John D. Wells : Isenberg School of Management : UMass Amherst

Office

Isenberg 305C

Tel.

413.545.5545

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Education

PhD Management Information Systems, Texas A&M University, 1999

MS Management Information Systems, Texas A&M University, 1994

BBA Management, University of Oklahoma, 1988

Professional Experience

Systems Analyst, Oklahoma State Senate, Oklahoma City, OK, 1/1995-8/1995

Systems Engineer, Electronic Data Systems (Health Care and Financial Services), Plano, TX, 1988-1994

Academic Appointments

Professor of Information and Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/2012-Present

Associate Professor of Information and Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/2010-9/2012

Associate Professor of Information Systems, Washington State University, 9/2006-9/2010

Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Washington State University, 9/2000-9/2006

Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Oregon State University, 9/1999-9/2000

Recent Honors / Awards

College Outstanding Research Award, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010-2011

Dean's Excellence Fellow, College of Business, Washington State University, 2007-2009

MBA Professor of the Year, College of Business, Washington State University, 2005-2006

Research Interests

B2C Electronic Commerce

Electronic Commerce Strategy

IT Innovation and Adoption

Online Consumer Impulsiveness

Website Design

Teaching Interests

Doctoral

Special Topics and Readings in Information Systems
Research Methods in Information Systems

Masters

Strategic Information Management
Electronic Commerce Strategy

Undergraduate

Electronic Commerce
Introduction to Information Systems
Systems Analysis and Design
IT-Enabled Operations

Selected Publications

Campbell, D., Wells, J.D., and Valacich, J.S., "Breaking the Ice in B2C Relationships: Understanding Pre-Adoption eCommerce Attraction," Information Systems Research, 2013, 24(2), pp. 219-238.

Wells, J.D., Valacich, J.S., and Hess, T.J. "What Signal are you Sending? How Website Quality Influences Perceptions of Product Quality and Purchase Intentions," MIS Quarterly, 2011, 35(2), pp. 373-396.

Wells, J.D., Parboteeah, D., and Valacich, J.S., "Online Impulse Buying: Understanding the Interplay Between Consumer Impulsiveness and Website Quality," Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2011, 12(1), pp. 32-56

Wells, J.D., Campbell, D., Valacich, J.S., and Featherman, M., "The Effect of Perceived Novelty on the Adoption of Information Technology (IT) Innovations: A Risk/Reward Perspective," Decision Sciences, 2010, 41(4), pp. 813-843.

John D. Wells

Senior Vice Provost for Life Long Learning & Professor