About the Authors
Efraim Turban is a visiting scholar at the
Pacific Institute for Information System Management,
University of Hawaii. He earned his M.B.A. and Ph.D.
at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously,
he was on the staff of several universities including
City University of Hong Kong, Lehigh University,
Florida International University, California State
University Long Beach, Eastern Illinois University,
and the University of Southern California. Dr. Turban
is the author of over 100 refereed papers published in
leading journals such as Management Science, MIS
Quarterly, and Decision Support Systems. He is also
the author of 20 books including Electronic Commerce:
A Managerial Perspective and Information Technology
for Management. He is also a consultant to major
corporations worldwide. Dr. Turban's current areas of
interest are Web-based decision support systems, using
intelligent agents in electronic commerce systems, and
collaboration issues in global electronic commerce.
Jon C. Outland is the System Division Chair of
Business for Herzing University, Menomonee Falls,
Wisconsin. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration
as well as a Master's in Business Administration
(MBA), and a Master's of Science in Information
Systems with an Electronic Commerce concentration. Dr.
Outland teaches many courses in the MBA program, and
specializes in concepts related to Project and
Information Technology Management. He has been
teaching and developing e-commerce and other
business/IT courses online for over 18 years. Dr.
Outland has more than 22 years of industry experience
in high-tech companies and has been helping firms
deploy e-commerce solutions since 1998. He is a
certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and
is personally interested in the creation and marketing
of online solutions for small to medium-sized
businesses.
David King earned his Ph.D. from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He worked
for over 30 years as a manager and executive
responsible for the design and development of large
scale enterprise commercial software in the supply
chain planning, retail planning and performance
management arenas. Prior to retiring in 2014, he was
the EVP of Product Development and Management at JDA
Software. In addition to his work in commercial
software, he has also authored and co-authored a
number of published research papers and books in the
areas of intelligent decision support, business
intelligence, performance management, and e-commerce.
Jae K. Lee is the HHI Chair Professor in the
College of Business, and currently serves as the head
of Graduate School of Green Growth and the Director of
EEWS (Energy, Environment, Water, and Sustainability
Initiative) Research Center (former EEWS Initiative)
at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology). He has been a Professor of Management
Information Systems and Electronic Commerce at KAIST
since 1985, and served as Dean of the College of
Business during 2006-7. He is a Fellow of the
Association of Information Systems, the global
organization of IS researchers. He received a B.A. in
Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University
(1973), a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the
KAIST (1975) and a Ph.D. in Operations and Information
Systems from the Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania (1985). He was a visiting professor of
the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
(2000), University of Texas at Austin (1995),
Carnegie-Mellon University (1989), and City University
of Hong Kong (2001). He was the founding
editor-in-chief of the journal, Electronic Commerce
Research and Applications (Elsevier, SSCI and SCIE
Accredited), and was the founding chair of the
International Conference on Electronic Commerce.
During 2005-6, he was appointed as Associate Dean of
Faculty and Research, School of Information Systems at
Singapore Management University.
Ting-Peng Liang is National Chair Professor of
Information Management and Director of Electronic
Commerce Research Center at the National Sun Yat-sen
University in Taiwan and Visiting Professor of City
University of Hong Kong. He is also a Fellow of the
Association for Information Systems. He received his
doctoral degree from The Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania and had taught University
of Illinois, Purdue University and the Chinese
University of Hong Kong. He has published more than
100 research articles, including more than 60 in
academic journals. His primary research interests
include electronic commerce, intelligent decision
support, knowledge management, and strategic
applications of information systems. His papers has
appeared in journals, such as Management Science, MIS
Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Journal of MIS,
Operations Research, Decision Support Systems,
Information and Management, Decision Sciences, IEEE
Computer, IIE Transactions, International Journal of
Electronic Commerce, and many others. He also serves
as the founding editor of the Pacific Asia Journal of
AIS and on the editorial boards of several academic
journals, such as Decision Support Systems,
International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Journal
of Computer Information Systems, Electronic Commerce
Research and Applications, Journal of the Association
for Information Systems.
Deborrah C. Turban (Turban Company Inc.,
previously with the University of Santa Thomas in the
Philippines) brings expertise in EC research and
analysis.