The Sixth Wuhan International Conference On E-Business

(WHICEB2007)

Keynote Speeches

Richard Thomas Watson

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Dr. Watson is the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy and Director of the Center for Information Systems Leadership in the Terry College at the University of Georgia. Professor Watson has published more than 100 journal articles and written books on electronic commerce and data management. His work has been accepted by leading academic and practitioner journals, and has been translated into several languages.

Dr. Watson has been actively involved in electronic commerce research since 1994, and he has given invited presentatisixtons on electronic commerce in more than twenty countries. In 2001, John Wiley & Sons appointed him as its consulting editor for its net-enhanced organization (NEO) series. His most recent research focuses on IS leadership, the business of open source, and the role of IS in ecological sustainability.

Dr. Watson has been President of the Association for Information Systems(AIS), the major academic society for IS faculty, and was co-conference chair for the 2004 meeting of the International Conference on Information Systems, the pre-eminent IS conference. He has served as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly, the leading IS journal. He is co-leader of the Global Text Project, an initiative he launched in 2006.

Keynotes The Business of Open Source -- a second order Internet effect
      The different business models underlying the wide variety of open  source projects are defined and discussed. Particular attention is  paid to the professional open source model, which is likely to be  the most successful of the different varieties. JBoss is used as a   case to illustrate key feature of the professional open source  model and surface implications for practitioners.
   
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Claudia Loebbecke

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Claudia Loebbecke holds the Chair of Media Management and is Director of the Department of Media Management at the University of Cologne. 2005-2006 she was elected President of the global 'Association for Information Systems (AIS)'. 2001-2003, she was elected as AIS Council Member representing Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. In July 2003, she organized the first global International Doctoral Consortium on Media Management (IDoCoM) in Cologne.

Previously, she held the KRAK Chair of Electronic Commerce - the first of its kind in Europe - at the Copenhagen Business School. She also worked and researched at the Sloan School (CISR) of the MIT (USA), INSEAD (Fontainebleau), Erasmus University (Rotterdam), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the University of New South Wales (Sydney), McKinsey & Co. (Germany), and at the BIFOA (Cologne).

Claudia Loebbecke is Senior Editor of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), Associate Editor of The Information Society (TIS) and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the AIS (JAIS), the Information Systems Journal (ISJ), the Journal of Information Technology (JIT), the Journal of Media Management (JMM) and Communications of the AIS (CAIS). 

Her continued research focus is on media management, electronic business, as well as on new organizational forms and knowledge management. She has written over 130 internationally peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, and has contributed to the development of more than twenty in-depth case studies in eight different countries.  

More information, please visit http://www.mm.uni-koeln.de/

Robert Davison

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Robert Davison is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the City University of Hong Kong. His current research focuses on Knowledge Management and Virtual Collaboration in the Chinese context. He often applies Action Research as a methodological lens, seeking both to understand and address organisational problem situations, while at the same time contributing to scholarly knowledge.

His work has appeared in the Communications of the ACM, Communications of the AIS, Decision Support Systems, Group Decision & Negotiation, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Information & Management, Information Systems Journal, Information Technology & People, Journal of Global Information Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, MIS Quarterly and Small Group Research, as well as in a variety of international conferences.

Robert is the Editor of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, and an Associate Editor for the Information Systems Journal and Information Technology & People. He has also edited special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (Cultural Issues and IT Management), the Communications of the ACM (Global Application of Collaborative Technologies) and Information Technology & People (Virtual Work, Teams and Organisations). He is currently editing a special issue of the Information Systems Journal on Information Systems in China.

Robert teaches information systems courses to managers and executives on the MBA and EMBA programmes at CityU, as well as a special course on International Information Systems for the MA in Global Business Management. He is the Programme Leader for the MSc in E-Business and Knowledge Management, and for the BBA in Global Business Systems Management. For further details see: http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/staff/isrobert

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