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 EDUCATION

• 1959 B. Architecture, University of Notre Dame  
• 1964 M.S.C. & R.P., City and Regional Planning,  University of Southern California
• 1965 M.P.A., Public Administration, University of Southern California
• 1967 Ph.D., Public Administration, University of Southern California

 WORK EXPERIENCE

• 1967-71 Assistant Professor Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine (UCI)
• 1971-78 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management, UCI
• 1974-92 Director, Public Policy Research Organization, UCI
• 1978- Professor, Graduate School of Management (GSM), UCI
• 1983- Professor, GSM and Information and Computer Science, UCI
• 1992- Director, Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), UCI
• 1994-98 Associate Dean for Research, Graduate School of Management, UCI
• 1998-2003 Director, NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (CRITO Consortium)
• 1994- Director, Personal Computing Industry Center (PCIC)

RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICE

• American Coordinator, U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science Seminars on "Information Technology: Development, Use and Impact,"
   
• East-West Center, Honolulu, December 18-22, 1980;
• March 24-26, 1982; July 5-7, 1983;
• Tokyo, July 8-10, 1985;
• and Japan-American Institute of Management Sciences,
  Honolulu, July 1996.
   
• California Telecommunications Advisory Board, 1987-1993
   
• Committee on Infrastructure Innovation, National Academy of Sciences, 1987
   
• Co-Editor, Columbia University Press Book Series on Computing, Organizations, Policy and Society (CORPS), 1985-1990
   
• Proposal Referee, The National Science Foundation, 1974-
   

HONORS & AWARDS (1990 – present)

• Shaw Chair in Management Information Systems, National University of Singapore, 1990-91
• Selected to attend 1996 Japan Study Tour by American Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Keizai Koho Center, 1996
• Taco Bell Chair, Professor of IT for Management, Graduate School of Management, 1999
• ICIS Best Paper Award, Conference Theme (of 526 submitted papers), A Cross Country Study of Electronic Business Adoption Using the Technology-Organization-Environment Framework, 2002
• IBM Research Fellowship, 2002
• Elected a “Fellow” in the Association for Information Systems, 2003 (Presently only 20 fellows out of membership of 3,600 in the key professional association in the information systems field).
  
   

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Institute of Certified Planners, AICP, 1964-1984
• American Planning Association, 1964-1984
• American Society for Public Administration, 1965-
• Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, 1970-
• Association for Computing Machinery, AFIPS, 1975-
• International Federation of Information Processing Societies, 1975-
• Society for Information Management, 1977-
• Association for Information Systems, 1994-
   

RECENT SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

Author of thirteen books; more recently published books include:

• 1991 The Information Systems Research Challenge: Survey Research Methods. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
• 1998 Asia's Computer Challenge: Threat or Opportunity to the United States and the World? with Jason Dedrick, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Global E-Commerce: Impacts of National Environments and Policy, K.L. Kraemer, J. Dedrick, N. Melville, K. Zhu (Eds.): Cambridge University Press, 2006 (in press).
  

Author of over 125 articles and chapters. Recently published or forthcoming works include:

• 2002   “Strategic Use of the Internet and E-Commerce: Cisco Systems,” Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 11(1) March: 5-29.
• 2002   “Enter the Dragon: China’s Computer Industry,” IEEE Computer, 35(2) February: 28-36.
• 2002   “Exploring the Role of Information Technology in Organizational Downsizing: A Tale of Two American Cities,” Alain Pinsonneault and Kenneth L. Kraemer, Organization Science, 13(2) March-April: 191-208.
• 2002   “Information Technology in Southeast Asia: Engine of Growth or Digital Divide?” Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick. In Chia Siow Yue and Jamus Jerome Lim (eds.), Information Technology in Asia: New Development Paradigms. Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, pp. 22-47.
• 2002   “E-Commerce Metrics for Net-Enhanced Organizations: Assessing the Value of E-Commerce to Firm Performance in the Manufacturing Sector,” Kevin Zhu and Kenneth L. Kraemer, Information Systems Research, 13(3) September: 275-295.
• 2003  “Environment and Policy Factors Shaping E-Commerce Diffusion: A Cross-Country Comparison,” Jennifer Gibbs, Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick. The Information Society, 19(1): 5-18.
• 2003  “Information Technology and Economic Performance: A Critical Review of the Empirical Evidence,” Jason Dedrick, Vijay Gurbaxani and Kenneth L. Kraemer, ACM Computing Surveys, 35(1) March:1-28.
• 2003  “Spillover Effects of Production of IT on Use of IT,” Dale Ganley, Kenneth L. Kraemer and Poh Kam Wong, Electronic Markets, 13(4): 271-281.
• 2003  “A Cross-Country Investigation of the Determinants of Scope of E-Commerce Use: An Institutional Approach,” Jennifer Gibbs and Kenneth L. Kraemer, Electronic Markets, 14(2): 124-137.
• 2003  “E-Business Adoption by European Firms: A Cross-Country Assessment of the Facilitators and Inhibitors,” Kevin Zhu, Kenneth L. Kraemer, and Sean Xu, European Journal of Information Systems, 12(4): 251-268.
• 2003  “Investigating the Relationship between Strategic Alignment and IT Business Value: the Discovery of a Paradox,” Paul Tallon and Kenneth L. Kraemer. In N. Shin (ed.), Creating Business Value with Information Technology: Challenges and Solutions. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, pp. 1-22.
• 2004  “Information Technology and Organizational Performance: An Integrative Model of IT Business Value,” Nigel Melville, Kenneth L. Kraemer and Vijay Gurbaxani, MIS Quarterly, 28(2) June 2004:283-322.
• 2004  “Information Technology Payoff in E-Business Environments: An International Perspective on Value Creation of E-Business in the Financial Services Industry.” Kevin Zhu, Kenneth L. Kraemer, Sean Xu, and Jason Dedrick, Journal of Management Information Systems, 21(1): 17-54.
• 2005  “Post-Adoption Variations in Usage and Value of E-Business by Organizations: Cross-Country Evidence from the Retail Industry,” Kevin Zhu and Kenneth L. Kraemer, Information Systems Research, 16(1) March: 61-84.
• 2005  “The Impacts of IT on Firm and Industry Structure: The Personal Computer Industry,” Jason Dedrick and Kenneth L. Kraemer, California Management Review, 47(3): 122-142.
• 2005  “Impacts of Globalization on E-Commerce Use and Firm Performance: A Cross-Country Investigation,” Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jennifer Gibbs, and Jason Dedrick, The Information Society, 21: 1-18.
• 2006  “Information Technology and Administrative Reform: Will E-Government be Different?” Kenneth L. Kraemer and John L. King, International Journal of Electronic Government Research, 2(1) January-March: 1-20.
• 2005  “The Process of E-Business Assimilation in Organizations: A Technology Diffusion Perspective,” Kevin Zhu, Kenneth L. Kraemer and Sean Xu, Management Science. (accepted).
• Forthcoming, 2006. “Migration to Open-Standard Inter-Organizational Systems: Network Effects, Switching Costs, and Path Dependency, Kevin Zhu and Kenneth L. Kraemer, MIS Quarterly (accepted).
• “Assimilation of E-Business by Firms in Different Countries: A Technology Diffusion Perspective,” Kevin Zhu, Kenneth L. Kraemer, and Sean Xu, Management Science. (conditionally accepted).