Biography

Current Position

He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, which is one of the top-5 information systems in the world. His adviser was the esteemed Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr., one of the founders of the information systems field.

He received his MBA from the internationally recognized Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University.

He received his B.S. in Information Management and a minor in business from Brigham Young University.

Summary of Research

As of 27-July-2024, Prof. Lowry has 284 total publications, as follows: 167 journal articles, 100 conference / workshop articles, and 17 books/book chapters (of these, he has published 96 articles with 91 different students).

He has published or has articles forthcoming in MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR),  J. of Management Information Systems (JMIS), J. of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Information Systems J. (ISJ), European J. of Information Systems (EJIS), J. of Strategic IS (JSIS), J. of IT (JIT), Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ), J. of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), various IEEE Transactions journals, Information & Management (I&M), Decision Support Systems (DSS), and others. 

Research Interests

He performs research in four areas, all of which he also researches from international- and cross-cultural perspectives: 

(1) organizational and behavioral security and privacy; 

(2) online deviance, online harassment, and computer ethics; 

(3) HCI, social media, and gamification; and 

(4) Business analytics, decision sciences, innovation, and supply chains.

His methodological strengths include: (1) structural equation modelling (SEM), partial least squares (PLS) path modeling, and meta-analysis; (2) theory building and systematic literature reviews; (3) online experimentation, instrumentation development, and field surveys; and (4) mixed-methods design science; and data analytics methods combined with python data manipulation

Editorial Service

He has also served or is serving in many different full-time and guest SE/AE roles for several top journals, including: MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of the AIS (JAIS), IS Journal (ISJ), European Journal of IS (EJIS), Decision Sciences (DSJ) Information & Management (I&M), Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), Small Group Research (SGR), AIS Transactions on HCI (THCI), and Communications of the AIS (CAIS).