Chitu Okoli

Associate Professor, Decision Sciences & Management Information Systems

Chitu Okoli has a PhD (2003) in business administration (information systems and decision sciences) from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. He joined Concordia University in Fall 2003 and teaches business data communications, management information systems, object-oriented programming, systems analysis and design, and website development. He researches open content and open source software,  applications of the Internet in developing countries, and  systematic literature reviews. He has worked in the past as a computer systems analyst and as a human resources administrator.

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Selected Research

Refereed Journal Articles

Datta, Pratim, Victor Mbarika, and Chitu Okoli (2010). Extending the Social Identity of Information Systems: Telemedicine Transfer to Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Information Technology Research (3:2), April-June 2010, pp. 18-33.

Okoli, Chitu, Victor Mbarika, and Scott McCoy (2010). The effects of infrastructure and policy on e-business in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. European Journal of Information Systems (19:1), February 2010, pp. 5-20.

Carillo, Kevin, and Chitu Okoli (2009) The open source movement: A revolution in software development. Journal of Computer Information Systems (49:2) Winter 2008/2009, pp. 1-9.

Okoli, Chitu, and Wonseok Oh (2007). Investigating recognition-based performance in an open source community: A social capital perspective. Information & Management (44:1), pp. 240-252.

Chen, Ye-Sho, Chitu Okoli, and Huang Lihua (2006). Strategic growth of firms in the digital economy: A Simonian research agenda. Journal of Information Technology Techniques and Applications (7:1), pp. 37-52.

Mbarika, Victor W. A., Chitu Okoli, Terry Anthony Byrd and Pratim Datta (2005). The neglected continent of IS research: A research agenda for Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of the Association for Information Systems (6:5), pp. 130-169.

Okoli, Chitu and Suzanne D. Pawlowski (2004). The Delphi method as a research tool: An example, design considerations and applications. Information & Management (42:1), December, pp. 15-29.

Okoli, Chitu and Victor W. A. Mbarika (2003): A framework for assessing e-commerce in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Global Information Technology Management (6:3).

Okoli, Chitu, Blake Ives, Leonard M. Jessup and Joseph S. Valacich (2002): The Mobile Conference Information System: Unwiring academic conferences with mobile computing. Communications of the AIS (9:11), pp. 180-206.

Books

Okoli, Chitu (2010). Experts Speak on E-business in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Theoretical Model of Infrastructure and Culture for Doing Business Using the Internet on the Dark Continent. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Okoli, Chitu and Kira Schabram (2009). Protocol for a systematic literature review of research on the Wikipedia. Proceedings of the International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES). Association for Computing Machinery. Lyon, France. October 27-30, 2009.

Okoli, Chitu (2009). A brief review of studies of Wikipedia in peer-reviewed journals. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Digital Society. Cancun, Mexico, February 1-7, 2009. International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA).

Chen, Ye-Sho, Chitu Okoli and P. Pete Chong (2003). IT businesses and franchising: A research proposal. Proceedings of 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, January 6-9, 2003. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Okoli, Chitu, Ye-Sho Chen and P. Pete Chong (2002). Strategic growth of firms in the digital economy: Simulation and research proposal. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems. Barcelona, December 15-18, 2002. Association for Information Systems.

Okoli, Chitu (2002). Industries, information, and the Internet: An information-oriented perspective of industries. 62nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Denver, August 9-14, 2002. Academy of Management.

Okoli, Chitu, Blake Ives, Leonard M. Jessup and Joseph S. Valacich (2002). The Mobile Conference Information System: Unleashing academic conferences with wireless mobile computing. Proceedings of 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, January 7-10, 2002. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Invited Research Talks and Workshops

Okoli, Chitu, Kira Schabram, and Bilal Abdul Kader (2009). From the Academy to the Wiki: Practical Applications of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia. Wikimania. Wikimedia Foundation. Buenos Aires, Argentina. August 26-28, 2009.

Okoli, Chitu (2006). Report on survey of expert assessments of e-business in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. July 13, 2006. Invited presentation to the Institute for Connectivity in the Americas, International Development Research Council of Canada, Ottawa.