Chair of the Management Department
University Eminent Scholar
Firstier Bank Distinguished University Professor
Executive Director, Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship
Executive Director, UNL/IBM Global Hub for On Demand Innovation
Executive Director, Center for Albanian Studies
President, Pan-Pacific Business Association
Editor-in-Chief, Service Business: An Internationl Journal
Senior Scientist, The Gallup Organization

Management, CBA 209
P.O. Box 880491
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491, USA
Phone: (402) 472-3915
Fax: (402) 472-5855
E-mail:

Joined the college in July 1976.

Expertise:

• Entrepreneurship
• Information Systems
• International - Europe
• International - South and Central America
• International - Asia

Education:

BA (Economics), Seoul National University, Korea, 1961 MBA, Miami University (Ohio), 1963 Ph. D. (Management), University of Georgia, 1969

Research Interests:

Global business strategies, strategic innovation, technology convergence, ICT for business solutions, value networking

Teaching Interests:

Global business, operations innovation, international management

Published in the following:

Management Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Finance, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Decision Sciences, Journal of MIS, California Management Review, Sloan Management Review, Interfaces, Journal of Operations Management, Communication of the ACM, others

Awards:

Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation Leavery Award Outstanding Research and Creative Activity, UNL AMOCO Distinguished Teaching Award, UNL Distinguished Service Award, DSI Distinguished Global Leadership Award, Pan-Pacific Business Asso. Four honorary doctorates 56 Who's Who listings Fellow, Academy of Management, DSI, Pan-Pacific Business Asso. Commencement Address Speaker (12 Time) 250+ Journal Articles

Refereed Publications:

The modernization of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award, International Journal of Production Research IT managers' requisite skills, Communications of the ACM Consumers' initial trust toward second-hand products in the electronic market, Journal of Computer Information Systems Current practices of leading e-government countries, Communications of the ACM An analysis of diversity in electronic commerce research, International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Professor Sang M. Lee is currently the University Eminent Scholar, Regents Distinguished Professor, Chair of the Management Department, Executive Director of the Nebraska Productivity and Entrepreneurship Center, and Director of the Center for Albanian Studies. He received his Ph.D. degree in Management from the University of Georgia in 1969. He also servedas Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University prior to coming to the University of Nebraska in 1976. Dr. Lee is currently President of the Pan-Pacific Business Association, an internationalscholarly society of over 4,000 members in 35 countries. He also served as President of the Decision Sciences Institute. Currently, he is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, Decision Sciences Institute, and Pan-Pacific Business Association. He has organized 32 international conferences as the Program Chair. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Service Business: An International Journal, and is on the editorial board of 23 journals, and has been listed in more than 50 Who's Who publications, including Who's Who in America. Dr. Lee is an internationally known expert in the fields of decision sciences, productivity management, and global business. His pioneering work in Goal Programming and Multiple Objective Decision Making has been widely recognized throughout the world. Recently, his research in Eastern Europe's economic transition and development of world-class organizations has been widely published. He has received numerous honors for his professional work including the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation Leavey Award, Outstanding Research and Creativity Activity Award at the University of Nebraska, Distinguished Teaching Award at both Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the University of Nebraska, and four honorary doctorates. Dr. Lee has authored or co-authored 57 books, mostly in the field of management. He has published more than 260 journal articles, and 750 original papers, and has presented over 2,000 speeches. He has visited over 160 universities as a distinguished visiting scholar around the globe. He helped establish the first ever MBA program at the University of Tirana, Albania and the Ph.D. Program in Business at Bangkok University, Thailand. He has had a number of funded projects totaling more than $8 million. He is a frequent consultant and trainer for a number of business, non-profit, and government organizations in the U.S. and abroad.