Peng Xu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management Science and Information Systems of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University in 2004. Her research areas are business agility, and software project management. and technology innovation. Her work has appeared in several journals, including the Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Information & Management, Decision Support Systems, Communications of AIS, Information Technology & People, Industrial Management & Data Systems, Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Behavior & Information Technology, and many international conferences.