Ilias O. Pappas is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Information Systems, University of Agder (UiA), Norway. Pappas has been a Guest Editor for the journals Information & Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Information Systems and e-Business Management. He has published articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences including Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing, Computers in Human Behavior, Information & Management, Psychology & Marketing. He serves as the secretary of the IFIP Working Group 6.11: Communication Aspects of the E-World. Pappas is a recipient of ERCIM and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships.