Stephen Hawk is Professor of MIS in the School of Business and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. His recent publications include articles on IT workforce trends, offshore software development, the software industry in Russia,e-commerce in developing countries, and MIS curriculum issues. His current research includes a project funded by the Sloan Foundation on Business Models of IT Offshoring that involved numerous visits and interviews in IT firms in India and Russia, and a recently completed international study on workforce trends from the perspective of IT service provider firms. He has published in MIS Quarterly Executive, Decision Sciences,Electronic Commerce Research, Information Technology for Development, Journal of InformationTechnology Education, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Information & Management, and Management Decision. His PhD is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He can be reached at hawks at uwp.edu.