Editorial

摘要

Koos Krabbendam is a Professor of Operations Management and Chairman of the Department of Operations Organization and Human Resources in the School of Management and Governance at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He got a Doctorate degree on a study about the organisational impact of industrial automation, and has published several articles on the subject. Since 2000, he has also been a Visiting Professor at the College of Business Administration, Hunan University, China. He has a wide interest in education. Among other things, he is doing work in e-learning and has published quite a few cases for the e-learning environment. His main research interest is in the field of management of innovation, both in manufacturing and in healthcare.Elie Geisler is a Distinguished Professor at the Stuart School of Business of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), USA. He holds a Doctorate from Northwestern University. He is an author or co-author of over 100 papers and 12 books. His current research interests are in the management of medical technology and the structure, measurement and performance metrics of knowledge management systems.Nilmini Wickramasinghe is an Associate Professor at Stuart School of Business, IIT, where she researches and teaches in several areas within information systems, with particular focus on the applications of these areas to healthcare. She is well published in all these areas and regularly presents her work throughout North America, as well as in Europe and Australia. She is the Editor-in-Chief of two scholarly journals published by Inderscience.