Mahmud Akhter Shareef

Mahmud A. Shareef is currently an Associate Professor of School of Business, North South University and a visiting Professor in Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Previously, he was the Fellow of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada to conduct research on Electronic-government. He is a Research Associate in Ontario Research Network for Electronic Commerce (ORNEC), Ottawa, Canada. He has done his PhD in Business Administration from Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada with the highest Senate Medal. He received his graduate degree from both the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in Business Administration (MBA, Finance) and Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in Civil Engineering (M.Eng.). Before that, he has completed his undergraduate degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). He is the principal author of both books. He has presented several seminal papers in management seminars in USA, Canada, Switzerland, and UK. Mr. Mahmud is the recipient of more than 15 academic awards including 2 Best Research Paper Awards for the best journal and conference papers from UK and Canada. He was the guest Editor (Special Issue) of International Journal of Electronic-Government Research (IJEGR) which is published from UK. He has extensive research experience in the fields like Information technology management, Consumer behavior management, Organizational reformation, Electronic-government, Electronic-commerce, and Identity theft. He has published more than 50 research papers addressing organizational theories, adoption and quality of Electronic-government and Electronic-commerce, and other topical management issues in different international refereed conference proceedings and international journals (All are from North America and Europe). He is the principal author/editor of the refereed books Proliferation of the Internet Economy: E-Commerce for the Global Adoption, Resistance and Cultural Evolution, Stakeholder Adoption of E-Government Services: Driving and Resisting Factors and E-Government Service Maturity and Development: Cultural, Organizational and Technological Perspectives published by Information Science Reference, IGI Global Publications, USA. He is also the coauthor of several book chapters of refereed books published from USA. Recently, he has finished writing/editing the refereed book Transformational Government through eGov: Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Technological Issues, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK named which is published from UK in 2012 April. At present, he is editing/writing another book Public Administration Reformation: Market Demand from Public Organizations which will be published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis, New York, NY 10017, USA (To be Published in 2013). He has presented several seminal papers at management seminars in the USA, Canada, and the UK. He received more than 15 academic awards including two Best Research Paper Awards for the best journal and conference papers from the UK and Canada. He has also edited a special issue of International Journal of Electronic Government Research as the guest editor.