List of Contributors

• Deborah Ancona

  Deborah Ancona is Seley Distinguished Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

• Lotte Bailyn

  Lotte Bailyn is T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of the MIT Workplace Center.

• Abraham Bernstein

  Abraham Bernstein is Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University.

• Henrik Bresman

  Henrik Bresman is a doctoral candidate in Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

• Erik Brynjolfsson

  Erik Brynjolfsson is George and Sandi Schussel Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Co-director the Center for eBusiness at MIT.

• John S. Carroll

  John S. Carroll is Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences at MIT's Slchool of Management.

• G ran Carstedt

  G ran Carstedt is leading the formation of the Society for Organizational Learning's global network. He was formerly a senior executive at Volvo and IKEA.

• Kevin Crowston

  Kevin Crowston is Associate Professor of Information Studies at the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University.

• Chrysanthos Dellarocas

  Chrysanthos Dellarocas is the Douglas Drane Career Development Assistant Professor of Information Technology at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

• Michael J. Earl

  Michael J. Earl is Professor of Information Management and Director of the Centre for the Network Economy at London Business School.

• Charles H. Fine

  Charles H. Fine is Chrysler LFM Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management and and Co-Director of MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program.

• Joyce K. Fletcher

  Joyce K. Fletcher is Professor of Management at Simmons School of Management and Co-Director of the Working Connections Project at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College.

• Arnoldo C. Hax

  Arnoldo C. Hax is Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

• George Herman

  George Herman is a Research Scientist at the Center for Coordination Science, MIT Sloan School of Management.

• Lorin M. Hitt

  Lorin M. Hitt is the Alberto Vitale Term Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management (OPIM) at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

• J. Debra Hofman

  J. Debra Hofman is a Research Director at AMR Research. When she coauthored the chapter that appears in this volume, she was a Research Associate at the Center for Information Systems Research, MIT Sloan School of Management.

• Bengt Holmstr m

  Bengt Holmstr m is Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MIT.

• Katrin Kaeufer

  Katrin Kaeufer is a Visiting Scholar at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

• Mark Klein

  Mark Klein is a Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Coordination Science, MIT Sloan School of Management.

• Thomas A. Kochan

  Thomas A. Kochan is George M. Bunker Professor of Work and Employment Relations at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is past President of both the Industrial Relations Research Associate (IRRA) and the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA).

• Deborah Kolb

  Deborah Kolb is Professor of Management at the Simmons School of Management and Founding Co-Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Gender in Organizations.

• Nina Kruschwitz

  Nina Kruschwitz is researcher, writer, and consultant based in Boston. She was formerly a Research Assistant at MIT's Center for Organizational Learning and is now the Managing Associate at the consulting firm, Reflection Learning Associates.

• Robert Laubacher

  Robert Laubacher is a Research Associate at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

• Jintae Lee

  Jintae Lee is Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, College of Business, University of Hawaii.

• Donald Lessard

  Donald Lessard is Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and deputy dean at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

• Thomas W. Malone

  Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Center for Coordination Science at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He was Co-Director of the "Initiative on Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century".

• Elisa O'Donnell

  Elisa O'Donnell is an independent consultant practicing in the Boston area. While at EDS/A.T. Kearney, she served as liaison to MIT's 21st Century Initiative.

• Wanda J. Orlikowski

  Wanda J. Orlikowski is Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management and the Eaton-Peabody Chair of Communication Sciences at MIT.

• Charles S. Osborn

  Charles S. Osborn was Associate Professor of Information Systems, babson college. He died in December 2001 after a long illness with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

• Brian Pentland

  Brian Pentland is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University.

• John Quimby

  John Quimby is a Research Scientist at the Center for Coordination Science, MIT Sloan School of Management.

• John Roberts

  John Roberts is John H. and Irene S. Scully Professor in International Business Studies in the Graduate School of Business, and Professor, by Courtesy, of Economics at Stanford University.

• John F. Rockart

  John F. Rockart is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Information Technology at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He was Director of Sloan's Center for Information Systems Research until June of 2000.

• Jeanne W. Ross

  Jeanne W. Ross is Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research, MIT Sloan School of Management.

• George Roth

  George Roth is a Research Associate at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Executive Director for the Ford-MIT Alliance, a partnership between MIT and Ford focused on engineering education, research, and environmental policy.

• Michael S. Scott Morton

  Michael S. Scott Morton is Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management Emeritus at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of the the Cambridge-MIT Institute, an alliance between the University of Cambridge and MIT. He was Co-Director of the Initiative on Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century.

• Peter M. Senge

  Peter M. Senge is Senior Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning.

• John D. Sterman

  John D. Sterman is Professor of Management, Director of the System Dynamics Group, and Chair of the Master's Program at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

• Dean L. Wilde II

  Dean L. Wilde II is Chairman, Dean & Company, and a Visiting Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

• George Wyner

  George Wyner is Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Boston University School of Management.

• JoAnne Yates

  JoAnne Yates is Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management.