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Awards:

Best Track Paper : (International and Cross cultural Issues in IS) at the 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2008), Toronto, Canada, 14 -17 August 2008.

Honorable mention: 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Doctoral Consortium 2006, Paphos, Cyprus, May 23-27, 2006.

Best PhD thesis for the Faculty of Information Technology (IT), University of Jyväskylä, Finland, for the year 2006 (Graded: Eximia Cum Laude Approbatur [Excellent; with extraordinary commendations]).


Inspirational Quotes:

- 'Tis the mark of an instructed mind to rest assured with that degree of precision that the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible - Aristotle.

- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it - Aristotle.

- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity - Aristotle.


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Last Update: April 4th., 2010.


Bio Notes:

Dr. Princely Ifinedo is an Associate Professor at the Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University (CBU), Canada. He is currently teaching Management Science and Information Systems (IS) courses, including Information Systems for Managers, Quantitative Methods , and Computers in Business. Dr. Ifinedo received his education in Africa, Europe, and North America. He has resided in four (4) different countries, and traveled widely in 30 others including Poland, Portugal, Holland, Senegal, UK, Latvia, Denmark, USA, etc. This international exposure has had a lasting impression on his view of the world. He enjoys teaching as much as he does research. He has presented at various international IS conferences, contributed chapters to 12 books/encyclopedias, and his research papers have appeared in 25 peer-reviewed journals. In brief, he has authored (and co-authored) about 70 papers. He has assisted with the organization of several international IS conferences, and continues to serve his university community in various capacities.


Professional Affiliations:

        ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
        AIS - Association for Information Systems
        DSI - Decision Sciences Institute
        ISI - Informing Science Institute
        CIPS - Canadian Information Processing Society
       IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
       WSEAS - World Sci. & Engr. Academy and Society
        ISACA - Information Systems Audit & Control Assoc.

Past Memberships:


Services to the IS Community:

  • Editorial Board of Review: International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT)
  • Reviewer (Ad hoc): Electronic Markets - The International Journal (EM)
  • Reviewer (Ad hoc): Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce (JOCEC)
  • Reviewer: International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM)
  • Editorial Board of Review: Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management (IJIKM)
  • Reviewer: Telematics and Informatics
  • Reviewer: International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB)
  • Reviewer: Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR)

Subscribed with the following listservs :

AIS World, DSI, Afrik-IT, IST-Africa, IFIP 8.2 Working Group (WG), and WSEAS WG on Computer Science.


Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Tools:
      - PLS Graph 3.0
      - EQS
      - SmartPLS
      - AMOS
      - The R Project for Statistical Computing
      - WarpPLS


Visitors to this webpage since 30th. Aug., 2008

    

        Princely Ifinedo, Ph.D
        Dept. of Financial & Information Management
        Shannon School of Business
        Cape Breton University
        P. O. Box 5300, Sydney
        Nova Scotia, B1P 6L2, Canada
            ifinedo@yahoo.com

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Education:

    Ph.D (Information Systems Science),
             University of Jyväskylä,
             Finland

    MBA (International Management),
             University of London [Royal Holloway],
             United Kingdom

    M.Sc.(Informatics),
             Tallinn University of Technology,
             Estonia

    B.Sc. (Mathematics/Computer Science),
             University of Port-Harcourt,
             Nigeria

    Diploma in Education (Adult & Higher Educ.),
             University of British Columbia,
             Canada


Research Interests:

  • Organizational and Personal Computing
  • IT Security and Privacy Issues
  • Diffusion and adoption of IS/IT
  • Cross-cultural Issues in IS/IT
  • ICT and SMEs
  • ERP System Success Measurement
  • IS/IT issues in Developing and Transiting Economies (in Africa & Eastern Europe)
  • Issues in E-government / E-commerce / E-learning / M-commerce

Hints for IS Ph.D & MIS links:

       MIS Professors @ LINKEDIN
       Useful Things For IS Ph.D.
       ISWorld Ph.D. Page
       Qualitative Research in IS
       Qualitative Research in IS

Teaching Interests:

        Management of Information Systems (IS)
        Enterprise Systems in Organizations
        E-Business Strategy
        IT and Society (Social Informatics)
        Operations Management
        Research Methods (IS & Business)
             Quantitative Research Methodology
           - Structural Equation Modeling