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Surya B Yadav is James & Elizabeth Sowell Professor of Telecom Technology in Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. He received his Bachelors of Science degree in electrical engineering from Banaras University in 1972, the M.Tech. degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1974 and the Ph.D. degree in business information systems from Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia in 1981.

He has published in several journals including Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Decision Support Systems. His research areas include information quality, intelligent information retrieval systems, and system security.

Dr. Rajiv Sabherwal (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1989) is University of Missouri System Curators’ Professor, Emery C. Turner Professor of Information Systems, and the Director of Ph.D. Program in Business Administration at University of Missouri, St. Louis. He recently completed a five-year term as Departmental Editor of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and a three-year term as Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly. He is currently Senior Editor for a special issue at Information Systems Research, and serves on the editorial boards for Management Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, and Journal of AIS. He has served as Program Co-Chair and Consortium Co-Chair for Americas Conference on Information Systems, and Track Co-Chair for ICIS. He will be Conference Co-chair for ICIS, 2010. Dr. Sabherwal’s research focuses on information systems planning, knowledge management and business intelligence, and social aspects of systems development, and appears in numerous journals, including Management Science, California Management Review, Organization Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and European Journal of Information Systems. Dr. Sabherwal is a member of IEEE, INFORMS, and AIS.

Yi Ding is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Information Systems department of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. His current research focuses in areas of IS quality and IS service.

Roman Beck is the E-Finance and Services Science Chair at the Institute of Information Systems at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. As a political economist he worked for two years at the Institute for Rural Development Studies on different research projects pertaining to the impacts of infrastructure on economic development. Roman is initiator and project coordinator of the BMBF-funded joint research project "FinGrid" and the research on IT project risk management within the E-Finance Lab. Previously, Roman coordinated the research project "IT Standards and Network Effects", funded by the German National Science Foundation. Since 2001 he was responsible for the German part of the multi-national research project "Globalization and E-commerce", coordinated by CRITO, University of California at Irvine. He is member of the academic network in IT standardization of the European Commission (DG Enterprise). His research focuses on the role of IT in creating new business models, the diffusion of IT innovations, IT project management, and the role of externalities and network effects on the adoption of new standards. He received the "Innovation 2010 Award" in 2003 for his EDI-based SME integration solution and the "Innovation Award 2005" together with one of his student. As visiting scholar, he spent three months at CRITO, University of California at Irvine in 2003 and further two months at the School of Information, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2004. In 2008, he was visiting professor at the CIS Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University at Atlanta for three months. He publishes on a wide array of topics in the field of Grid and IT Services, as well as IT standards. His academic research has been presented at several international IS conferences and has been published in proceedings and academic journals such as EM-Electronic Markets, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Journal of Grid Computing, JGIM, Information Polity, or CAIS. Until today, Roman has raised � 3.23 Mio research grants from the US National Science Foundation, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and others.

Dorothy E. Leidner, PhD is the Randall W. and Sandra Ferguson Professor of Information Systems at Baylor University. She has broad international experience, having previously served as associate professor at INSEAD and as visiting professor at ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico and at the University of Caen, France. Since 2005, she has been a regular summer visiting professor at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Dorothy has her PhD, MBA, and BA from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research has been published in a variety of journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Organization Science, the Journal of Management Information Systems, and Decision Sciences. She has received best paper awards in 1993 from the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, in 1995 from MIS Quarterly, and in 1999 from the Academy of Management. Dorothy is currently serving as senior editor for MIS Quarterly, associate editor for Decision Sciences, and associate editor for Decision Support Systems. She is also on the board of MIS Quarterly Executive.

Carol Stoak Saunders is Professor of MIS at the University of Central Florida. She served as General Conference Chair of ICIS ’ 99 and Telecommuting ’ 96. She was the Chair of the Executive Committee of ICIS in 2000 and inducted as an AIS Fellow in 2003. Currently she is Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly. Her current research interests include the organizational impacts of information technology, virtual teams, time, and inter-organizational linkages. Her research is published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, Communications of the ACM, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Organization Science.

Process Virtualization Theory and an Examination of Market Practice in the Wholesale Automotive Industry

Eric Overby - 28 September 2007

Eric Overby joined the Georgia Tech College of Management faculty in fall of 2007 after completing his PhD at Emory University. Eric's research has received awards from scholarly organizations such as INFORMS and the Academy of Management. His research has appeared (or is scheduled to appear) in academic journals such as Organization Science and the European Journal of Information Systems. His research focuses on the "virtualization" of business and society: he studies how processes that have traditionally been conducted physically are increasingly being conducted electronically. Eric focuses primarily on the economic implications of this shift. He is also an active contributor to the automotive industry, having presented his research to automotive executive audiences at the 2006 Conference of Automotive Remarketers and the 2006 and 2007 National Auto Auction Association annual meeting.