Biographical note

Benoit A. Aubert is professor of information systems at HEC Montreal and President and Chief Executive Officer of the CIRANO (Centre inter-universitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations). He currently co-chairs the Outsourcing Track of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (since 1997). His main research areas are outsourcing, risk management, and new organization forms. He has published several articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings on these topics. He has also published papers on trust, ontology, and health care information systems. He is senior editor of Database. Suzanne Rivard is a professor of information technology and chair of strategic management of information technology at HEC Montréal. She is a fellow of the Canadian Royal Society. Her research interests are in the areas of enterprise systems implementation, outsourcing of information systems services, software project risk management, IS outsourcing risk management, and strategic alignment. Her work has been published in such journals as Communications of the ACM, Database, Information and Management, Interfaces, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Management Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, and others. She has served as an associate editor for Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly. She is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Management Information Systems, and an associate editor of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems.