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Patrick J. Bateman (“ Research Note: The Impact of Community Commitment on Participation in Online Communities ”) is an assistant professor at the Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. His professional experience includes working as a technical analyst, corporate education manager, and financial analyst in the financial services industries. His work has been published in Artifact, presented at international conferences, and received a best paper award at the Americas Conference on Information Systems. His research interests include the dynamics of online communities, virtual worlds, knowledge management, and electronic commerce. Izak Benbasat (“ Research Note: The Influence of Trade-off Difficulty Caused by Preference Elicitation Methods on User Acceptance of Recommendation Agents Across Loss and Gain Conditions ”) is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and CANADA Research Chair in Information Technology Management at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Management Information Systems. He was editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research, editor of the Information Systems and Decision Support Systems Department of Management Science, and a senior editor of MIS Quarterly. Brian S. Butler (“ Research Note: The Impact of Community Commitment on Participation in Online Communities ” and “ Research Note: Knowledge Exploration and Exploitation: The Impacts of Psychological Climate and Knowledge Management System Access ”) is an associate professor at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and associate professor of clinical and translational research at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include the dynamics of online communities and other technology-supported groups, the politics of technology implementation in organizations, organizational-cognition-based approaches to achieving reliable performance from unreliable systems, social computing, mass collaboration, power and IT, health care and IS, and management of complex systems for reliable organizational performance. His work has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Information Systems Research, Communications of the AIS, Management Information Systems Quarterly, and the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Ronald T. Cenfetelli (“ Identifying and Testing the Inhibitors of Technology Usage Intentions ”) is an assistant professor of management information systems at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, an M.B.A. from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, and a B.S. in aerospace engineering from Purdue University. He conducts research in areas such as e-business and online customer service, the strategic uses of information technology, the influences of technology on immoral behavior, the behavioral and emotional aspects of technology usage, and human-computer interfaces. Before entering academics, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry in both production and technology-management roles. He also has a prior career as a U.S. naval officer. His research has published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and the Journal of AIS, among others. Sanjukta Das (“ Risk Management and Optimal Pricing in Online Storage Grids ”) is an assistant professor of management science and systems at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Her research has been published in the INFORMS Journal on Computing and the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. She has presented her work at several internationally recognized information systems conferences and workshops such as the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), the Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), and the Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE). Fred D. Davis (“ NeuroIS: The Potential of Cognitive Neuroscience for Information Systems Research ”) is a Distinguished Professor and David D. Glass Chair in information systems at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and a USA Visiting Professor of service systems mangement and engineering at the Sogang Business School at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea. He earned his Ph.D. at MIT's Sloan School of Management and was a faculty member at the University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, and University of Maryland. His research interests include user acceptance of information technology, technology-supported decision making, computer training and skill acquisition, and systems development practices. Angelika Dimoka (“ NeuroIS: The Potential of Cognitive Neuroscience for Information Systems Research ”) is an assistant professor of marketing and management information systems at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. She is also the director of the Center for Neural Decision Making. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Her research interests lie in decision neuroscience, neuromarketing, neuroIS, and e-commerce. Her research has appeared in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, and Neuroscience Methods. Anna Ye Du (“ Risk Management and Optimal Pricing in Online Storage Grids ”) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Management Science and Systems at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Her research has been published in Information Systems Research and Information Technology and Management. Alexandra Durcikova (“ Research Note: Knowledge Exploration and Exploitation: The Impacts of Psychological Climate and Knowledge Management System Access ”) is an assistant professor at the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include knowledge management and the role of organizational climate, system characteristics, and governance mechanisms in the use of knowledge management systems; and network security. Her work has appeared or will appear in Information Systems Research, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, the International Journal of Knowledge Management, the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, as well as various national and international conference proceedings. Kelly J. Fadel (“ Research Note: Knowledge Exploration and Exploitation: The Impacts of Psychological Climate and Knowledge Management System Access ”) is an assistant professor of management information systems at the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. His research areas include knowledge management, end-user learning, and postadoptive technology use. His research has appeared or will appear in journals such as Information Systems Research, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, and he has received awards at several international IS conferences. Dennis F. Galletta (“ Research Note: Knowledge Exploration and Exploitation: The Impacts of Psychological Climate and Knowledge Management System Access ”) is an AIS Fellow and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as program cochair for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2005 and the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2003, chair of International Conference on Information Systems 2011, the first AMCIS, ICIS Treasurer 1994–1998, AIS President 2007–2008, AIS Council Member 1996–1997 and 2006–2009, and editor in chief of AIS World 2004–2006. His work has been published in Management Science, Information Systems Research (ISR), the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), the European Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of Association for Information Systems, Communicaitons of the ACM, among others, and he has served on editorial boards for such publications as MIS Quarterly, ISR, and JMIS. Ram Gopal (“ Risk Management and Optimal Pricing in Online Storage Grids ”) is a professor and the head of the Department of Operations and Information Management at the University of Connecticut. Some of his recent work has been published in journals such as the INFORMS Journal on Computing, Information Systems Research, the Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Communications of the ACM. Peter H. Gray (“ Research Note: The Impact of Community Commitment on Participation in Online Communities ”) is an assistant professor at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. His research focuses on the collaborative impacts of social technologies, organizational networks, virtual teams, online communities, and knowledge management systems. His research has been published in a range of leading journals, including MIS Quarterly, Management Science, the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and Information Technology and People. Kunsoo Han (“ Research Note: Returns to Information Technology Outsourcing ”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His research interests include the business value of IT, IT outsourcing, and interorganizational information systems. His research is published in Information Technology and Management and the Journal of Management Information Systems. Kartik Hosanagar (“ Usercentric Operational Decision Making in Distributed Information Retrieval ”) is an associate professor in the Operations and Information Management Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on Internet media and marketing. He has a bachelor's degree in electronics and a master's in information systems, both from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS, Pilani), India, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in management science and information systems from the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University. Ke-Wei Huang (“ Pricing Digital Goods: Discontinuous Costs and Shared Infrastructure ”) is an assistant professor in the Information Systems Department at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He has a Ph.D. and a master's degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University and an M.B.A. from National Taiwan University. His research interests include pricing of digital goods, economics of IT, and applied industrial organization models. His work has appeared in Quantitative Marketing and Economics and the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Robert J. Kauffman (“ Research Note: Returns to Information Technology Outsourcing ”) is the W. P. Carey Chair in information systems at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His doctorate is from Carnegie Mellon University. He has taught at New York University, the University of Rochester, and the University of Minnesota, where he was Department Chair and Management Information Systems Research Center director. His research covers strategy and technology, IT value, and economics of information systems. His work has been published in Management Science, Information Systems Research, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Organization Science, MIS Quarterly, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and elsewhere. Young Eun Lee (“ Research Note: The Influence of Trade-off Difficulty Caused by Preference Elicitation Methods on User Acceptance of Recommendation Agents Across Loss and Gain Conditions ”) is an assistant professor of information systems at Fordham University Graduate School of Business, New York. She received her Ph.D. in MIS from the University of British Columbia. Her primary interest lies in individuals' and groups' information processing and decision making enhanced by the use of IT. Her previous work appeared in MIS Quarterly, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Communications of the ACM, and the International Journal of Electronic Commerce. Xiao-Bai Li (“ Protecting Privacy Against Record Linkage Disclosure: A Bounded Swapping Approach for Numeric Data ”) is an associate professor of information systems at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on data mining and information privacy. His work has been published in Information Systems Research; Operations Research; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; Communications of the ACM; the INFORMS Journal on Computing; Decision Support Systems; and the European Journal of Operational Research, among others. Barrie R. Nault (“ Research Note: Returns to Information Technology Outsourcing ”) is the David B. Robson Professor in the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. His recent research is on IT and productivity, information goods versioning, and information incentives, and structures of supply chains. He is a past department editor for Management Science. His work has been published in Information Systems Research, the Journal of Monetary Economics, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Marketing Science, and Organization Science, among others. Paul A. Pavlou (“ NeuroIS: The Potential of Cognitive Neuroscience for Information Systems Research ”) is an associate professor and a Stauffer Senior Research Fellow at Temple University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 2004. His research focuses on electronic commerce, online auctions, IT strategy, and neuroIS. His work has been cited more than 1,000 times by the Social Science Citation Index and over 3,000 times by Google Scholar. He won the ISR Best Paper award in 2007, the 2006 IS Publication of the Year Award, the 2009 Management Science Meritorious Service Award, and the 2003 MIS Quarterly “Reviewer of the Year” Award. R. Ramesh (“ Risk Management and Optimal Pricing in Online Storage Grids ”) is a professor and the head of the Department of Management Science and Systems at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Some of his recent works have been published in the journals Information Systems Research; ACM Transactions on the Web; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; and the INFORMS Journal on Computing. Sumit Sarkar (“ Protecting Privacy Against Record Linkage Disclosure: A Bounded Swapping Approach for Numeric Data ”) is a professor of information systems and holds the Ashbel Smith Chair in the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He serves as the academic director for the International Center on Decision and Risk Analysis at the University of Texas at Dallas. His current interests are in the areas of personalization, privacy, and software release strategies. His research has appeared in Management Science, Information Systems Research, ACM Transactions on Data Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Operations Research, and the INFORMS Journal on Computing, among others. Andrew Schwarz (“ Identifying and Testing the Inhibitors of Technology Usage Intentions ”) is an associate professor of information systems at the E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Houston. His research interests include acceptance of new technology, IT-business alignment, IT governance, IT outsourcing, and emerging technologies. Publications on these topics appear in MIS Quarterly, the Journal of the AIS, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, the European Journal of Information Systems, and Database for Advances in Information Systems, among others. Param Vir Singh (“ A Hidden Markov Model of Developer Learning Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects ”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include dynamic structural models, hidden Markov models, social networks, and open source software. A primary focus of his research is to design and study the effect of policy interventions on knowledge worker behavior. His research is accepted/forthcoming at various outlets such as Information Systems Research, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, and the International Conference on Information Systems. Arun Sundararajan (“ Pricing Digital Goods: Discontinuous Costs and Shared Infrastructure ”) is an associate professor and director of the IS Ph.D. program at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He teaches M.B.A. students about IT and corporate strategy. His degrees are from IIT Madras and the University of Rochester. His research studies the economics of IT and how IT transforms industries and society. He was an associate editor of Management Science and Information Systems Research and cofounded the NYU/CeDER summer workshop on the economics of IT. Yong Tan (“ A Hidden Markov Model of Developer Learning Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects ”) is an associate professor of information systems and Evert McCabe Faculty Fellow at the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. His research interests include economics of information systems, social networks, electronic commerce, and software engineering. He has published in various journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, and Operations Research. He is an associate editor of Management Science and Information Systems Research. Hüseyin Tanriverdi (“ Cross-Business Information Technology Integration and Acquirer Value Creation in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions ”) is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a doctorate in information systems from Boston University. He researches how organizations use complementary IT and business capabilities to innovate, grow, and achieve superior financial performance. His research has appeared in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Strategic Management Journal. Vahap Bülent Uysal (“ Cross-Business Information Technology Integration and Acquirer Value Creation in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions ”) is an assistant professor of finance at the Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. His research primarily focuses on how value is created and distributed in mergers and acquisitions. His research has recently appeared in the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Intermediation. Nara Youn (“ A Hidden Markov Model of Developer Learning Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects ”) is an assistant professor of marketing at the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa. She holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Her research interests are in the areas of dynamic models of competition, hidden Markov models, innovation diffusion, and social networks. She has published in various outlets including Marketing Science.