Catherine L. Anderson
PhD Candidate in Information Systems
Minor in Marketing
Curriculum Vitae
E-mail: canderso@rhsmith.umd.edu

Dissertation Title: IT is Risky Business: Three Essays on Ensuring Reliability, Security, and Privacy in Technology-Mediated Settings
Essay 1: Routine and Mindful Behavior in Achieving IT Infrastructure Reliability in an Interorganizational Context
Essay 2: Am I Making the Right Choice? Boundary Risks, Affect, and Consumer Willingness to Disclose Personal Health Information
Essay 3: Leveling the Playing Field: The Influence of Message Cues on Computer User Security-Related Optimistic Bias

Mingfeng Lin
PhD Candidate in Information Systems
Minor in Economics and Marketing
Curriculum Vitae   Web site
E-mail: mingfeng@rhsmith.umd.edu

Dissertation title: Essays on online social networks, decentralization and information asymmetry.
Research Interests: My research focuses on the issue of information asymmetry in IT-enabled disintermdiated markets, including online peer-to-peer lending, especially for entrepreneurial financing, and online software outsourcing. I'm particularly interested in the role of social networks as a mechanism to mitigate information asymmetry in these markets. A working paper version of my essay on the role of social networks in P2P lending can be found online. 

Dina Ribbink
PhD Candidate in Supply Chain Management
Minor in Operations Management
Curriculum Vitae
E-mail: dribbink@rhsmith.umd.edu

Dissertation Title: Impact of Culture on Buyer-Supplier Relationships

Sheetal Singh
PhD Candidate in Organizational Behavior
Minor: Strategy/Psychology
Curriculum Vitae
E-mail: ssingh@rhsmith.umd.edu 

Dissertation Title: Individual Level Predictors of Emotional Labor Strategies and Their Differential Outcomes Over Time: Role of Emotional Labor Climate, POS and Leader Behavior

R. Scott Livengood
PhD Candidate in Strategic Management (Expected: May 2010)
Minor in Organizational Behavior
Curriculum Vitae
E-mail: slivengo@rhsmith.umd.edu

Research Interests: Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Competition, Cognition/Organization Theory.
Dissertation Title: Can You Hear Me Now? Examining Market Discourse as a Sensemaking Mechanism of Entrepreneurial Actions in the Wireless Telephone Industry