James F. Courtney is the Humana Foundation/McCallister Eminent Scholar Chair in Computer Information Systems in the College of Business at Louisiana Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974 and has held faculty positions at Georgia Institute of Technology, Texas Tech University, and the University of Central Florida. He was also the Tenneco Professor of Business Administration at Texas A&M University. An expert in knowledge management and decision support systems, he has published nearly 50 articles in refereed journals.