About Our Authors

Izak Benbasat (“Why Following Friends Can Hurt You: An Exploratory Investigation of the Effects of Envy on Social Networking Sites among College-Age Users”) is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Sauder Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He received the LEO Award for lifetime exceptional achievements in information systems from the AIS and was recognized as a Distinguished Fellow by the INFORMS Information Systems Society. He was Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research, the Editor of the information systems and decision support systems departments of Management Science, and a Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly.

Peter Buxmann (“Why Following Friends Can Hurt You: An Exploratory Investigation of the Effects of Envy on Social Networking Sites among College-Age Users”) is a full professor of information systems at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. His research fields include software business, future Internet economy, and information management. He supervised numerous scientific as well as industry-related research projects and is the head of HIGHEST–the start-up incubator of Technische Universität Darmstadt. He is also a board member of the house of information technology, where he is responsible for interdisciplinary research and networking between industry and science.

Hailiang Chen (“IT-Enabled Broadcasting in Social Media: An Empirical Study of Artists’ Activities and Music Sales”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong. He received a Ph.D. in management information systems from Purdue University. His research has been published in Review ofFinancial Studies and Decision Support Systems.

Zhuo (June) Cheng (“Information Technology Substitution Revisited”) is an associate professor in the School of Accounting and Finance at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. Her research interest is mainly on the economics of information systems. She has published in Information Systems Research and Management Science, among others.

Prabuddha De (“IT-Enabled Broadcasting in Social Media: An Empirical Study of Artists’ Activities and Music Sales”) is the Accenture Professor of Information Technology at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a distinguished fellow of the INFORMS Information Systems Society and a fellow of the Association for Information Systems. He has published in Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Operations Research, Review of Financial Studies, and other journals; and served on the editorial boards of Information Systems Research and Management Science, among others.

Zheng Fang (“Contemporaneous and Delayed Sales Impact of Location-Based Mobile Promotions”) is a professor of marketing at Sichuan University. His research interests include mobile marketing, consumer finance, and marketing modeling. His papers have been published in journals such as Management Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, and others.

Abhijeet Ghoshal (“Recommendations Using Information from Multiple Association Rules: A Probabilistic Approach”) is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests include operational and economic issues related to recommender systems. His works have appeared, or are forthcoming, in INFORMS Journal on Computing and Journal of Management Information Systems.

Bin Gu (“Contemporaneous and Delayed Sales Impact of Location-Based Mobile Promotions”) is a professor of information systems at Arizona State University. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in operations and information management from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in mobile commerce, online social media and social network, user-generated contents, information technology business value, and information technology governance. His work has appeared in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Retailing, and other academic journals.

Yu Jeffrey Hu (“IT-Enabled Broadcasting in Social Media: An Empirical Study of Artists’ Activities and Music Sales”) is an associate professor and a co-director of the Business Analytics Center at the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. His research has been published in top journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, and Review of Financial Studies. He has won several research awards including the inaugural Management Science Best Paper Award in information systems.

Kai-Lung Hui (“Migration of Service to the Internet: Evidence from a Federal Natural Experiment”) is a professor in the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained his BBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include information privacy and security, information technology policies, and e-commerce. His research has been published in scholarly journals including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of Management Information Systems, among others.

Hanna Krasnova (“Why Following Friends Can Hurt You: An Exploratory Investigation of the Effects of Envy on Social Networking Sites among College-Age Users”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the Universität Bern. She has got her Doctoral degree from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her research she addresses the issues of social, individual, and enterprise value of social media applications.

Xueming Luo (“Contemporaneous and Delayed Sales Impact of Location-Based Mobile Promotions”) is the Charles Gilliland Chair Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Strategy, and MIS, and Founder/Director of the Global Center for Big Data in Mobile Analytics in the Fox School of Business at Temple University. He is a thought leader in mobile targeting and consumer analytics, smart devices digital marketing, and the marketing-finance interface. His work has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and others.

Syam Menon (“Recommendations Using Information from Multiple Association Rules: A Probabilistic Approach”) is an associate professor in information systems in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. and MBA from the University of Chicago. His current interests include big data, privacy concerns in shared databases, recommendation system design, and software design. His contributions have appeared in Management Science, Information Systems Research, Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and many other outlets including various IEEE and ACM Transactions.

Sabyasachi Mitra (“Information Disclosure and the Diffusion of Information Security Attacks”) is a professor of information technology management at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and his Bachelor of technology degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. His research on information technology security, business analytics, governance, outsourcing, digital marketing, and infrastructure design appears in premier journals including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Operations Management, and INFORMS Journal on Computing.

Hasan A. Qurban H. Mohammad (“Information Technology Substitution Revisited”) is an assistant professor in the College of Business Administration at Kuwait University. He obtained his Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Calgary, and his research interests focus on the economics of information systems and computational Bayesian methods.

Barrie R. Nault (“Information Technology Substitution Revisited”) is the Robson Professor and Director of the Informatics Research Centre at the University of Calgary. His Ph.D. is from the University of British Columbia. He was previously on faculty at the Ohio State University, the University of California, and the University of Alberta. His research focuses on the economics of information systems. He has published in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Production and Operations Management, Strategic Management Journal, Marketing Science, and Organization Science, among others.

Jianping Peng (“Network Dynamics: How Can We Find Patients Like Us?”) is an associate professor at the Sun Yat-sen Business School, and a professor and academic director of the e-business program at the Xinhua College, Sun Yat-sen University. He received his Ph.D. from Sun Yat-sen University. His research interests include management information systems, e-commerce, social networks, and innovation. He has published in Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Management Decision, and Decision Support Systems, among others.

I. P. L. Png (“Migration of Service to the Internet: Evidence from a Federal Natural Experiment”) is a Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore. His ongoing research analyzes the effect of U.S. state-level trade secrets laws on innovation, and tracks professional careers and business growth using LinkedIn. He is the author of Managerial Economics, which will be publishing its fifth edition. For leisure, he walks with his wife along the Green Corridor and plays tennis (badly).

Sam Ransbotham (“Information Disclosure and the Diffusion of Information Security Attacks”) is an associate professor of information systems at Boston College. He received his Ph.D., MBA, and Bachelor’s of chemical engineering all from the Georgia Institute of technology. His research interests include information technology security, social media, and the strategic use of information technology. In 2014, he was awarded an NSF CAREER Award for his analytics-based research in security. He also serves as the guest editor for MIT’s Sloan Management Review, data and analytics initiative.

H. Raghav Rao (“An Exploration of Risk Characteristics of Information Security Threats and Related Public Information Search Behavior”) is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor at the University at Buffalo. He has been a Fulbright fellow in Canada and a World Class University professor in Korea. His h-index is 40 and he is a graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and the Canadian Embassy. He has published more than 175 technical papers, of which more than 130 have appeared in archival journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Management Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, and Decision Support Systems, etc.

Sumit Sarkar (“Recommendations Using Information from Multiple Association Rules: A Probabilistic Approach”) is the Charles and Nancy Davidson Chair and professor of information systems in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Indian School of Business, and a visiting scientist at IBM Research Laboratories. His research interests are in business intelligence, personalization and recommendation technologies, sponsored search, data privacy, information quality, heterogeneous databases, Web services, and software release strategies. His research has appeared in Management Science, Information Systems Research, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, MIS Quarterly, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and several other journals and conference proceedings.

Yong Tan (“Network Dynamics: How Can We Find Patients Like Us?”) is the Neal and Jan Dempsey Professor of Information Systems at the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington, and the Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. His research interests include social media and big data. He has published in Information Systems Research and Management Science, among others; he is serving on the editorial boards of Information Systems Research and the Journal ofManagement Information Systems.

Jingguo Wang (“An Exploration of Risk Characteristics of Information Security Threats and Related Public Information Search Behavior”) is an associate professor of information systems at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His current research interests are in the areas of cybercrime and information security, information search, and decision-making. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. His work has been published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of Management Information Systems,among others.

Helena Wenninger (“Why Following Friends Can Hurt You: An Exploratory Investigation of the Effects of Envy on Social Networking Sites among College-Age Users”) is a Ph.D. student at the chair of information systems at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. She has a multidisciplinary background. She has gained a Master’s degree in psychology from Utrecht University and a Magister degree in public administration from the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. She is interested in the patterns of social media use and the consequences of this use for individuals, providers, and society.

Thomas Widjaja (“Why Following Friends Can Hurt You: An Exploratory Investigation of the Effects of Envy on Social Networking Sites among College-Age Users”) is a postdoctoral researcher at the chair of information systems at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. His research interests include enterprise architecture, information technology security, social media, and software business.

Nan Xiao (“An Exploration of Risk Characteristics of Information Security Threats and Related Public Information Search Behavior”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research interests include information security and healthcare information systems.

Yunjie Xu (“Contemporaneous and Delayed Sales Impact of Location-Based Mobile Promotions”) is a professor at the School of Management, Fudan University. He got his Ph.D. in management information systems from Syracuse University. His research interests cover e-commerce, knowledge management, and social media. His research publications appeared in Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Association for Information Systems, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Communication of the ACM, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Journal of Retailing, Decision Support Systems, and more.

Lu (Lucy) Yan (“Network Dynamics: How Can We Find Patients Like Us?”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in business administration from the Michael G. 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. She has published in Information Systems Research.

Dawei Zhang (“Information Technology Substitution Revisited”) is an assistant professor in the Kania School of Management at the University of Scranton. He holds a Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Calgary. His background is in both computer science and economics. His research interest is in the economics of information systems. His current research focuses on information technology productivity, the business value of information technology, and healthcare informatics.