Invited speaker in Walton Distinguished Speaker Series. “Strategic Control and IT Outsourcing,” University of Arkansas, November, 2006.

Elected Fellow of the Association for Information Systems, 2005.

Best Teacher Award, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, AY2006. This award is given annually to the two best teachers in a faculty of 180 persons.

Keynote Speaker. “Business Continuity Planning and the Protection of IT Assets,” Annual Conference of the Association of Information Systems for Portugal, Bragenca, Portugal, October, 2005.

Appointment, Academic Partner, Center for Process Innovation (CEPRIN), Robinson College of Business, November, 2005.

Board of Advisors Research Award, Robinson College of Business, August, 2004.

Keynote Speaker. “Just Another IS Crisis?” ISOneWorld Conference, Las Vegas, April, 2004.

Invited speaker in IS Distinguished Speaker Series. "Measuring Success in e-Commerce and Net-Enhancement," University of Cincinnati, April, 2003.

Annual Miller Lecture Invited Speaker. "The Role of Culture and IT Policy in the Developing World: The Case of Egypt and the Arab Culture," Iowa State University, April, 2002.

Keynote Speaker. "Measuring Success in e-Commerce," ECIS 2002, Gdansk, Poland, June, 2002.

Keynote Speaker. "Studying Bits throughout the World," BITWorld 2001, Cairo, Egypt, June, 2001.

ANBAR Electronic Intelligence's "Highest Quality Rating" for the Straub and Karahanna paper, "Knowledge Worker Communications and Receipt Availability: Towards a Task Closure Explanation of Media Choice," published in Organizational Science in 1998.

Best Researcher Award, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, AY1998 and AY2003. This award is given annually to the two best researchers in a faculty of 180 persons.

Election to Membership, Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, 1995

Award for Outstanding Reviewer of the Year 1994, Management Science

Best Research Paper Award, "The Implementation and Evaluation of an Integrated Information Center in an Academic Environment," ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Research Paper Competition, 1995

Best Research Paper Award, "Integrated Information Centers in Academic Environments," ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Research Paper Competition, 1990

IBM Fellow in Information Systems, Indiana University, 1984-85

Best Dissertation Award, Alpha Kappa Psi Foundation, 1986

Honorable Mention, Dissertation Competition, ICIT (International Center for Information Technologies), 1987

Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, "Instrument Validation in the MIS Research Process," Proceedings of the ASAC (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada) Conference, Whistler, BC, June, 1986

Election to Membership, Beta Gamma Sigma, Honorary Scholastic Business Fraternity, 1987