Lei-da Chen

Lei-da Chen, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Technology in the College of Business Administration of Creighton University. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from The University of Memphis. His research and consulting interests include electronic commerce, mobile e-commerce, Web-based systems development, data warehousing and mining, and diffusion of information technology in organizations. Dr. Chen has published over 40 professional articles in refereed journals and national and international conference proceedings. His research has appeared in Information & Management, ACM SIGMIS Data Base, Communications of AIS, Journal of Management Systems, Information Systems Management, Logistics Information Management, Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Electronic Markets, and Journal of Education for MIS. In 2001, Dr. Chen was recognized as one of the most published e-commerce researchers by the International Journal of Electronic Commerce. Dr. Chen is on the review board for a number of professional journals and is listed in the Who’s Who in Information Technology.

Publications

An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Wireless Local Area Networks on Organization of Users
An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Wireless Local Area Networks on Organization of Users
Lei-da Chen. © 2009. 19 pages.
In recent years, the concept of nomadic computing has received considerable attention from the business community. As an early form of nomadic information environment (NIE)...
An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Wireless Local Area Networks on Organization of Users
An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Wireless Local Area Networks on Organization of Users
Lei-da Chen, Ravi Nath. © 2006. 20 pages.
In recent years, the concept of nomadic computing has received considerable attention from the business community. As an early form of nomadic information environment (NIE)...
Mobile Commerce Application Development
Mobile Commerce Application Development
Lei-da Chen, Gordon W. Skelton. © 2005. 319 pages.
As wireless and mobile technologies become more and more prevalent in businesses and our daily lives, organizations are starting to heavily invest in developing infrastructure...
Introduction to M-Business Applications: Value Proposition, Applications, Technologies, and Challenges
Introduction to M-Business Applications: Value Proposition, Applications, Technologies, and Challenges
Lei-da Chen, Gordon W. Skelton. © 2005. 19 pages.
Leung and Antypas (2001) defined mobile business (m-business) as both “content delivery (notification and reporting) and transactions (purchasing and data entry) on mobile...
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Lei-da Chen, Gordon W. Skelton. © 2005. 13 pages.
In this chapter, you are introduced to the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), which was designed to support the development of applications over cellular networks in order to...
Wireless Markup Language (WML)
Wireless Markup Language (WML)
Lei-da Chen, Gordon W. Skelton. © 2005. 28 pages.
Associated with the Wireless Application Protocol is a markup language, similar in concept to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) used to develop Web pages. This language, Wireless...
WMLScript
WMLScript
Lei-da Chen, Gordon W. Skelton. © 2005. 20 pages.
WMLScripts improve the use of WML documents through their ability to support decision-making, arithmetic operations, iteration, and parameter passing. Furthermore, since they are...
WMLScriptStandard Libraries
WMLScriptStandard Libraries
Lei-da Chen, Gordon W. Skelton. © 2005. 34 pages.
In an effort to aid developers in the creation of WML and WMLScript applications a set of libraries, the WMLScript Standard Libraries, were developed. These libraries provide you...
XHTML Basic
XHTML Basic
Lei-da Chen, Gordon W. Skelton. © 2005. 17 pages.
XHTML is a derivative of XML and HTML. HTML has long been the standard for development of Web sites. With the creation of XML and its use as a foundation for portable documents...
Dynamic Wireless Application Development I: Developing Wireless Applications Using ColdFusion
Dynamic Wireless Application Development I: Developing Wireless Applications Using ColdFusion
Lei-da Chen, Gordon W. Skelton. © 2005. 57 pages.
A wireless application is designed to function when the device is connected to networks (e.g., the Internet) or other devices wirelessly. An example of such an application is a...
Dynamic Wireless Application Development II: Developing ASP.NET Mobile Web Applications Using Visual Studio.NET
Dynamic Wireless Application Development II: Developing ASP.NET Mobile Web Applications Using Visual Studio.NET
Lei-da Chen, Gordon W. Skelton. © 2005. 35 pages.
In the previous chapter, we created an m-business application using ColdFusion. Besides ColdFusion, many other development tools can be used to develop m-business applications....
Mobile Application Development I: Developing Mobile Applications Using Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools
Mobile Application Development I: Developing Mobile Applications Using Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools
Lei-da Chen, Gordon W. Skelton. © 2005. 42 pages.
Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools were designed to develop applications that run on Windows CE devices (e.g., Pocket PC and Handheld PC 2000). It is a free software product that...
Mobile Application Development I: Developing Smart Device Applications Using Visual Studio.NET
Mobile Application Development I: Developing Smart Device Applications Using Visual Studio.NET
Lei-da Chen, Gordon W. Skelton. © 2005. 38 pages.
n the previous chapter on mobile application development, we developed an order placement system (OPS) using Microsoft Embedded Visual Basic (EVB). Although EVB provides...
A Qualitative Study of Small Business Internet Commerce: Critical Success Factors and Challenges
A Qualitative Study of Small Business Internet Commerce: Critical Success Factors and Challenges
Lei-da Chen, Steve Haney, Alex Pandzik, John Spigarelli, Chris Jesseman. © 2004. 30 pages.
While more small to medium size enterprises begin to conduct business over the Internet, the degrees of success in these endeavors vary. There is an urgent need for an...
Key Determinants of Consumer Acceptance of Virtual Stores: Some Empirical Evidence
Key Determinants of Consumer Acceptance of Virtual Stores: Some Empirical Evidence
Lei-Da Chen, Justin Tan. © 2004. 22 pages.
One of the most significant phenomena of e-commerce is the emergence of a new form of business—the virtual store. Virtual stores provide great efficiency in the retail value...
Small Business Internet Commerce: A Case Study
Small Business Internet Commerce: A Case Study
Lei-da Chen, Steve Haney, Alex Pandzik, John Spigarelli, Chris Jesseman. © 2003. 25 pages.
This paper studies the case of a small traditional retailer, Getzs Company, transforming itself to take advantage of Internet commerce. The study examines the company’s...