About the Editors

G. David Garson is full professor of public administration at North Carolina State University, where he teaches courses on American government, research methodology, computer applications, and geographic information systems. In 1995 he was recipient of the Donald Campbell Award from the Policy Studies Organization, American Political Science Association, for outstanding contributions to policy research methodology and in 1997 of the Aaron Wildavsky Book Award from the same organization. He is author of the Guide to Writing Quantitative Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Dekker, 2001), editor of Social Dimensions of Information Technology (2000), Information Technology and Computer Applications in Public Administration: Issues and Trends (1999), and the Handbook of Public Information Systems (1999), and author of Neural Network Analysis for Social Scientists (1998), Computer Technology and Social Issues (1995), and is author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 17 other books and author or co-author of more than 50 articles. For the last 20 years he has also served as editor of the Social Science Computer Review and is on the editorial board of four additional journals.

Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, DBA, is currently executive director of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA). Previously, he served 20 years on the Faculty of The Pennsylvania State University as an associate professor of information systems. He has written or edited more than 20 books in information technology management and is also editor of the Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of Cases on Information Technology, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, and International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce.