Dr. Samuel Fosso Wamba is a senior
lecturer at the School of Information
Systems & Technology (SISAT).
He earned an MSc in mathematics;
from the University of Sherbrooke
in Canada, an MSc in e-commerce
from HEC Montreal, Canada, and a
Ph.D. in industrial engineering
for his work on RFID technology
in the supply chain from Polytechnic
School of Montreal, Canada.
His current research focuses on
business value of IT, inter-organizational
system (e.g., RFID technology) adoption
and use, supply chain management,
electronic commerce, mobile commerce
and e-government.
He published in European Journal
of Information Systems, International
Journal of Production Economics,
Information Systems Frontier, Journal
of Theoretical and Applied Electronic
Commerce Research, Hawaii International
Conference on Systems Science (HICSS)
and Americas Conference on Information
Systems (AMCIS).
Dr. Wamba is organizing special
issues on RFID for the Journal
of Medical Systems, the Business
Process Management Journal
and Pacific Asia Journal of
the Association for Information
Systems. He has been served
as mini-track chair on the same
topic for the 15th Americas
Conference on Information Systems
(AMCIS), The 6th, 7th and 8th Workshops
on e-Business, A Pre-ICIS Workshop
Sponsored by AIS SIGeBIZ.
His paper entitled “A
contingency model for creating value
from Radio Frequency Identification
(RFID) supply chain network projects
in logistics and manufacturing environments”
contributed to University of Wollongong’s
equal 4th place world ranking for
papers published in the European
Journal of Information Systems
during 2009 by IS Research Rankings.
Dr. Wamba is CompTIA RFID+
Certified Professional, Academic
Co-Founder of RFID Academia and
Founder and CEO of e-m-RFID.
