Monica Lam, Ph.D., AAT

Professor, College of Business Administration

California State University, Sacramento

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Corporate Social Responsibilities

Data Analytics and Knowledge Model

Advanced Management Support Systems

Enterprise Accounting Models

Managerial Applications of Fuzzy Set Techniques

BOOK PUBLICATIONS:

Accounting Information Systems Cases (with M. P. Martin), Prentice Hall, 2002 (ISBN: 0-13-035289-6).  

Integrated Systems: The Accountant in the 21st Century (with M. P. Martin and Victor Dossey), Pearson Custom Publishing, 2005 (ISBN:0-536-85839-X).

REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

Driving Mechanism of Corporate Social Responsibility in United States and Mainland China (with Fenghua Wang and Sanjay Varshney), Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies, 22(1), 2017, 15-27.

Corporate Social Responsibility: Motivation, Pressures, and Barriers (with Fenghua Wang and Sanjay Varshney), Journal of International Business Ethics, 9(1/2), 2016, 6-15.

A Path Analysis Model for Web Application Success, Journal of Technology Research, 5, September, 2014.

Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques in Practice for Web Application Development, Journal of Technology Research, 3, July 2012.

Credibility Factors and Content Management for Commercial Web Sites (with Janice Lo), Research in Higher Education Journal, 5, December 2009.

Effectiveness of Web-Based Courses on Technical Learning, Journal of Education for Business, 84(6), July/August 2009, 323-331.

Switching Customers from Branches to Internet: A Credit Union's Journey (with Srinivasa Katuri), Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 11(3), 2007, 229-248.

Neural Network Techniques for Financial Performance Prediction: Integrating Fundamental and Technical Analysis, Decision Support Systems, 37(4), 2004, 567-581.

Performance Comparison between Active Server Pages and Common Gateway Interface (with V. D. Truong), International Journal of Business & Economics, 2 (1), Fall 2002, 1-6.

Generalized Analytic Rule Extraction for Feedforward Neural Networks (with A. Gupta and S. Park), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 11(6), November/December 1999, 985-991.

The Weight Decay Backpropagation for Generalizations with Missing Values (with A. Gupta), Annals of Operations Research, 78, 1998, 985-991.

Weight Decay Backpropagation for Noisy Data (with A. Gupta), Neural Networks - The Official Journal of the International Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society, and Japanese Neural Network Society, 11(6), August 1998, 1127-1137.

Determining Core MIS Skills (with R. K. H. Ching and L. W. Glorfeld), International Business Schools Computing Quarterly, 10 (1), Summer 1998, 9-18.

Information Integration for Operation and Strategic Supports (with R. K. H. Ching), Information Systems Management, Fall 1998, 36-45.

A Fuzzy Mathematical Model for the Joint Economic Lot Size Problem with Multiple Price Breaks (with D. S. Wong), European Journal of Operational Research, 95(3), December 1996, 611-622.

Estimating Missing Values Using Neural Networks (with A. Gupta), Journal of the Operational Research Society, 47(2), 1996, 229-238.

REFEREED PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATIONS:

Identifying Success Factors for Developing Web Applications - A Research Report.  Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Business, 2008.

Success Factors for Web Application Development.  Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Business, 2007.

Comparing Neural Network, Logistic Regression, and Discriminant Analysis for Knowledge Representation and Classification Explanation.  Proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2007.

Credibility Factors and Content Management Adoption for Commercial Web Sites (with J. Lo).  Proceedings of the 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Business, May 2006.

Assessing Business Writing Skills (with M. Cleek, C. Wang, R. Guarino, & S. Crow).  Proceedings of the 2005 International College Teaching Methods & Styles Conference, 2005.

Factors Affecting Internet Banking Activities: A Case Study of a Community Bank (with S. Katuri), Proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2003.

Critical Success Factors for Web Data Warehouse (with Awanti Ghanekar), Proceedings of the International Conference of the Decision Science Institute and Asia-Pacific Meeting of Decision Science Institute, 2003.

Better Customer Clustering Using an Initialization Approach for the K-Means Algorithm (with J. S. Chen, T. S. Lin, and R. K. H. Ching), Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, 2003.

A Bi-Directional Approach for Developing Data Warehouses in Public Sectors (with R. K. H. Ching), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Electronic Business, 2002.

A Proposed Model of the Effects of IT Diffusion on Organizational Absorptive Capacity and CRM Innovation Success (with J. S. Chen and R. K. H. Ching), Proceedings of the 2002 Americas Conference on Information Systems, Association for Information Systems, 2002.

A Proposed Model of Organizational Absorptive Capacity and CRM Innovation Success (with J. S. Chen and R. K. H. Ching), Proceedings of Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, 2002.

Extracting Rules from Neural Networks to Predict High Return Stocks, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Business, 2001.

Effect of Group Learning on Academic Performance: A Pilot Study for Computer-Based Classes (with R. K. H. Ching), Proceedings of 2001 Americas Conference on Information Systems, Association for Information Systems, 2001, 95-101.

An Examination of Changes to Application Development Practices (with R. K. H. Ching and N. Tsai), Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Decision Science Institute Conference, 2001.

Business Values of Information Technology Investments over Time (with R. K. H. Ching), Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Decision Science Institute Conference, 2001.

A Method of Advancing Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills through a programming Course (with R. K. H. Ching and E. Christenson), Proceedings of Western DSI Conference, 2001, 551-553.

Integrating the IT/IS Professional Community with IT/IS Academic Programs (with R. K. H. Ching and L. W. Glorfeld), Proceedings of the 2000 Americas Conference on Information Systems, Association for Information Systems, 2000, 1957-1962.

Integrating Fundamental and Technical Analysis for the Selection of High Returned Stocks - A Neural Network Approach (with R. K. H. Ching), Proceedings of the National Meeting of Decision Sciences Institute, volume 2, 1999, 487-489.

The Effect of Information Load on Decision Making in a Decision Support Environment (with R. K. H. Ching and L. W. Glorfeld), Proceedings of the 1999 Americas Conference on Information Systems, Association for Information Systems, 1999, 812-814.

A Comparative Analysis of Manual and Computer-Aided Ranking Tasks for Curriculum Development (with R. K. H. Ching, and L. W. Glorfeld), Proceedings of the 1998 Americas Conference on Information Systems, Association for Information Systems, 1998, 650-652.

A Canonical-Based Approach to determining the Technical Emphases for an Information System Curriculum (with R. K. H. Ching, and L. W. Glorfeld), Proceedings of the National Meeting of Decision Sciences Institute, 1998, 732-734.

Unsupervised Learning for Concept Reduction (with R. K. H. Ching), Proceedings of Conference on Information Systems and Technology, INFORMS, Spring 1998, 35-56.

An Empirical Assessment of Requisite Skills for Students Entering the IS Profession (with R. K. H. Ching), Proceedings of the National Meeting of Decision Sciences Institute, volume 2, 1997, 630-632.

Integrating Information Requirements for Transaction processing and Decision Support (with R. K. H. Ching), Proceedings of the National Meeting of Decision Sciences Institute, volume 2, 1997, 870-872.

An Investigative Study of Core MIS Skills (with R. K. H. Ching and L. W. Glorfeld), Proceedings of the 1997 Americas Conference on Information Systems, Assoication for Information Systems, 1997, 1010-1012.

Fuzzy Learning Rate for Backpropagation, Proceedings of the National Meeting of Decision Sciences Institute, volume 2, 1996, 565-567.

Rule Extraction for Backpropagation and Decision Trees, Proceedings of the National Meeting of Decision Sciences Institute, volume 2, 1995, 602-604.

Weight Decay Backpropagation for Missing Values (with A. Gupta), Proceedings of the National Meeting of Decision Sciences Institute, volume 2, 1995, 605-607.

Clustering for Refining Supervised Learning, Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, 1995, 503-505.

A Neural Net Approach for Estimating Missing Values in Multivariate Analysis (with A. Gupta), Proceedings of the National Meeting of Decision Sciences Institute, volume 2, 1993, 708-710.

A Fuzzy Set Approach to the Joint Economic Lot Size Model with Price Breaks, Proceedings of the National Meeting of Decision Sciences Institute, volume 2, 1991, 1067-1069.