France Belanger is an assistant professor of information systems in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems and a researcher for the Center for Global Electronic Commerce at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Belanger held various technical, marketing, and managerial positions in large information systems and telecommunications firms and has provided consulting services to corporations in Florida. Her research interests focus on the impacts of distributed communication technologies on organizations. She has presented her work at several national conferences and has published in Information Management, The Information Society: An International Journal, and the Journal of Information Systems Education.