STAFF PROFILE
Professor Alemayehu Molla
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
Business
School / Department:
Business IT and Logistics
Phone:
99255803
Email:
alemayehu.molla@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Associate Professor Alemayehu Molla is currently an Associate Professor of Information Systems and leader of the Disruptive Technology and Smart Mobility research cluster.
Dr Molla He has previously been a Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK and The Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Prior to that he lectured at the Addis Ababa Commercial Collage and worked in the Ethiopian Telecommunications Authority. He has also consulted to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and The International Development Research Center (IDRC).
He specializes in Information Systems with concentration on E-commerce. His main research areas are Green Information Technology, E-Business, Enterprise Systems and Development Informatics. His publications appeared in top-tier information systems (European Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management and The Information Society), e-business (The International Journal of E-commerce, Journal of E-commerce Research, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations) and development informatics (Internet Research, IT and International Development, IT for Development) journals. His works have been cited more than 600 times (Harzing’s Publish or Perish).
Current Research Projects
- Green Information Technology (http://greenit.bf.rmit.edu.au)
- Enterprise Systems: Agility, Feral systems and Vendor perspectives (With PhD Students Thao Trinh Phuong, Sharina Tajul, and Forough Fardipour)
- E-business: Mortgage supply chains (With PhD student Victoria Jones)
- Development Informatics: Public sector business process reengineering (With PhD student Asmare Emrie)
- ISYS 2406 Information Technology Outsourcing Issues and Management
- INTE 1030 Information Technology Strategy
- ISYS 2396 Enterprise Systems
- PhD, Information Systems
- MSc, Information Science
- Diploma, Computer Science
- BA, Business Management
- Graduate Certificate, Tertiary Teaching and Learning
Professional Membership
- Member, Australian Computer Society
- Member, Association of Information Systems
Journal Editorial
- Information & Management
- Journal of Computer Information Systems
- IT and International Development
- International Journal of Green Computing
- Journal of Information Technology Management
- Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce
- International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development
- African Journal of Information Systems
- Int. J. of Sustainable Society (IJSSoc)
Examiner/Reviewer/Chair
- Reviewed research manuscripts for:
- International Journal of Electronic Commerce
- Journal of Electronic Markets
- Journal of Computer Mediated Communications
- Journal of IT and International Development
- Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce
- Journal of Information Technology Management
- South African Journal of Computers and Information Systems
- External Assessor for South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) scientis ranking
- PhD external examiner, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 2003.
- External examiner for a Masters of Business dissertation, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2004.
- External research grant assessor for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005.
- Reviewed manuscripts for:
- International Conference on Information Systems
- Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences
- European Conference on Information Systems
- American Conference on Information Systems
- Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
- Australasian Conference for Information Systems
- Annual Global Information Technology Management World
- ICT Africa Conference
- Working for E-business
- South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
- South African Computer Lecturers Association (SACLA)
- Annual Conference on Management in Ethiopia (ACME) conferences
- Gekara, V.,Molla, A.,Snell, D.,Karanasios, S.,Thomas, A. (2019). Skilling the Australian workforce for the digital economy In: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) Adelaide, Australia
- Karanasios, S.,Gekara, V.,Molla, A.,Snell, D. (2019). Skilling the Australian workforce for the digital economy, Support document 1: a review of digital skills frameworks literature In: National Centre for Vocational Education and Training (NCVER) Adelaide, Australia
- Gekara, V.,Snell, D.,Molla, A.,Karanasios, S. (2019). Skilling the Australian workforce for the digital economy, Support document 2: case studies and survey findings In: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) Adelaide, Australia
- Gholami, R.,Molla, A.,Goswami, S.,Brewster, C. (2018). Green information systems use in social enterprise: the case of a community-led eco-localization website in the West Midlands region of the UK In: Information Systems Frontiers, 20, 1345 - 1361
- Grandhi, S.,Chhetri, P.,Molla, A. (2018). Open innovation in IT clusters: A comparative study of Indian IT organisations In: Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2017), Hobart, Australia, 4-6 December 2017
- Grandhi, S.,Chhetri, P.,Molla, A. (2018). The supporting role of IT clusters in open innovation: A comparative study of different IT organisation sizes In: Refereed Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association International, Toowoomba, Australia., 6-8 December 2017
- Karanasios, S.,Molla, A.,Choi, J. (2018). �There�s No Place Like Home�: Online Community Displacement and Migration In: Thirty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, United States, 13-16 December 2018
- Sahu, N.,Deng, H.,Molla, A. (2018). A capability based framework for customer experience focused digital transformation In: Proceedings of ACIS2018, Sydney, Australia, 2-4 December 2018
- Sahu, N.,Deng, H.,Molla, A. (2018). Investigating The Critical Success Factors Of Digital Transformation For Improving Customer Experience In: CONF-IRM 2018 Proceedings, Lingbao, China, 21-23 June 2019
- Oshodin, O.,Molla, A.,Karanasios, S.,Ong, C. (2017). Is FinTech a Disruption or a New Eco-system? An Exploratory Investigation of Banks' Response to FinTech in Australia In: Proceedings of the 28th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2017), Hobart, Australia, 4-6 December 2017
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
12 PhD Completions and 4 Masters by Research Completions4 PhD Current Supervisions
Green IT and IS; enterprise systems; digital business; development informatics.
- Policy Initiatives and Financial Inclusion of the Poor in Ethiopia. Funded by: KDI School of Public Policy and Management - Competitive from (2019 to 2020)
- Developing Appropriate Workforce Skills for Australia's Emerging Digital Economy. Funded by: National Vocational Education and Training Research (NVETR) Grant 2016 from (2016 to 2018)
- Personal Cloud Use in Australia: Consumers expectations, experience and impact on communications consumption. Funded by: Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) Grants Scheme 2014 from (2014 to 2015)
- Green IT Organisational Learning: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities. Funded by: RMIT Emerging Researcher Grants from (2010 to 2011)
- Evaluating the Impact of Information and Communications Technology on the Livelihood of Rural Communities. Funded by: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Open Call R&D Projects Grant Pre-2014 from (2006 to 2008)