About Our Authors

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Ritu Agarwal (“ Electronic Health Records Assimilation and Physician Identity Evolution: An Identity Theory Perspective ”) is a Professor and the Dean's Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, where she also directs the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems. She has published over 80 papers in journals such as JAMIA, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, and elsewhere. Her current research is focused on the use and transformational impacts of IT in healthcare settings, privacy concerns with digitized medical information, the effects of IT on cost and healthcare quality, and electronic health information exchange. Catherine Anderson (“ Electronic Health Records Assimilation and Physician Identity Evolution: An Identity Theory Perspective ”) is the senior program director for business, government, and technology programs for the University of Virginia's School for Continuing and Professional Studies. She received her PhD in Information Systems from the Decisions, Operations, and Information Technologies Department of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.S. in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. She was a consultant for ten years with Accenture. Corey M. Angst (“ Electronic Health Records Assimilation and Physician Identity Evolution: An Identity Theory Perspective ”) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management, Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. His interests are in the transformational effect of IT, technology usage, and IT value—particularly in the healthcare industry. His research has been published in several top journals. He received his PhD from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland College Park in 2007. Kursad Asdemir (“ Pricing Models for Online Advertising: CPM vs. CPC ”) is an assistant professor of management information systems at the American University of the Middle East, Kuwait. He holds a B.Sc. in industrial engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey, and a PhD in MIS from the University of Texas at Dallas. He researches information and control issues in the context of online advertising pricing, dynamic pricing for online grocers, and online auctions. Anitesh Barua (“ An Empirical Analysis of the Contractual and Information Structures of Business Process Outsourcing Relationships ”) is the William F. Wright Centennial Professor of Information Technology management at the McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. His current research interests include outsourcing governance and migration in online social networks. Over 75 of his research articles have appeared in academic journals, refereed conference proceedings and edited book chapters. He serves as a Senior Editor at Information Systems Research. Peter Boatwright (“ What's in a “Name”? Impact of Use of Customer Information in E-Mail Advertisements ”) is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He also has a courtesy faculty appointment in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD from University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, and his research interests include product development processes and marketing of new products, consumer response models, analysis of promotional activities, Bayesian econometrics, and consumer response to assortment (collections of products). Daniel J. Brass (“ The Effects of Social Network Structure on Enterprise Systems Success: A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis ”) is J. Henning Hilliard Professor of Innovation Management and Director of LINKS—The International Center for Research on Social Networks in Business ( www.linkscenter.org ) at the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. He received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research has appeared in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, and Science. Peter Fader (“ From Business Intelligence to Competitive Intelligence: Inferring Competitive Measures Using Augmented Site-Centric Data ”) is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and co-director of the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative. His research centers around the analysis of behavioral data to understand and forecast customer shopping/purchasing activities. One common theme in his work is a focus on consistent (but often surprising) behavioral patterns that exist across a wide variety of seemingly different industries. Zhiling Guo (“ A Computational Analysis of Bundle Trading Markets Design for Distributed Resource Allocation ”) is an Assistant Professor in Information Systems at City University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in Management Science and Information Systems from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Dr. Guo's general research interests are in economics of information systems, IS-OM interface, and IS-marketing interface. Her current research focuses on market mechanism design, supply chain information sharing, and e-commerce channel strategies. Dr. Guo's papers have been published or accepted for publication in journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, and European Journal of Operational Research. Lorin M. Hitt (“ The Productivity of Information Technology Investments: New Evidence from IT Labor Data ”) is Class of 1942 Professor of Operations and Information Management (OPIM) at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School. His research is on the relationship of organizational and strategic factors to the value of IT investments, the economics of IT labor, and methods for evaluating IT investments. He received his PhD in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and ScB and ScM degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brown University. Varghese S. Jacob (“ Pricing Models for Online Advertising: CPM vs. CPC ” and “ Postrelease Testing and Software Release Policy for Enterprise-Level Systems ”) is the Senior Associate Dean and Ashbel Smith Professor of Management Information Systems in the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). His research interests are in data quality, electronic commerce, software engineering, decision support systems and in artificial intelligence applications. His research papers have been published in the premier journals in the field. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Information Technology and Management and also serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. Zhengrui Jiang (“ Postrelease Testing and Software Release Policy for Enterprise-Level Systems ”) is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the College of Business, Iowa State University. His research interests include the impact of data quality on decision-making, software economics, and software project management. His research has appeared in Management Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and International Journal of Research in Marketing, among others. Gary J. Koehler (“ A Computational Analysis of Bundle Trading Markets Design for Distributed Resource Allocation ”) is the John B. Higdon Eminent Scholar and Chairman at the University of Florida's ISOM Department. He received his PhD from Purdue University in 1974. Between 1979-1987 he was cofounder and CEO of a 260 person high-tech company. His research interests are at the intersection of Management Science and Information Systems. He has published in Information Systems Research, Management Science, the Informs Journal on Computing and others. M. S. Krishnan (“ In Search of Efficient Flexibility: Effects of Software Component Granularity on Development Effort, Defects, and Customization Effort ”) is the Joseph Handleman Professor of Information Systems and Innovation, and Professor of Business Information Technology at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He is also the Faculty Director for India Initiatives at the Ross School of Business. Dr. Krishnan received his degrees in Mathematics and Computer Applications from the University of Delhi, India and PhD in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. Anuj Kumar (“ Does the Web Reduce Customer Service Cost? Empirical Evidence from a Call Center ”) is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida. Anuj holds a PhD in Information Systems Management from Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University. Anuj studies multichannel customer behavior in IS enabled new technology channels e.g. multichannel call centers and digital goods distributions. He employs economic and behavioral theories to model customer behavior and then utilizes econometric and probabilistic methods to extract actionable insights from the field data. Nanda Kumar (“ Pricing Models for Online Advertising: CPM vs. CPC ”) is an Associate Professor of Marketing in the School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at University of Chicago. He uses game-theoretic tools to examine competitive strat