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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.

Cape Breton University Faculty Association (CBUFA) Research Milestones (1 Book & 50 Articles) Awards, 2007.

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.

Last Update: Sept 5, 2011.

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 courses, including Management Information Systems, Quantitative Methods, and Computers in Business. Dr. Ifinedo received his tertiary education in three continents; this international exposure has been the most transforming of all his experiences.

He enjoys teaching as much as he does research. He has presented at various international IS conferences, contributed chapters to 16 books/encyclopedias and his research articles have appeared in more than 28 peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Ifinedo received the Best Track Paper (International and Cross cultural Issues) at the 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2008), Toronto, Canada. He reviews for several leading international IS journals including DATA BASE, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and he serves his own university community (CBU) in various capacities.

        AIS - Association for Information Systems
        DSI - Decision Sciences Institute

Services to the IS Community:

• Reviewer: European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)
  
• Reviewer: Internet Research (IR)
  
• Reviewer (Ad hoc): Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce (JOCEC)
  
• Reviewer: International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM)
• Editorial Board - International Journal for Digital Society (IJDS)
  
• Editorial Board of Review: Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management (IJIKM)
  
• Reviewer: Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS)
  
• Reviewer: International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB)
• Reviewer: Information Technology and Management (ITEM)
  

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AIS World, DSI, Afrik-IT, IST-Africa, 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

Teaching Interests:

    

        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),
             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

IT Professional Certification passed

- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

Research Interests:

A) Organizational and Personal Informatics
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems Success Measurement
- Job Motivation and Satisfaction of IT/IS Professionals
- Adoption of IT/IS in SMEs and Healthcare
- Acceptance of Social Networking Sites

B) Global IT Management
- IS/IT Issues in Developing Countries and Transiting Economies
- Cross-cultural IS/IT Issues
- E-government / E-commerce / E-business / E-learning
- Social Informatics

C) IS Security Management
- IS Security Compliance Issues
- IS Ethics and Privacy Issues

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