Authors’ Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Ruth C. King, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earned her doctorate degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests involve in three major areas: Information technology and its impact on organization strategy, organization structure, Traditional Industrial Economy and IT user satisfaction, Computer-mediated Group Collaboration and Virtual Teams, and Information Technology Professional Development Issues and Management Strategy in Dealing with Career Stress, Burnout, Turnover and Commitment She has published papers in several research journals, such as Information Systems Research, Communications of ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Information Systems, Information and Management, Electronic Market, Data Base, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce.

Michele Gribbins is a Ph.D. Candidate in Information Systems at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research interests include e-commerce strategies, technology acceptance, and mobile technologies. Her research has been presented at the Americas Conference on Information Systems and at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, she was employed as a computer trainer and an adjunct business instructor.