TRIDAS MUKHOPADHYAY is Deloitte Consulting Professor of E-Business at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Systems from the University of Michigan in 1987. His research interests include business value of information technology, e-business, and software development productivity. His recent papers on e-business examine competition between
Internet search engines, adoption of Web procurement, and models of electronic intermediation. His other research projects study the productivity and quality of software products and offshore software contracts. His papers have appeared in Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Manufacturing and Operations Management, Journal of Marketing Research, MIS Quarterly, Omega, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Journal of Operations Management, Accounting Review, Management Science, Information Systems Frontiers, Information, Technology & Management, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Organizational Computing, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, American Psychologist, and other publications.