Andrew Schwarz is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department in the EJ Ourso College of Business Administration at Louisiana State University. Dr. Schwarz brings to his current position a unique blend of industry and academic qualifications. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he completed his undergraduate degree at Florida Atlantic University, where he majored in social psychology and minored in sociology.

Following completion of his bachelor's degree, Dr. Schwarz worked in the market research industry for technology clients such as SAP, Baan, and HP, as well as other Fortune 500 firms, including Kraft, Kellogg's, Ritz-Carlton, Marriott, the Coca-Cola Company, and Energizer. As a professional within the market research industry, he crafted research aimed at developing advertising campaigns for both new and established products and built models to forecast future trends in the credit card and food and beverage industries.

In 2003, he graduated with a PhD in management information systems from the University of Houston. He is currently involved in research aimed at investigating IT acceptance and use; IT management issues, such as governance, firm boundary choice, and alignment; the implementation and diffusion of technology within organizations; and future technology trends. Publications on these topics appear in the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, the European Journal of Information Systems, and Information Systems and e-Business Management, among others. He can be reached at aschwarz@lsu.edu.