Dr Samuel Fosso Wamba is a Full Professor at Toulouse Business School, France. Prior, he was Associate Professor at NEOMA Business School, Rouen, France and Senior lecturer at the School of Information Systems & Technology (SISAT), University of Wollongong, Australia.

He earned an MSc in mathematics, from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, an MSc in e-commerce from HEC Montreal, Canada, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, from the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada.

His current research focuses on business value of Information and communications technology (ICT), inter-organisational system (e.g., Radio Frequency Identification technology(RFID°, social media tools) adoption and use, e-government, supply chain management, electronic commerce and mobile commerce. Recently, he has been working on the use of ICT for empowerment and inclusion of women in rural areas of developing countries, as well as ICT-enabled emergency services delivery during crisis (e.g., bushfires, tsunami).

He has published papers in a number of international conferences and journals including European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Production Planning & Control, Information Systems Frontiers, Business Process Management Journal, and Proceedings of the IEEE.

He is organizing special issues on IT/RFID for the Business Process Management Journal, Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Medical Systems, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, Production Planning & Control, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, and Annals of Operations Research.

He is the lead co-editor of the special issue entitled: “Special Issue: Bridging Humanitarian Operations Management and Organizational Theory” for the International Journal of Production Research. Also, he has been serving as mini-track organizer or co-organizer and chair for the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) and the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) since 2006.

He won the best paper award of The Academy of Management Journal in 2017 and the papers of the year 2017 of The Electronic Markets: The International Journal on Networked Business.

He is CompTIA RFID+ Certified Professional, Academic co-Founder of RFID Academia and Founder and CEO of e-m-RFID.biz. He is the Coordinator of the newly created Artificial Intelligence & Business Analytics Cluster of Toulouse Business School, France.