Mahmud Akhter Shareef

Mahmud A. Shareef is currently a post doctorate researcher in DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He is the recipient of Post Doctoral Fellow from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada to conduct research on Electronic-government. Previously, he was a Research Associate in Ontario Research Network for Electronic Commerce (ORNEC), Ottawa, Canada. He has done his PhD in Business Administration from Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He received his graduate degree from both the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in Business Administration and Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in Civil Engineering. His research interest is focused on development and performance of electronic-government and quality management of electronic-commerce. He is the principal author of the recently published book, Proliferation of the Internet Economy: E-Commerce for the Global Adoption, Resistance and Cultural Evolution, which has drawn enormous attention from scholarly researchers. He has published more than 30 papers addressing adoption and quality issues of e-commerce and e-government in different refereed conference proceedings and international journals. He is the author of 2 book chapters in Information Technology Handbook (IGI group) and has published 2 reputed books on quality management issues. He is an internationally recognized Information Technology (IT) consultant and has presented seminal papers in IT seminars. He was the recipient of more than 10 academic awards including 2 Best Research Paper Awards in the UK and Canada.

Publications

Journal of Business Ecosystems (JBE)
Kayvan Miri Lavassani, Vinod Kumar. Est. 2020.
The Journal of Business Ecosystems (JBE) promotes and disseminates study and understanding of business models at different levels of analysis. While the journal encourages...
Control Mechanism of Identity Theft and Its Integrative Impact on Consumers' Purchase Intention in E-Commerce
Mahmud A. Shareef, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar. © 2016. 34 pages.
There are many collection and application sources of identity theft. The Internet is one of the vulnerable medias for identity theft and is used, especially, as an application...
Control Mechanism of Identity Theft and Its Integrative Impact on Consumers' Purchase Intention in E-Commerce
Mahmud A. Shareef, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar. © 2014. 41 pages.
There are many collection and application sources of identity theft. The Internet is one of the vulnerable medias for identity theft and is used, especially, as an application...
Application of Behavioral Theory in Predicting Consumers Adoption Behavior
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar, Ahsan Akhter Hasin. © 2013. 19 pages.
A society produces some values, ideas, intentions, and speculations about the human personality. These perceived psychological phenomena depend on rules, regulations...
E-Government Service Maturity and Development: Cultural, Organizational and Technological Perspectives
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Norm Archer, Shantanu Dutta. © 2012. 281 pages.
Implementing e-government services can give governments a competitive advantage by reducing operational and management costs, increasing transparency, and fulfilling their...
E-Government Service Development
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Norm Archer. © 2012. 14 pages.
E-government (EG) is an alternative channel to regular brick and mortar government office. This information and communication technology (ICT) driven delivery system offers...
Electronic-Government Vision: Case Studies for Objectives, Strategies, and Initiatives
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Uma Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Morteza Niktash. © 2012. 25 pages.
Different countries adopt Electronic-government (EG) from different perspectives, although they align their mission to develop efficient government sectors that can satisfy...
E-Government Initiatives: Review Studies on Different Countries
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Norm Archer. © 2012. 37 pages.
This study is an extension of the case studies presented in the previous chapter (Chapter 2) on mission, vision, objectives, and strategies of E-government (EG) initiatives...
Extension of E-Government: M-Government Development Capabilities
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Norm Archer. © 2012. 17 pages.
The emergence of mobile technologies has not only revolutionalized business procedures, but it has also resulted in transformation and reengineering of public service adoption...
E-Government Implementation Perspective: Setting Objective and Strategy
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar, Abdul Hannan Chowdhury, Subhas C. Misra. © 2012. 20 pages.
Though many countries are still just beginning to grasp the potential uses and impacts of Electronic-government (EG), advances in technologies and their applications continue....
Extension of E-Government: M-Government Development Capabilities
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Norm Archer. © 2012. 17 pages.
The emergence of mobile technologies has not only revolutionalized business procedures, but it has also resulted in transformation and reengineering of public service adoption...
Stakeholder Adoption of E-Government Services: Driving and Resisting Factors
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi. © 2011. 322 pages.
The success of e-government – whether it is at the local, regional, or central level – largely depends on user acceptance of e-government, which requires a thorough understanding...
Introduction to Electronic Government: Development and Adoption
Ahsan Akhter Hasin, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar, Mahmud Akhter Shareef. © 2011. 13 pages.
This chapter is a general introduction to the development and adoption of Electronic-Government or e-government (EG). It addresses the background of EG, its origin and...
Electronic Government Adoption Paradigms
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi. © 2011. 59 pages.
This chapter reviews literature on electronic-government (EG) and information and communication technology (ICT) regarding several management issues in general and adoption in...
An Empirical Effort to Validate Electronic-Government Adoption Model
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar. © 2011. 33 pages.
This chapter then organizes results obtained from statistical analysis and interprets the findings. Finally, the chapter presents EG adoption models for different levels of...
E-Government Development: Performance Evaluation Parameters
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Uma Kumar, Vinod Kumar. © 2011. 17 pages.
Almost all of the countries in the world are developing their online-government, or e-government (EG), systems with the support of information and communication technology (ICT)....
Influencing Factors and the Acceptance of Internet and E-Business Technologies in Maritime Canada’s SMEs: An Analysis
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2011. 14 pages.
This chapter examines the influence of some relevant factors on the acceptance of internet and E-Business technologies in Maritime Canada’s SMEs (small- and medium- sized...
E-Government Implementation Perspective: Setting Objective and Strategy
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar, Abdul Hannan Chowdhury, Subhas C. Misra. © 2010. 19 pages.
Though many countries are still just beginning to grasp the potential uses and impacts of Electronic-government (EG), advances in technologies and their applications continue....
Proliferation of the Internet Economy: E-Commerce for Global Adoption, Resistance, and Cultural Evolution
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 320 pages.
The explosive expansion of the Internet has led to dramatic shifts in the methodology of conducting business, allowing for instantaneous communication and activities....
Introduction to E-Commerce
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 8 pages.
The growth, integration, and sophistication of ICT are changing our society and economy. The emergence of the Internet as a general communication channel has opened the...
E-Commerce Background
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 30 pages.
Electricity, telecommunication, integrated circuits, networking, and the Internet fostered a revolution by delivering distinctive services. The power of the net lies in...
Service Quality of E-Commerce for Global Consumers
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 25 pages.
Customers’ perception and expectation of service quality dimensions for any field, whereas it is traditional commerce or EC, has a close relation with adoption of that system...
Global Quality Management Practice for E-Commerce
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 13 pages.
Since Internet is the primary driving force of E-Commerce (EC), it has global phenomena. Consequently, Internet market is diffusing from the west to the east. Nevertheless...
E-Commerce Diffusion: Critical Factors Affecting Diffusion of E-Commerce
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 28 pages.
As we have already mentioned in the Preface of this book, mentioning EC in this chapter will signify and mean B2C EC unless it is mentioned otherwise. This chapter has primarily...
Diffusion of E-Commerce in Developed and Developing Countries: Comparative Studies
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 33 pages.
Based on the theoretical framework revealed in Chapter V, this chapter is intended to investigate the country-specific roles of governments, private organizations, and consumers...
E-Commerce Adoption in Developing Countries
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 28 pages.
This chapter is aimed to provide a fundamental conceptual framework for adoption of EC by the consumers of developing countries. Through extensive review of literature and...
Influencing Factors and the Acceptance of Internet and E-Business Technologies in Maritime Canada's SMEs: An Analysis
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 18 pages.
This chapter examines the influence of some relevant factors on the acceptance of internet and E-Business technologies in Maritime Canada’s SMEs (small- and medium- sized...
Effect of Proliferation and Resistance of Internet Economy: Understanding Impact of Information and Communication Technology in Developing Countries
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 35 pages.
Information and communication technology (ICT) is the prime driving force of Internet economy. Therefore, before implementing E-Commerce (EC) and E-Government (EG) projects, it...
Globalization and Relevant Strategy for E-Commerce
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 29 pages.
This current conceptual study reviews the literature of globalization and EC, and reveals three independent variables that help to determine, initially, whether a regionalization...
Culturally Customizing International Web Sites
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 18 pages.
As global e-commerce is expanding and the global online marketplace is becoming more lucrative for marketers, there is a surge in proliferation of international Web sites....
A Cultural Perspective on Web Site Localization
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 12 pages.
For the last two decades, companies have been increasingly operating in many foreign markets. Serving local consumers effectively and thus achieving success in individual foreign...
Conclusion, Implications, and Future Trends
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, Nitish Singh. © 2009. 12 pages.
The explosive proliferation of Internet users has led to dramatic shifts in the methodology of conducting business and the business paradigms. Currently, business organizations...
Diffusion of Innovation and Capability Theory in the Context of E-Government
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar, Ahsan Akhter Hasin. © 2009. 19 pages.
E-government (EG) enables governments to provide citizens easier and electronic access to information and modernized services through personal computers, kiosks, telephones, and...
Theory of Planned Behavior and Reasoned Action in Predicting Technology Adoption Behavior
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar, Ahsan Akhter Hasin. © 2009. 19 pages.
Research related to the impact of individual characteristics in their acceptance of online systems driven by information and communication technology (ICT) observed that...
International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR)
Nripendra P. Rana. Est. 2005.
The International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary, international journal that publishes high-quality, original research...