Norm Archer

Norm Archer is Professor Emeritus in the Information Systems Area of the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada. He is also Special Advisor to the McMaster eBusiness Research Centre (MeRC), which he founded in 1999 as its first director. From December 2000 to his retirement in July 2002 as a Full Professor, he held the Wayne C. Fox Chair in Business Innovation. He is currently involved in a variety of activities in research, consulting, teaching, and supervising graduate student research on e-government, e-business, and e-health topics. He is extensively involved in the development and operation of the MSc program in e-health, a unique collaborative program between the Faculties of Business, Health Sciences, and Engineering. Dr. Archer has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals and conferences, and has given many invited talks on e-government, e-business, and e-health at universities and conferences around the world. In his research he is active, along with his graduate students and colleagues, in the study of organizational problems relating to the implementation of e-business and e-government approaches, particularly pertaining to mobile applications in business, health, and government organizations, and the resulting impacts on processes, employees, customers, and suppliers. Current research projects involve various aspects of mobile e-health, mobile government, identity theft, and change management in organizations.

Publications

Modeling the Success of Small and Medium Sized Online Vendors in Business to Business Electronic Marketplaces in China: A Motivation – Capability Framework
Modeling the Success of Small and Medium Sized Online Vendors in Business to Business Electronic Marketplaces in China: A Motivation – Capability Framework
Shan Wang, Yili Hong, Norm Archer, Youwei Wang. © 2013. 32 pages.
This paper explores the performance of Chinese small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) on Business-to-Business (B2B) electronic marketplaces (EMs). Based on a content analysis...
E-Government Service Maturity and Development: Cultural, Organizational and Technological Perspectives
E-Government Service Maturity and Development: Cultural, Organizational and Technological Perspectives
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Norm Archer, Shantanu Dutta. © 2012. 281 pages.
Implementing e-government services can give governments a competitive advantage by reducing operational and management costs, increasing transparency, and fulfilling their...
E-Government Service Development
E-Government Service Development
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Norm Archer. © 2012. 14 pages.
E-government (EG) is an alternative channel to regular brick and mortar government office. This information and communication technology (ICT) driven delivery system offers...
E-Government Initiatives: Review Studies on Different Countries
E-Government Initiatives: Review Studies on Different Countries
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Norm Archer. © 2012. 37 pages.
This study is an extension of the case studies presented in the previous chapter (Chapter 2) on mission, vision, objectives, and strategies of E-government (EG) initiatives...
Extension of E-Government: M-Government Development Capabilities
Extension of E-Government: M-Government Development Capabilities
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Norm Archer. © 2012. 17 pages.
The emergence of mobile technologies has not only revolutionalized business procedures, but it has also resulted in transformation and reengineering of public service adoption...
Extension of E-Government: M-Government Development Capabilities
Extension of E-Government: M-Government Development Capabilities
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Norm Archer. © 2012. 17 pages.
The emergence of mobile technologies has not only revolutionalized business procedures, but it has also resulted in transformation and reengineering of public service adoption...
Modeling the Success of Small and Medium Sized Online Vendors in Business to Business Electronic Marketplaces in China: A Motivation – Capability Framework
Modeling the Success of Small and Medium Sized Online Vendors in Business to Business Electronic Marketplaces in China: A Motivation – Capability Framework
Shan Wang, Yili Hong, Norm Archer, Youwei Wang. © 2011. 31 pages.
This paper explores the performance of Chinese small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) on Business-to-Business (B2B) electronic marketplaces (EMs). Based on a content analysis...
Foreword
Foreword
Norm Archer. © 2010. 4 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Ubiquitous Health and Medical Informatics: The Ubiquity 2.0 Trend and Beyond.
Management Considerations for B2B Online Exchanges
Management Considerations for B2B Online Exchanges
Norm Archer. © 2010. 8 pages.
Information systems that link businesses for the purpose of inter-organizational transfer of business transaction information (inter-organizational information systems, or IOIS)...
Management Considerations for B2B Online Exchanges
Management Considerations for B2B Online Exchanges
Norm Archer. © 2009. 6 pages.
Information systems that link businesses for the purpose of inter-organizational transfer of business transaction information (inter-organizational information systems, or IOIS)...