Mohammad Ali Sarlak is an associate professor of public administration at the Payam Noor University (PNU). He is currently serving as the president at the doctoral education and research center in same university. PNU is a distance education university and mega university in Iran with more than 900,000 students. He holds a PhD in OB management and an MBA and a bachelor degree in business administration from the University of Tehran .In addition to his research in e- entrepreneurship, students trust in virtual universities, e-business, e-commerce, and e-government, he has published several articles and presented several papers on the IT applications in organizations. He has won numerous research, teaching, and administrative awards. Sarlak has written several text books related to IT applications in organizations for master's students. In addition to serving as the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation , he is a member of editorial review board of the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations and the Journal of Information Technology Research .