organizational Agility?”) is a professor and director of research and Ph.D. programs in the information systems department, City University of Hong Kong; he is also an honorary professor at Fudan University and Wuhan University. Previously, he was on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University and the University of Hawaii. His research interests include cross-cultural issues related to information systems management, IT-enabled business strategy, e-commerce, social media, and human-computer interactions. He is currently serving as a senior editor of MIS Quarterly and has served on the editorial board of Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and the Journal of the AIS. His research has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Journal of the AIS.
Paul Benjamin Lowry (“The Role of Extra-Role Behaviors and Social Contents in Information Security Policy Effectiveness”) is a full professor of information systems at the City University of Hong Kong. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. His research interests include behavioral information security, human-computer interaction, e-commerce, and scientometrics of information systems research. He is an associate editor at MIS Quarterly (regular guest), European Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, Communication of the AIS, and Information Security Education Journal; and a senior editor at AIS Transaction on Human-Computer Interaction. He has published articles in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the AIS, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and others.
Dan Ma (“Analyzing Software as a Service with Per-Transaction Charges”) is an assistant professor of information systems and management at the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University. She received her Ph.D. from the Simon School at the University of Rochester. She specializes in the economics of IT. Her research interests includes service provision and pricing mechanisms for cloud services providers, competitive strategies for shared-IT services, the adoption, diffusion, and impact of new ITs, and IT innvoations in the financial services market.
Deepa Mani (“Social Capital and Contract Duration in Buyer-Supplier Networks for Information Technology Outsourcing”) is an assistant professor in the information systems group at the Indian School of Business. She is also the joint executive director of the Srini Raju Center for Technology and the Networked Economy at the Indian School of Business. Her research is at the intersection of technology, organization, and society. Her work has been published in leading journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Sloan Management Review, and MIS Quarterly Executive.
David Martens (“Finding Similar Mobile Customers with a Privacy-Friendly Geosocial Design”) is a professor at the University of Antwerp, where he heads the applied data mining research group. His research focuses on the development and application of data mining techniques that lead to improved understanding of human behavior, and the use thereof in marketing and finance. In 2014, he won the “Best EJOR Application Paper Award” (European Journal of Operational Research), and in 2008 he was a finalist for the prestigious international KDD doctoral dissertation award.
Alan Murray (“Finding Similar Mobile Customers with a Privacy-Friendly Geosocial Design”) is a serial entrepreneur. He holds a Bachelors in engineering from the University of Kentucky. He serves as a partner in Coriolis Ventures, and is co-founder of both Integral Ad Science and Dstillery, where he also serves as director. He is also co-CEO of NeueHouse, an international private membership collective of cultural entrepreneurs.
Foster Provost (“Finding Similar Mobile Customers with a Privacy-Friendly Geosocial Design”) is a professor and Andre Meyer Faculty Fellow at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is coauthor of the best-selling data science book, Data Science for Business. His research has won many awards, including best paper awards at KDD, and the INFORMS Design Science Award; it also formed the basis for several data-science-oriented companies. He previously was Editor-in-Chief of Machine Learning.
Kiron Ravindran (“Social Capital and Contract Duration in Buyer-Supplier Networks for Information Technology Outsourcing”) is an assistant professor in information systems and the Associate Dean of the Masters in Management Programs at the IE Business School, Madrid. He received a Bachelors in technology from Kerala University, a Masters in management (specialization: international business) from the S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, and a Ph.D. in information systems from the University of California, Irvine. His research has appeared in the International Conference on Information Systems.
Gaurav Sabnis (“Cable News Wars on the Internet: Competition and User-Generated Content”) is an assistant professor of marketing at the Howe School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in marketing from Penn State University. Previously, he worked in sales and marketing in IBM India as a channel manager. His research focuses on empirical analysis of marketing strategy issues pertaining to social media and sales management. His research has appeared in the Journal of Marketing.
Vallabh Sambamurthy (“How Does IT Ambidexterity Impact Organizational Agility?”) is the Eli Broad Professor and Chairperson, Accounting and Information Systems Department at the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His research interests involve the effects of IT on competitive strategies and organizational effectiveness. He was recognized as a Distinguished Fellow, Information Systems Society, INFORMS and a Fellow of the Association of Information Systems for his contributions to research and advancement of the professional communities. He has published his research in a variety of journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science; he has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including six years as the Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research.
Abraham Seidmann (“Analyzing Software as a Service with Per-Transaction Charges”) is the author of over 100 research articles in information systems and operations management. He has been the department editor on interdisciplinary management research and applications for Management Science. He won several prizes for outstanding research papers and for his MBA teaching. The Information Systems Society of INFORMS named him a Distinguished Fellow; the award was given to recognize his scientific, professional, and leadership contributions to the information systems discipline.
Sheng-Pao Shih (“The Role of Extra-Role Behaviors and Social Contents in Information Security Policy Effectiveness”) is an associate professor in the department of information management at Tamkang University. He obtained his Ph.D. in information management from National Central University, Taiwan. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include behavioral information security, IT personnel, and software project management. His work has been published or accepted in Information Systems Research, Information & Management, Computers in Human Behavior, and others.
Anjana Susarla (“Social Capital and Contract Duration in Buyer-Supplier Networks for Information Technology Outsourcing”) is an associate professor at the Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University. She received a Bachelors in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, a Masters in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management, and a Ph.D. in information systems from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research has appeared in Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Management Science, and MIS Quarterly.
Barney Tan (“Deliberation Without Attention: The Latent Benefits of Distracting Website Features for Online Purchase Decisions”) is a senior lecturer from the discipline of business information systems at the University of Sydney Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. His research interests include e-commerce, strategic information systems, and enterprise systems implementation. His research has been published in Information Systems Research, Journal of Association of Information Systems, IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management, and the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
Sharon Swee-Lin Tan (“The Road to Early Success: Impact of System Use in the Swift Response Phase”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the National University of Singapore. She holds a Ph.D. in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Masters and Bachelors in information systems from the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on healthcare information systems and knowledge management. Her work has been published in MIS Quarterly; she currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of AIS and the Journal of Database Management.
Giri K. Tayi (“Investigating Firm Strategies on Offering Consumer-Customizable Products”) is a professor of management science and information systems at the School of Business, SUNY at Albany. His research interests are interdisciplinary and cover information systems, operations management, and operations research. He serves on the editorial boards of Information Systems Research, Decision Sciences, and IEEE ComputingNow. His papers have appeared in Operations Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Transactions, Networks, Naval Research Logistics, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Journal of Computing, Journal of Computer Security, Communications of the ACM, and Information Systems Research.
Hock-Hai Teo (“The Road to Early Success: Impact of System Use in the Swift Response Phase”) is a professor of information systems and the Head of the Department of Information Systems at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He holds a Ph.D. in information systems from the National University of Singapore. He is also a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. He contributes mainly to two streams of research, namely IT innovation assimilation and IT-enabled information processing and decision making.
Amrit Tiwana (“Evolutionary Competition in Platform Ecosystems”) is a professor of management information systems at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia State University.
Yu Tong (“The Road to Early Success: Impact of System Use in the Swift Response Phase”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the City University of Hong Kong. She holds a Ph.D. in information systems from the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include the use and management of information systems in organizations, healthcare information systems, and IT-enabled emerging behaviors. Her work has been accepted and published in journals such as Journal of the AIS, and Information & Management.
Tommaso Valletti (“Net Neutrality, Exclusivity Contracts, and Internet Fragmentation”) is a professor of economics at the Imperial College London and at the University of Rome. He has a degree in engineering from Turin and holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. His research interests are in industrial economics, regulation, and telecoms economics. He has published numerous articles in journals such as the American Economic Review, EconomicJournal, Marketing Science, and the RAND Journal of Economics.
Kwok Kee Wei (“How Does IT Ambidexterity Impact Organizational Agility?”) is the Chair Professor of Information Systems at the City University of Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the Association of Information Systems and he was the president of that association in 2003–2004. He is actively pursuing research on e-commerce, knowledge management, and supply chain management systems. He has served as senior editor of MIS Quarterly and associate editor of Information Systems Research; he has also played major roles in the International Conference on Information Systems and the Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems.
Cheng Yi (“Deliberation Without Attention: The Latent Benefits of Distracting Website Features for Online Purchase Decisions”) is an assistant professor in the department of management science and engineering in the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. She received her Ph.D. in information systems from the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include e-commerce, human-computer interaction, online consumer behavior, social computing, and Internet marketing. Her research has appeared in journals such as Information Systems Research and the Journal of Management Information Systems.

