Dr. Jim Courtney received his Ph.D. in Business Administration (Management Science) from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974. Currently, he is a McCallister/Humana Eminent Scholar Chair in Information Systems and Professor of Computer Information Systems at the Department of Management and Information Systems at Louisiana Tech University.

His research interests are knowledge-based decision support systems, knowledge management, inquiring (learning) organizations and sustainable economic systems and most recently Information  Assurance.

His academic experience includes faculty positions the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Texas A&M University.  Georgia Tech, Texas Tech, Lincoln University in New Zealand and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Other experiences include positions as Database Analyst at MRI Systems Corporation and Visiting Research Scientist at the NASA Johnson Space Center.

Dr Courtney is the co-developer of the Systems Laboratory for Information Management (Business Publications, 1981), a software package to support research and education in decision support systems, co-author of Database Systems for Management (Second Edition, Irwin Publishing Company, 1992), and Decision Support Models and Expert Systems (MacMillan Publishing, 1992). 

His papers have appeared in several journals, including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Database, Interfaces, the Journal of Applied Systems Analysis, and the Journal of Experiential Learning and Simulation.  

Dr. Courtney was my mentor at the University of Central Florida throughout my master's program and has been a great supporter while I was embracing the thought of the PhD venture.  My research interests have been impacted by Dr. Courtney's.