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　　教務長梁定澎教授特別邀請著名的資管學者IZAK BENBASAT教授於七月二十七日來訪，並安排下列的研討會，開放給全國所有的人士，讓大家有機會和這位資管領域的傑出學者和大家分享經驗與看法，歡迎大家踴躍參加。有關Professor Benbasat教授的個人資料附於後面。

八月二十八日：

14:00-15:00  Virtual Product Experience: Effects of Visual & Functional Control of Products on Perceived Diagnosticity in Electronic Shopping.

 15:00-15:20 Coffee Break

 15:20-16:30  The Customer Service Life Cycle as an e-commerce Performance Index.

八月二十九日：

10:00-12:00  Panel discussion: Strategies for Publishing in Top IS Journals
　　　　　Panelists: Professor Izak Benbasat, University of British Columbia
　　　　　Professor Ting Ping Liang, National SunYat-sen University

RESUME OF IZAK BENBASAT

(http://mis.commerce.ubc.ca/benbasat/)

Izak Benbasat is CANADA Research Chair in Information Technology Management and Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. He was CANFOR Professor of Management Information Systems from 1991 to 2001. He served as Associate Dean (Faculty Development) from 1996 to 1999.

Education: Professor Benbasat received his B.A. (1969) in Business Administration from Robert College, Istanbul, and Master of Science (1971) and Ph.D. (1974) in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Minnesota.

Research Interests: His current research interests in information technology (IT) utilization include: 1) evaluating human-computer interfaces for web-based interface design to facilitate business-to-consumer electronic commerce; 2) investigating the role of explanations in intelligent support systems in improving user productivity and knowledge transfer to users; and 3) measuring IT-related competencies, namely, IT knowledge in line managers and business competence in IT professionals, and their impact on the effective deployment of IT.  The general theme that links his areas of research interest is improving the communication between IT, management, and users of technology. This communication exits at different levels and has different facets, e.g., interaction between individual managers and intelligent decision support systems, customers and web sites, and communication between IT professionals and business managers.

Publications: Professor Benbasat has published more than 70 papers in refereed journals (see http://mis.commerce.ubc.ca/members/benbasat/publications.htm). His publications have appeared in: The Business Quarterly; The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting Research; ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction; Communications of the ACM; Decision Sciences; Group Decision and Negotiation; Human-Computer Interaction; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; INFOR; Information Systems; Information Systems Research; Information and Management; Information Systems Journal; International Journal of Human-Computer Studies; Journal of Information Technology; International Journal of Man-Machine Studies; Journal of Management Information Systems; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Knowledge Acquisition; Management Information Systems Quarterly; Management Science; and Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes.

Editorships: Professor Benbasat is the past editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research.  He currently a Senior Editor of the Journal of the Association For Information Systems, and serves on the editorial boards of Information Systems Journal and Journal of Management Information Systems.  He was the Editor of the Information Systems & Decision Support Systems Department of Management Science, a Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly, the first Senior Associate Editor of the MIS Quarterly in charge of the theory and research section, and on the editorial boards of Accounting, Management & Information Technologies, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, The Accounting Review, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences and Contemporary Accounting Research.

Awards, Professorships, Grants: Professor Benbasat was appointed to a CANADA Research Chair in 2000.  He received the University of British Columbia Killam Research Prize.