Special Section: Information Systems, Electronic Commerce, and Economics-- The Interdisciplinary Research Frontier

Robert J. Kauffman is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Information and Decision Sciences and Co-Director of the MIS Research Center at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His degrees are from the University of Colorado, Boulder (B.A.), Cornell University (M.A.), and Carnegie Mellon University (M.S., Ph.D.). Dr. Kauffman has held faculty positions at New York University and the University of Rochester, visited the Research Department at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, and earlier worked in international banking on Wall Street. His current research interests center on senior management issues in IS, organizational strategy and technology, electronic commerce, and IT investments in various services industry contexts. His articles on these and other issues have appeared in leading academic journals, including MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Information Systems Research, and Decision Sciences, among others. His e-commerce research was recognized three times recently with best-of-conference awards (WITS 1999, AMCIS 2000, and ICIS 2000) and was nominated twice for best-of-conference (HICSS 2001 and HICSS 2002). He also recently guest-edited special issues of Electronic Markets, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, and the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce and serves on the editorial board of a number of leading journals.