About Our Authors

Jeffry Babb (“Examining the Continuance of Secure Behavior: A Longitudinal Field Study of Mobile Device Authentication”) is an associate professor in the Computer Information and Decision Management Department in the College of Business at West Texas A&M University. His research interests are in information privacy and team learning in the use of agile methods. His work has appeared in Information Systems Research, Information Systems Journal, and IEEE Software, among others. He is currently the senior editor for the Information Systems Education Journal.

Aaron Baird (“Product Line Extension in Consumer Software Markets in the Presence of Free Alternatives”) is an assistant professor in the Institute of Health Administration and Department of Computer Information Systems at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His research interests center on consumer information systems and health information systems.

Andrew Burton-Jones (“On the Ontological Quality and Logical Quality of Conceptual-Modeling Grammars: The Need for a Dual Perspective”) is a professor of business information systems at the UQ Business School, University of Queensland. He has a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and Masters of Information Systems from the University of Queensland and a Ph.D. from Georgia State University. He conducts research on systems analysis and design and the effective use of information systems. Prior to his academic career, he was a senior consultant in a big-4 accounting/consulting firm.

Daniel L. Chen (“Are Online Labor Markets Spot Markets for Tasks? A Field Experiment on the Behavioral Response to Wage Cuts”) received his B.A. and M.S. in economics and applied math from Harvard College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT. He is a professor at IAST Toulouse School of Economics, senior research associate/fellow, LWP at Harvard Law School, a former Chair of law and economics and co-founder of the Center of Law and Economics at ETH Zurich, and Duke assistant professor.

Roger Clarke (“On the Ontological Quality and Logical Quality of Conceptual-Modeling Grammars: The Need for a Dual Perspective”) is a lecturer in philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast. He has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. His research is mainly in epistemology.

Emre M. Demirezen (“Sustainability of Healthcare Information Exchanges: A Game-Theoretic Approach”) is an assistant professor in the School of Management at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. in information and operations management from Texas A&M University. His publications have appeared in reputable journals and refereed conference proceedings. His research interests include healthcare information exchanges, healthcare management, and coordination and collaboration issues in IT and supply chains.

Brian Kimball Dunn (“Facilitating the Transformational: An Exploration of Control in Cyberinfrastructure Projects and the Discovery of Field Control”) is an assistant professor of management information systems at the University of Oklahoma’s Price College of Business. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to entering academia, he spent 10 years in corporate practice, having earlier earned a Masters of Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine and a Bachelor of Arts degree in German from Brigham Young University.

Anne-Laure Fayard (“Framing Innovation Opportunities While Staying Committed to an Organizational Epistemic Stance”) is an associate professor in the Technology Management and Innovation Department at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Her research focuses on communication, collaboration, culture, design, and open innovation. Her work has been published in Organization Science, Organization Studies, and others.

Emmanouil Gkeredakis (“Framing Innovation Opportunities While Staying Committed to an Organizational Epistemic Stance”) is an assistant professor at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool and has previously held postdoctoral positions at New York University, Stern School of Business, and University of Warwick. His research focuses on coordination practices, organizational decision making, and emerging, crowd-based organizational forms. His research approach is generally inspired by practice theories and philosophy.

Fengmei Gong (“An Internet-Enabled Move to the Market in Logistics”) is an assistant professor of information technology at the College of Business and Public Management, University of La Verne. She received her Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on economics of information systems, IT productivity, IT-enabled business models, and supply chain and logistics management. She has presented her work in numerous venues in the United States, Canada, and China.

Anandasivam Gopal (“Does Product Market Competition Drive CVC Investment? Evidence from the U.S. IT Industry”) is an associate professor of information systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. He has a Ph.D. in information systems from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are in the economics of information systems, focusing on software development outsourcing, digital platforms, venture capital, technology-related entrepreneurship, and innovation. He has served as an associate editor at Information Systems Research and guest associate editor at Management Science.

Jungpil Hahn (“Leader Influence on Sustained Participation in Online Collaborative Work Communities: A Simulation-Based Approach”) is an associate professor and Head of the Department of Information Systems at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His current research focuses on organizational adaptation and learning in open innovation and software development. His research appears in leading journals such as Information Systems Research, Management Science, and Organization Science.

Gerard Hoberg (“Does Product Market Competition Drive CVC Investment? Evidence from the U.S. IT Industry”) is an associate professor of finance at the USC Marshall School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His research is primarily in the area of corporate finance with a focus on topics including initial public offerings, mergers, and the role of industrial organization and product market competition in corporate finance. He is also known for methodological contributions that bring technologies from computational linguistics into research in business disciplines.

John J. Horton (“Are Online Labor Markets Spot Markets for Tasks? A Field Experiment on the Behavioral Response to Wage Cuts”) received his B.S. in mathematics from the United States Military Academy at West Point and his Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University. He is an assistant professor of information systems in the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Gerald C. Kane (“Content and Collaboration: An Affiliation Network Approach to Information Quality in Online Peer Production Communities”) is an associate professor of information systems and a McKiernan Distinguished Fellow at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. He is also currently serving as the guest editor for social and digital business at MIT Sloan Management Review, where he researches and writes regularly on the state of social media across organizations. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Mark J. Keith (“Examining the Continuance of Secure Behavior: A Longitudinal Field Study of Mobile Device Authentication”) is an assistant professor in the Information Systems Department in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. His research interests include information security and privacy. His research has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Information Systems Research, Decision Sciences, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and others.

Keongtae Kim (“Does Product Market Competition Drive CVC Investment? Evidence from the U.S. IT Industry”) is an assistant professor at the College of Business, City University of Hong Kong. He has a Ph.D. in information systems from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park. His research interests include IT-enabled platforms (e.g., crowdfunding/crowdsourcing), open innovation, IT labor market, and IT business value. His research has appeared in Information Systems Research, International Conference on Information Systems, and Academy of Management Annual Meeting, among others.

Taekyung Kim (“Leader Influence on Sustained Participation in Online Collaborative Work Communities: A Simulation-Based Approach”) is an assistant professor in business administration at the University of Suwon. He received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University in management information systems. His research publications appear in International Journal of Information Management, Asian Case Research Journal, and Asian Pacific Journal of Information Systems.

Laurie J. Kirsch (“Facilitating the Transformational: An Exploration of Control in Cyberinfrastructure Projects and the Discovery of Field Control”) is a professor of business administration at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She served as Senior Associate Dean and is now Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Development, and Diversity. Her research examines the management of IT projects. She has served as a senior editor or associate editor for several journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Management Science.

Subodha Kumar (“Sustainability of Healthcare Information Exchanges: A Game-Theoretic Approach”) is the Carol and G. David Van Houten, Jr. ’71 Professor at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas. He has published several papers in reputed journals. He is the deputy editor and a department editor of Production and Operations Management, a senior editor of Decision Sciences, and an associate editor of Information Systems Research. He is the Vice-President–Communications of POMS, and the Vice-President of ISS.

Natalia Levina (“Framing Innovation Opportunities While Staying Committed to an Organizational Epistemic Stance”) received her Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and is the Toyota Motors Corporation Term Associate Professor of Information Systems at New York University, Stern School of Business. Her research appeared in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Journal, among others. She has served on the board of Information Systems Research and Organization Science and is currently on the editorial board of Information and Organization.

De Liu (“Gamification of Technology-Mediated Training: Not All Competitions Are the Same”) is an associate professor of information decision sciences systems at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His research interests include economics of online auctions and contests, gamification, and social commerce. His research has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Market Research. He is currently an associate editor for Information Systems Research and Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce.

Chadwick J. Miller (“Product Line Extension in Consumer Software Markets in the Presence of Free Alternatives”) is an assistant professor of marketing in the Carson College of Business at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in marketing from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His research primarily focuses on how consumers use the type of features or the number of features included within a product or service as a purchase heuristic.

Gregory D. Moody (“Facilitating the Transformational: An Exploration of Control in Cyberinfrastructure Projects and the Discovery of Field Control”) is currently an assistant professor in the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Director of the Graduate MIS program. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Oulu. His interests include information systems security and privacy, e-business and human–computer interaction. He has published in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information and Management, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and other journals. He is currently an associate editor for Information Systems Journal and AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, and an officer in SIGHCI.

Jae Yun Moon (“Leader Influence on Sustained Participation in Online Collaborative Work Communities: A Simulation-Based Approach”) is a professor of management information systems at the Korea University Business School. She received her Ph.D. in information systems from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Her research focuses on voluntary online collectives, the impact of social media on collaboration, designing social collaborative platforms, and human-computer interaction issues in electronic commerce.

Barrie R. Nault (“An Internet-Enabled Move to the Market in Logistics”) is the Robson Professor and Director of the Informatics Research Centre at the University of Calgary. He was previously on the faculty at the Ohio State University, the University of California, and the University of Alberta. His Ph.D. is from the University of British Columbia. 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.

Wonseok Oh (“Leader Influence on Sustained Participation in Online Collaborative Work Communities: A Simulation-Based Approach”) is the C.B. Chair Professor of Information Systems in the College of Business at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the Stern School of Business at New York University. His research interests include network theory, economics of information systems, mobile app consumption, and social media. His research has been published in Information Systems Research, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, and Production and Operations Management.

T. S. Raghu (“Product Line Extension in Consumer Software Markets in the Presence of Free Alternatives”) is a professor of information systems in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He has served as or currently serves on the editorial boards for Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and Information Systems Frontier. He served as the program co-chair for the Workshop on E-Business, 2009, and for the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2012.

Mohammad S. Rahman (“An Internet-Enabled Move to the Market in Logistics”) is an associate professor of management at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. His research program focuses on digital business, technology usage, retail and Web analytics, consumer behavior, and decision making. He has published in major journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIT Sloan Management Review. He is currently an associate editor of Information Systems Research.

Sam Ransbotham (“Content and Collaboration: An Affiliation Network Approach to Information Quality in Online Peer Production Communities”) 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 IT security, social media and the strategic use of IT. 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.

Radhika Santhanam (“Gamification of Technology-Mediated Training: Not All Competitions Are the Same”) is the Michael F. Price Chair and Director of the MIS Division, in the Price College of Business, at the University of Oklahoma. Her research focus is on human-computer interactions, and specifically addresses how training and system design could augment employee interactions with technology. Her recent research explores gamification as a way to motivate employees to work with technology. She has received external funding for her research and has published in a variety of journals including MIS Quarterly, and Information Systems Research, where she currently serves as a senior editor.

Pallab Sanyal (“Characteristics and Economic Consequences of Jump Bids in Combinatorial Auctions”) is an associate professor of information systems at the School of Business at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in information and decision sciences from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His primary research interest lies in understanding how people make decisions in complex economic institutions and how the decisions are influenced by the design choices of the institutions. His research has been published in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Journal of Operations Management, among other outlets.

Arun Sen (“Sustainability of Healthcare Information Exchanges: A Game-Theoretic Approach”) is a full professor at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He earned his Ph.D. in business administration (specializing in information systems) with minors in finance and computer science from the Department of Management Science, Pennsylvania State University. He has published over 50 articles in reputable journals. His research interests include decision support systems, database management, repository management and software reuse, data warehousing, customer relationship management, and e-commerce.

Wei-Cheng Milton Shen (“Gamification of Technology-Mediated Training: Not All Competitions Are the Same”) is an assistant professor of accounting at the University of Alabama–Huntsville. He received his Ph.D. in decision science and information systems from the University of Kentucky and two Masters degrees of accountancy from National Chengchi University and from the Ohio State University. His research and teaching interests lie mainly in the areas of accounting and management information systems, including such topics as graphical financial reporting, impression management, business analytics, and gamification.

Rajiv K. Sinha (“Product Line Extension in Consumer Software Markets in the Presence of Free Alternatives”) was the Lonnie Ostrom Chair and professor of marketing at Arizona State University. He passed away in July 2015. His research pertained to topics such as diffusion of innovations, digital goods piracy, online brand communities, and pricing of information goods. His publications have appeared in leading academic journals, such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, Information Systems Research, Production and Operations Management, among others.

Sandra A. Slaughter (“Facilitating the Transformational: An Exploration of Control in Cyberinfrastructure Projects and the Discovery of Field Control”) was the Alton M. Costley Chair and professor of information technology management in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Her thesis won first place in the doctoral dissertation competition held by the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in 1995; since then, she has gone on to publish over 100 articles in leading research journals, conference proceedings, and edited books. Her work has received best paper awards at major conferences and a best published paper award from Information Systems Research; her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and Research Centers at Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Minnesota. She served as a departmental editor for Management Science (information systems department), and has served as a senior editor or associate editor for other leading journals; in 2009, she served as program co-chair of ICIS; she served as the elected Association for Information Systems (AIS) Region 1 (Americas) Representative on the AIS Council.

Paul John Steinbart (“Examining the Continuance of Secure Behavior: A Longitudinal Field Study of Mobile Device Authentication”) is a professor in the Department of Information Systems in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His current research focuses on the usability of information security solutions and effective governance of information security. His research has been published in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Sciences, and The Accounting Review. He also is a co-author of the undergraduate textbook Accounting Information Systems.

Ron Weber (“On the Ontological Quality and Logical Quality of Conceptual-Modeling Grammars: The Need for a Dual Perspective”) is Emeritus Professor, Monash University, and part-time professor, the University of Queensland. He has a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Queensland and an MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His research interests lie in the areas of conceptual modeling and ontology.

Qin Weng (“Facilitating the Transformational: An Exploration of Control in Cyberinfrastructure Projects and the Discovery of Field Control”) is a Ph.D. candidate in information systems at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. She received her Masters degree in information systems from the School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research interests focus on knowledge management, social media, and collaboration in IT projects.