He received a B.A. from Wittenberg University, an MBA and a M.S. in Information Systems and Systems Science from the University of Louisville before completing his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems at the University of Pittsburgh. His consulting experience includes several years at Arthur Young & Company, where he earned a CPA certification. He has published this research in Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, MIS Quarterly, JMIS, Decision Sciences, IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management and California Management Review.