He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses in two streams: behavioral economic issues in electronic commerce and the impacts of information technology evolution on consumers and markets. His work has been published in several major IS journals including Information Systems Research,Journal of MIS, MIS Quarterly, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, andIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on electronic commerce strategy, social media, web development, and data networking.