PROFILE:

Education

Ph.D., Management Information Systems, Washington State University
B.S., Computer Science, Washington State University

Areas of Expertise

Professor Looney is an Associate Professor and the Ron and Judy Paige Faculty Fellow. His research efforts have concentrated on two major themes. The first area involves technology acceptance, electronic commerce, human-computer interaction, and decision support systems. This inter-disciplinary stream focuses on the impact of Web technology designs on decision making processes and performance in financial settings. His second line of research concentrates on developing intervention strategies to combat declining student enrollments in the Management Information Systems (MIS) discipline. Given that the enrollment crisis poses a serious dilemma for MIS programs worldwide, much of his recent work has examined the effects of various teaching practices on education and career choices. His research has appeared in several top practitioner and academic journals including Management Science, Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, Communications of the AIS, as well as the Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology Education, and Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice.

Related to teaching, Professor Looney has taught a wide variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Specifically, he currently teaches Electronic Commerce, Systems Analysis & Design, and Introduction to Management Information Systems. He has previously taught Project Management, Operations Management, Emerging Technologies, Applications Software Development, and various topics in graduate and executive education programs. He has received several awards for teaching, including the 2008-9 Outstanding Faculty Award, voted on by MIS students. 

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