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Dr Roya Gholami

Dr Roya Gholami

Senior Lecturer

Operations & Information Management Group

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Education ~ Research Interests & Consultancy ~ Teaching ~ Publications ~ Research Grants & Awards ~ Other Professional Activities ~ PhD Supervision

Education

  • Aston University Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
  • Ph.D. Management Information Systems, National University of Singapore, 2006, Thesis Topic: Essays on Information and Communication Technology: Investment, Usage and Economic Impacts.
  • B.Sc. Applied Mathematics in Computer Science, Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, 1992-1997

Research Interests and Consultancy

  • Business Value of IT
  • Green IT
  • ICT Spillovers
  • Information Technology Adoption and Diffusion
  • Managing Innovation with IT
  • Information Technology in Developing Countries 

Teaching

  • BN2228: Systems Analysis
  • BN2229: Systems Analysis Project
  • BN2288: Management Science Methods
  • BN2231: Decision Support Systems 

Publications

Book Chapters

  • Al-Somali S., Clegg B., Gholami R. (Summer 2009). Critical Factors Affecting an Electronic Commerce Adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), In Xu, J. and Quaddus, M. (eds.) E-business in the 21st Century: Realities, Challenges, and Outlook.  World Scientific Publishing, Forthcoming.
  • Al-Somali S., Clegg B., Gholami R. (2009), "E-Business Adoption and its Impact on Performance", Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Digital Economy, IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc). Forthcoming.
  • Al-Somali S., Gholami R., Clegg B. (2010), An Investigation into the Adoption and Implementation of Electronic Commerce in Saudi Arabian Small and Medium Enterprises.  In Al-Khalif, E.M.(ed.) E-Strategies for Resource Management Systems: Planning and Implementation. IGI Global Publishing, Forthcoming.
  • Gholami R., Lim J. and Lee S.Y.T, (2007), "The Relationship Between Intention and Usage: A Survey on the Adoption and Usage of Broadband Internet," Handbook of Research on Global Diffusion of Broadband Transmission, edited by Y.K. Dwivedi, A. Papazafeiropoulou, and J. Choudrie, Idea Group Publishing Inc.

 Journal Papers

  • Emrouznejad A., Cabana M. and Gholami, R. (2010), An alternative measure of ICT-opportunity index using linear programming, Information & Management, Forthcoming.

  • Gholami R., Anon Higon D., Hanafizadeh P. and Emrouznejad A. (2010), Is ICT Key to Development?, Journal of Global Information Management, 18(1).

  •  Shirazi F., Anon Higon D. and Gholami R. (2010), Do FDI and Trade Openness Explain the Digital Divide between Asia Pacific and Middle East?, Journal of Global Information Management, 18(3), July-Sept.

  • Gholami R., Koh E. and Lim J. (2010), A Survey on the Post-Adoption of Broadband Internet, Information Resource Management Journal, 23(1).

  • Gholami R., Ogun A., Koh E. and Lim J. (2010), Factors Affecting e-Payment Adoption in Nigeria, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Forthcoming.

  •  Hanafizadeh P., Gholami R., Dadbin S. and Standage N. (2010), The Core Critical Success Factors in Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, Accepted.

  • Gholami R., Guo X.J. and Anon Higon D. (2009), Information and Communication Technology (ICT) International Spillovers, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 56(2), 329-340.

  • Shirazi F., Gholami R. and Anon Higon D. (2009), The impact of information and communication technology (ICT), education and regulation on economic freedom in Islamic Middle Eastern countries, Information & Management, 46(8), 426-433.

  • Al-Somali S., Gholami R. and Clegg B. (2009), Online Banking Acceptance in Saudi Arabia, Technovation, 29(2), 130-141.

  • Gholami R., Lee S.Y.T. and Heshmati A. (2006), The Casual Relationship between Information and Communication Technology and Foreign Direct Investment, World Economy, 29(1), 43-62.

  • Lee, S.Y.T., Gholami R. and Tong (2005), Time Series Analysis in the Assessment of ICT Impact at the Aggregate Level - Lessons and Implications in the New Economy, Information and Management, 42(7), 1009-1022.

  •  Gholami R., Moshiri S. and Lee, S.Y.T. (2004), ICT and Technical Efficiency of the Manufacturing Industries in Iran, Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 19(4), 1-19.

Under Review

  • Al-Somali S., Gholami R. and Clegg B. (2010), An Investigation into the Adoption of Electronic Commerce in Saudi Arabian Small and Medium Enterprises, under review by Information & Management.

  • Clegg B., Gholami R. and Ergyn M. (2010), The Comparative Practices of Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and Quality Tools in Total Quality Management Implementation in the UK and Turkey, under review by International Journal of Production Economics.

  •  Emrouznejad A., Cabandab E. and Gholami R. (2010), Clustering the Digital Divide Using Linear Programming: Evidence from the European Union-15, under review by Information Economics and Policy.

Working Papers

  • Emrouznejad A., Cabanda M., and Gholami R. (2009), Measuring information society with linear programming, ABS Working Paper, RP0909.

  • Gholami R, Ogun A. Koh E. and Lim J. (2009), Factors Affecting e-Payment Adoption in Nigeria, ABS Working Paper, RP0907.

  • Shirazi F., Anon Higon D., and Gholami R. (2009), The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Openness on ICT Expansion: A Comparative Analysis of Asia Pacific and Middle Eastern Countries, ABS Working Papers, RP0901.

  • Shiraz F., Gholami R., Anon Higon D., (2008), Does ICT Promote Economic Freedom in Middle East?  ABS Working Paper, September, RP0814.

  • Gholami R., Emrouznejad A. and Schmidt H. (2008), The Impact of ICT on Productivity of Airline Industry, ABS Working Paper, May, RP0809.

  •  Al-Somali S., Gholami R. and Clegg B., (2008), Internet Banking Acceptance in the Context of Developing Countries, ABS Working Paper. RP0803.

  • Gholami R., Hanafizadeh P., Emrouznejad A. and Agheli L. (2008), Information and Communication Technology and Human Development, ABS Working Paper, RP0810.

  •  Gholami R., Guo X.J., Anon Higon D., Lee S.Y.T. (2007), Externality Effects of Information and Communication Technologies across Country Borders, ABS Working Paper, June, RP0717.

  • Gholami R., Lim J., Zhong Y. (2007), Determinant of Broadband Internet Adoption and Continuance in Singapore, ABS Working Paper, July, RP0718.

  • Gholami R., Lim J., and Koh E. (2006), A Survey on Post-adoption of Broadband Internet, ABS Working Paper. RP0008.

Research Grants and Awards

  • CSI sandpit funding the proposal "Engaging Different Communities with Sustainability", £14,500 (with Carole Parkes, Ajmal Hussain and Richard Cooke).

  • British Academy Small Grant, £7,500 (with Dolores Anon Higon).

  • National University of Singapore Postgraduate Research Scholarship 2001-2005.

  • Conference Grant, WIDER conference on sharing Global Prosperity, World Institute for Development Economic Research, 2003.

Other Professional Activities

  • Editorial Advisory Board Member for the book "Adoption, Usage and Global Impact of Broadband Technologies: Diffusion, Practice and Policy." Dr Togesh K. Dwivedi.

  • Editorial Board Member of Journal of Information Technology for Development (JITD).

  • Editorial review board of special issue of MIS Quarterly on Co-creating IT Value: New Capabilities and Metrics for Multi-Firm Environments.

  • Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change.

  • Member of organising team for EuroMOT Conference (September 2006).

  • Ad-hoc Reviewer for: Journal of Information Technology for Development; Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries; Journal of Enterprise Information Management; World Development; Journal of Strategic Information Systems; Telecommunications Policy; Handbook of Research on Global Diffusion of Broadband Data Transmission; International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS); Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS); The Handbook of Technology Management; European Conference on Information Systems (ECIC).

Ph.D. Supervision

  • Sabah Al Somali, E-commerce Adoption Comparison in Developed and Developing Countries (with Ben Clegg).

  • Elkaterina Thomas, Technological improvements, learning and innovation in Russian forestry-based sectors (with Kirit Vaidya).

  • Nicola Redi, Innovation, Networking and Globalization: How Should Italian Industrial Clusters Access Radical Innovation on Global Scale (with Naomi Brookes).

  • Abdulrahman Aljefri, ERP in Airline industry (with Ben Clegg).