Dr. Mary C. Lacity
Professor of Information Systems
University of Missouri-St. Louis

Dr. Mary Cecelia Lacity is a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Research Affiliate at Templeton College, Oxford University, and Doctoral Faculty Advisor at Washington University. Her current research focuses on global outsourcing of business and IT services, innovation diffusion, and turnover among IT professionals. 

She has conducted case studies and surveys of hundreds of organizations on their outsourcing and management practices. She has given executive seminars world-wide and has served as an expert witness for the US Congress. She was the recipient of the 2000 World Outsourcing Achievement Award sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michael Corbett and Associates.

She has written eight books, most recently Offshore Outsourcing of IT Work, (Palgrave, 2008; coauthor Joe Rottman) and Global Sourcing of Business and IT Services (Palgrave, 2006; coauthor Leslie Willcocks). Her 40 journal publications have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Computer, Communications of the ACM and many other academic and practitioner outlets.  Her work has been cited more than 2800 times. 

She is US Editor of the Journal of Information Technology, and Co-editor of the Palgrave Series: Work, Technology, and Globalization and on the Editorial Boards for MIS Quarterly Executive, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and Strategic Outsourcing. She has previously served as Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly Executive.

Before earning her Ph.D. at the University of Houston, she worked as a consultant for Technology Partners International and as a systems analyst for Exxon Company, USA.