Minder Chen
Associate Professor, Management Information Systems

Education

Ph.D. Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, 1988
M.B.A., National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1983
B.S. Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1979

Contact Information

Biography

Minder Chen is Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at California State University Channel Islands.  From 1989-2008, he was Associate Professor in Information Systems and Operations Management at George Mason University. During his tenure at GMU, he had served as the Director of the Technology Management Program, an Executive Master's Program in Information Technology Management and Area Coordinator of IS & OM. His primary research interests are electronic commerce, IT governance, business reengineering and change management, group decision support systems & virtual teams, IT offshore outsourcing, and object-oriented systems development methodology.  He has published papers in Decision Support Systems, International Journal of E-Business, Journal of Management Information Systems, Database, Journal of Organizational Computing, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of Computer Information Systems,  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,  Journal of Small Group Research, Information Systems and e-Business Management, Information Systems Management, Industrial Management and Data Systems, and IEEE Software.  
 
He served as co-guest-editor of the March 1992 IEEE Software special issue on Integrated CASE and co-guest-editor of a special issue on Web Services and Electronic Commerce at the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research.  He was the only speaker on "XML Web Services and E-Business" at a pre-conference session of ICIS 2002 in Spain, sponsored by Microsoft. He was the Program Co-Chair of the Third Workshop of E-Business, Dec. 11, 2004.  He delivered the keynote speech at the International Conference on Information Management (ICIM 2007), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2007.

Representative Courses Taught

MIS 310 Management Information Systems

Scholarship

Keywords

Business process reengineering, group decision support systems (GDSS), Web technologies and electronic commerce, systems development methodologies and CASE tools, virtualization, IT service management, IT governance, Web services and SOA, IT outsourcing, I-Ching (The Book of Changes) and Management, Service Sciences, Management, and Engineering (SSME)

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