Emad Abu-Shanab
PhD in Business Administration from Southern Illinois University (2005), Master of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University (1995), Working as the Director of Faculty Development Center at Yarmouk University since September 2010.
| Headline: | Educator |
| Industries: | Education, Information Technology |
| Skills: | Business, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Languages, Leadership, Management |
| Groups: | Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) |
| Interested in: | Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities |
| Schools: | Southern Illinois University System - Carbondale, Wilfrid Laurier University, Yarmouk University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Yarmouk University |
| Position: | Director of Faculty Development Center |
| Time period: | September 2010 - Present |
| Employer: | Oman College of Management & Technology, Oman |
| Position: | Quality Assurance Officer |
| Time period: | September 2009 - August 2010 |
| Employer: | IT College |
| Position: | Assistant Dean for students' affairs |
| Time period: | January 2006 - December 2008 |
| Employer: | Yarmouk University |
| Position: | Instructor in the MIS department |
| Time period: | January 2005 - December 2009 |
| Employer: | Water Authority of Jordan |
| Position: | Head of the Supervision and Design Section in Zarqa District |
| Time period: | January 1996 - August 2001 |
| Employer: | Water Authority of Jordan |
| Position: | Head of the Operation and Maintenance at the Russaifa city |
| Time period: | August 1992 - January 1996 |
| Employer: | Water Authority of Jordan |
| Position: | Subscribers’ section Engineer |
| Time period: | June 1990 - August 1992 |
| Employer: | Water Authority of Jordan |
| Position: | Foreign Purchasing engineer |
| Time period: | July 1988 - June 1990 |
| Employer: | Water Authority of Jordan |
| Position: | Supervision Engineer |
| Time period: | December 1986 - July 1990 |
| Employer: | Jordanian Armed Forces |
| Position: | Supervision Engineer |
| Time period: | September 1984 - September 1986 |
| Employer: | Yarmouk University |
| Position: | Assistant Professor |
| Time period: | December 2005 |
EDUCATION
| University: | Southern Illinois University System - Carbondale |
| Time period: | 2005 |
| Degree: | Business Administration Majoring in MIS area, PhD |
| University: | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Time period: | 1995 |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | Yarmouk University |
| Time period: | 1984 |
| Degree: | Civil Engineering, BSc |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | 1.Abu-Shanab, E. & Pearson, J. (2007). Internet Banking in Jordan: The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) Perspective. Journal of Systems and Information Technology, Vol. 9 (1), 2007, pp. 78-97.
2.MdNor, K., Abu-Shanab, E. & Pearson, J. (2008) "Internet Banking Acceptance In Malaysia Based On The Theory Of Reasoned Action" Journal of Information Systems and Technology Management, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2008, p. 3-14. 1.Abu-Shanab, E. & Pearson, M. (2009). Internet Banking in Jordan: an Arabic Instrument Validation Process, The International Arab Journal of Information Technology, Vol.6, no.3 July 2009, pp. 235-244. 2.Abu-Shanab, E. & Radaideh, Q. (2009). Jordan’s E-government Programm: A User Centered Approach. Abhath Al-Yarmouk “Basic Sci & Eng.”, Vol 18(1), 2009, pp. 63-74. 3.Abu-Shanab, E. & Knight, M. (2009). The Technology Acceptance Model: The Effect of Agreeability, D I A S Technology Review: the International Journal for Business and I T, Vol. 5(2), October 2009, issue # 10, pp. 24-33. 4.Yan, A., Md-Nor, K., Abu-Shanab, E. & Sutanonpaiboon, J. (2009). Factors that Affect Mobile Telephone Users to Use Mobile Payment Solution, Int. Journal of Economics and Management, 3(1), pp. 37-49 (2009). 5.Saleh, Z. & Abu-Shanab, E. (2009). The Role of Risk Related Knowledge in the Diffusion of Internet Innovations. Journal of Information Knowledge Management, Vol. 9(1), March 2010, pp. 31-39. 6.AL-Rababah, B. & Abu-Shanab, E. (2010). E-Government and Gender Digital Divide: The Case of Jordan, International Journal of Electronic Business Management (IJEBM), V8(1), 2010, pp. 1-8. 7.Abu-Shanab, E., Abu Al-Rub, S. & Md Nor, K. (2010). Obstacles Facing the Adoption of E-government Services in Jordan. Journal of E-Governance, Vol. 33(1), 2010, pp. 35-47. 8.Abu-Shanab, E. Pearson, J. & Setterstrom, A. (2010). Internet Banking and Customers’ Acceptance in Jordan: The Unified Model’s Perspective. Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), Vol 26, Article 23, pp. 493-525. 9.Obeidat, R. & Abu-Shanab, E. (2010). Drivers of E-government and E-business in Jordan. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, Vol. 2 (3), August 2010, pp. 204-211. 10.Abu-Shanab, E. Knight, M. & Refai, H. (2010). E-Voting Systems: A Tool for E-Democracy. Management Research and Practice, Vol. 2 (3), 2010, pp. 264-274. 11. Abu-Shanab, E. & Abu-Baker, A. (2011). Evaluating Jordan’s E-government Website: A Case Study. Electronic Government: An International Journal, Accepted and expected to appear in 2011. |
| Books: | Authored a book in Arabic language titled “E-Government – from theory to implementation” OR “ مشاريع الحكومة الالكترونية بين النظرية والتطبيق” With the Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO, affiliated with the League of Arab States, Cairo), accepted and out in the market since June 2010. منشورات المنظمة العربية للتنمية الادارية (بحوث ودراسات – رقم 478)
Jointly Authored a book chapter in the area of ERP titled: Production Information Systems Usability in Jordan (Chapter Authors: Abu-Shanab, E. & Al-Tarawneh, H.), expected to appear in August 2010. The book title is: Enterprise Information Systems Design, Implementation, and Management: Organizational Applications edited by Drs. Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha and João Varajão. Writing a book on “Electronic Services” (in Arabic), with a group of colleagues at Yarmouk University. |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Travel |
| Memberships: | Member of the Jordan Engineers Association since 1984. |
| Awards: | Awarded the John M. Fohr Memorial Scholarship in Management honor certificate in the year 2004 as the best PhD student (at SIUC – USA). |
