Dr. Shailendra C. Jain Palvia is a tenured Professor of MIS at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University. During 1997-2004, he was the director of MIS at Long Island University. He received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota. Prior to that, he received his B.S. in Chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India.

His research interests and publications are in the areas of -- Management of the Systems Development Process, Human Side of Information Technology, Social Issues of Information Technology, Global Issues of Information Technology, IT Applications and Architecture, Telecommuting, Computer Software Training Methods, Global Electronic Commerce, Global Outsourcing of IT and IT Enabled Services, and e-Government.

He has published over 140 refereed articles in journals, conference proceedings, and books. His publications (published or forthcoming) are in journals like the Communications of the ACM, MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, Journal of Systems Management, International Journal of Information Management, Electronic Markets, Information Resource Management Journal, Journal of Industrial Management and Data Systems, Journal of Global Information Management, and Journal of Information Systems Education.

As Founding Editor, he edited the Journal of IT Case and Application Research (JITCAR) for 9 years during 1999-2007. Since 2002, he has been chairing the annual international smart-sourcing conferences (www.outsourceglobal.org). Over the years, he has been invited to speak in Germany, India, Italy, Singapore, Thailand, and Russia.

He can be contacted by either sending email to spalvia@liu.edu or to shailoo.palvia@gmail.com or by calling home office# +1-732-218-5041 or mobile# +1-732-983-7034.

Prof. Devinder Kumar Banwet is Professor & Group Chair, Operations Management and Dalmia Chair Professor . He is a graduate mechanical engineer, a Masters in Industrial Engineering & a Ph.D. (Production & Operations Management) from I.I.T. Delhi. He has been former Head of the DMS, Coordinator of ASRP (Applied Systems Research Programme) and also Coordinator of the Entrepreneurship Programme, an Interdisciplinary Research Programme of IIT, Delhi.

His areas of research interest include Operations Management, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, ITenabled DSS, Industrial Systems Engineering, TQM, Manufacturing Strategy, Technology and Project Management, Materials Management, Facilities Planning, OR Modeling, Telecom Systems and Entrepreneurship Management. He has undertaken prestigious research and teaching assignments at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Asian Institute of Technology at Bangkok and University of Paris Sorbonne in the European International Management Programme at Paris. Prof. Banwet has won quite a few awards, the latest being Emerald’s Literati Award of Excellence for best paper published in International Journal of Productivity & Performance Management, 2003. He is a fellow of ISTD.

Prof. Banwet has been ISTD Treasurer, Vice President (North Zone) and Chairman of ISTD Delhi Chapter. He is a member/life member of quite a few other professional societies like ISTE, ISME, IIIE, GIFT and Systems Society of India etc. Prof. Banwet is on various committees on Technical & Management Education of Government of India, Ministry of HRD, AICTE & NPIU and board members of engineering & management institutions.

Assistant professor, Department of Management Studies

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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