"Virtual Teams and e-Entrepreneurship" by Nader Ale Ebrahim

Virtual Teams and e-Entrepreneurship

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Academic Collaboration Centre for Publication Promotion, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abstract

The advent of the virtual teams has facilitated the emergence and formation of new companies within the Net Economy which called e-Entrepreneurship. The terms of e-Entrepreneurship and virtual teams still are new in the scholarly papers. Therefore, this introductory presentation focuses on different aspects of virtual teams and e-entrepreneurship.

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Nader Ale Ebrahim. "Virtual Teams and e-Entrepreneurship" Academic Collaboration Centre for Publication Promotion. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Dec. 2012.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/aleebrahim/68
"Virtual Teams and e-Entrepreneurship" by Nader Ale Ebrahim

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Publications

• Effective virtual teams for new product development Jun-2012

  DOI: 10.5897/SRE10.1005
  Nader Ale Ebrahim, null, 2012, 'Effective virtual teams for new product development', Scientific Research and Essays, vol. 7, no. 21.

• Innovation and R&D activities in virtual team: European Journal of Scientific Research 2009

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  Ebrahim, N.A. and Ahmed, S. and Taha, Z., (2009). "Innovation and R\&D activities in virtual team", European Journal of Scientific Research, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 297-307

• Literature, Principle and the Basics of Network Value Creation in R&D: The Relationship with Economy 2008

  DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1739048
  Ale Ebrahim, N, Ahmed, S & Taha, Z, 2008, 'Literature, Principle and the Basics of Network Value Creation in R&D: The Relationship with Economy', SSRN Electronic Journal.

• Literature, Principle and the Basics of Network Value Creation in R&D: The Relationship with Economy 2008

  DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1739048
  Ale Ebrahim, N, Ahmed, S & Taha, Z, 2008, 'Literature, Principle and the Basics of Network Value Creation in R&D: The Relationship with Economy', SSRN Electronic Journal.

• Models for Component Commonality in Multistage Production Oct-2011

  DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.110-116.258
  Wazed, M, Ahmed, S, Nukman, Y & Ale Ebrahim, N, 2011, 'Models for Component Commonality in Multistage Production', Applied Mechanics and Materials, vol. 110-116, pp. 258-266.

• Models for component commonality in multistage production: Applied Mechanics and Materials 2012

  DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.110-116.258
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  Wazed, M.A. and Ahmed, S. and Nukman, Y. and Ale Ebrahim, N., (2012). "Models for component commonality in multistage production", Applied Mechanics and Materials, vol. 110-116, pp. 258-266

• Modified Stage-Gate: A Conceptual Model of Virtual Product Development Process

  ALE EBRAHIM, N., AHMED, S. & TAHA, Z. 2009. Modified Stage-Gate: A Conceptual Model of Virtual Product Development Process. African Journal of Marketing Management, 1, 211-219.

• R&D Networking and Value Creation in SMEs 2008

  DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1739020
  Ale Ebrahim, N, Ahmed, S & Taha, Z, 2008, 'R&D Networking and Value Creation in SMEs', SSRN Electronic Journal.

• SMEs and virtual R&D teams: A motive channel for relationship between SMEs

  DOI: 10.1109/TECHPOS.2009.5412112
  Ebrahim, N, Ahmed, S & Taha, Z, 2009, 'SMEs and virtual R&D teams: A motive channel for relationship between SMEs', 2009 International Conference for Technical Postgraduates (TECHPOS), IEEE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 1-7.

• SMEs and virtual R&D teams: A motive channel for relationship between SMEs: International Conference for Technical Postgraduates 2009, TECHPOS 2009 2009

  DOI: 10.1109/TECHPOS.2009.5412112
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  Ebrahim, N.A. and Ahmed, S. and Taha, Z., (2009). "SMEs and virtual R\&D teams: A motive channel for relationship between SMEs", International Conference for Technical Postgraduates 2009, TECHPOS 2009

• SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review: International Journal of Physical Sciences 2010

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  Ebrahim, N.A. and Ahmed, S. and Taha, Z., (2010). "SMEs; Virtual research and development (R\&D) teams and new product development: A literature review", International Journal of Physical Sciences, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 916-930

• The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs Jun-2011

  DOI: 10.7232/iems.2011.10.2.109
  Ale Ebrahim, N, Abdul Rashid, S, Ahmed, S & Taha, Z, 2011, 'The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs', Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 109-114.

• Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs Jan-2012

  DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.1653
  Ebrahim, N, Ahmed, S, Rashid, S, Wazed, M & Taha, Z, 2012, 'Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs', Advanced Materials Research, vol. 433-440, pp. 1653-1659.

• Virtual R & D teams in small and medium enterprises: A literature review: Scientific Research and Essays 2009

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  Ebrahim, N.A. and Ahmed, S. and Taha, Z., (2009). "Virtual R \& D teams in small and medium enterprises: A literature review", Scientific Research and Essays, vol. 4, no. 13, pp. 1575-1590

• Virtual R&D Teams for NPD in SMEs: Past, Present and Future Trend 2010

  DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1729060
  Ale Ebrahim, N, Ahmed, S & Taha, Z, 2010, 'Virtual R&D Teams for NPD in SMEs: Past, Present and Future Trend', SSRN Electronic Journal.

• Virtual R&D Teams for NPD in SMEs: Past, Present and Future Trend 2010

  DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1729060
  Ale Ebrahim, N, Ahmed, S & Taha, Z, 2010, 'Virtual R&D Teams for NPD in SMEs: Past, Present and Future Trend', SSRN Electronic Journal.

• Virtual R&D teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration: 2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education: Transforming Engineering Education to Produce Quality Engineers, ICEED2010 2010

  DOI: 10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940754
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  Ebrahim, N.A. and Ahmed, S. and Abdul Rashid, S.H. and Taha, Z., (2010). "Virtual R\&D teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration", 2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education: Transforming Engineering Education to Produce Quality Engineers, ICEED2010, pp. 7-9

• Virtual R&D teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration

  DOI: 10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940754
  Ebrahim, N, Ahmed, S, Abdul Rashid, S & Taha, Z, 2010, 'Virtual R&D teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration', 2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education, IEEE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 7-9.

• Virtual collaborative R&D teams in Malaysia manufacturing SMEs: Advanced Materials Research 2012

  DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.1653
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  Ebrahim, N.A. and Ahmed, S. and Rashid, S.H.A. and Wazed, M.A. and Taha, Z., (2012). "Virtual collaborative R\&D teams in Malaysia manufacturing SMEs", Advanced Materials Research, vol. 433-440, pp. 1653-1659

• Virtual teams: A literature review: Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 2009

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  Ebrahim, N.A. and Ahmed, S. and Taha, Z., (2009). "Virtual teams: A literature review", Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 2653-2669

• Virtuality, Innovation and R&D Activities 2010

  DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1729097
  Ale Ebrahim, N, Ahmed, S & Taha, Z, 2010, 'Virtuality, Innovation and R&D Activities', SSRN Electronic Journal.

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New Perspectives of Virtual Teams’ Collaboration - Springer

Virtual and Networked Organizations, Emergent Technologies and Tools

Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 248, 2012, pp 176-185

New Perspectives of Virtual Teams’ Collaboration

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This article describes new perspectives in virtual teams’ collaboration, to underline the actual trends and to identify their future development. These will be used for product lifecycle projects management and to diminish/avoid risks, to harmonize team members’ competencies (compatibility issues) to attend success in project development. The tools used for communication and real time research-work will increase companies’ competitiveness by optimizing the resources dedicated to different projects, teams and management systems. To improve the productivity and to facilitate the communication between projects team members, the new approach of virtual teams is based on the use of complex software platforms to improve collaborative design, learning and work processes.

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EconPapers: The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams

The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid and Zahari Taha
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Abstract: The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development (R&D) programs and employed virtual teams to create the greatest competitive advantage from limited labor are increasing. Global and localized virtual R&D teams are believed to have a high potential for SMEs growth. Due to the fast growing complexity of the new product, coupled with new emerging opportunities of virtual teams, a collaborative approach is believed to be the future trend. This research explores the effectiveness of virtuality in SMEs virtual R&D teams. An online questionnaire emailed to Malaysian manufacturing SMEs and 74 usable questionnaires were received, representing a 20.8 percent return rate. To avoid the bias that may result from pre-suggested answer, a series of open-ended questions asked from expertise. This study based on analyzing an open-ended question; extract four main themes among expertise recommendations on the effectiveness of virtual teams for SMEs growth and performance. These are suitable for SMEs new product design manager to realize the key advantage and importance of virtual R&D teams in the process of NPD, which lead to increase the effectiveness of the new product's procedure.
Keywords: Virtual teams; New product development; Survey finding; Small and medium Enterprises. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 O32 M12 L7 M11 M1 O3 L15 P4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Dealing with Virtual R&D Teams in New Product Development

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha
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Abstract: National and global collaboration in research and development (R&D) is becoming increasingly important in creating the knowledge that makes research and business more competitive. Multinational enterprises have increased their research and development (R&D) investment in different countries. These multiple sites encourage the development of more ideas, due to the varied international backgrounds in global networks and the knowledge spillovers. In order to secure the viability of business processes, services and products R&D teams need to access and retrieve information from as many sources as possible. From the other perspective virtual teams are important mechanisms for organizations seeking to control scarce resources across geographic and other boundaries. Moreover, virtual collaboration has become vital for most organizations. This is particularly true in the context of designing new product and innovative services. In this paper all the major aspects of Virtual R&D team are discussed in technical terms. The paper provides an integral definition and characterization of virtual R&D team. The potential value that is created by virtual R&D teams for new product development is explored. Lastly, pertinent practical guidelines and implications are presented.
Keywords: Virtual R&D team; NPD; Technology management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L6 M12 O32 O14 O1 M11 L2 M1 P23 O3 L15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Establishing Virtual R&D Teams

Establishing Virtual R&D Teams: Obliged Policy

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha

(Submitted on 4 Aug 2012)

In a global and technology oriented world the requirements that products and services have to fulfill are increasing and are getting more complicated. Research and development (R&D) is becoming increasingly important in creating the knowledge that makes research and business more competitive. Companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently. In order to meet these requirements and to secure the viability of business processes, services and products R&D teams need to access and retrieve information from as many sources as possible. From the other perspective virtual teams are important mechanisms for organizations seeking to leverage scarce resources across geographic and other boundaries moreover; virtual collaboration has become vital for most organizations. This is particularly true in the context of designing new product and service innovation. Such collaboration often involves a network of partners located around the world. However at the R&D project level, dealing with such distributed teams challenges both managers and specialists. In new product development, it is necessary to put together the growing different capabilities and services with the goal, through cooperation between suppliers and customers, service providers and scientific institutions to achieve innovations of high quality. In this paper based on comprehensive literature review of recent articles, at the first step provides an primary definition and characterization of virtual R&D team; next, the potential value created by virtual R&D teams for new product development is explored and lastly along with a guide line for future study, it is argued that the establishing of virtual R&D teams should be given consideration in the management of R&D projects.

Comments:	6th IMC (International Management Conference). Tehran, Iran 2008
Subjects:	Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
ACM classes:	A.0
Cite as:	arXiv:1208.0944 [cs.OH]
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Virtual R&D Teams & Technology

Technology Use in the Virtual R&D Teams

Nader Ale Ebrahim

University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering

Shamsuddin Ahmed

University of Malaya (UM)

Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid

University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture

Zahari Taha

University Malaysia Pahang - Department of Manufacturing Engineering

February 4, 2012

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 9-14, 2012

Abstract:     
Problem statement: Although, literature proves the importance of the technology role in the effectiveness of virtual Research and Development (R&D) teams for new product development. However, the factors that make technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. The manager of virtual R&D teams for new product development does not know which type of technology should be used. Approach: To address the gap and answer the question, the study presents a set of factors that make a technology construct. The proposed construct modified by finding of the field survey (N = 240). We empirically examine the relationship between construct and its factors by employing the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). A measurement model built base on the 19 preliminary factors that extracted from literature review. The result shows 10 factors out of 19 factors maintaining to make technology construct. Results: These 10 technology factors can be grouped into two constructs namely Web base communication and Web base data sharing. The findings can help new product development managers of enterprises to concentrate in the main factors for leading an effective virtual R&D team. In addition, it provides a guideline for software developers as well. Conclusion: The second and third generation technologies are now more suitable for developing new products through virtual R&D teams.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 6
Keywords: Collaboration teams, questionnaires performance, cross-functional teams, product development, structural equation modeling, measurement model, literature review
JEL Classification: L1,L11,L7, M11, M12, M1, M54, Q1, O1, O32, P42, P29, L17, Q31, Q32
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Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Ahmed, Shamsuddin, Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim and Taha, Zahari, Technology Use in the Virtual R&D Teams (February 4, 2012). American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 9-14, 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1999445

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Virtual R&D Teams

Virtual R&D Teams in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Literature Review

Nader Ale Ebrahim

University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering

Shamsuddin Ahmed

University of Malaya (UM)

Zahari Taha

University of Malaya (UM)

December 21, 2009

Scientific Research and Essays, Vol. 4, No. 13, pp. 1575–1590, December 2009

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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in generating employment and supporting trade, they face numerous challenges, the prominent among them are the need to respond to fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Towards that end, research and development (R & D) aspect deserves particular attention to promote and facilitate the operations of SMEs. Virtual R & D team could be a viable option. However, literature shows that virtual R & D teaming in SMEs is still at its infancy. This article provides a comprehensive literature review on different aspects of virtual R & D teams collected from the reputed publications. The purpose of the state-of-the-art literature review is to provide an overview on the structure and dynamics of R & D collaboration in SMEs. Specifying the foundation and importance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R & D team and SMEs has been examined. It concludes with the identification of the gaps in the existing literatures and calls for future research. It is argued that setting-up an infrastructure for virtual R & D team in SMEs still requires a large amount of engineering efforts and deserves consideration at top level management.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 16
Keywords: Virtual teams, small and medium enterprises, literature review
JEL Classification: M11, L15, L23, O14, Z
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Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Taha, Zahari, Virtual R&D Teams in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Literature Review (December 21, 2009). Scientific Research and Essays, Vol. 4, No. 13, pp. 1575–1590, December 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1530904

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22	Azevedo	Americo	University of Porto & INESC Porto	Portugal
23	Chituc	Claudia-Melania	University of Porto & INESC Porto	Portugal / Romania
24	Noran	Ovidiu	Griffith University	Australia
25	Bernus	Peter	Griffith University	Australia
26	Schaffers	Hans	Helsinki School of Economics	Finland
27	Ortiz	Angel	Polytecnic University of Valencia	Spain
28	Pinto	H. Sofia	INESC & IST	Portugal
29	Walters	David	University of Western Sydney	Australia
30	Shen	Weiming	National Research Council Canada	Canada
31	Galeano	Nathalie	ITESM University	Mexico
32	Filipe	Joaquim	Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal	Portugal
33	Picard	Willy	Poznan University of Economics	Poland
34	Kaihara	Toshiya	Kobe University	Japan
35	Crave	Servane	France Telecom - R&D Division	France
36	Macedo	Patrícia	Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal	Portugal
37	Bertok	Peter	RMIT University	Australia
38	Molina	Arturo	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Mexico
39	Rabelo	Ricardo	Federal University of Santa Catarina	Brazil
40	Cunha	Pedro	Polytechnic Institute of Setubal	Portugal
41	Boucher	Xavier		France
42	Blomqvist	Kirsimarja	Lappeenranta University of Technology	Finland
43	Nemes	Laszlo	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) <retired>	Australia
44	Pawlak	Adam	Silesian Univ. of Technology	Poland
45	Klen	Edmilson Rampazzo	Ad Hoc - Digital Business Technology	Brazil
46	Urze	Paula	New University of Lisbon	Portugal
47	Angelov	Samuil	Technical University Eindhoven	Netherlands
48	Pinho Sousa	Jorge	University of Porto / INESC Porto	Portugal
49	Malucelli	Andreia	Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná	Brazil
50	Ollus	Martin	VTT	Finland
51	Fornasiero	Rosanna	ITIA-CNR	Italy
52	Kosanke	Kurt	CIMOSA Association	Germany
53	Weiß	Peter	University of Karlsruhe	Germany
54	Biennier	Frédérique	INSA de Lyon	France
55	Menzel	Karsten	University College Cork	Ireland
56	Mézgar	István	Computer and Automation Research Institute	Hungary
57	Ivanov	Dmitry	Chemnitz University of Technology	Germany
58	Jansson	Kim	VTT Industrial Systems	Finland
59	Browne	Jim	NUI Galway	Ireland
60	Oliveira	Eugénio	University of Porto	Portugal
61	Lima	Celson	New University of Lisbon	Portugal
62	Mo	John	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation	Australia
63	Jarimo	Toni	VTT	Finland
64	Schallock	Burkhard	Fraunhofer IPK	Germany
65	Castolo	L. Octavio	Intel	Mexico
66	Kowalczyk	Ryszard	Swinburne University	Australia
67	Ghodous	Parisa	University Lyon I	France
68	Kommers	Piet	University of Twente	Netherlands
69	Liu	Ling	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA
70	Cunha	Maria Manuela	Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave	Portugal
71	Xu	Lai	SAP Research Switzerland	Switzerland
72	Stecca	Giuseppe	ITIA-CNR	Italy
73	Kimura	Fumihiko	University of Tokyo	Japan
74	Del Cura	Antonio	SKILL Estrategia, S.L	Spain
75	Felzensztein	Christian	Universidad Austral de Chile	Chile
76	Cormican	Kathryn	CIMRU, National University of Ireland	Ireland
77	Dustdar	Schahram	Vienna University of Technology	Austria
78	Carvalho	Marcius Fabio	Centro de Pesquisa Renato Archer  -  Cenpra	Brazil
79	Adiele	Chima	Trinity Western University	Canada
80	Chalmeta	Ricardo	Universitat Jaume I	Spain
81	Karvonen	Iris	VTT	Finland
82	Bouron	Thierry	France Telecom	France
83	Popplewell	Keith	Coventry University	UK
84	Franco	Ruben Darío	Universidad Politécnica de Valencia	Spain
85	Petersen	Sobah Abbas	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway
86	Koumpis	Adamantios	ALTEC Information and Communication Systems S.A.	Greece
87	Sheth	Amit	University of Georgia	USA
88	Fu	Jerry Y H	National University of Singapore	Singapore
89	Vorobey	Volodymyr	EABIS, CSR Europe	Belgium
90	Gómez	Pedro	Research Centre on Production Engineering and Management	Spain
91	Rismondo	Silvia	ITIA – CNR	Italy
92	Fan	Yushun	Tsinghua University	China
93	Vernadat	François B.	Cour des Comptes Europenne	Luxemburg
94	Rezgui	Yacine	Cardiff University	UK
95	Guerrero	Fernando	Universidad de Sevilla	Spain
96	Oliveira	Jonice	COPPE/UFRJ (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)	Brazil
97	Mulder	Wico	LogicaCMG	Netherlands
98	Msanjila	Simon Samwel	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
99	Toscano	Cesar	INESC Porto	Portugal
100	Filos	Erastos	European Commission	Belgium
101	Bouras	Christos	University of Patras	Greece
102	Amato	João	University of São Paulo	Brazil
103	Kern	Eva-Maria	Hamburg University of  Technology	Germany
104	Scherer	Raimar J.	Technische Universität Dresden	Germany
105	Kotinurmi	Paavo	Helsinki University of Technology	Finland
106	Rayson	Peter T.	Technology Innovation Centre	UK
107	Koh	S.C. Lenny	University of Sheffield	UK
108	Cardoso	Jorge	SAP	Germany
109	Sadeh	Norman	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
110	Lee	Stephen	Hong Kong Productivity Council	Hong Kong
111	Melão	Nuno Filipe	Universidade Catolica Portuguesa	Portugal
112	Kimble	Christopher	Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management	France
113	Hlupic	Vlatka	University of Westminster	UK
114	Grefen	Paul	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
115	Dorn	Jürgen	Vienna University of Technology	Austria
116	Baïna	Karim	ENSIAS, Université Mohammed V Souissi	Morocco
117	Silva	Sílvio Carmo	University of Minho	Portugal
118	Volpentesta	Antonio P.	University della Calabria	Italy
119	Joshi	James B D	University of Pittsburgh	USA
120	El Ouahidi	Bouabid	Mohammed-V University	Morocco
121	Stich	Volker	FIR, RWTH - Aachen University	Germany
122	Kazi	Abdul Samad	VTT	Finland
123	Bolisani	Ettore	University of Padova	Italy
124	Estevez	Elsa	Universidad Nacional del Sur	Argentina
125	Semolic	Brane	INOVA Consulting	Slovenia
126	Krogstie	John	NTNU	Norway
127	D'Amours	Sophie	Université Laval	Canada
128	Tølle	Martin	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
129	Sherer	Susan A.	Lehigh University	USA
130	Uden	Lorna	Staffordshire University	UK
131	Abreu	Aline França	Federal University of Santa Catarina	Brazil
132	Rosenberg	Duska	Royal Holloway University of London	UK
133	Novais	Paulo	University of Minho	Portugal
134	Aloosh	Arash	Mazandaran University of Science and Technology	Iran
135	Lorre	Jean-Pierre	EBM WebSourcing	France
136	Dolgui	Alexandre	Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne	France
137	Kim	Duk-Hyun	Sejong Cyber University	Korea
138	Till	Sven	Technical University Eindhoven	Netherlands
139	Loss	Leandro	Federal University of Santa Catarina	Brazil
140	Brandão Moniz	António	New University of Lisbon	Portugal
141	Ermilova	Ekaterina	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
142	Donado Calle	Pablo	ISAGEN	Colombia
143	Foster	Ian	Argonne National Laboratory & Univeristy of Chicago	USA
144	Crowston	Kevin	Syracuse University School of  Information Studies	USA
145	Pires	Luis Carlos	Instituto Politécnico de Bragança	Portugal
146	Klein	Mark	Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT	USA
147	Laubacher	Robert	MIT Sloan School of Management	USA
148	Kühnle	Hermann	University Magdeburg	Germany
149	Sousa	Rui M. A. S.	University of Minho	Portugal
150	Ghattas	Johny	Haifa University (academic), Smart-Path.com (Business- CEO)	Israel
151	Soffer	Pnina	University of Haifa	Israel
152	Bosani	Roberto	IICS SRL	Italy
153	Müller	Egon	Chemnitz University of Technology	Germany
154	Horbach	Sebastian	Chemnitz University of Technology	Germany
155	Kutvonen	Lea	University of Helsinki	Finland
156	Kusiak	Andrew	University of Iowa	USA
157	Villa	Agostino	Politecnico di Torino	Italy
158	Thimm	Heiko	Fachhochschule Kiel -University of Applied Sciences	Germany
159	Salles	Paulo	University of Brasilia	Brazil
160	Calmet	Jacques	University of Karlsruhe (T+I)	Germany
161	Audy	Jean-François	Laval University	Canada
162	Marreiros	Goreti	ISEP-IPP	Portugal
163	Malgorzata	Pankowska	University of Economics, Katowice	Poland
164	Romero Diaz	David	ITESM	Mexico
165	Santos	Vitor	Microsoft	Portugal
166	Mohyuddin		Cardiff University	UK
167	Tramontin Jr	Rui Jorge	Federal University of Santa Catarina	Brazil
168	Baldo	Fabiano	Federal University of Santa Catarina	Brazil
169	Calado	João M. F.	ISEL	Portugal
170	Segovia	Angelita	University of S. Paulo - Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos	Brazil
171	Rana	Omer F.	Cardiff University	UK
172	Jacoski	Claudio Alcides	Regional Communitary University of Chapecó - UNOCHAPECO	Brazil
173	Silveira	Henrique F. R.	Banco Central do Brasil	Brazil
174	Kruger	Botha	FutureLead	South Africa
175	Cao	Jinde	Southeast University	China
176	Pithon	Antonio J. C.	Federal Center of Technological Education - CEFET/RJ	Brazil
177	Kim	Cheol-Han	Daejon University	Korea
178	Sangüesa	Ramon	Citilab, the Citizen's Lab	Spain
179	Kakko	Ilkka	Oy Karostech Ltd, Global Oasis Network	Finland
180	Arana	Joseba	IKERLAN Technological Research Centre	Spain
181	Laessig	Daniel	CeBeNetwork GmbH	Germany
182	Bollhalter	Stefan	Virtuelle Fabrik AG, Innotool AG, Greminger AG	Switzerland
183	Schuetze	Jens	Chemnitz University of Technology	Germany
184	Luneski	Andrej	South-East European Research Centre - SEERC	Greece
185	Huang	Chin-Yin	Tunghai University	Taiwan
186	Zarvic	Novica	BIBA - Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics	Germany
187	Osório	António J. M.	University of Minho	Portugal
188	Cagnazzo	Luca	University of Perugia	Italy
189	Mitchell-Wong	Juliana	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
190	Singh	Munindar	NCSU	USA
191	Desai	Nirmit	IBM Research Labs	India
192	Wieringa	Roel	University of twente	Netherlands
193	Kediyal	Prashant	North Carolina State University	USA
194	Zirpins	Christian	University of Karlsruhe	Germany
195	Keseljevic	Aleksandar	University of Ljubljana, Fac Economics	Slovenia
196	Popescu	Elvira	University of Craiova	Romania
197	Stanescu	Aurelian	Univesity POLITEHNICA Bucharest	Romania
198	Batista Chambers	Delva	Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá	Panama
199	Felgar Toledo	Maria Beatriz	University of Campinas	Brazil
200	Tenera	Alexandra	New University of Lisbon	Portugal
201	Cotofrei	Paul	Information Management Institute	Switzerland
202	Stoffel	Kilian	University of Neuchatel	Switzerland
203	Muller Gerrini	Fabio	University of Sao Paulo	Brazil
204	Piotrowski	Michal	Gdansk University of Technology	Poland
205	Kourtesis	Dimitrios	South East European Research Centre	Greece
206	Hawryszkiewycz	Igor	University of Technology, Sydney	Australia
207	Matti	Hannus	VTT	Finland
208	Chen	Yuh-Min	National Cheng Kung University	Taiwan
209	Ristol	Santi	Atos Origin	Spain
210	Campos	Pedro J. R. M.	University of Porto, Faculty of Economics	Portugal
211	Nabeth	Thierry	INSEAD	France
212	Antunes	Pedro	University of Lisbon	Portugal
213	Cherian	Mathew	Cochin University of Science and Technology	India
214	Schneider Locatelli	Débora R.	Universidade de Caxias do Sul	Brazil
215	Dekkers	Rob	UWS Business School	UK
216	Hollming	Eero	LayKeel Associates	Finland
217	Pasher	Edna	EPA	Israel
218	Sesana	Michele	TXT e-solution	Italy
219	Herfurth	Maik	FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik	Germany
220	Crossley	Andrew	ServQ Limited	UK
221	Hünnekens	Wolfgang	@Publicis Berlin	Germany
222	Hernández	Jorge Esteban	Universidad Politécnica de Valencia	Spain
223	Schumacher	Marinita	Ecole Centrale Paris	France
224	Khalil	Siti Nurhaida	Loughborough University	UK
225	Lima	Rui	University of Minho	Portugal
226	Hajlaoui	Kafil	Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne	France
227	Nasirifard	Peyman	DERI Galway, NUIG	Ireland
228	Bremer	Carlos	Axia Consulting	Brazil
229	Prinz	Wolfgang	Fraunhofer FIT	Germany
230	Verginadis	Yiannis	National Technical University of Athens	Greece
231	Sanz Angulo	Pedro	University of Valladolid	Spain
232	Benito Martín	Juan José	University of Valladolid	Spain
234	Costa	Ricardo	Politechnic Institute of Porto	Portugal
235	Rasmussen	Karsten Boye	University of Southern Denmark	Denmark
236	Paszkiewicz	Zbigniew	Poznan University of Economics	Poland
237	Swierzowicz	Jan		Poland
238	Francisco	Roberto Piedade		Brazil
239	Vonk	Jochem	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
240	Allan	Luke		Ireland
241	Tiacci	Lorenzo	Università degli Studi di Perugia	Italy
242	Xue	Yunjiao	National Research Council	Canada
243	Hernandez	Alejandro		USA
244	Paraskakis	Iraklis	South East European Research Centre (SEERC)	Greece
245	Ebrahim	Nader Ale	University of Malaya	Malaysia
246	Alves	Anabela Carvalho	University of Minho	Portugal
247	Fitzgerald	John	Newcastle University	UK
248	Burlat	Patrick	Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne	France
249	Peillon	Sophie	Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne	France
250	Bryans	Jeremy	Newcastle University	UK
251	Panetto	Hervé	Nancy-University	France
252	Ammirato	Salvatore	University of Calabria	Italy
253	Felicetti	Alberto Michele	University of Calabria	Italy
254	Das	Chinmay	Ajay Binay Institute of Technology	India
255	Plaza	Alejandro	UNGS	Argentina
256	Shamsuzzoha	Ahm	University of Vaasa	Finland
257	Charles	Aurelie	Université de Toulouse (after Oct 10 Université Toulouse II Le Mirail and  IRIT)	France
258	Macke	Janaina	University of Caxias do Sul	Brazil
259	Liu	Hui	Ecole Centrale de Lille	France
260	Mengoni	Maura	Università Politecnica delle Marche	Italy
261	Verdecho	Maria José	Polytechnic University of Valencia	Spain
262	Ostasius	Egidijus	Vilnius Gediminas Technical University	Lithuania
263	Avancini	Helenara	FACOS	Brazil
264	Astorga	Jasone	University of the Basque Country	Spain
265	Pereira	Carla	INESC Porto / IPP - ESTGF	Portugal
266	Choudhary	Alok	University of Sheffield	UK
267	Williams	John R	Fabriam Ltd	UK
268	Moghaddam	Amin	Lenavar	Germany
269	Badr	Youakim	INSA de Lyon	France
270	Cuadros-Vargas	Ernesto	San Pablo Catholic University	Peru
271	Neumann	Donald	Universität Stuttgart	Brazil / Germany
272	Silva	Vanina	Federal University of Santa Catarina	Brazil
273	Èudanov	Mladen	University of Belgrade	Serbia
274	Koelmel	Bernhard	CAS Software AG	Germany
275	Alfaro	Juan-Jose	Polytechnic University of Valencia	Spain
276	Reiff-Marganiec	Stephan	University of Leicester	UK
277	Almeida	Ricardo	INESC - Porto	Portugal
278	Sohrabi	Helia	Laval University	Canada
279	Chefneux	Luc	ArcelorMittal Global R&D	Belgium

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Countries

Argentina	2	Australia	10	Austria	2
Belgium	3	Brazil	26	Canada	6
Chile	1	China	2	Colombia	1
Denmark	2	Finland	13	France	18
Germany	23	Greece	6	Hong Kong (China)	1
Hungary	3	Iran	1	Ireland	5
Israel	3	Italy	13	Japan	2
Korea	2	Lithuania	1	Luxemburg	1
Macao (China)	1	Malasya	1	Mexico	4
Morocco	4	Netherlands	9	Norway	2
Panama	1	Peru	1	Poland	6
Portugal	42	Romania	2	Serbia	1
Singapore	1	Slovenia	2	South Africa	1
Spain	16	Switzerland	5	Taiwan	2
Tanzania	1	UK	19	USA	13

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