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Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1972; M.S., Purdue University, 1968; A.B., Rockhurst College, 1966
Research Areas
Data driven forecasts, decision support systems for forecasting, document management systems, management control systems
Recent Consulting
US Department of Labor; Halliburton; Economic Litigators; Vanguard Health Systems, Sony Electronics, and others.
Current Projects
“Green Business and Online Price Premiums: Will Consumers Pay More to Purchase from Environmentally Friendly Technology Companies?” Proceedings of the 2010 Americas Conference on Information Systems, forthcoming. With Joseph Cazier and Benjamin Shao.
"An Empirical Examination of the Impact of ICT Investments on Future Levels of Institutionalized Democracy and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Societies," Journal of the Association for Information Systems, forthcoming. With Haluk Demirkan, Michael Goul, and Dan Soper.
Academic Positions Held
Arizona State University: 1969 -- 1975 and 1982 -- present
Professional Positions Held
Senior Budget Analyst, Executive Budget Office, Arizona Department of Administration, November 1981 to August 1982; Manager, Unemployment Insurance (UI) Research and Reports Section, Arizona Department of Economic Security, June 1977 to November 1981; Principal/Manager, St. Louis and Associates, Economic and Statistical Consultants, June 1975 to June 1977.
Recent Publications
“Strategies for Document Management,” International Journal of Business Intelligence Research, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 64-83. With Karen Corral, David Schuff, and Gregory Schymik.
“A Model for Estimating the Savings from Dimensional versus Keyword Search”, in Advanced Principles for Improving Database Design, Systems Modeling, and Software Development, editors Keng Siau and John Erickson (Hershey, Pennsylvania: Idea Group Publishing, 2008), Chapter 9. With Karen L. Corral, David R. Schuff, and Ozgur Turetken.
"Sharing Information and Building Trust through Value Congruence," Information Systems Frontiers, Vol. 9, No. 5 (November 2007), pp. 515-529. With With Joseph A.Cazier and Benjamin B. Shao.
“Architecting a Dimensional Document Warehouse,” Business Intelligence Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Second Quarter 2007), pp. 34-41. With Karen Corral, David Schuff, and Gregory Schymik.
“E-Business Differentiation through Value-Based Trust,” Information and Management, Vol. 43, No. 6 (September 2006), pp. 718-727. With Joseph A.Cazier and Benjamin B. Shao.
