Papers by Dr Mohammed Albakri
The COVID-19 crisis has engulfed several countries, leaving policymakers perplexed and unprepared... more The COVID-19 crisis has engulfed several countries, leaving policymakers perplexed and unprepared to deal with the situation. Choosing the most appropriate course of action has become more challenging as a result of the infection and its effects on the body. While dealing with the coronavirus crisis and the stress that goes with it, new information technologies are critical in addressing and alleviating that stress. As a result, new information technology capabilities are required to address the challenges confronting policymakers when dealing with pandemic diseases such as COVID-19 in the past. As a result of the systematic review process used in this study, the best available evidence is synthesised from text and opinion to provide actionable advice to policymakers. The findings indicate that the challenges fall into two categories: battling the disease and mitigating its effects. Furthermore, the internet of things, cloud computing, machine learning, and social networking all contribute significantly to resolving these issues.
As an occurrence that jeopardises vital national interests or the basic needs of the populace, a ... more As an occurrence that jeopardises vital national interests or the basic needs of the populace, a crisis necessitates rapid decision-making and coordination between various departments and agencies in order to resolve it effectively. As a result, crisis and disaster management systems are necessary and critical. Crisis and disaster response systems are intricate, requiring numerous phases, techniques, and resources. These systems require useful and necessary data that can be used to make future decisions more effectively, such as historical and current data on crises. The use of machine learning and big data technologies to process data from crises and disasters has the potential to yield significant results in this area. The first section of this document discusses crisis management systems and available tools, such as big data and machine learning. Additionally, a machine learning and big data approach to crisis management systems were developed, which included a description and experiments, as well as a discussion of the findings and the field's future directions.
Recent events have emphasised the critical nature of making key decisions with the support of inn... more Recent events have emphasised the critical nature of making key decisions with the support of innovative technologies to manage crises. This chapter will review pertinent literature on crisis management and existing categorizations or typologies before delving into crisis decision-making. Two distinct modes of decision-making are discussed: rational and intuitive decision-making. The following subsection conducts a review of articles in the literature on artificial intelligence and data-driven approaches, categorising them as rational and intuitive decision-making.
IGI Global, 2021
There have been many digital advancements that have helped facilitate digital transformation, suc... more There have been many digital advancements that have helped facilitate digital transformation, such as the web's transformation. Many organisations, large and small, have recognised the power of the participatory web to improve productivity and efficiency. However, until recently, it has had little focus in the business and management literature in facilitating sustainable business-to-business (B2B) activities such as remote work practices. Two interrelated functions of business, operations, and marketing have been mapped against three dimensions of sustainability to show how these interrelated functions are related to the three dimensions of sustainability. For that reason, the research shows that with big data and social media analytics integrated into a participatory web environment, B2B companies are able to be profitable and stay sustainable by using their organisational and marketing operations and services strategically, whether it be internally or externally with other organisations.
IGI Global , 2021
The availability of FinTechs has greatly proliferated in recent years, and this has caused an upt... more The availability of FinTechs has greatly proliferated in recent years, and this has caused an uptick in FinTech research in the finance field. Despite the recent surge in popularity of FinTech, there is still a severe lack of research on FinTech companies, particularly through the sociotechnical lens or the relation between the users or stakeholders associated with FinTechs and FinTech technology itself. This chapter aimed to fill this void by examining the world of FinTech and innovation in the financial services industry through a socio-technical lens by examining secondary data, such as reports from consulting firms. This provides a better understanding of the social, technological, and organisational actors involved in the development of FinTech ecosystems, in addition to the dynamics of the evolution of FinTech ecosystems and their outcomes as a result of service innovation.
IoT is a rapidly emerging technology in education that attracts researchers, students, and admini... more IoT is a rapidly emerging technology in education that attracts researchers, students, and administrators. This chapter reviews the opportunities and challenges of the IoT to determine whether there are potential communication and information sharing cultures in higher education institutions (HEIs). Despite the findings revealing stakeholders' demand for a better collaborative learning environment and better information sharing capabilities, IoT has various security and interoperability concerns that present an unattractive prospect for HE stakeholders to embrace IoT. IoT has the potential to meet HEIs system expectations, though stakeholders remain distant toward embracing IoTs. This indicates that stakeholders are not ready to embrace IoTs, thus prompting the need to study why stakeholders are resistant towards the IoT.
IGI, 2020
This chapter provides an overview of research on AI applications in higher education using a syst... more This chapter provides an overview of research on AI applications in higher education using a systematic review approach. There were 146 articles included for further analysis, based on explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria. The findings show that Computer Science and STEM make up the majority of disciplines involved in AI education literature and that quantitative methods were the most frequently used in empirical studies. Four areas of AI education applications in academic support services and institutional and administrative services were revealed, including profiling and prediction, assessment and evaluation, adaptive systems and personalisation, and intelligent tutoring systems. This chapter reflects on the challenges and risks of AI education, the lack of association between theoretical peda-gogical perspectives, and the need for additional exploration of pedagogical, ethical, social, cultural, and economic dimensions of AI education.
Communications and Network, 2020
Although there have been remarkable technological developments in health-care, the privacy and se... more Although there have been remarkable technological developments in health-care, the privacy and security of mobile health systems (mHealth) still raise many concerns with considerable consequences for patients using these technologies. For instance, potential security and privacy threats in wireless devices, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connected to a patient hub at the application , middleware and sensory layers, may result in the disclosure of private and sensitive data. This paper explores the security and privacy of the patient hub, including patient applications and their connections to sensors and cloud technology. Addressing the privacy and security concerns of the patient hub called for a comprehensive risk assessment by using the OCTAVE risk assessment framework. Findings reveal that the highest risk concerned d at a exposure at the sensory layer. In spite of the countermeasures presented in this paper, most served as a means to identify risk early as opposed to mitigating them. The findings can serve to inform users of the potential vul-nerabilities in the patient hub before they arise.
Open Journal of Business and Management, 2019
The arrival of new technologies has opened a window of opportunity for UK higher education instit... more The arrival of new technologies has opened a window of opportunity for UK higher education institutions. Although UK Higher education (HE) has recently become a huge phenomenon owing to an increase in students attending University, many UK universities are not investing enough in technology to facilitate teaching, management and research practices that aim to improve the student experience. This paper discusses the potential for an information system solution, which can facilitate the institutional practices in UK HEIs from multiple stakeholder perspectives. An existing system employed at a UK University known as "MyPGR" was evaluated in order to shed some light on the existing technical problems UK Universities are currently facing, with the support of a soft systems approach (CATWOE). The proposed solution is the Educational-Monitoring-and-Progression-as-a-Service (EMPaaS), which is based on the Cloud Computing model. EMPaaS has the potential to monitor student progression and key milestones relating to their PGR programme, in addition to enabling students to use free cloud applications to keep track of milestones and progressions. The highly accessible and flexible nature of cloud applications adds to the cost-effectiveness of adopting cloud services, which in turn frees up additional funds for UK Universities to pursue other important investments.
Advances in Internet of Things, 2019
The key determinants of cloud computing provide a convincing argument for HEIs and its stakeholde... more The key determinants of cloud computing provide a convincing argument for HEIs and its stakeholders to adopt the innovation. These benefits reflect the essential quality characteristics of the cloud, such as Broad network Access; Measured Service; On-demand Self-Service; Rapid Elasticity; and Resource Pooling. However, there are also risks associated with the cloud, leading to non-adoption, such as Confidence, Privacy, Security, Surety and Trust. Understanding the impact of these factors can support multiple stakeholders, such as students, lecturers, senior managers and admins in their adoptive decision of CC in their respected institutions. Using the Multiview 3 (MV3) methodology, a research model was proposed to explore the key qualities and risks that determine the adoption or non-adoption of CC by UK HEIs from multiple perspectives. An exploratory qualitative study was conducted on 32 University stakeholders across 2 UK Universities. The findings suggest that security, privacy and trust are the key determinants to non-adoption as participants felt that the cloud cannot fully guarantee the safeguarding of sensitive information. Determinants to cloud adoption include improving relationships between students and teachers via collabo-rative tools, in addition to proposing cloud apps for mobile devices for ac-cessing virtual learning materials and email securely off-campus. In conclusion , University stakeholders are still at a crossroad when it comes to cloud adoption, but future advances of the cloud may help to steer their decision to adopt this innovative technology given its overwhelming potential .
International Journal of Cloud Application and Computing, 2019
Cloud computing has become a major talking point in recent times. An innovation such as cloud com... more Cloud computing has become a major talking point in recent times. An innovation such as cloud computing for higher education institutions (HEI) can be a cost effective means to operate their IT systems effectively without having to spend vast amounts of money on developing their IT infrastructure. HEIs also face the burden of several challenges e.g. limited infrastructure resources and IT budget, as well as limited teaching staff, technical experts, and IT skilled personnel. With support from a systematic literature review approach, this article identifies the key determinants of cloud adoption from a technological, organisational, environmental and personal perspectives. A total of 17 cloud adoption studies in the HEI context and their respected models from the period of 2012 to 2017 are reviewed and discussed. The findings suggest a lack of cloud adoption studies in the HEI domain from multiple perspectives, particularly in relation to the wider socio-technical concerns related to cloud adoption and future studies related to this research gap are deliberated.
Communications, Network and System Sciences,, 2018
The last decade witnesses a heave use of social media-based information systems in different fiel... more The last decade witnesses a heave use of social media-based information systems in different fields of business such as logistics, procurement, and supply
chain management. Managing these types of information systems, could help companies to outsource their supply chain functions in a global scale and enhance their competitive advantages. However, the digital performance of these
activities inherent risks of inappropriate supplier selection, lack of trust,
bounded rationality and uncertainty about the supply conditions (e.g., pricing, shipping and timing).To address such challenges, this research explains
how companies use ereputation systems and social media to select their global trusted suppliers. Based on two case evidence from British Diamond and
Egyptian Automotive companies, the researchers conducted 20 interviews
with purchasing and supply chain professionals. Chen & Lin’s reputation system model has been adopted to explain the process of selecting and evaluating a trusted supplier and to inform our data analysis. Our findings referred to the
lack of experience among diamond professionals on how to use e-reputation
systems and their lack of understanding to the role of social media based ratings or referrals during the stages of selection suppliers’ discovery and ap-
proval. Though, automotive professionals find ereputation system a strong
tool to build goodwill, tacit credibility, competence and predictable trust. Ironically, both cases confirm that supply chain professional use these systems to re-evaluate and reselect their existing suppliers than to extend new supply
networks
The Journal of Small Business Innovation, 2015
An industrial cluster has been widely accepted as a territorial agglomeration of firms, which is ... more An industrial cluster has been widely accepted as a territorial agglomeration of firms, which is effective for knowledge diffusion contributing to the national innovation system and regional development in an economy. Accordingly, a growing number of empirical works support the positive impact of industrial clusters on firm innovation or performance mainly by investigating differences in innovation and performance between clustering and non-clustering firms. These works have mainly focused on figuring out exogenous factors of clusters, such as infrastructural resources, labor pools, and local endowments, originating externally. However, the success of clustering firms also depends on endogenous factors including formal economic transactions and social interactions for the exchange of knowledge and information among members within industrial clusters. Although previous study has argued that firms are able to benefit from the knowledge spillover of the clusters, referring to learning regions, it is unreasonable to simply assume that positioning in the clusters would lead to active knowledge exchange among cluster members. In this context, organizational leaning is regarded as an effective instrument allowing firms to acquire, exploit, and refine external knowledge contributing to business performance. Despite the importance of organizational learning in clustering firms, our understanding of which learning initiatives are needed for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to take advantage of the spillover effect of industrial clusters has fallen short of practical and research demands. The primary purpose of this study is to empirically examine the possible linkages among industrial cluster involvement, organizational learning capability, and firm performance of clustering SMEs. Starting from reviewing the literature and its limitations, we propose research hypotheses as twofold: (1) clustering SMEs possessing high levels of industrial cluster involvement and organizational learning capability would produce better performance in business than those who do not, and (2) clustering firms’ capability for organizational learning would play a pathway linking between their involvement in industrial
Open Journal of Business and Management, 2018
Background, Motivation and Objective: Cloud computing (CC) within UK HEIs is an emerging research... more Background, Motivation and Objective: Cloud computing (CC) within UK HEIs is an emerging research phenomenon. When adopting new innovations, it is important to assess whether it will add value to the organisation. Contribution/Method: This exploratory empirical research is derived from the technology, organisation and environment model (TOE), which targeted higher education institutions (HEIs). A qualitative study, which explored the potential barriers and enablers of CC adoption by HEIs from a doctoral stu-dent perspective was conducted, where 32 students at a University that had recently adopted the educational cloud situated in North-west England, were interviewed. Results/Discussion/Conclusion: The results showed that the most significant enablers of the educational cloud were cost efficiency, scal-ability, flexibility and mobility, and especially collaboration among students. Whereas the most significant barriers of the educational cloud were security and cultural resistance. In conclusion, the adoption rate of CC is increasing gradually in UK HEIs, which is mostly down to the cost efficient and collaborative nature of the educational cloud, but there is still the issue of privacy and trust in the educational cloud which impedes adoption.
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems IGI-Global, 2018
The aim of this article was to provide evidence pertaining to cloud computing (CC) adoption in ed... more The aim of this article was to provide evidence pertaining to cloud computing (CC) adoption in education, namely higher education institutions (HEIs) or Universities. A systematic literature review (SLR) of empirical studies exploring the current CC adoption levels in HEIs and the benefits and challenges for using CC in HEIs was performed. A total of 20 papers were included in the SLR. It was discovered that a number of universities have a keen interest in using CC in their institution, and the evidence indicates a high level of successful CC adoption in the HEIs reviewed in the SLR. In conclusion, the SLR identified a clear literature gap in this research area: there exists limited empirical studies focusing on CC utilisation in HEIs.
Conference Presentations by Dr Mohammed Albakri
E-Governemnt , 2019
Although many researches have tried to identify e-government challenges, there is still lack of c... more Although many researches have tried to identify e-government challenges, there is still lack of citizens' adoption of e-government. Adoption theories, such as Diffusion and Innovation Theory (DOI), have been used extensively in these researches with their own limitations. Besides, all factors work together and should be all considered to reach successful adoption. This paper aims to formulate a model that gives a comprehensive view about possible factors affecting e-government adoption by citizens. Developing the model involved conducting an aspectual analysis of Dooyeweerd theory, which is used as a method to overcome the limitations of adoption theories. This paper contributes to available literature through providing aspectual method to investigate e-government factors, which supports understanding citizens' adoption barriers from a different perspective.
Books by Dr Mohammed Albakri
IGI Global , 2022
Future Role of Sustainable Innovative Technologies in Crisis Management raises awareness of the m... more Future Role of Sustainable Innovative Technologies in Crisis Management raises awareness of the multifaceted field of new technology in crisis management that has resulted in a paradigm shift in the way contemporary industries and global businesses communicate and conduct their daily business operations. This book defines the scope of innovative technologies as the application of new technologies to support the resolution of various types of crisis situations to achieve regulatory compliance and improved risk management in an effective and automated manner. Covering topics such as sustainable business and disaster scenarios, this reference work is ideal for managers, entrepreneurs, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.
IGI Global , 2021
Fostering Communication and Learning With Underutilized Technologies in Higher Education is a cri... more Fostering Communication and Learning With Underutilized Technologies in Higher Education is a critical reference source that provides contemporary theories in the area of technology-driven communication and learning in higher education. The book offers new knowledge about educational technologies and explores such themes as artificial intelligence, digital learning platforms, gamification tools, and interactive exhibits. The target audience includes researchers, academicians, practitioners, and students who are working or have a keen interest in information systems, learning technologies, and technology-led teaching and learning. Moreover, the book provides an understanding and support to higher education practitioners, faculty, educational board members, technology vendors and firms, and the Ministry of Education.
Universities worldwide are starting to turn to cloud computing. The quality characteristics, whic... more Universities worldwide are starting to turn to cloud computing. The quality characteristics, which include access to a wider network of computing resources, pay-as-you-go services, self-services, agile services, and resource centralisation provide a convincing argument for HEIs to adopt cloud services. However, the risks leading to non-adoption range from security issues to a lack of cloud vendor support. The findings suggest that security, privacy, and trust are the key determinants to non-adoption as stakeholders felt that the cloud cannot fully guarantee the safeguarding of sensitive information. Key determinants to cloud adoption include improving relationships between students and teachers via collaborative tools and proposing cloud apps for mobile devices for accessing virtual learning materials and email securely off-campus. In conclusion, university stakeholders are still unconvinced about adopting cloud services, but future advances of the cloud may help to steer their decision to adopt this innovative technology given its overwhelming potential.
Modern Principles, Practices, and Algorithms for Cloud Security, 2019
Cloud computing has the potential of adding strategic value to the higher education domain owing ... more Cloud computing has the potential of adding strategic value to the higher education domain owing to exemplary growth in ubiquitous data and communication services ranging from student access to educational materials to developing teaching and research practices. Despite the wide adoption of CC in HEIs, there is a paucity of research that specifically addresses the issue of trust in cloud adoption in the UK HEI context, as well as identifying smarter and more efficient strategies to overcome the existing CC trust issue in this domain. The authors propose a five-stage strategic roadmap to address the trust issues impacting the uptake of cloud services in UK universities. They conclude that IT and management participation and support are the keys to the success of the strategic framework.
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Papers by Dr Mohammed Albakri
chain management. Managing these types of information systems, could help companies to outsource their supply chain functions in a global scale and enhance their competitive advantages. However, the digital performance of these
activities inherent risks of inappropriate supplier selection, lack of trust,
bounded rationality and uncertainty about the supply conditions (e.g., pricing, shipping and timing).To address such challenges, this research explains
how companies use ereputation systems and social media to select their global trusted suppliers. Based on two case evidence from British Diamond and
Egyptian Automotive companies, the researchers conducted 20 interviews
with purchasing and supply chain professionals. Chen & Lin’s reputation system model has been adopted to explain the process of selecting and evaluating a trusted supplier and to inform our data analysis. Our findings referred to the
lack of experience among diamond professionals on how to use e-reputation
systems and their lack of understanding to the role of social media based ratings or referrals during the stages of selection suppliers’ discovery and ap-
proval. Though, automotive professionals find ereputation system a strong
tool to build goodwill, tacit credibility, competence and predictable trust. Ironically, both cases confirm that supply chain professional use these systems to re-evaluate and reselect their existing suppliers than to extend new supply
networks
Conference Presentations by Dr Mohammed Albakri
Books by Dr Mohammed Albakri
chain management. Managing these types of information systems, could help companies to outsource their supply chain functions in a global scale and enhance their competitive advantages. However, the digital performance of these
activities inherent risks of inappropriate supplier selection, lack of trust,
bounded rationality and uncertainty about the supply conditions (e.g., pricing, shipping and timing).To address such challenges, this research explains
how companies use ereputation systems and social media to select their global trusted suppliers. Based on two case evidence from British Diamond and
Egyptian Automotive companies, the researchers conducted 20 interviews
with purchasing and supply chain professionals. Chen & Lin’s reputation system model has been adopted to explain the process of selecting and evaluating a trusted supplier and to inform our data analysis. Our findings referred to the
lack of experience among diamond professionals on how to use e-reputation
systems and their lack of understanding to the role of social media based ratings or referrals during the stages of selection suppliers’ discovery and ap-
proval. Though, automotive professionals find ereputation system a strong
tool to build goodwill, tacit credibility, competence and predictable trust. Ironically, both cases confirm that supply chain professional use these systems to re-evaluate and reselect their existing suppliers than to extend new supply
networks