STAFF PROFILE
Professor Alemayehu Molla
Professor Alemayehu Molla is the Director of the Doctoral Training Centre and leader of the Disruptive Technology and Smart Mobility research cluster.
Professor Molla specializes in Information Systems with concentration on E-commerce.
His main research areas are Sustainable Digital Business Transformation, Green Information Technology, E-Business, Enterprise Systems and Development Informatics. His publications appeared in top-tier information systems (Information Systems Journal, Journal of the Association for IS, European Journal of Information Systems, and Information & Management), e-business (The International Journal of E-commerce, Journal of E-commerce Research, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations) and development informatics (The information Society, Internet Research, IT and International Development, IT for Development) journals.
His works have been cited more than 6500 times - Google Scholar.
Current Research Projects
- Dynamics of Fintech Eco-systems
- Enterprise Artificial Intelligence
- Digital Transformation and Sustainability
- Smart mobility
- 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.,Snell, D.,Molla, A. (2020). International approaches to supporting the existing workforce meet the challenges of digital transformation In: Australian Industry Standards Melbourne, Australia
- Gekara, V.,Snell, D.,Molla, A. (2020). Australia’s local and national approaches to supporting the existing workforce meet the challenges of digital transformation In: Australian Industry Standards Melbourne, Australia
- 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
- Hoang, G.,Molla, A.,Poon, P. (2019). Factors Influencing the Adoption of Environmental Enterprise Systems In: Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2019), Xi'an, China, 8-12 July 2019
- Oshodin, O.,Molla, A.,Karanasios, S.,Ong, C. (2019). How do FinTechs Develop Capabilities? Towards a Model of FinTech Capability Development In: PACIS 2019 Proceedings, Xi’an CHINA, July 8-12, 2019
- Nurye, S.,Molla, A.,Desta, T. (2019). Factors Influencing Knowledge Transfer in Onshore Information Systems Outsourcing in Ethiopia In: he African Journal of Information Systems, 11, 1 - 21
- 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
14 PhD Completions and 4 Masters by Research Completions4 PhD Current Supervisions
- Enhancing the digital adaptability of Australian retail small businesses. Funded by: Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) Grants Scheme 2016 onwards from (2021 to 2022)
- Policy Initiatives and Financial Inclusion of the Poor in Ethiopia. Funded by: KDI School of Public Policy and Management - Competitive from (2019 to 2021)
- 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)