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Track Co-Chairs
Rajiv Kohli (College of William
and Mary, USA)
M. Adam Mahmood (University of Texas at El Paso,
USA)
Description
With global trade and
worldwide communications now dependent on effective Information Technology
(IT) infrastructure, policy makers in Government and Business need to apply
more complex measures to evaluate the return from IT investment. This track
seeks to explore all economic related issues in the broad context of IT
facilitated applications and environments. Perspectives may be drawn from
local, national or global businesses; local, state or national governments;
national or international stakeholders and examine a range of issues in
relation to costs, benefits, investment and funding models, economic and
social impact, and business and community value.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following
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The economics of developing
national and international IT infrastructures and supporting IT based
applications (e.g., online trading systems, e-government, military
systems, security systems, and online education)
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Comparison of economic versus
social capital return from IT investment in different industry, community
and/or cultural environments
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Innovative frameworks, new
methods and models for measuring IT and e-business investment and value
returns
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Evaluation of different
models for IT resource procurement and management (e.g. outsourcing, ASPs,
call centers)
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Employing IT to develop new
products and services and benefits realization in a variety of different
application environments (e.g., CFPR systems, e-SCM systems, e-logistics
systems, CRM systems, e-tailing systems, and e-health systems)
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Enterprise architecture
investments and the impacts and benefits from cross-industry,
cross-national, collaborative commerce applications
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Mobile communication and
emerging information technologies and their economic impacts
- Comparing payoffs from
and risk management approaches to e-Business and traditional IT investment
strategies
Associate Editors (A-Z)
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Sarv Devaraj (University
of Notre Dame, USA)
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Judy
Drennan (Queensland University of Technology)
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Amitava Dutta (George Mason
University, USA)
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Ellen Hoadley (Loyola
College in Maryland, USA)
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Sunil Mithas (University of
Maryland, College Park, USA)
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Christina Outlay (University of
Illinois at Chicago, USA)
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Balaji Rajagopalan (Oakland
University, USA)
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Vernon Richardson (University
of Arkansas, USA)
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Cynthia Ruppel
(University of Alabama at Huntsville,
USA)
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Susan A. Sherer (Lehigh
University, USA)
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Thomas Stafford (University
of Memphis, USA)
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