A new forthcoming publication by IGI Global
Book editor: Ned Kock
This Web site has been created to serve as a resource for chapter authors. The book will be published by IGI Global as soon as it is completely drafted, with the target being 2008. Click on the links below to go directly to specific content sections (most of the links below lead to MS Word documents).
[ About the Editor ] [ Preparing Chapters ] [ Guidelines to Indexing ] [ Indexing Template ] [ Transfer of Copyright Agreement ]
Ned Kock (Web page) is Associate Professor and Founding Chair of the Division of International Business and Technology Studies, in the College of Business Administration, Texas A&M International University. Ned also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of e-Collaboration. He holds a B.E.E. in electronics engineering from the Federal Technological University of Parana at Curitiba, Brazil, a M.Sc. in computer science from the Institute of Aeronautical Technology, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in management with a concentration in information systems from the School of Management Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Ned's Ph.D. research analyzed the impact of asynchronous e-collaboration technologies on business process improvement groups.
He has been working as a systems analyst and organizational development consultant since 1987, having provided consulting, training and systems development services to a number of organizations including Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Johnson & Johnson, Rio de Janeiro State Construction Company, Westaflex, New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, True North, Day & Zimmermann, Lockheed Martin, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Texas International Education Consortium, and the European Commission.
Among his awards and distinctions are the following: Best Paper Award winner at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems, MCB Press Outstanding Paper Award winner, Anbar's Citation of Excellence Award winner, CIGNA Corporation Research Fellowship recipient, inclusion in Manchester’s Who's Who of IT Professionals, inclusion in AcademicKeys’ Who's Who in Business Higher Education, inclusion in Empire’s Who’s Who of Laredo Executives and Professionals, and Texas A&M International University’s Scholar of the Year Award winner.
Ned has authored (and edited) several books, book chapters, journal articles, conference proceedings papers, and book reviews. Ned's articles have been published in a number of journals including Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Education, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Information & Management, Information Systems Journal, Information Technology & People, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Journal of Systems and Information Technology, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science.
Branches of the Brazilian, New Zealand and US governments, as well as private organizations in these countries have funded his research. Major funding agencies have been the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Defense. His research interests are related to action research, business process improvement, e-collaboration tools support for global virtual teams, ethical and legal issues related to technology management, evolutionary perspectives on behavior toward technology, and organizational communication.