Author bios
Patricia J. Guinan
Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts 02157 (electronic mail: guinan@hcc01.babson.edu). Dr. Guinan is associate professor
of information systems in the mathematics and science department at
Babson College. She is the McDermont Term Chair recipient at
Babson and conducts both applied and theoretical research in the areas
of technology transfer and communication-related issues in information
system design. She received her Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her
research has been published in a number of journals, including
Human Communication Research, Business and
Communication Journal, and Group and Organizations. An
upcoming article is planned in Information Systems Research.
Dr. Guinan has also published an award-winning book entitled
Patterns of Excellence for IS Professionals.
Jay G. Cooprider
Bentley College, CIS Department, 175 Forest Street, Waltham,
Massachusetts 02154-4705 (electronic mail: jcooprider@bentley.edu). Dr. Cooprider is associate professor of
computer information systems at Bentley College in Waltham,
Massachusetts. He received his S.B. in computer science from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in management with
an information technology specialization from the Sloan School of
Management at M.I.T. He was formerly a faculty member and associate
director of the information systems management program at the Graduate
School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Cooprider is the
author of numerous articles dealing with management and information
technology issues in such journals as Information Systems
Research, MIS Quarterly, and the Journal of
Information Systems Management. He consults widely with firms on
application development technology and strategic technology
applications.
Steve Sawyer
Syracuse University School of Information Studies, 4-206 Center for
Science and Technology, Syracuse, New York 13244-4100 (electronic mail: ssawyer@cat.syr.edu). Dr. Sawyer is an assistant professor at the
Syracuse University school of information studies. His research focuses
on how people work together and how they use information technology.
Present research includes investigating how software development can be
improved through attending to the social aspects of working together,
and studying how people adapt to working with distributed computing
applications (e.g., organizational effects of client/server computing).
Dr. Sawyer received his doctorate at Boston University. He is a member
of INFORMS, IEEE, ACM, and US Rowing.
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