Jane Webster received her PhD from the Stern School of Business at New York University and is currently a professor of management information systems at Queen's School of Business. She was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Webster investigates the impacts of technologies to support distributed work, team effectiveness, organizational communication, employee recruitment and selection, employee monitoring, and training and learning. She also focuses on human-computer interaction issues as they relate to organizational systems. In 2003, Dr. Webster received the Queen's School of Business Research Excellence Award.

Dr. Webster has served as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly, and has published in a variety of journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Communication Research, Journal of Organizational Behavior, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science.