About Our Authors

Ritu Agarwal (“ Effects of Individual Self-Protection, Industry Self-Regulation, and Government Regulation on Privacy Concerns: A Study of Location-Based Services ”) is a professor and the Robert H. Smith Dean's Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. She is the founder and director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems at the Smith School. She is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). Her current research focuses on the heath IT, quality transparency in healthcare, and consumer behavior in technology mediated settings. Hillol Bala (“ Adoption and Impacts of Interorganizational Business Process Standards: Role of Partnering Synergy ”) is an assistant professor of information systems at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. His research in the areas of IT-enabled change, IT use and impact and IT in healthcare has been published or accepted for publication in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, and The Information Society. He has served on the editorial review board of Decision Sciences. Hock Chuan Chan (“ What Motivates People to Purchase Digital Items on Virtual Community Websites? The Desire for Online Self-Presentation ”) is an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems, National University of Singapore. He has a BA from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of British Columbia. His research interests include human computer interaction and information systems acceptance. He has published in journals such as ACM TOCHI, DSS, IJHCS, JDM, and MISQ. He is on the editorial boards of JAIS, AIS THCI, JECR, and JDM. Jianqing Chen (“ Effects of the Presence of Organic Listing in Search Advertising ”) is an assistant professor in information systems at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. from McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. His papers have been published or accepted for publication in academic journals including Decision Analysis, Decision Support Systems, Economics Letters, Information Systems Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Production and Operations Management. Yuxin Chen (“ Corporate IT Standardization: Product Compatibility, Exclusive Purchase Commitment and Competition Effects ”) is the Polk Brothers Professor of Retailing and Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His research areas include database marketing, internet marketing, pricing, retailing, competitive strategies, structural empirical models, Bayesian econometric methods, and behavioral economics. He received his Ph.D. in marketing from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining the Kellogg School of Management, he taught at the Stern School of Business from 1999 to 2009. John Collins (“ Real-time Tactical and Strategic Sales Management for Intelligent Agents Guided by Economic Regimes ”) spent 30 years in industry doing research and product development before returning to the University of Minnesota, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2002. He teaches in the areas of software engineering and artificial intelligence. His research focuses on economic decision processes in autonomous software agents. He has been involved in the Association for Trading Agent Research for the last nine years, where he led a major redesign of the supply-chain scenario, served on the Board of Directors, and is currently involved in designing the game scenario and software infrastructure for the new Power TAC competition. Deborah Compeau (“ Generalizability of Information Systems Research Using Student Subjects? A Reflection on Our Practices and Recommendations for Future Research ”) is a professor of information systems in the Ivey Business School at Western University. Her research focuses on the individual user of information and communications technologies, viewed from a social cognitive perspective. Specifically, she is interested in understanding what organizations can do to facilitate individual adoption of and learning about ICTs. Her research has been published in leading journals in MIS. She has also served in editorial roles at MISQ and ISR. Dianne Cyr (“ Advancing Public Trust Relationships in Electronic Government: The Singapore E-Filing Journey ”) is a professor in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her research is focused on how trust, satisfaction, and loyalty are built in online business environments through website design. She is the author of 5 books and over 90 research articles. journal publications appear in MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, Information & Management, and International Journal of Human Computer Studies, among others. http://www.diannecyr.com . Harvey G. Enns (“ Synergy and Its Limits in Managing Information Technology Professionals ”) is an associate professor of MIS in the MIS, Operations Management, and Decision Sciences Department at the University of Dayton. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. His research focuses on managerial topics, including the management of IT professionals and CIO influence. He has published articles in journals such as MIS Quarterly, MIS Quarterly Executive, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and Human Resource Management. Hilla Etzion (“ Analyzing Pricing Strategies for Online Services with Network Effects ”) is an assistant professor of business information technology at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. (2005) from the Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. Professor Etzion develops theoretical frameworks for evaluating the viability and the profitability of innovative strategies which utilize online selling. Her research interests include online auctions, managing multiple selling mechanisms online, and the simultaneous management of offline and online selling channels. Yulin Fang (“ User Satisfaction with IT Service Delivery: A Social Capital Perspective ”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. at Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. His current research is focused on knowledge management, virtual teams, and open source software projects. He has published papers in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Management Studies, Organizational Research Methods, and others. Thomas W. Ferratt (“ Synergy and Its Limits in Managing Information Technology Professionals ”) is the Sherman-Standard Register Endowed Chair in MIS at the University of Dayton. His primary research emphasis is on the management of information systems professionals. His work appears in journals including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Academy of Management Journal. He has been on the editorial boards of Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly. Chris Forman (“ Ushering Buyers into Electronic Channels: An Empirical Analysis ”) is an assistant professor of IT Management at the College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His research interests include electronic commerce, diffusion of IT innovations, IT strategy, and outsourcing and offshoring. He is an associate editor at Information Systems Research and Information Economics and Policy. In 2007 he was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship. Maria Gini (“ Real-time Tactical and Strategic Sales Management for Intelligent Agents Guided by Economic Regimes ”) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Her work includes robot cooperation, learning opponent behaviors, and autonomous economic agents. She has coauthored over 200 technical papers. She is on the editorial board of numerous journals, including the Journal of Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, and Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering. She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Dale Goodhue (“ Two Worlds of Trust for Potential E-commerce Users: Humans as Cognitive Misers ”) is the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration at UGA's Terry College of Business. He has published in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Decision Sciences, Sloan Management Review, etc. Research interests include measuring impacts of information systems, the impact of task-technology fit on individual performance, the management of data and other IS infrastructures/resources, the impacts of Enterprise Systems on organizations, and the strengths and weaknesses of various statistical techniques. Alok Gupta (“ Real-time Tactical and Strategic Sales Management for Intelligent Agents Guided by Economic Regimes ”) holds Curtis L. Carlson School-wide Chair in Information Management at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His research has been published in various information systems, economics, and computer science journals such as Management Science, ISR, MIS Quarterly, CACM, JMIS, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Computational Economics and Decis

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