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, from the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada. His current research focuses on business value of IT, inter-organisational system (e.g., RFID technology) adoption and use, supply chain management, electronic commerce and mobile commerce. He published in European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, 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 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. Dr Wamba is CompTIA RFID+ Certified Professional, Academic Co-Founder of RFID Academia and Founder and CEO of e-m-RFID.
Articles
Positioning RFID Technology Into The Innovation Theory Landscape: A Multidimensional Perspective Integrating Case Study Approach , PACIS 2011 Proceedings (2011)
The main objective of this paper is to analyze RFID technology as an innovation concept...
Achieving Supply Chain Integration Using RFID Technology: The Case of Emerging Intelligent B-to-B e-Commerce Processes in a Living Laboratory, Business Process Management Journal (2011)
Purpose: Despite the high operational and strategic potentials of RFID technology, very little studies have...
RFID Applications and Potentials (with Joseph Barjis), Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems (2010)
The economy of the 21st-century enterprise is driven by efficiency, which, among other initiatives, requires...
A contingency model for creating value from RFID supply chain network projects in logistics and manufacturing environments (with A. T. Chatfield), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2009)
In the growing literature on RFID and other network technologies, the importance of organizational transformation...
Overcoming Visibility Issues in a Small-to-Medium Retailer Using Automatic Identification and Data Capture Technology: An Evolutionary Approach (with D. Hamilton and K. Michael), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2009)
The aim of this paper is to review the inventory control practices of a small-to-medium...
Contributions to Books
Using RFID to Overcome Inventory Control Challenges: A Proof of Concept (with Dane Hamilton and Katina Michael), The Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-09) (2009)
Using a Proof of Concept approach, this paper examines RFID’s impact on inventory control of...
From Automatic Identification And Data Capture (Aidc) To “Smart Business Process”: Preparing For A Pilot Integrating Rfid (with E. Lefebvre, Y. Bendavid, and L.. A. Lefebvre), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2008)
This paper examines the underlying logic behind the rules configured in a RFID middleware to...
Business and Technical Reports
RFID Adoption Issues: Analysis of Organizational Benefits and Risks (with Byron Keating, Tim Coltman, and K. Michael), Auto ID Labs (2009)
Conferences
Determinants of RFID Technology Adoption Intention in the Saudi Retail Industry: an Empirical Study (with Salem Alqahtani), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2012)
Drawing both on innovation diffusion theory and Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, this paper assesses...
Positioning RFID technology into the innovation theory landscape: a multidimensional perspective integrating case study approach, Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2011)
The main objective of this paper is to analyze RFID technology as an innovation concept...
RFID Deployment and Use in the Dairy Value Chain: Applications, Current Issues and Future Research Directions (with A. Wicks), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2010)
RFID technology is currently considered as a key enabler of supply chain transformation. However, very...
E-Government Challenge in Disaster Evacuation Response: The Role of RFID Technology in Building Safe and Secure Local Communities (with A. Chatfield and T. Hirokazu), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2010)
While geographic information systems (GIS) can provide information on the static locations of critical infrastructure...
RFID-enabled Inventory Control Optimization: A Proof of Concept in a Small-to-Medium Retailer (with H. Dane and K. Michael), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2010)
This study examines the impact of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology on the inventory control practices...