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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
Research
William A. Foster and Hannah Thoreson, "China,
Information Technology, and the Arab World",
e-International Relations, April 24, 2011.
William Abbott Foster, "Huawei
and America" Southwest International Studies Association Conference, Las
Vegas, March 2011.
William Abbott Foster, Feb-2010
Huawei's
Leadership Role in IMS standards development and in its own proprietary
Softswitch A case study of Huawei's leadership role in the IMS (IP
Multimedia Subsystem) international standards effort and the development of
its own proprietary Softswitch solution. Accepted for publication by
Chinese Management Studies journal.
Books and Books Chapters
William Foster, book (10Mb) "The
CIXtra Papers: Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Internet Service Providers (ISPs)"
Between 1996 and 2001, William Foster was the government editor for the
Commercial Internet Exchange, the world's first Internet Service Provider
Association. In this role, he documented the evolution of the Telecommunications
Act of 1996 from its inception in Congress, through its interpretation by the
FCC and the courts.
William Foster, Kenneth Kramer, Jason Dedrick and Zhang
Cheng, Chapter 4 (Information and Communication Technologies
and inter-corporate production networks: global information technology and local
quanxi in the Taiwanese personal computer industry) of the book "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, “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
William Abbott Foster, "Research
Note: Huawei and America"
Southwestern Journal of International Studies, Vol. 4., Number 1, Fall
2011, pages 107-112
Nicholas O. Alozie, Patience Akpan-Obong1, and William A. Foster
"Sizing
up information and communication technologies as agents of political development
in sub-Saharan Africa" Faculty of Social Sciences, Arizona State
University, USA
ScienceDirect, Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 35, Issue 8, September 2011,
Pages 752-763.
(For an earlier version of this article please see "Cell
Phone vs. Internet: The Impact on Democratization in Africa" under
Recent Speeches and Conference Proceedings.)
William Abbott Foster, Feb-2010
"Huawei's
Leadership Role in IMS standards development and in its own proprietary
Softswitch" A case study of Huawei's leadership role in the IMS (IP
Multimedia Subsystem) international standards effort and the development of
its own proprietary Softswitch solution. Accepted for publication by Chinese Management Studies journal.
Patience Akpan and William A. Foster, "Africa
Telecommunication Giant Awakens",
Computing & Communications Africa, Vol. 3, Number 2, pages 12-16.
Sherry Thatcher, William Foster, and Ling Zhu, "B2B
E-Commerce Adoption Decisons in Taiwan: The Interaction of Cultural and other
Factors", Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Volume 5, Issue 2,
Summer 2006, Pages 92-1004
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.
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, 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.
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
William Abbott Foster, "Huawei
and America" Southwest International Studies Association Conference, Las
Vegas, March 2011.
Patience Akpan-Obong, Nicholas Alozie, and
William Abbott Foster, "Cell
Phone vs. Internet: The Impact on Democratization in Africa",
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), Arlington, VA, Oct. 2010.
William A. Foster, "Why
Huawei is going to be the number one telecom manufacturer in the world".
Proceedings of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (Oct.
23, 2009)
It is a common assumption that China is a copier of technology and not one of
the world’s leaders in terms of technical innovation. China’s Huawei
Technologies Company Ltd. (Huáwei Jíshu Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is rapidly becoming one
of the world’s largest telecom manufacturers and one of the key innovators in
the telecom field.
"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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