Authors’ Biographical Sketch:

Wayne Huang is associate professor at the Department of Management Information Systems, College of Business, Ohio University. Professor Huang has more than 12 years’ teaching and research experience at research universities worldwide including USA, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. He worked as a system analyst in IT industry before joining academic field. His research areas include eCommerce, mobile commerce, groupware, computer-mediated communication, and eEducation. Wayne has published more than 55 academic & professional papers including Journal of MIS, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, IEEE transactions, European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Behavior and Information Technology, and Journal Global Information Management. He is now on the editorial boards of a few international MIS/IS journals such as Information & Management, Journal of Global Information Management, and Journal of Data Management.

Jarrad Hee, is a Senior Manager in Strategy and Business Process, Financial Services in KPMG Consulting, Australia. Dr. Hee has successfully managed and led project teams across the Far East and Australia, and has consulted for senior executives in numerous international high profile wholesale and retail banking, and capital markets engagements. His focus areas are in business integration/transformation strategies, re-engineering and enterprise-wide IT strategies. Prior to joining KPMG, he held and executive position in the capital market industry in Singapore. He has a MBA and BBA (Merit), and was an Australian Commonwealth Research Scholarship recipient conducting doctoral research in strategic management. Dr. Hee has published numerous professional white papers and his research interest includes financial industry transformation strategies.

David C. Yen is a professor of MIS and chair of the Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems at Miami University. He received a Ph.D. in MIS and Master of Sciences in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska. Professor Yen is active in research, he has published two books and over 100 articles which have appeared in Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Interfaces, Telematics and Informatics, Computer Standards and Interfaces, Information Society, Internet Research among others. He was also one of the co-recipients for a number of grants such as Cleveland Foundation (1987-1988), GE Foundation (1989), and Microsoft Foundation (1996-1997).