Contributors

Murugan Anandarajan is a Professor of Management Information Systems in the Department of Management at Drexel University. His current research interests include artificial intelligence–based classification, artificial life and Internet usage. His research has appeared in journals such as Behavior and Information Technology, Computers and Operations Research, Decision Sciences, Industrial Data Management Systems, Information and Managemen t, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Global Information Systems, Journal of International Business Studies and the Omega-International Journal of Management Science, among others.

Elisabeth E. Bennett, PhD, is presently Associate Teaching Professor of Organizational Leadership Studies at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Dr. Bennett’s research includes virtual human resource development (HRD), organizational culture and informal learning. She co-edited two Advances in Developing Human Resources issues on virtual HRD and has written book chapters and articles on the subject. She was formerly director of education research and development in medical education at the Western Campus of Tufts University School of Medicine, and she managed an intranet in university-based continuing education at the University of Georgia where she received her doctorate in Adult Education with an emphasis in Human Resource and Organizational Development. Dr. Bennett served on the board of the Academy of Human Resource Development and presently is a member of the editorial boards for Human Resource Development Quarterly, Adult Education Quarterly, Advances in Developing Human Resources and New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development.

Constant D. Beugré is Professor of Management at Delaware State University where he teaches courses in entrepreneurship and organizational behavior in the undergraduate program and organizational leadership and behavior in the MBA program. He earned a PhD in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, School of Management and Technology and a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the Université Paris X-Nanterre. Prior to joining Delaware State University, Dr. Beugré was an assistant professor of management and information systems at Kent State University, Tuscarawas Campus. Dr. Beugré was also a visiting fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include organizational justice, entrepreneurial ecosystems and organizational neuroscience. Dr. Beugré has published seven books and more than 70 refereed journal articles, book chapters and conference proceedings. His publications have appeared in academic outlets such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Business & Psychology and Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

Tomas Blomquist is a professor in Business Administration at Umeå University. He is the director of research at the department and the research profile leader for the business school’s research profile on projects and networks. He is currently involved in work on behavioral aspects of coaching in business incubation and interorganizational aspects of business development around digitalization and IoT. Tomas has previously done research with mixed-methods research, and his work is published in several international journals, including Business Horizons, Business Strategy and the Environment, Industrial Marketing Management, Harvard Business Review and the International Journal of Project Management.

Thomas Calvard is a lecturer in Human Resource Management (HRM) and Organization Studies (OS) at the University of Edinburgh Business School in the UK. He completed his PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Sheffield in the UK. He has research interests include diversity, technology and sense making in organizations. He focuses particularly on the disruptive effects that technological and demographic changes can have on the interpretation of diverse viewpoints, perspectives and boundaries in organizations. His research appears in several international, peer-reviewed publications, including Organization Science, Management Learning and The International Journal of Human Resource Management. His co-authored work in Organization Science on the role of automation and limits in the Air France 447 air crash disaster is available for open-access download (http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/orsc.2017.1138), as well as appearing on Harvard Business Review (HBR) Online (https://hbr.org/2017/09/the-tragic-crash-of-flight-af447-shows-the-unlikely-but-catastrophic-consequences-of-automation). Finally, he has recently co-edited a book with Tinu Cornish, The Psychology of Ethnicity in Organisations, published by Palgrave in 2017. He also blogs on various HRM topics, including big data and HRM analytics (www.hrzone.com/profile/tomcalvard).

Wendy Campbell is an IT faculty mentor at Western Governors University. Dr. Campbell has been working in IT since the early stages of the Internet through the Internet’s astonishing transformation into the Internet of Things. In fact, her first published article was titled: “Is there Life after ArcNet.” Dr. Campbell has a Doctorate in IT Security from Northcentral University. She resides in North Ogden, Utah.

Veronica M. (Ronnie) Godshalk is a Professor of Management at the Pennsylvania State University. She is also the BS in Business Program Coordinator for the World Campus online program. Dr. Godshalk teaches courses in management, leadership and strategy. She is the recipient of several teaching awards, including the Teaching & Learning with Technology Fellowship and the Arthur L. Glenn Award for Faculty Teaching Innovation at Penn State. Dr. Godshalk has published many books, articles and chapters, and her research interests include issues surrounding career management, mentoring and entrepreneurship, as well as online pedagogy and technology use. With co-authors Jeff Greenhaus and Gerry Callanan, she is currently working on a fifth edition of Career Management. She is an active member in professional associations, such as the Academy of Management. Dr. Godshalk had worked in the computer industry in sales and sales management prior to entering academia, and has been a consultant for several Fortune 500 companies.

David B. Kurz, EdD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Management Department at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. He has also worked with leading organizations and institutions, advising them in the delivery of effective leadership development and change programs. Dr. Kurz has worked extensively with numerous highly ranked supply chain organizations facilitating their transformations in digital demand planning and end-to-end integration. His work involves implementing programs to improve integration performance across supply chain functions through collaborative learning programs. He holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

Vivien K. G. Lim is a professor of management in the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. She received her PhD in Organizational Behavior from Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. She was Editor-in-Chief of Applied Psychology: An International Review. Her research interests focus on the impact of information technology on work, daily commuting, workplace deviance, job insecurity and aging. She has published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior and Human Relations, among others.

Terri R. Lituchy is the PIMSA Distinguished Chair at CETYS Universidad in Mexico and is also currently teaching at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Lituchy taught one Semester at Sea spring 2016 and has taught courses around the world, on Organizational Behavior, Cross-Cultural Management, International Negotiations and Women in International Business. Dr. Lituchy’s research interests are in cross-cultural management and international organizational behavior and her current project, LEAD: Leadership Effectiveness and Motivation in Africa, the Caribbean and the Diaspora, has received many awards as well as grants. Dr. Lituchy has held several leadership and administrative positions, and she has consulted, and conducted training and development programs and workshops for MNCs, NGOs, small businesses and other organizations.

Irina-Marcela Nedelcu is a Masters student in Business Analytics at Drexel University. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in Business Analytics and Management Information Systems. Her current interests include Machine Learning, Data Visualization and Statistics. She has presented her research findings on smart-phone self-protection at the Northeast Decision Science Conference, STAR Scholars Showcast and 16th International Conference of Electronic Commerce. She was the founder and president of the Undergraduate Business Analytics Club (UBAC) and the president of the Management Information Systems Organization (MISO) at Drexel University.

Lisa T. Nelson is a visiting instructor in the Department of Management at the Erivan K. Haub School of Business of Saint Joseph’s University. She earned her doctorate in communications and information systems at Robert Morris University. Her research and teaching interests involve topics related to organizational behavior, notably organizational communication, negotiation and conflict resolution, workplace diversity, occupational identity and corporate social responsibility. Currently, she is celebrating the work of management and political theorist Mary Parker Follett (1868–1933), examining applications of Follett’s work in organizations in the 21st-century knowledge and service economy.

Kimberly W. O’Connor, JD, is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) and an attorney licensed in the state of Indiana. She received her doctoral degree from Loyola University School of Law. Her research areas include social media and the law, cybersecurity, employment law and corporate social responsibility. She has been a consultant for social media-related matters in organizations.

James G. Phillips is currently an Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology. He did his undergraduate training at Adelaide University (honors thesis with Dr. Doug Vickers) and completed his PhD at Flinders University (supervised by Dr. Denis Glencross). After doing some postdoctoral work with Professor George Stelmach on Parkinson’s disease and balance in the elderly, he worked for a year at Bendigo College of Advanced Education. From 1990 to 2010 he worked at the Psychology Department at Monash University collaborating with Professor Bradshaw, Professor Triggs and Professor Blaszczynski. From 2011 to 2013 he worked at Tabor College Victoria. Having identified many of the characteristics of impaired behavior, Dr. Phillips has turned his interests toward remediation. The Internet and mobile phone allow us to take therapeutic interventions beyond the consulting room to provide assistance in “real time” and “on site” rather than “by appointment.” Dr. Phillips’ recent interests address the trackability and influenceability of behavior online.

Erika Pleskunas is an undergraduate student in Management Information Systems at Drexel University. She has presented her research findings on the IOT and Smartworkplace at STAR Scholars Conference. Her interests include the Internet of Things, data visualization and project management. She is an active member of Alpha Kappa Psi, the professional co-ed business fraternity, and is currently doing a co-op for Johnson & Johnson in the IT Supply Chain.

Carol Portillo earned her PhD in Business Technology Management from Northcentral University. Dr. Portillo has over 18 years of experience in the high-tech industry serving in positions in operations, sales management and channel marketing. With over 15 years of university-level teaching experience, Dr. Portillo has instructed both graduate and undergraduate courses in consumer behavior, marketing management, services marketing and advertising. Dr. Portillo is currently an adjunct faculty at St. Edward’s University, in Austin, Texas, and has taught at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas, and Concordia University in Austin. Dr. Portillo’s research interests are in the area of online consumer purchasing behavior and Internet purchasing behavior. Dr. Portillo is currently serving on the Pflugerville Education Foundation as a board member.

Rashimah Rajah is a Research Associate at the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, RheinAhrCampus, Germany. Her research interests are job connectedness, positive psychology, job crafting and emotions in leadership. She has published in Leadership Quarterly, Ivey Business Publishing, and the Handbook of Research on Crisis Leadership in Organizations. She graduated with a PhD in Business Management from the National University of Singapore. She was the recipient of the President’s Graduate Fellow Scholarship from 2011 to 2013 for outstanding research as a PhD student.

Ted Saarikko currently holds a post-doctoral position at the University of Gothenburg where he is engaged in an interdisciplinary project concerning the transportation of hazardous materials in terms of business incentives, information systems interoperability and legal restrictions. Prior to defending his doctoral thesis from Umeå University in late 2016, Ted has earned degrees in Computer Science, Japanese language studies and IT Management. He is also affiliated with the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation. Ted’s research focuses mainly on the development of digital platforms, in particular IoT platforms, and how we may leverage them to create distinct value propositions for a range of different actors. Other research interests include affordance theory, entrepreneurship and digital innovation.

Gordon B. Schmidt is an associate professor and current chair of the Organizational Leadership Department at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). His primary research area is how social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit) is changing the nature of company–employee relations today. He co-edited a book on how social media is used in selection and recruitment processes by organizations. He’s done research on the law related to people fired for social media posts and the nature of organizational social media policies that are created to tell employees or students what online behaviors are inappropriate. He also has done research related to the gig economy and crowdsourcing sites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, where people online are hired to do tasks for organizations. He also does research related to virtual leadership, corporate social responsibility, job apathy, leadership in lean production, motivation and office gossip. He has acted as consultant for social media–related matters in organizations.

Claire A. Simmers, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the management department at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA, USA. She has experience in public and private sectors and publishes in the area of socio-technical interfaces in the Internet-connected workplace, including the impact of technology and the generational mix in the workplace, human capital contributions to competitive advantage and sustainability. She has over 80 scholarly works in her profile and almost 900 citations. She has been a member of the Academy of Management for over 20 years and has served in various leadership positions in the International Theme Committee.

Ulrika H. Westergren is an associate professor at the Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden, and a faculty member of the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation. Ulrika specializes in information technology and organizational change, and her work covers topics such as servitization processes, emergent forms of organizing, digital innovation and value creation. Currently she is focusing on viable business models for firms that are operating within an Internet of Things ecosystem and on IoT for societal benefit. Ulrika’s work is published in journals such as Business Horizons, Information and Organization, Information Systems and E-business Management Journal and Information Systems Journal. Ulrika holds an AB in International Relations from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD in Information Systems from Umeå University.