Mary LacityDr. Mary Lacity is Curators' Professor of Information Systems and an International Business Fellow at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is also Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, a Certified Outsourcing Prfessional ®, Industry Advisor for the Outsourcing Angels and the Everest Group, Co-editor of the Palgrave Series: Work, Technology, and Globalization, Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly Executive and on the Editorial Boards for Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal. She was inducted into the International Association of Outsourcing Professional's Hall of Fame in 2014. She was the recipient of the 2008 Gateway to Innovation Award sponsored by the IT Coalition, Society for Information Management, and St. Louis RCGA and the 2000 World Outsourcing Achievement Award sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michael Corbett and Associates. She has published 18 books, most recently The Rise of Legal Services Outsourcing (Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2014; co-authors Leslie Willcocks and Andrew Burgess.) Read More Read Less