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DR ALI DASHTI

Dr. Ali Dashti
Office Location
A2-1023
Assistant Professor

Faculty Members at Kuwait University-College of Business Administration since 2010.  Tasks include but not limited to:

  1. Conduct research related to e-commerce and e-government disciplines.
  2. Review research papers submitted to JMIS journal and ICIS conference.
  3. Teach courses related to management information systems
  4. Participate at the different committees within ISOM department
Degrees and Certificates
  1. B.SC (Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA 1999).
  2. MBA (CIS Concentration, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA 2003)
  3. Ph.D (Business Administration, MIS, University Of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2010).
Key Responsibilities
  1. E-government Research
  2. Teach MIS courses
  3. Participate in departmental Committees 
Professional Experience

Petroleum Engineer (Kuwait Oil Company, West Kuwait Development Team, 1999-2001)

Research Interests

E-Government and Trust

Academic Subjects
  1. Introduction to MIS
  2. IS Project Managment
  3. Integrated Information Systems
  4. Decision Support Systems
  5. IS Social Issues 
  6. E-commerce and globalization 
  7. E-Government
  8. Business Intelligence
  9. Business Analytics
  10. Data Visualization 
Publications
  1. Dashti, A., Benbasat, I. and Burton-Jones, A. (2009). ‘Developing Trust Reciprocity in Electronic Government: The Role of Felt Trust’. EMCIS 2009, Turkey (conference best paper award) 
  2. Dashti, A., Benbasat, I., Burton-Jones, A. (2010). "Trust, Felt Trust, and E-Government Adoption: A Theoretical Perspective," Proceedings of JAIS Theory Development Workshop. ICIS 2010 SaInt Luis, Missouri, USA 
  3. Dashti, A., Benbasat, I., and Al-Natour, S. (2008). “Trust Reciprocity: The Impact of Citizens' Felt Trust on Adoption of e-Government,” EURAM 2008 8th Annual Conference: Managing Diversity:  European Destiny and Hope, Ljubljana and Bled, Slovenia. 
  4. Al-Rafee, S., and Dashti, A. (2012). “A Cross Cultural Comparison of the Extended TPB: The Case of Digital Piracy,” Journal of Global Information Technology Management (15:1)