The dual roles of the government in cloud computing assimilation: an empirical study in China

Nianxin Wang is Associate Professor of Management Information Systems in the College of Economics and Management at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. He received the PhD Degree from Southeast University of China. His research has been appeared in such journals as Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems and Communications of the Association for Information Systems. His current research interests include cloud computing management, IT business value, business-IT alignment, IT use and crowd funding.

Yajiong Xue is Professor of Information Systems in the College of Business at East Carolina University. She received the PhD Degree in Management Information Technology and Innovation from Auburn University. Her research appears in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, Drug Discovery Today and International Journal of Medical Informatics. Her current research interests include strategic management of IT, IT governance, IT security and healthcare information systems. She is serving Associate Editor for Communications of the Association for Information Systems.

Huigang Liang is Professor of Information Systems and Teer Chair in Research in the College of Business at East Carolina University. He received the PhD Degree in Healthcare Information Systems from Auburn University. His research interests focus on IT issues at both individual and organizational levels, and include IT strategy, assimilation, decision process, IT avoidance, adoption, compliance and healthcare informatics. His research has appeared in scholarly journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems and Communications of the ACM. He is serving Associate Editor for Information and Management and on the Editorial Board of JAIS.

Zhining Wang is Associate Professor of School of Management in the China University of Mining and Technology. His current research interests include knowledge management, human resource management and strategic management of information technology. He received the PhD Degree from the Southeast University of China in 2009. His research has appeared in scholarly journals including Journal of Business Research, Decision Support Systems, Management Decision and Expert Systems with Applications.

Shilun Ge is Chair Professor of MIS in the School of Economics and Management at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. His research has focused on issues of enterprise modeling, enterprise data model and IT project management. He received the PhD Degree in the School of Economics and Management at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He has authored and co-authored three books and more than 100 papers.