People
Principal Investigators
| M. LYNNE MARKUS John W. Poduska, Sr. Professor of Information & Process Management Bentley College Department of Information & Process Management 175 Forest Street Waltham, MA 02452-4705 781.891.2312 (tel) 781.891.2896 (fax) Email: mlmarkus at bentley.edu |
CHARLES W. STEINFIELD Professor and Chair Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies,and Media Room 409, Comm. Arts Bldg. Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1212 517.355.8372 (tel) 517.355.1292 (fax) Email: steinfie at msu.edu |
ROLF T. WIGAND Maulden-Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor Department of Information Science University of Arkansas, Little Rock 2801 South University Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas, 72204-1099 501.371.7647 (tel) 501.569.7049 (fax) Email: rtwigand at ualr.edu |
M. Lynne Markus is the John W. Poduska, Sr. Professor of Information and Process Management, Bentley College and the Senior Editor in charge of the Theory and Review Department of MIS Quarterly, the leading journal in the Information Systems field. Professor Markus’s research interests include enterprise and inter-enterprise systems, IT and organizational change, and knowledge management. Dr. Markus was formerly a member of the Faculty of Business at the City University of Hong Kong (as Chair Professor of Electronic Business), the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, the Anderson Graduate School of Management (UCLA) and the Sloan School of Management (MIT). She has also taught at the Information Systems Research Unit, Warwick Business School, UK (as Visiting Fellow), at the Nanyang Business School, Singapore (as Shaw Foundation Professor), at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal (as Fulbright/FLAD Chair in Information Systems), and at QueenÕs University, Canada (FulbrightÑQueenÕs Visiting Research Chair in The Management of Knowledge-Based Enterprises). She has received research grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress), the Advanced Practices Council of SIM International, the Financial Executives Research Foundation, and Baan Institute. She is the author/editor of five books and numerous articles in journals such as MIS Quarterly (including the 2006 Paper of the Year), Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Communications of the ACM, Sloan Management Review, and Management Science. She has served as AIS VP for Education, SIM VP for Academic Community Affairs, and on the editorial boards of several leading journals in the information systems field. She was named an AIS Fellow in 2004. Markus holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.
Charles Steinfield is a professor and chair in the Department of Telecommmunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University. He holds a B.A. in Communication from Michigan State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication Theory and Research from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on the organizational and social impacts of new communication technologies. He has published six books as well as articles in such journals as Communication Research, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Markets, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Organization Science. Steinfield participates with the MSU Eli Broad College of Business Information Technology Management Program and is a member of the campus-wide Faculty of Computing and Information. He is also a research associate in the Quello Center for Telecommunications Management and Law at MSU and a Faculty Associate for the MSU College of Law Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program. He has been a visiting professor and researcher at a number of institutions in the U.S. and in Europe: the Institut National des Telecommunications in France, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Bellcore, the Telematica Instituut in the Netherlands, and the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. He is a recipient of MSU’s Distinguished Faculty and Teacher-Scholar Awards, and was awarded a nine-month Fulbright research grant to study information services usage in France. He has also been a summer visiting researcher at the French national telecommunications research laboratory, CNET.
Rolf T. Wigand is the Maulden-Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Management at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the past director of the Center for Digital Commerce and the Graduate Program in Information Management at Syracuse University. His research focuses on information management, electronic commerce, the development of IS standards, and the strategic deployment of information and communication technology. His research interests lie at the intersection of information and communication business issues, the role of newer information technologies and their strategic alignment within business and industry. Most recent and current NSF-funded research has focused on the global impact of electronic commerce in ten nations, the impact of electronic commerce on the real estate and mortgage industries, as well as IS standards development in the mortgage industry. He is the author of five books and has published in such journals as Sloan Management Review, Electronic Markets, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, The Information Society and Telecommunications Policy. Wigand has taught on the faculty of Syracuse University, the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology, University of Bayreuth, Arizona State University, Michigan State University, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and the University of Munich. Some of his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, the International Social Science Council, Rome Laboratory, and other funding agencies. In 2003 he held the Ludwig Erhard Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.