Books & Articles
Research Interests
Diffusion of Internet and E-commerce in Asia, Impact of Internet on USAsia supply chains, Impact of Internet on Arizona, E-commerce, Internet and Environment
Current ResearchWilliam A. Foster, "Huawei's Global Success and its Impact on the Evolution of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and Softswitch." under review for AMCIS 2008.
Huawei is the world’s largest supplier of Softswitch products. Huawei also plays a leading role in the standards committees for developing IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) that makes possible multimedia solutions across a wide number of platforms. Huawei’s marketing literature lays out a growth path from SoftSwitch to IMS; however, this paper argues that proprietary middle ware and APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), such as Huawei’s, are here to stay.William Foster, Xiangyu Liu (Shandong University of Arts (P.R. China)) August23, 2006
China’s Next Generation Internet: The Adoption of IPv6 China is taking a leadership role in driving the adoption of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Eight Chinese government organizations have joined together in an Expert Committee to oversee the construction and trial of China’s Next Generation Internet (CNGI). In 2006, the CNGI will connect 100 universities, 100 research institutes, and 100 enterprises using the IPv6 protocol.William Foster, Zhang Cheng (Fudan University), Jason Dedrick, and Kenneth L. Kraemer
"Technology and Organizational Factors in the Notebook Industry Supply Chain" The Chinese computer supply chain is a “human” neural network that optimizes production and minimizes costs. This study is relevant to purchasing managers both inside and outside the notebook industry as it provides insights into the relationship between their digital supply chains and Chinese business networks.
Books and Books ChaptersWilliam Foster, Kenneth Kramer, Jason Dedrick and Zhang Cheng, Chapter 4 of Multinational Corporations and the Emerging Network Economy in Asia and the Pacific published 2008 by Routledge
William Foster, Eric M. K. Osiakwan and Anne Pitsch Santiago. Chapter 2 of Negotiating the Net in Africa Ghana: The Politics of Entrepreneurship. This chapter surveys how the Internet developed in Ghana between 1994 and 2004.
William Foster and Seymour Goodman, The Diffusion of the Internet in China, (Palo Alto: Center for International Studies and Cooperation, Stanford University, November 2000).William Foster, “Registering Domain Names: An Exercise in Global Decision Making” Coordinating the Internet, James Keller and Brian Kahin eds., (Boston: MIT Press, 1997)
Refereed Journal Articles
Sherry Thatcher and William Foster, “B2B E-Commerce Adoption Decisions in Taiwan: The Interaction of Organizational, Industrial, Governmental, and Cultural Factors, under review by Journal of International E-Commerce..
William Foster, Seymour Goodman, Eric Osiakwan, Adam Bernstein, "Global Diffusion of the Internet IV: The Internet in Ghana," Communications of the Association for Information Systems, June 2004, v. 13 article 38.
Larry Press, William Foster, Peter Wolcott and William McHenry, “The Internet in India and China,” Information Technologies and International Development,” MIT Press, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2003, p. 41-60.
Peter Wolcott, Larry Press, William McHenry, Seymour E Goodman, William Foster, "A Framework for Assessing the Global Diffusion of the Internet", Journal of the Association of Information Systems, October, 2001, v. 2 article 6.
Zixiang (Alex) Tan, William Foster, and Seymour Goodman, “China’s State Coordinated Internet Infrastructure,” Communications of the ACM, June 1999, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 44-52.
Larry Press, Grey Burkhart, Will Foster, Seymour Goodman, Jon Woodward, and Peter Wolcott, An Internet Diffusion Framework, Communications of the ACM, Oct., 1998, vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 21-26.
Zixiang (Alex) Tan, Milton Mueller, and Will Foster, “China’s New Internet Regulations,” Communications of the ACM, December 1997/Vol. 40, No. 12.William A. Foster, Anthony M. Rutkowski, and Seymour E. Goodman, “Who Governs the Internet,” Communications of the ACM, August 1997/Vol. 40, No. 8.
Other Publications
William Foster, Jane Carey, Pierre Balthazard, “Technical Report: West Valley Globalization and Information Technology Inventory,” School of Management, ASU West, May 2003.
William Foster, "ISO14000 Environmental Standards and E-Commerce," School of Management, ASU West, July 2001
William Foster, Seymour Goodman, Zixiang (Alex) Tan, The Internet and E-Commerce in Greater South China, (Fairfax, VA: The Global Information Technology Assessment Group, November 1999).
Seymour E. Goodman, Grey E. Burkhart, William A. Foster, Arun Mittal,
Laurence I. Press, Zixiang (Alex) Tan, The Global Diffusion of the
Internet Project: Asian Giants On-Line (Fairfax, VA: The MOSAIC Group, December 1998).Larry Press, with Grey Burkhart, Will Foster, Seymour Goodman, Alex Tan, and Jon Woodard, "Studying Internet Diffusion," On The Internet, July/August
1998, pp. 36-39.Seymour E. Goodman, Grey E. Burkhart, William A. Foster, Laurence I. Press, Zixiang (Alex) Tan, and Jonathan Woodard, “People’s Republic of China,” The Global Diffusion of the Internet Project: An Initial Inductive Study, (Fairfax , VA: The MOSAIC Group, March 1998).
Recent Speeches and Conference Proceedings
"China's Software Industry -- Current Status and Development Strategies," with Hongli Hu and Zhangxi Lin, Global Information Technology Management (GITM) Conference, Calgary, Canada, June 2003.
"Agile Methodology in CMM Framework: An Approach to Success for Software Companies in China," with Yan Xu and Zhangxi Lin, Global Information Technology Management (GITM) Conference, Calgary, Canada, June 2003.
“B2B e-commerce adoption decisions in Taiwan: The interaction of organizational, industrial, governmental and cultural factors,” with Sherry Thatcher, HICCS, Hawaii, 2003.
“E-commerce in Greater South China,” INET 2000, Yokohama, Japan, July 2000.“Factors affecting B2B adoption in the Chinese Electronics Industry,” IRMA Conference, Anchorage, AK, May 2000.
“The Reusable Industrial Packing Industry and Electronic Commerce,” REPA Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 1999.
“Internet Diffusion in India and China” INET 99, San Jose, CA, July 1999.
ISP: Rights and Responsibilities” Law & Order in Electronic Commerce, Tucson, AZ. Feb. 1998.“Who Governs the Internet” with Robert Collet, ITU Telecom Interactive, Geneva, October 1997.
“International Dimensions of Copyright” ISPCon’97, San Francisco, August 1997.
“Copyright: ISP Rights and Responsibilities” INET’97, Malaysia, June 1997.
“Key issues in Internet Governance” APPLE, Hong Kong, January 1997.
“Registering Domain Names: An Exercise in Global Decision Making,” Coordinating the Internet, Kennedy School, Mass., October 1996.
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