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Ongoing
community projects:
www.myhamilton.ca
MeRC/McMaster is a supporter of the Connect Hamilton portal project. Check
out the project site for more info.
MeRC
Portal:
MeRC
Portal login MeRC is testing Merge portal software. Registered users
can use this link to login.
March
is Fraud Awareness Month!
Visit the above web page at the site for the Ontario Ministry of Consumer
and Commercial Services to view PDF files of the identity theft checklist
and checklist for business for business - new information tools for businesses
to reduce their risk of identity theft. If you are interested in learning
more about MeRC's research into Identity Theft please contact Glenda
MacDonald, Manager, MeRC at gmacdon@mcmaster.ca
Congratulations to Dr.
Milena Head and
Dr.
Khaled Hassanein for
receiving the best paper award at the 17th Annual Bled Commerce Conference
(in Bled, Slovenia). Their paper was entitled "The
Influence of Product Type on Online Trust"and
the committee chair (Dr. Roger Clarke) indicated that this paper was clearly
the most outstanding paper at the conference and was unanimously selected
by the outstanding paper award committee. ...The
Bled eCommerce Conference is the longest running and most prestigious
international conference focusing on eCommerce issues. As a result of
receiving this award, their work, MeRC, DeGroote and McMaster University
in general received much visibility and recognition on the international
scene. Well done Milena and Khaled!
Directions to
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E-business
Knowledge for
a Changing World
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What's
new @ MeRC:
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- MeRC SEMINAR SERIES INVITATION:
If your company would like to provide a
guest speaker and/or sponsorship please contact Glenda MacDonald,
Manager, MeRC at gmacdon@mcmaster.ca
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- NEW MERC WORKING PAPERS AVAILABLE:
-Gokul Bhandari &
Khaled Hassanein, "A Cognitive
DSS for Investment Decision Making: Challenges & Opportunities",
McMaster eBusiness Research Centre (MeRC) Working Paper No.
13, November 2004.
- WenJie Wang, Yufei
Yuan & Norm Archer, "A
Theoretical Framework for Combating Identity Theft",
McMaster eBusiness Research Centre (MeRC)
Working Paper No. 12, September
2004. Free PDF available.
-Mihail Cocosila & Norm Archer, "Mobile
healthcare answers to chronically ill outpatient non-adherence:
patient participation and technology conundrum", McMaster
eBusiness Research Centre (MeRC) Working Paper No. 11, August
2004. Free PDF available.
- NEW JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOKS AVAILABLE:
-Yufei Yuan & Brian Detlor, Intelligent
Mobile Crisis Response Systems, Communications of the ACM
(CACM), February 2005, Vol. 48, No. 2.
- Nick Bontis (ed.)
eBusiness Essentials,
Information Age Publishing, Greenwich, CT,
USA, 2004.
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- UPCOMING MeRC EVENTS/MERC REPRESENTED
EVENTS
-MeRC
eBusiness Seminar: The EC Enabled Organization
(March 3, 2005, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm, MGD
505, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada)
Speaker: Craigg Ballance, e-Finity Group Inc.
Representing MeRC: Dr.
Khaled Hassanein, MeRC Researcher, Glenda MacDonald, MeRC Manager
OPEN TO MCMASTER COMMUNITY & THE PUBLIC
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Third Annual Symposium on Supply Chain Management: Innovative
Collaboration for Competitive Advantage
(September 28-30, 2005, Toronto, ON, Canada)
This event is sponsored by McMaster eBusiness Research Centre
(MeRC), the Purchasing Management Association of Canada (PMAC)
and the Ontario Research Network in Electronic Commerce (ORNEC).
SCM2005
Call for Presentation & Academic Papers
Registration is now open.
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- UPCOMING E-BUSINESS COURSES
-eCommerce for
Small Business ONLINE course (for owners/managers of SMEs)
Get an overview of e-business and write
your e-business plan. The course is offered to the general public
through McMaster Centre for Continuing Education under the Management
Studies program. Visit the course site at the above link and add
your name to the online waiting list to be contacted by the MeRC
Manager about the Spring/Summer term which will begin May 2, 2005
for 13 weeks or proceed to CCE
site to register. Visa and MasterCard
accepted. The course is completely online. No on-campus attendance
required.
- RESEARCH PROJECTS
An Exploratory Study
of Web-Based Dispute Resolution Services
- Dr. Yufei Yuan's and Ofir Turel's web site for the study of
the business value of on-line alternative dispute resolution services
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