Leslie P. Willcocks is Professor of Technology Work and Globalization, Director of the Outsourcing Unit and Head of the Information Systems and Innovation Group in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is co-author of 33 books and has published over 190 refereed papers in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, MIS Quarterly and MISQ Executive. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology and is internationally recognized for his academic research, and his advisory work for major corporations and government agencies. Mary C. Lacity is Professor of Information Systems and International Business Fellow at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. She has written 12 books, most recently China's Emerging Outsourcing Capabilities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; co-editors: Leslie P.

Willcocks and Yingquin Zheng) and Information Systems Outsourcing: Theory and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; co-author: Leslie P. Willcocks). More than 50 of her publications have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Computer, Communications of the ACM and many other academic and practitioner outlets. She is Senior Editor of the Journal of Information Technology, co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series: Technology, Work and Globalization and on the Editorial Boards for MIS Quarterly Executive, Journal of Strategic Information System, Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.