He received the Ph.D. degree in Business Administration (Information Systems) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997. His research interests include electronic commerce, strategic impacts of information systems, and information economics. He received the B.B.A. degree in management of information systems in 1986, and the M.S. degree in business administrative sciences (accounting) in 1991, both from Iowa State University. He is a member of ACM, AIS, and INFORMS.