In a world where technology evolves rapidly, traditional business models face unprecedented challenges. Companies must adapt to the accelerating pace of innovation, which demands agile strategies and the integration of new technologies to remain competitive. The rise of digital platforms, automation, and data analytics has shifted market dynamics, compelling businesses to rethink their operations, customer engagement strategies, and value propositions. To thrive, organizations must embrace digital transformation, invest in cutting-edge technologies, and foster a culture of continuous learning and adaptation.

Business Transformation in the Era of Digital Disruption offers insights on core concepts and innovative technological solutions driving e-business transformation. It provides actionable strategies for thriving amidst digital upheaval and addresses ethical and legal considerations in e-business transformation. Covering topics such as business processes, gig economy, and sustainable development, this book is an excellent resource for executives, entrepreneurs, consultants, academicians, researchers, educators, and more.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Business Processes
Business Transformation
Cybersecurity
Digital Banking
Digital Disruption
E-Business
Ethical and Legal Implications
Gig Economy
Home Workspaces
Legal Responsibilities
Organizational Support
Privacy and Security Concerns
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Sustainable Development
Women Employees

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Editor/Author Biographies

|Hamed Taherdoost - Editor|Dr. Hamed Taherdoost is an award-winning leader in research and development, known for his contributions across both industry and academia. He is the founder of Hamta Business Corporation, Associate Professor and Chair of RSAC at University Canada West, & Director of R&D at Q Minded |Quark Minded Technology Inc. He has over 20 years of experience in both industry and academic sectors. He has worked at international companies from Cyprus, the UK, Malta, Iran, Malaysia, and Canada and has been highly involved in development of several projects in different industries, healthcare, transportation, residential, oil and gas and IT. Additionally, he has served as a trusted technical and technology consultant for multiple companies, providing advisory and mentorship. In academia, Dr. Taherdoost has held teaching positions in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America since 2009. He began his academic career as a lecturer at AU & PNU and later served as an adjunct professor and faculty fellow at Westcliff University, USA. His research tenure at IAU lasted over eight years, during which he supervised numerous students. Dr. Taherdoost has organized and chaired many workshops and conferences and has frequently been invited as a keynote speaker. He is an active member of the editorial, reviewer, and advisory boards for several prestigious journals published by Taylor & Francis, Springer, Emerald, Elsevier, MDPI, EAI, IGI Publishing, and Inderscience. He has also participated as an organising, scientific and technical committee member in over 270 conferences held across Europe, America, Australia, Asia, and Africa. He published over 250 scientific articles published in top-tier journals and conference proceedings. His work has been widely recognized, evidenced by an h-index of 45, i10-index of 106, over 18,300 citations on Google Scholar, more than 3.2 million reads, and 9,200 citations on ResearchGate, and 250,000 downloads on SSRN as of August 2024. He has also contributed 30 book chapters, 14 edited books as well as 13 authored books in the field of technology and research methodology. Dr. Taherdoost's leadership and innovation have earned him numerous accolades, including THE BIZZ Business Excellence Award, PeerJ Award, and recognition at the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards. He was a finalist for the Innovation in Teaching of Research Methodology Excellence Awards and Southeast Asian Startup Awards by Global Startup Awards. Additionally, his research achievements also include winning several best paper awards, outstanding reviewer awards and best presentation awards like MLIS Best Presentation Award of 2021 & 2022, the Outstanding Editorial Board Member award from Bilingual Publishing Co., Best Paper of the Year of Computers MDPI, and Best Interview Award of Encyclopedia. His rankings include being listed among 10 top SSRN Business Authors (2022, 2023 & 2024) and featured in the Stanford-Elsevier list of the world's top 2% of Scientists in 2021, 2022 and 2023. He is the Editor of a Book Series with Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) entitled “Mastering Academic Excellence: Research, Teaching, Learning, and Publishing” . He is Editor of International Journal of Information Technology Project Management, IGI (IF: 0.8), EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems, EAI (Q2), International Journal of Electronic Government Research, IGI (IF: 1.2), Information Resources Management Journal, IGI (IF:1.4), Journal of Blockchain MDPI, and and International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (IF: 0.5 & CS: 0.9) by InderScience. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (Scopus). He’s been a guest editor of special issues in Results in Engineering, Elsevier (IF: 5 & CS:4.5), Electronics MDPI (IF: 1.9 & CS: 4.7), Computers MDPI (IF:2.8 & CS: 4.7), Discover Computing by Springer and Academic Editor of PLOS ONE. He is a Certified Cyber Security Professional and Certified Graduate Technologist. He is a GUS Fellow - GUS Institute |Global University Systems, senior member of IEEE, IAEEEE, IEDRC & HKSRA, Fellow Member of ISAC and IASED, Working Group Member of International Federation for Information Processing - IFIP TC 11 - Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance and Information Security Management and member of CSIAC, ACT-IAC, and AASHE. Currently, he is involved in several multidisciplinary research projects, including studying innovation in information technology, blockchain and cybersecurity, and technology acceptance.

Mitra Madanchian possesses aPh.D.in Business Management and a Master’s degree in Human Resource Administration, she currently assumes multiple professional roles, serving as the CEO at Hamta Business Corporation, as well as holding a full-time position as an Assistant Professor Faculty Member at University Canada West and a Sessional Faculty member at Fairleigh Dickinson University. With an extensive tenure exceeding 15 years encompassing both industry and academia, she has established herself as an influential figure in the field of management. She has actively contributed to notable projects for internationally acclaimed companies such as KPMG, demonstrating her proficiency in business development roles. Complementing her industry experience, she has achieved noteworthy accomplishments in the academic arena, boasting a portfolio of over thirty scientific articles published in esteemed peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. As a dedicated researcher specializing in business management, leadership, Human Resource Management, and marketing, she has made substantial and impactful contributions to the academic domain.

Inam Ullah Khan is the Founder of AIEYS. He was visiting researcher at king’s College London, Uk. Also, he was faculty member at different universities in Pakistan which include Center for Emerging Sciences Engineering & Technology (CESET), Islamabad, Abdul Wali Khan University, Garden Campus, Timergara Campus, University of Swat & Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Islamabad Campus. He did Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from Department of Electronic Engineering, Isra University, Islamabad Campus, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS). Also, he did his M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering at Department of Electronic Engineering, Isra University, Islamabad Campus, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS). He had done undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Computer Science from Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan. Apart from that his Master’s thesis is published as a book on topic “Route Optimization with Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)” in Germany which is available on Amazon. More interestingly, he use to teach subjects like Computer Network Security, Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Computing, Professional Practice, Software Engineering, Data Communication & Networks, Data Base, Cyber Security, Visual Programming, Computer Organization & Assembly Language and introduction to programming. He authored/coauthored more than 30 research articles in reputable journals, conferences and book chapters. More interestingly he recently introduced a novel routing protocol E-ANTHOCNET in the area of flying ad hoc networks. His research interest includes Network System Security, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, cryptography, Optimisation techniques, WSN, IoT, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETS), Flying Ad Hoc Networks, and Machine Learning. He has served international conferences as Technical program committee member which include, EAI International Conference on Future Intelligent Vehicular Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan and 2nd International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems, Amman, Jordan, June 26–27, 2018, International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Cybersecurity in Emergent Networks (CICEN’21) that will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (EUSPN2021) which is co-organized in November 1–4, 2021, Leuven, Belgium. Also, he was technical program committee member at international workshop on intelligent systems for sustainable smart cities, New Delhi, India, February 19–20, 2022. In addition, he served as Editor in about 12 Books on Various topics. Currently, he served as special session chair at International Conference on Advances in Communication Technology and Computer Engineering ICACTCE'22 on topic: Fusion of Emerging Technologies: Communication Networks & Future Applications. Also, he is Guest Editor with many International Journals. Apart from that he is General Chair at International Conference on Trends and Innovations in Smart Technologies (ICTIST’22), virtually from London, United Kingdom. At the moment he is General Chair at 2nd International Conference on Trends and Innovations in Smart Technologies (ICTIST’24). More interestingly, he was invited as technology expert many times on Pakistan National Television.

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