BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Risto Rajala, MSc (Econ) is a PhD student in the Helsinki School of Economics (HSE) Majoring in Information Systems Science in Finland. His current research is focusing on business models and product development strategies and methods of software businesses. Prior to his doctoral dissertation project he has been working as a software development practitioner at the Nokia Research Centre and Fujitsu ICL. As a co-author he has recently published a technology review "R. Rajala, M. Rossi, V.K. Tuunainen and S. Korri: Software Business Models—A Framework for Analyzing Software Industry, Tekes Technology Review 108/2001."

Matti Rossi, PhD (Econ) is an acting professor of information systems at Helsinki School of Economics (HSE), Finland. He received his PhD degree in Business Administration from the University of Jyvaskyla in 1998. He has worked as research fellow at Erasmus University Rotterdam and as a visiting assistant professor at Georgia State University. His research papers have appeared in journals such as Information and Management and Information Systems, and more than a dozen of them have appeared in conferences such as ICIS, HICSS and CAiSE. He was an organizing committee member CAiSE'95 and ECOOP'97, organizing committee member and technology chair for ICIS'98 and minitrack chair for Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences 98 – 01. He has been the principal investigator in several major research projects funded by the technological development center of Finland and Academy of Finland.

Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen is professor (act) at the department of information systems science and director of GEBSI (Graduate School for Electronic Business and Software Industry) of Helsinki School of Economics (HSE), Finland. She received her PhD (Econ) degree from the HSE. She has been a visiting scholar at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and University of Texas at Austin (USA), and a visiting researcher at the Business School and at the Department of Computer Science of University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on electronic commerce, inter-organizational information systems and economics of IS. She has published articles in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information & Management, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, International Journal of Electronic Markets, Australian Journal of Information Systems, Information Technology and People, Information Technology and Tourism and Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. Her research papers have also appeared in a number of international conferences. She is member of the editorial boards of Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, JITTA, and EM Electronic Markets.