Advancing Information Systems Theories, Volume II / Technology, Work and Globalization (PDF)

Leslie Willcocks is Emeritus Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science and is an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK. He has an international reputation for his work on automation and the future of work, ITO/BPO outsourcing, cloud computing, digital business, strategy, automation, IT and innovation, organisational change and global business management. He was previously Professor in Technology Work and Globalization at the Department of Management. He has published widely in books and journals and is a Series Editor of the Technology, Work and Globalization book series with Palgrave Macmillan.



Nik Rushdi Hassan is Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) and Business Analytics at the Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE), University of Minnesota Duluth, USA. He is currently senior editor at the Journal of Information Technology and DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, and Associate Editor of the Communications of the AIS. He has served as President of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Philosophy in Information Systems (SIGPhil) and was one of the editors of two special issues of the European Journal of Information Systems on Philosophy and the Future of the IS Field and on Managing and Sustaining Digital Transformations. His research areas include the philosophical foundations of the IS field, theorizing and theory building, IS development, business analytics, social network analysis and complexity science, and has published in top journals in information systems.

Suzanne Rivard is a Professor of Information Technology at HEC Montreal and is the HEC Montreal Endowed Chair in Strategic Management of Information Technology. Dr. Rivard is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the AIS (Association for Information Systems). She received her PhD from the Ivey School of Business, the University of Western Ontario, and