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  Paul W FORSTER
Adjunct Associate Professor
Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs

Email:pforster@ust.hk

PhD 2000 University of California, Irvine, Information & Computer Science
M.S. 1997 University of California, Irvine, Information & Computer Science
MBA 1991 Richard Ivey School of Business
M.Sc. 1989 The University of Western Ontario, Computer Science
B.Sc. 1981 University of Alberta, Mathematics

Personal Home Page (http://ihome.ust.hk/~pwfblog/web)


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • Adjunct Associate Professor of ISOM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), 2007-present
  • Assistant Professor of ISMT, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), 2000-present


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

      Articles

  • "The Role of Online Shopping and Fulfillment during the Hong Kong SARS Crisis," Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawaii, Jan 3-6, 2005 (with Tang, Y.)

  • "Trust, Cooperation, Dependence and the Quality of Information in Interorganizational Information Systems," Organizations and Society in Information Systems (OASIS), 2004 Workshop, Washington D.C., Dec 12, 2004

  • "Weblogs and Student-Centered Learning: Personal Experiences in MBA Teaching," Information Systems Education Conference, Rhode Island, Nov 4-7, 2004 (with Tam, T.)

  • "Blogging in the MBA Classroom: Personal Experiences," Second HKUST Teaching and Learning Symposium, HKUST, May 17, 2004 (with Tam, T.)

  • "Information Technology Adoption and Use in Non-integrated Air Cargo Operations," Transportation Research Board 2004 Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., Jan 11-15, 2004 (with Regan, Amelia C.)

  • "Information Technology Adoption and Use in the US Scheduled Air Cargo Industry," Working paper (with King, J. L., Nault, B. R., and Regan, A. C. )

  • "Electronic Integration in the Air Cargo Industry: An Information Processing Model of On-Time Performance," Transportation Journal, Vol. 40, NO. 4, pp. 46-61, 2001 (with Regan, Amelia C.)

  • "The Performance Impact of Interorganizational Information Systems: An Empirical Study of On-Time Performance in U.S. Air Cargo, doctoral dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2000.

  • "The Great Reversal: Information and Transportation Infrastructure in the Intermodal Vision", in National Conference on Setting an Intermodal Transportation Research Framework, Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., vol. 12, National Academy Press, 1997 (with Alt, R. and King, John L.)

   Book Chapters

  • “Standards in Heterogeneous Sectors: Lessons from the Worldwide Air Cargo Community”, in Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure, Brian Kahin and Janet Abbate (eds), MIT Press, 1996 (with King, John L.)


SERVICE ACTIVITIES WITHIN COLLEGE AND PROFESSION

  • Reviewer for various refereed journals including: Information Systems Research, Electronic Commerce Research


HONORS

  • Wei Lun Fellow, 2000-2003
  • The Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, HKUST Business School, Fall 2001/2002