Sushil K. Sharma is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. He received his PhD in Information Systems. Prior to joining Ball State, Dr. Sharma held the Associate Professor position at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (India) and Visiting Research Associate Professor at the Department of Management Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Sharma's research contributions have appeared in many peer-reviewed national and international journals, conferences and seminars' proceedings. He has contributed several book chapters in premier books that are used by many schools worldwide for their graduate and undergraduate MIS and MBA programs on subjects such as e-commerce, knowledge management, and learning organizations. Dr. Sharma's primary teaching and research interests are in e-commerce, networking environments, network security, ERP systems, database management systems, and knowledge management.