Fang Zhao

Dr. Fang Zhao is currently a lecturer at School of Management, Business Faculty, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She is also Senior Supervisor of Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) & MBA. She has published internationally over 30 refereed research works mostly in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship; e-business management; performance measurement; and higher education management. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at RMIT after graduating from University of Western Sydney with a doctoral degree.

Publications

Role of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in E-Supply Chain Management: A Case Study
Fang Zhao. © 2013. 13 pages.
This chapter studies the role that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play in the e-supply chain management. It has two objectives: (1) it explores how a SME embraces and...
Taking a Strategic Alliance Approach to Enhance M-Commerce Development: Challenges and Strategies
Fang Zhao. © 2012. 13 pages.
Current m-commerce business models show that m-commerce depends on complex networks of business relationships, which often comprise telecommunications service providers, mobile...
Role of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in E-Supply Chain Management: A Case Study
Fang Zhao. © 2011. 13 pages.
This chapter studies the role that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play in the e-supply chain management. It has two objectives: (1) it explores how a SME embraces and...
Business Relationships and Organizational Structures in E-Business
Fang Zhao. © 2011. 8 pages.
In today’s e-business, context, technology, customers, competitors, and partners can change rapidly. Technology can become obsolete in the blink of an eye and customers can...
International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IJEEI)
Charice Hayes. Est. 2010.
The International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IJEEI) explores the innovative utilization of the Internet and other information and communication technologies in...
Case Studies of North American University Performance in Technology Transfer and Commercialization
Alan Collier, Fang Zhao. © 2010. 51 pages.
This chapter reports on case studies of four North American universities engaged in technology transfer and commercialization. The literature and case studies permitted an...
Taking a Strategic Alliance Approach to Enhance M-Commerce Development: Challenges and Strategies
Fang Zhao. © 2010. 12 pages.
Current m-commerce business models show that m-commerce depends on complex networks of business relationships, which often comprise telecommunications service providers, mobile...
Technological Challenges in E-Collboration and E-Business
Fang Zhao. © 2009. 8 pages.
E-collaboration takes advantage of the current Internet-driven business environment, which integrates the most advanced electronic technologies and the knowledge-based economy....
Sensis.Com.Au: An Uprising Star of E-Innovation and E-Entrepreneurship
Fang Zhao. © 2009. 8 pages.
Sensis Search, a young entrepreneurial dot-com launched in 2004, is the first mover in redefining the Australian search market and creates a new paradigm for Internet searches...
Online Information Privacy and Its Implications for E-Entrepreneurship and E-Business Ethics
Carmen Gould, Fang Zhao. © 2009. 16 pages.
This chapter reports the results of a national survey which investigated Australian Internet users’ attitudes and behaviours toward online information privacy using a typology...
Business Relationships and Organizational Structures in E-Business
Fang Zhao. © 2009. 6 pages.
In today’s e-business, context, technology, customers, competitors, and partners can change rapidly. Technology can become obsolete in the blink of an eye and customers can...
Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Fang Zhao. © 2008. 530 pages.
It has become a widely-recognized fact that entrepreneurs and information technology have become the backbone of the world economy. The increasing penetration of IT in society...
Technological Challenges in E-Collaboration and E-Business
Fang Zhao. © 2008. 6 pages.
This article focuses on the most important technological challenges and issues facing e-collaboration and ebusiness in the areas of information flow, procurement, logistics...
Online Information Privacy and Its Implications for E-Entrepreneurship and E-Busines Ethics
Carman Gould, Fang Zhao. © 2008. 16 pages.
This chapter reports the results of a national survey which investigated Australian Internet users’ attitudes and behaviours toward online information privacy using a typology...
Effectiveness of Information Technology Governance: Perceptions of Board Directors and Senior Managers
Fang Zhao, Adela J. McMurray, Mark Toomey. © 2008. 19 pages.
IT governance is viewed as a managerial innovation, which responds to the needs of strong leadership, strategic direction, and control from the highest level within an...
Performance Measurement in the SMEs in the Information Industry
Donglin Wu, Fang Zhao. © 2008. 21 pages.
This chapter identifies the challenges, features, and drivers of performance measurement (PM) in the SMEs in the IT industry and introduces a PM framework based on the system...
Virtual Teams in Health Care: Maximising Team Effectiveness
Mary DeGori, Fang Zhao. © 2008. 35 pages.
This chapter describes an in-depth analysis of the methods to increase the effectiveness of virtual teams in health care using the Northern Alliance Hospital Admission Risk...
Entrepreneurship and Innovations in E-Business: An Integrative Perspective
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 304 pages.
Drawing upon the outcomes of the principal studies of entrepreneurship and innovation, Entrepreneurship and Innovations in E-Business: An Integrative Perspective opens up a new...
Maximize Business Profits Through E-Partnerships
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 252 pages.
The fast expansion of popular Websites reinforces the importance of online strategic alliances through e-partnerships and their business successes. However, many e-business...
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in E-Business: An Integrative Perspective
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 17 pages.
This chapter argues that a combination of entrepreneurship and innovation is a crucial factor to the long-term sustainability of e-commerce and e-businesses. Entrepreneurship and...
Sensis.Com.Au: An Uprising Star of E-Innovation and E-Entrepreneurship
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 11 pages.
Sensis Search, a young entrepreneurial dot-com launched in 2004, is the first mover in redefining the Australian search market and creates a new paradigm for Internet searches...
Online Information Privacy and Its Implications for E-Entrepreneurship and E-Busines Ethics
Carmen Gould, Fang Zhao. © 2006. 23 pages.
This chapter reports the results of a national survey which investigated Australian Internet users’ attitudes and behaviours toward online information privacy using a typology...
Overview of E-Partnerships: Definitions and Patterns
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 29 pages.
In the past decade, many significant changes have affected the business environment, including globalization of economies, the fast growth of electronic business, dramatically...
E-Business Supply Chains and E-Partnerships
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 24 pages.
In today’s business world, most companies operate within an integrated system, or a network of organizations of upstream suppliers and downstream customers that produce and...
E-Partnership Strategy and Structure
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 32 pages.
Now that the Internet bubble has seemingly burst, the days are gone when anyone with Internet and IT knowledge can run a successful e-business. Like other businesses, e-business...
Technological Challenges and Issues Facing E-Partnerships
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 25 pages.
As discussed in the previous chapters, e-partnerships have a number of advantages and benefits that can help organizations sustain and achieve their organizational goals in...
How to Make E-Partnerships Work: Human and Cultural
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 34 pages.
Today, partnerships and alliances have proliferated and become a key corporate strategy to gain competitive advantage. However, studies show that most business alliances fail...
Successes and Failures in E-Partnering: Multiple Case Studies
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 30 pages.
The previous chapters have included a comprehensive discussion of general issues concerning e-partnership management from both technology and people perspectives, and, continuing...
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Through E-Partnering
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 30 pages.
The dotcom crash and the following 3-year economic downturn saw hundreds of Internet startups closed down or sold. However, many of the innovations and technologies created by...
A Balanced Scorecard Approach to Monitoring and Evaluating E-Partnerships
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 23 pages.
The ongoing success of e-partnership requires the constant monitoring and measuring of its progress and outcomes. Many companies rushed into e-partnerships in order to exploit...
The Future of E-Business and E-Partnerships
Fang Zhao. © 2006. 11 pages.
As demonstrated in this book, e-partnerships have significantly improved the efficiency of e-businesses and the supply chain. The collaboration between e-partners has reduced...
The Impact of IT on Business Partnerships and Organizational Structures
Fang Zhao. © 2005. 6 pages.
Over the past decade, with the advent of the Internet, organizations have changed the way they communicate internally and externally, the way they are configured, and the way...
E-Partnership and Virtual Organizations: Issues and Options
Fang Zhao. © 2004. 15 pages.
With the convergence of information technology and communication, the Internet has changed the way organizations communicate internally and externally, the way organizations are...
Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO)
Pedro Isaías. Est. 2003.
The Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO) provides insight into and understanding of the social, cultural, organizational, and cognitive impacts of innovative...