Assistant Professor
Faculty Members at Kuwait University-College of Business Administration since 2010. Tasks include but not limited to:
- Conduct research related to e-commerce and e-government disciplines.
- Review research papers submitted to JMIS journal and ICIS conference.
- Teach courses related to management information systems
- Participate at the different committees within ISOM department
Degrees and Certificates
- B.SC (Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA 1999).
- MBA (CIS Concentration, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA 2003)
- Ph.D (Business Administration, MIS, University Of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2010).
Key Responsibilities
- E-government Research
- Teach MIS courses
- 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
- Introduction to MIS
- IS Project Managment
- Integrated Information Systems
- Decision Support Systems
- IS Social Issues
- E-commerce and globalization
- E-Government
- Business Intelligence
- Business Analytics
- Data Visualization
Publications
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- 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)