Prabhudev C. Konana

William H. Seay Centennial Professor of Information Management
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Associate Director, Center for Research on Electronic Commerce
Department of IROM
McCombs School of Business
 The University of Texas at Austin
pkonana@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: (512) 471-5219 (W)

EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

1.      Business value of IT

2.      Determinants of outsourcing and offshoring

3.      Design of electronic brokerages in the context of electronic commerce/business.

4.      Understanding attitudes, beliefs, trust and satisfaction in online investing.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Information Technology and Management, Database Systems, IT Strategy, Supply-chain Management

MEDIA COVERAGE

  1. Interviewedby Business2.0, Line56, eCompany, InternetWeek, Upside Today, and Communications News, 2001.

  2. Presented to the media at Dell’s DirectConnect conference 2000 on E-business Value Assessment. Talk webcast to the world. CEO of Dell Computer Corporation  refers to the results of our work in his keynote speech. Study reported in many papers, magazines and websites worldwide. Details of the study available at http://webevents.broadcast.com/Dell/ecensus2000/home.asp.

  3. Interviewed by CNNfn on online trading. Available at http://cnnfn.com/1999/11/01/investing/q_whytrade/

  4. Op-ed appeared in Austin-American Statesman, Dallas Morning News, The Hindu (India), Economic Times (India)

  5. Lessons for B-school students - aspiring global managers find much to learn in Bangalore (Times of India)

  6. The Girl with a candid BPO Camera (The Economic Times)

  7. Discovering India for Texas University Students (India Post)

  8. Destination India (BusinessWorld - India)

  9. Global B-Schools Eye India's Intellectual Capital (Indian Express)

  10. Foreign students land here to feel the IT magic (The Economic Times)

  11. Outsourcing to the U.S: Indian firm is hiring (Austin-American Statesman - this is a copy of the original article)

  12. This Political Hot Potato Is a Course in Demand (Chronicle of Higher Education) (Available through UT Library Online Journals)

  13. Business leaders just want a little respect for 'insourcing' (Austin American-Statesman)

  14. Appeared in “Personalities behind Industry News” Ticker Magazine May 2000.

  15. Bloomberg cites CACM paper on online trading.

  16. Interviewed on online trading by KCSN Radio 88.5, Northridge CA.

  17. NSF CAREER Award reported in Austin-American Statesman, 1999.

HONORS AND AWARDS

  1. Elected to Academy of Distinguished Teacher, 2003 - present

  2. Hank & Mary Harkin Foundation Award for Teaching Effectiveness in UG teaching

  3. Faculty Honor Roll, Spring 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2007 & Fall 2008

  4. Faculty Honor Roll, Texas Executive MBA Class of 2005

  5. EL Paso Energy Foundation Teaching Excellence award, 2002.

  6. Elective Faculty Honor Roll, Graduate Business Council, Fall 2001.

  7. NSF Information Technology Research grant (approx. $500,000) with S. Balasubramanian and R. Rajagopalan.

  8. NSF CAREER Award ($295,438) 1999 – 2003.

  9. CBA Foundation Advisory Board Centennial Fellow - 2004 - present

  10. University research grant ($6,000) 2003-04.

  11. CBA Foundation Research Award for Assistant Professors, 2001.

  12. Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors 2000.

  13. Intel equipment grant, 2002.

  14. Nominated for Outstanding MBA core faculty, and Professor with Outstanding Ability to connect Business and Academics, 2003.

  15. LARIAT grant from Dell Corporation ($100,000) 1999-2000.

  16. IBM SUR grant 1999.

  17. Dean’s Fellowship (Spring 1998; Fall 2004).

  18. National Science Foundation (NSF) panel member, March 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004

  19. Merit-based summer award, Texas Business School 1998 – 2002.

  20. Received “Most Challenging Class” and “Most Looked Forward to Class” awards from Management Information Systems Association (MISA), Spring 2000.

  21. Summer research assignment, The University of Texas at Austin, Summer 1999, 2000.

  22. Received best paper runner-up award at the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Information Systems, December 15-18, 1996, Cleveland, OH.

  23. Faculty travel grant, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998.

  24. Special research grant, The University of Texas at Austin 1997-98.

  25. Nominated for Trammell/CBA Foundation teaching award for assistant professors – Spring 1997, Spring 1998 and Spring 1999.

  26.  Invited to attend the Ernst and Young Foundation/ICIS Doctoral Consortium, Vancouver, Canada, 1994.

  27. Received graduate college fellowship, University of Arizona, 1994-95 (Nominated by the department)

  28. Received graduate registration scholarship, University of Arizona, 1991-92, 1993-94 and 1994-95.

  29. Received Mulcahy Foundation scholarship, Alumni Foundation, University of Arizona, 1990-91.

  30. Selected to the Dean’s Distinction List (Spring 1990 & 1991) and Dean’s List (Fall 1989 & 1990) awarded to MBA students for academic excellence, University of Arizona.

  31. Received Merit Scholarship awarded to outstanding undergraduate students, Karnataka Regional Engineering College, India, 1978-83.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journals

  1. Datta, S. Mukherjee, P. Konana, I. Viguier and A. Bajaj. Multiclass Transactions Scheduling and Overload Management in Firm Deadline Real-time Database Systems, Information Systems, Vol. 21, no. 1, pages 29-54, March 1996.

  2. P. Konana, J. Lee and S. Ram. Updating Timestamp Interval for Dynamic Adjustment of Serialization Order in Optimistic Concurrency Control-Time Interval (OCCTI) Protocol. Information Processing Letters, Vol. 63, No.3, Pages 189-193, 1997

  3. P. Konana, and S. Ram. Transaction Management Mechanisms for Active and Real-time Databases: A Comprehensive Protocol and a Performance Study, Journal of Systems and Software Vol. 42, No. 3, Pages 205-225, 1998.

  4. P. Konana and S. Ram. Semantics based transaction processing for real-time databases: A case of Automated Stock Trading. INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 11, No. 3, Pages 299-315, 1999.

  5. P. Konana, N. Menon and D. Abramowitz. Electronic Brokerages for Online Trading. Electronic Markets: The International Journal of Electronic Commerce and Business Media, Vol. 9, No. 1, pages 32-36, 1999.

  6. S. Sanchez and P. Konana. Efficient Data Allocation for Frequency Domain Experiments. Operations Research Letters, Vol. 26, No. 2, Pages 81-89, March 2000.

  7. P. Konana, N. Menon and S. Balasubramanian. Exploring the Implications of Online Investing. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 43, No. 1, pages 34-41, January 2000.

  8. P. Konana, A. Gupta, and A. B. Whinston. Integrating User Preferences and Real-time Workload in Electronic Commerce.  Information Systems Research, Vol. 11, no. 2 pages 177-196, June 2000.

  9. A. Barua, P. Konana, A. B. Whinston and F. Yin. Making E-business Pay: Eight Key Drivers for Operational Success. IEEE IT Professional, pp 22-30, November/December 2000.

  10. A. Barua, P. Konana, A. B. Whinston and F. Yin. Measures for E-Business Value Assessment. IEEE IT Professional, pp 47-51, January/February 2001.

  11. G. Baster, P. Konana, and J. Scott. Business Components: A case study of Bankers Trust Australia Limited. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp 92-98, May 2001.

  12. A. Barua, P. Konana, A. B. Whinston and F. Yin. Driving E-Business Excellence. Sloan Management Review, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp 36-44, Fall 2001.  

  13. S. Balasubramanian, P. Konana and N. Menon. Customer Satisfaction in Virtual Environments: A Study of Online Investing. Management Science, Vol. 49, No. 7, pp 871-889, 2003.

  14. P. Konana and S. Balasubramanian. Technology adoption and usage as a social-psychological-economic phenomenon: A study of online investing. Decision Support System, Vol. 39, 505-524, 2005

  15. A. Barua, P. Konana, A. B. Whinston and F. Yin. An Empirical Investigation of Net-enabled Business Value, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp 585-620 December 2004.

  16. A. Mok, P. Konana, G. Liu, C. Lee and H. Woo. Active and Real-time Functionalities in Electronic Brokerages. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 30, No. 12, pp 841-858, December 2004.

  17. P. Konana and G. Ray. Physical Product Re-engineering using Embedded Information Technology. Forthcoming, Communications of the ACM.

  18. P. Konana. Can Indian Software Companies Compete With Global Giants?  IEEE Computer. Vol. 39, 2006 (Cover story)

  19.  B. Gu, P. Konana, B. Rajagopalan, and M. Chen. Competition among Virtual Communities and User Valuation: The Case of Investor Communities.  Information Systems Research, Vol. 18, No. 1 pp 68-85 March 2007. (Best Paper Award by ISR, 2007)

  20. C. G. Lee, A. Mok and P. Konana. Monitoring Timing Constraints with Confidence Threshold Requirements.  IEEE Transactions on Computers. Vol. 56, No. 7, July 2007.

  21. A. Mishra, P. Konana and A. Barua. Antecedents and Consequences of Internet Use in Procurement: An Empirical Investigation of U.S. Manufacturing firms.  Information Systems Research. Vol. 18, No. 1 pp 103-120 March 2007.

  22. H. Tanriverdi, P. Konana and L. Ge. The Choice of Sourcing Mechanism for Business Processes.  Information Systems Research, Vol. 18, N0. 3, Sept 2007, pp 280-299.

  23. G. Ray, D. Wu, and P. Konana. Competitive Environment and the Impact of IT on Vertical Integration. Forthcoming, Information Systems Research.

Under Review or Revision  

  1. Michelle Chen, B. Gu and P. Konana, Melting-Pot or Homophily? – An Empirical Investigation of User Interactions in Virtual Investment-related Communities. Under review.

  2. M. Chen, B. Gu, and P. Konana, Measuring Product Competition in Online Retailers from Revealed Preferences of Online Recommendation Networks.

  3. A. Susarla, A. Barua, P. Konana and A. B. Whinston. Assessing the Impact of Information Integration and Coordination Across Organizations.

  4. B. Gu, P. Tetlock, P. Konana, A. Liu, B. Rajagopalan, and J. Ghosh. Expert Talks on Virtual Investment Communities: Information Value of Stock Discussion Boards. (draft available)

  5. B. Rajagopalan, P. Konana and B. Gu. Dynamics of Rumor Propagation in Virtual Communities: Evidence from Investing-related Groups. (draft available)

  6. P. Konana, H. Tanriverdi, and L. Ge. Global sourcing and value chain unbundling. (draft available)

Other Significant Publications

  1. P. Konana and R. Suri. An Upbeat India. Published by Infosys, India and released during World Economic Forum on East Asia, Japan, June 14-16, 2006 (http://www.infosys.com/beyond-business/india-beckons.pdf)

  2. P. Konana and J. Doggett. Advantage China. Frontline Magazine, Volume 22 - Issue 06, Mar. 12 - 25, 2005 (Cover Story)Reprinted in SIRS’ Enduring Issues, Publisher: ProQuest Information & Learning, Florida.

  3. P. Konana and S. Balasubramanian. India as Knowledge Economy: Aspirations versus Reality. Frontline Magazine, February 2, 2002 (Frontline is among the leading national magazines in India with readership of over a million).

  4. A. Barua, P. Konana and A. B. Whinston. Even if IT Doesn't Matter, Informational Capabilities Still Do. Higher Learning, CIO Magazine.

  5. D. Mani, A. Barua, P. Konana and A. B. Whinston. Managing Risk to Maximize Value in Business Process Outsourcing: A Process Oriented Approach, Higher Learning, CIO Magazine.

  6. M. Blaskovich and P. Konana. Managing Y2K Problem. Special issue on Managing Y2K Problem for Information Systems Frontiers: A Journal of Research and Innovation 1999 (Guest edited with Mr. Mark Blaskovich, Manager A. T. Kearney). Guest Editor, Special issue on Managing Y2K Problem for Information Systems Frontiers: A Journal of Research and Innovation. (Guest edited by Mr. Mark Blaskovich, Manager A. T. Kearney).

Book Chapters

  1. A. Gupta, B. Jukic, and P. Konana. Congestion based pricing and management of distributed computational resources. In Business Modeling, Eds C. Holsapple, V. Jacob, and H. R. Rao, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

  2. Balasubramanian, Sridhar and Prabhudev Konana (2008), “Entering India’s product and servicemarkets? 10 caveats that can help you tame the Asian elephant” (forthcoming in Indian economic superpower: Fact or fiction, edited by Jayashankar Swaminathan, published by World Scientific, Singapore.

 

Op-Ed and Other article

  1. P. Konana. Best path to prosperity is to take ownership. The Hindu, August 19, 2008

  2. Konana. Social responsibility and adulterated capitalism. The Hindu, March 11, 2008

  3. P. Konana. Of technology, efficiency and human dignity. The Hindu, February 11, 2008

  4. P. Konana. The need for cautious optimists. The Hindu, November 16, 2007.

  5. P. Konana. Need to wake up to the realities. The Hindu, September 22, 2007

  6. P. Konana. Can IT-enabled services lower corruption? The Hindu, January 29, 2007

  7. P. Konana. The Healthcare Tourism Conundrum. The Hindu, November 24, 2006

  8. P. Konana. Building experience for economic activity. The Hindu, November 11, 2006

  9. P. Konana. P. Konana. Reservation in Premier Institutions. The Hindu, September 30, 2006

  10. P. Konana. Towards Corporate Social Responsibility. The Hindu, March 9, 2006.

  11. P. Konana. Higher Education: Learning from the U.S. The Hindu, December 16, 2005.

  12. P. Konana. Is it Advantage China? Economic Times, India, May 15, 2005 (op-ed)

  13. P. Konana. India's economic opportunities and perils, The Hindu August 24, 2005 (op-ed)

  14. E the people: Online government hasn't caught up with the rest of us, Dallas Morning News, February 26, 2005

  15. Konana: Why Texas should give e-government a real go, Austin-American Statesman, February 15, 2005

  16. P. Konana. Invisible Culture that can Shape a Nation. Austin Kannada Sangha, Re-printed Indian Cultural Center, 2004

  17. P. Konana. Can India Shine? Not if it Neglects its People. Austin-American Statesman, May 31, 2004

Refereed Conferences

  1. P. Konana. A Transaction Model for Active Rapidly Changing Data Systems (ARCS) Databases. Proceedings of the Ernst & Young Doctoral Consortium of the 15th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Vancouver, B.C., 1994.

  2. P. Konana and Sudha Ram. Semantics based transaction processing for real-time databases: A Protocol and performance evaluation. In the Proceedings of INFORMS - Conference on Information Systems and Technology, May 4-5, Washington D.C., 1996.

  3. P. Konana, A. Gupta and A.B. Whinston. Research Issues in Real-time Databases in the Context of Electronic Commerce. In ACM Proceedings of Workshop on Databases: Active and Real-time (Concepts meet Practice), Washington D.C., November 1996.

  4. P. Konana, A. Gupta, D.O. Stahl and A. B. Whinston. Pricing of Information Services Using Real-time Databases: A Framework for Integrating User Preferences and Real-time Workload. In Proceedings for the International Conference on Information Systems, Cleveland, OH, 1996. (Best paper runner-up award).

  5. P. Konana, A. Gupta and A.B. Whinston. Digital Contract Approach for Consistent and Predictable Multimedia Information Delivery in Electronic Commerce. Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Volume 3020, February 1997.

  6. J. R. Durrett, P. Konana and A. B. Whinston. Distributed Information System Coordination through Software Teams. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Atlanta, December 1997.

  7. G. Liu, A. K. Mok and P. Konana. A unified approach for specifying timing constraints and composite events in active and real-time database systems. In the Proceedings of Fourth IEEE Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium, Denver, Colorado, June 3-5, 1998.

  8. P. Konana, G. Liu, J. R. Durrett, A. K. Mok and A. B. Whinston. Design of Time Cognizant Electronic Brokerages. In the Proceedings of INFORMS Conference on Systems and Technology, Montreal, April 1998.

  9. K. Bagla and P. Konana. Workflow Implementation in Educational Environment. In the Proceedings of the Americas Information System Conference, Baltimore, August 1998.

  10. D. Abramowitz, P. Konana and N. Menon. Electronic Brokerages for Online Trading. In the Proceedings of the Americas Information System Conference, Baltimore, August 1998.

  11. P. Konana, G. Liu, Y. Liu and A. K. Mok. Timeliness in Electronic Brokerage: Issues in Brokerage Design. In the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce, Vanderbilt, Nashville, November 1998.

  12. M. Beck, P. Konana, G. Liu, Y. Liu and A. K. Mok. Active and Real-time Functionalities for Electronic Brokerage Design. In the Proceedings of the Intl. Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-commerce and Web-based Information Systems, Santa Clara, CA, April 8-9, 1999

  13. N. Menon, P. Konana, G. Browne and S. Balasubramanian. Understanding Trustworthiness Beliefs in Electronic Brokerage Usage, In the Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Information Systems, Charlotte, North Carolina, December 12-15, 1999.

  14. A. Mishra, P. Konana and A. Barua. An Empirical Investigation of Internet-based Procurement. To appear in the Third International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce, Dallas, Texas, October 2000.

  15. P. Konana A. Mok, C. Lee, H. Woo and G. Liu. Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Real-Time Brokerage Design. To appear in the Proceedings of IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium Orlando, Florida, November 2000.

  16. A. Mishra, P. Konana and A. Barua. Determinants of the level of Internet-based Procurement: An Empirical Study of Procurement of Production Goods in Manufacturing Firms. AIS Conference, August 2001.

  17. L. Ge and P. Konana. Global sourcing of IT-enabled business processes. AIS Conference, August 2004.

  18. D. Wu, G. Ray, P. Konana and A.B. Whinston. Competitive Environment and the Impact of IT on Vertical Integration. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, UC-Irvine, 2005

  19. G. Ray, L. Xue, B. Gu, and P. Konana. Asset Characteristics and the Impact of IT on Firm Scope and Performance. Accepted for International Conference on Information Systems 2006

  20. S. S. Satchidananda and P. Konana. Developing Rural Credit Broker System. Submitted to the First International Symposium of Information Systems at ISB, Hyderabad, India, Dec 16-18, 2006.

  21. Bin Gu, P. Konana, A. Liu, B. Rajagopalan and J. Ghosh. Identifying Information in Stock Message Boards and Its Implications for Stock Market Efficiency. Accepted for Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, 2006

  22. J. Park, B. Gu, and P. Konana. The Word-of-Mouth Effect of Third-Party Customer Reviews on Retailer Sales, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, 2007.

  23.  Bin Gu, P. Konana, A. Liu, and B. Rajagopalan. Predictive value of stock message boards. Second International Symposium of Information Systems at ISB, Hyderabad, India, Dec 20-22, 2007.

PRESENTATIONS

1.      A Transaction Model to Support Active Rapidly Changing data Systems databases. ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Detroit, October 1994.

2.      A Transaction Model for Active Rapidly changing data systems (ARCS) databases. The Ernst and Young Doctoral Consortium of the 15th ICIS, Vancouver, B. C., 1994.

3.      Semantics based transaction processing for real-time database: A protocol and performance evaluation. INFORMS - Conference on Information Systems and Technology, May 4-5, Washington D.C., 1996.

4.      Research Issues in Real-time Databases in the Context of Electronic Commerce. In Workshop on Databases: Active and Real-time (Concepts meet Practice), Washington D.C., November 1996 (Only nine out of 19 papers were selected for presentation).

5.      Paradigm Changes in Computing. Systems Logic, Inc., December 1996, Bangalore, India.

6.      An architecture for real-time monitoring in electronic commerce. October 26-29, INFORMS, 1997.

7.      Distributed Information System Coordination through Software Teams. In the International Conference on Information Systems, Atlanta, 1997 (With J. Durrett).

8.      Databases and Data Warehouse. TILAR ‘98, Texas Business School, The University of Texas at Austin, July, 1998.

9.      Timeliness in Electronic Brokerage: Issues in Brokerage Design. First International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce, Vanderbilt, November 20-22 1998.

10.  Timeliness in Electronic Brokerage: Issues in Brokerage Design. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (Jan 6, 1999).

11.  Impact of IT on Businesses. NIIT, Bangalore, India, Jan 8, 1999.

12.  Active and Real-time Functionalities for Electronic Brokerage Design. Workshop on Advance Issues of E-commerce and Web-based Information Systems. Santa Clara, CA, April 8-9, 1999.

13.  Relational Exchanges in Electronic Commerce. INFORMS Meeting, May 2, 1999.

14.  Data Warehouse for the future. National Association of Utility Distributors, June 10, 1999.

15.  Y2K Readiness: Financial Services Industry. Association of Retired Texas Faculty, October 15, 1999.

16.  Understanding Trustworthiness Beliefs in Electronic Brokerage Usage, In the Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Information Systems, Charlotte, North Carolina, December 12-15, 1999.

17.  MIS Curriculum Overview and E-Business Portal. The University of Texas at Austin, BBA Steering Committee meeting, June 23 2000.

18.  E-business Value Assessment. Dell DirectConnect Conference, September 22, Austin TX (along with Profs. Whinston, Barua and Mr. Kevin Rollins (Vice Chairman of Dell Computers).

19.  E-business Value Assessment. Multi-Channel Conference, Austin TX, November 2.

20.  Internet Economy and E-business Valuation. SystemsLogic Inc., Bangalore, India. January 10, 2001.

21.  E-Business Value Assessment. Cornell University, March 2001.

22.  Determinants of the level of Internet-based Procurement, AIS August 4, 2001 (with A. Mishra).

23.  Panel coordinator – “IT Enabled Business Transformation,” MIS Steering Committee, The University of Texas at Austin 2003.

24.  Panel Coordinator – “Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Technology,” MIS Steering Committee, The University of Texas at Austin, November 2003.

25.  Social- -Economic-Psychological Model of Technology Adoption and Usage, The University of Arizona, October 24, 2003.

26.  IT Core Curriculum – Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) 2003, Seattle, Washington, Dec 14, 2003.

27.  Lee, C.G., A. Mok and P. Konana. Monitoring of timing constraints threshold requirements. In the Proceedings of IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Cancun, Mexico 2003. (presented by C.G.Lee)

28.  L. Ge and P. Konana. Global Sourcing and IT-Enabled Business Processes: The Rationale for Unbundling. In the Proceedings of Americas Information System Conference, New York, August 2004. (presented by L. Ge)

29.  B. Rajagopalan, P. Konana, M. Wimble, C. G. Lee. Extracting Relevance from Virtual Investing-Related Community Postings. The Proceedings of Americas Information System Conference, New York, August 2004. (Presented by B. Rajagopalan)

30.  D. Wu, G. Ray, P. Konana and A.B. Whinston. Competitive Environment and the Impact of IT on Vertical Integration. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, UC-Irvine, 2005. (Presented by G. Ray)

31.  India as Knowledge Economy – South Asia Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004

32.  India as Knowledge Economy – University of Washington, Seattle, April 2004.

33.  Database overview and impacts – LBJ School of Public Policy, The University of Texas at Austin, September 2004.

34.  Value Chain Unbundling and Global Sourcing, The University of Arizona, November 2004.

35.  IT Core Curriculum – Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) 2003, Seattle, Washington, Dec 14, 2003.

36.  Choice of sourcing mechanism for business processes, National Instruments, August 20005

37.  Choice of sourcing mechanism for business processes, University of Maryland, College Park, October 14 2005

38.  Choice of sourcing mechanism for business processes, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Nov 4, 2005

39.  Indo-China Century: The Emerging Economies, University of Tulsa, Nov 3, 2005

40.  Indo-China Century: The Emerging Economies, LNG Consultants, Houston, Oct 14, 2005

41.  MBA Core Curriculum, Boston University, Nov 16, 2005

42.  Choice of sourcing mechanism for business processes, Boston University, Boston, Nov. 17 2005

43.  Globalization and Business process sourcing, Undergraduate Research Seminar, McCombs School of Business, Jan 31, 2006.

44.  Choice of sourcing mechanism for business processes, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Information Systems Research (ISR) Special Issue Workshop, March 24-25, 2006.

45.  Choice of sourcing mechanism for business processes, Advisory Board Meeting, McCombs School of Business, UT-Austin, 2006.

46.  Rural Credit Delivery System, Indian School of Business, December 16/17, 2006.

47.  Panel moderator – Fuelling Economic Development Through IT Innovation, December 18, Indian School of Business, 2006.

48.  Predictive value of stock message board sentiments, Oklahoma State University, March 1, 2007

49.  Choice of Business Process Sourcing, Carnegie Mellon University, February 2007.

50.  India and China: The opportunities and threats of emerging economies, MBA Alumni Business Meeting, March 2007.

51.  Predictive value of stock message board sentiments, University of Texas at Dallas, September 2007.

52.  Predictive value of stock message board sentiments, International Symposium of Information Systems, Indian School of Business, India 2007

53.  Outsourcing during economic downturn, International Association of Outsourcing Professional, Austin, July 2008.

54.  Global sourcing and value chain unbundling, September 2008, Project Management Institute, Austin TX 2008

55.  Beyond E-Business, Oakland University, October 2008.

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial Board

1.      Senior Editor (Guest), Management Information Systems Quarterly, 2005/2006

2.      Associate Editor, Information Systems Research, 2005 - present

3.      Associate Editor, Management Information Systems Quarterly, 2003 – present

4.      Editorial Review Board – Journal of AIS, 2002 - present

5.      Editorial Review Board – Information Technology and Management, 2002 - present

6.      Editorial Review Board – Journal of Database Management (2000-2001)

Program Committee

1.      17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Singapore, November 1998.

2.      WECWIS - International Workshop on Advance Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems, Santa Clara, California, April 8-9, 1999.

3.      INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Cincinnati, Ohio (May 2-5,1999).

4.      Second International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce, Vanderbilt (ICTEC), Nashville, October 1999.

5.      WECWIS - International Workshop on Advance Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems, June 8 - 9, 2000, in San Jose, CA.

6.      The Third International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce (ICTEC) Dallas, TX, USA, November 16-19, 2000.

7.      The Fourth International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce (ICTEC) Dallas, TX, USA, October 2001.

8.      Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2001.

9.      Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2002.

10.  INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Miami, Florida (2001).

11.  INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, California (2002).

12.  Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2002

13.  Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2003.

14.  Co-Chair, Business Value of IT track, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2004. (Managed 70+ papers)

15.  TieCon Conference on U.S.-India: Harnessing Global opportunity, Organizing committee, Aug. 2004

16.  First International Symposium of Information Systems, Hyderabad, India, December 2006

17.  Second International Symposium of Information Systems, Hyderabad, India, December 2007

18.  Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2007

19.  INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2007

20.  Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2008

College and Department Services, The University of Texas at Austin

Dean’s Faculty Advisory Committee member, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07

MBA Plus Program advisory committee, 2003 – 04, 2004-05

MBA Policy committee member, 2002-03.

Member, MBA Policy Committee, 2002-2003. 

Member, Core Council, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-02.

Member, Budget Council. Department of MSIS, 1996-97, 2001-02.

Director, BBA-MIS program, 2002 - current

Co-chair, Undergraduate MIS program curriculum development 2002.

Presented curriculum overview/E-business bridge for BBA-MIS steering committee, 2001.

Initiated the development of e-business bridge, 2001

Faculty teaching load committee, 2001.

Panel Coordinator – Future of B2B Markets, NetTime Symposium, 2001

Member, Laptop Policy committee, 1999-2000. Created and administered laptop survey for all MBA and MPA students

Member, Information Technology Committee, 1996-97

Member, MIS Undergraduate Scholarship Committee, 1995-96

Member, Vision MIS Committee, 1995-96.

Other Services, The University of Texas at Austin

  1. Educational Policy Committee, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005 – current

  2. Director search committee, South Asia Institute, The University of Texas at Austin

  3. Advisory Committee, South Asia Institute, The University of Texas at Austin.

  4. Academy of Distinguished Teachers committee to recommend University core curriculum to the President of UT

  5. Co-Chair, Globalization and Implications for Democracy, The University of Texas at Austin, April 8-9, 2005.