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Sushil Sharma

Sushil K. Sharma is currently Associate Dean and Professor of Information Systems and Executive Director of the MBA and Certificate Programs at the Miller College of Business, Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana, USA). He co-edited five books that include the Handbook of Research on Information Assurance and Security and Creating Knowledge-based Healthcare Organizations. He is also the co-editor of the book: Managing E-Business (Heidelberg Press, Australia). Dr. Sharma has authored over 100 refereed research papers in many peer-reviewed national and international MIS and management journals, conferences proceedings and books. He serves on editorial boards of several national and international journals and has also edited special issues. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of E-Adoption. His primary teaching and research interests are in e-commerce, computer-mediated communications, community and social informatics, information systems security, e-government, ERP systems, database management systems, cluster computing, Web services and knowledge management. He has a wide consulting experience in information systems and e-commerce and he has served as an advisor and consultant to several government and private organizations including projects funded by the World Bank.

Publications

Stock Market Prediction Using Elliot Wave Theory and Classification

The area of stock market prediction has attracted a great deal of attention during the past decade especially after multiple market crashes. By analyzing market price...

Preface

This Preface is included in the book Adoption of Virtual Technologies for Business, Educational, and Governmental Advancements.

The Influence of Information Technology Utilization (ITU) on Supply Chain Integration (SCI)

The key to competitiveness in most industries has moved beyond the traditionally confined single organization. In today’s global competitive business environment, competitiveness...

An Improved Dynavote E-Voting Protocol Implementation

Electronic voting—the use of computers or computerized voting equipment to cast and tabulate and tally ballots in an election in a trustable manner—is a pillar of e-Government....

Preface

This Preface is included in the book E-Adoption and Technologies for Empowering Developing Countries: Global Advances.

Strategy and Structure in a Virtual Organization

The business environment of the 21st century require organizations to respond quickly to market demands and thus traditional organization structures and strategy are no longer...

Re-Evaluation of On-Line Hot Topic Discovery Model

As a major medium for information transmission, Internet plays an important role in diffusing and spreading news on web. Some governments attach great importance and pay lot of...

Strategy and Structure in a Virtual Organization

The business environment of the 21st century require organizations to respond quickly to market demands and thus traditional organization structures and strategy are no longer...

The Influence of Information Technology Utilization (ITU) on Supply Chain Integration (SCI)

The key to competitiveness in most industries has moved beyond the traditionally confined single organization. In today’s global competitive business environment, competitiveness...

An Improved Dynavote E-Voting Protocol Implementation

Electronic voting—the use of computers or computerized voting equipment to cast and tabulate and tally ballots in an election in a trustable manner—is a pillar of e-Government....

Strategy and Structure in a Virtual Organization

The business environment of the 21st century require organizations to respond quickly to market demands and thus traditional organization structures and strategy are no longer...

Handbook of Research on Enterprise Systems

The advancement of computing and communication technologies have profoundly accelerated the development and deployment of complex enterprise systems, creating an importance in...

Handbook of Research on Information Security and Assurance

While emerging information and internet ubiquitous technologies provide tremendous positive opportunities, there are still numerous vulnerabilities associated with technology....

International Journal of E-Adoption (IJEA)

Hayden Wimmer. Est. 2009.

E-adoption has been the central focus of the 21st century since both organizations and individuals around the globe are adopting the internet and other internet-based...

Creating Knowledge-Based Healthcare Organizations

Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organizations brings together high quality concepts closely related to how knowledge management can be utilized in healthcare. It includes the...

Creating Knowledge Based Organizations

Creating Knowledge Based Organizations brings together high quality concepts closely related to organizational learning, knowledge workers, intellectual capital, virtual teams...

Intelligent Enterprises of the 21st Century

Business intelligence has always been considered an essential ingredient for success. However, it is not until recently that the technology has enabled organizations to generate...