Dr. Eldon Y. Li is the University Chair Professor of the Department of Management
Information Systems at the National
Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan and an Emeritus Professor of California
Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, California, U.S.A.
He is also the Director of NCCU Innovation
Incubation Center (IIC) and Center for Service Innovation (CSI). He was a Professor at the Department
of Information Management and the Dean of the College of Informatics, and the
Director of the Graduate
Institute of Social Informatics at the
Yuan
Ze University, Taiwan; a member of the Research Grant Review Board
for the National
Science Council of R.O.C. (2004-2005); a member of University
Evaluation Committee for the Ministry
of Education in Taiwan (2005); a senior professor of Management
Area (1982/1-2007/3) and the Coordinator of MIS Program (1986-1989;
2001-2003) at the Orfalea College
of Business, Cal Poly;
the Professor and Founding Director
of the Graduate Institute
of Information Management at the National
Chung Cheng University in Chia-Yi, Taiwan (1994-1996); a visiting
scholar of The Chinese University of
Hong Kong (1999-2000). He
holds a bachelor degree in international trade from NCCU and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
information systems and quantitative sciences from Texas
Tech University. He received five first-prize "Best Paper"
awards:
two from Quality Assurance Institute's refereed journal, one from Sun
Yat-Sen Management Reviews, one from
Information & Education, and one
from an international
conference.
In addition, he received the prestigious "Most-Outstanding Research
Award" from the NSC in 1995 and 2004; the "Presidential Award
for Outstanding Services and Contributions" from National
Chung Cheng University in 1996; and the prestigious The Second
Y.Z. Hsu Outstanding Professor Award (Science, Technology, and Humanity
Category) from the
Far Eastern Y.Z. Hsu Science and Technology Memorial Foundation,
Taiwan, December 31, 2003.
Dr. Li is a Certified
Data Educator (CDE) and is also Certified in Production and Inventory
Management
(CPIM) by APICS.
He was
a management consultant to the clientele of the U.S.
Small Business Administration, a software quality specialist
of Information Services Division at
Bechtel
Corporation, a visiting software scientist at IBM
Corporation, and a software productivity consultant at Software
Industry Productivity Task Force, Bureau of Industry,
Ministry
of Economic Affairs, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. He has published
over 150 papers in the areas of human factors in information
technology (IT), strategic IT planning, software engineering, quality
assurance,
information management, and business management. His papers have
appeared in
Communications of the ACM, Computers & Education, Information
& Management, Information Resources Management
Journal, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of Management
Information Systems, Journal of Marketing
Theory and Practice, Journal of Quality Assurance Institute, Journal of
Systems Management, Quality Data Processing, among others.
He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of
Electronic Business (Geneva), the International Journal of
Information and Computer Security (Geneva), the International Journal of
Technology Policy and Law (Geneva), the International Journal of
Information Systems and Management (Geneva), the International Journal of Internet
and Enterprise Management (Geneva), and the International Journal of Internet
Marketing and Advertising (Geneva). He
currently serves as the founding
series editor for a book series, Advances in
Electronic Business,
published by Idea Group Publisher
(U.S.A.); an Editor-in-Chief of Business & Technology book division of NCCU Publishing
Office; a member of the advisory board for
Communications of the ICISA (U.S.A.); a member of the editorial board for
International
Journal of Management Theory and Practice (U.S.A.), and Journal
of Information Management (Taiwan), and Journal of e-Business
(Taiwan); the Founder and Executive Director of ICEB; and a senior consultant to
Commerce Development Research Institute (Taiwan).
Dr. Li was the ICEB 2007 Conference Chair and 2008 President
of the International
Consortium for Electronic Business (ICEB); an e-Business
Expert (2005-2007) appointed by the International Collaboration Office of the NICI (National Information
& Communication Initiative) funded by the Executive Yuan of
Taiwan; the WDSI 2001 Conference Chair and 2002 President
of the Western
Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI); the Secretary General
(2001-2003), the APDSI 2005 Conference Chair, and 2007 President for
the
Asia Pacific Decision
Sciences Institute; the 1998 President of the International
Chinese Information Systems Association (ICISA)
and Editor-in-Chief for the Communications
of the ICISA (U.S.A.); an editorial board member of Information
& Management (Netherlands), Quarterly Journal of
Electronic Commerce (publication ceased in 2003), Journal of The Quality Assurance Institute
(U.S.A., 1990-2003); the Guest Editors
for Decision
Support Systems (U.S.A.), International
Journal of Service Industry Management (U.K.), Journal
of Global Information Management (U.S.A.), Quarterly
Journal of Electronic Commerce (U.S.A.), Total
Quality Management (U.K.).
Since
December 11, 1996
