Michael Jeng-Ping Shaw is Hoeft Endowed Chair Professor in Information Technology Management and Director of the Center for Information Systems and Technology Management at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Shaw has published over sixty refereed scholarly papers in journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Internet Computing,IIE Transactions, and Decision Support Systems. He is the lead editor of the recently published Handbook on Electronic Commerce and is also the editor of the forthcoming book, Information-Based Manufacturing.