Prasanna Karhade

Prasanna Karhade
Chinese University of Hong Kong | CUHK · Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics

PhD (Illinois)
I study decolonization of digital platforms in growing, rural, eastern, aspirational and transitional [GREAT] domains.

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Introduction
Digital Innovation and Platforms
Education
August 2003 - December 2009
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Field of study
  • Business Administration

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Publications (57)
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This study explores the impact of a digital shift on the dual bottom-line performance objectives of rational social enterprises, focusing on a Microfinance Institution as an exemplar. We examine how the shift influences social and business outcomes and investigate the moderating effects of the presence of social and for-profit enterprises, along wi...
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We have entered an era where, in addition to us humans, systems can also think. It is imperative to decide how decision rights and authorities are allocated and distributed across interconnected co-cognitors: things that think. To address this question vital to the redesign of organizations, we reconceptualize cognitive reapportionment as the dynam...
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Family-owned businesses differ in their strategic intent and behavior as they serve as a reservoir of wealth and social status for their family owners. Family-owned businesses demonstrate relatively conservative strategic decision making that aspires long-term wealth preservation and enhancement. For family owners, investments in information techno...
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In this article, the authors provide an overview of the potential and challenges of machine learning for healthcare decision support. They first discuss the healthcare decision support ecosystems, including (1) beneficiaries, (2) health data, and (3) models. They then introduce the three main challenges of the healthcare decision support systems: d...
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Family owned businesses comprise a large stratum of the global economy. These firms differ in their strategic intent and behavior as they serve as a reservoir of wealth and social status for their family owners. Family owned businesses demonstrate relatively conservative strategic decision making that aspires long-term wealth preservation and enhan...
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Infobesity presents a challenge in the information age, necessitating business intelligence systems for conducting business. The information age is also characterized by organizations spread across culturally different countries, which gain performance benefits from multiple national cultures. We study the effect of Business Intelligence Systems an...
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Online freelancing markets connect buyers with workers globally to assign various categories of tasks. A worker’s quality on the platform could be assessed by their past performance (reputation systems), skills, and experience. However, these methods cannot provide insights about the worker quality in case of newly acquired skills or new workers pa...
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Globalized firms maintain a presence across multiple countries encompassing multiple cultures. Cross-border, multicultural firms can leverage digital technologies to harness diverse information spread across the organization to generate insights and innovation. Conversely, digital technologies can cause organizations to suffer from infobesity. We e...
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Though innovation is considered to be the lifeblood of business, speed of innovation is more critical than innovation itself. IT plays a critical role in the process of open innovation as it is based upon collaborating with suppliers and customers. IT enables increased collaboration and generation of insights across the firm's partner network. We e...
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Infobesity is characterized by information overload whereby firms and decision makers collect more information than they need, or they can efficiently use. While recent studies have begun to unravel the antecedents of infobesity in organizations, there is a need to examine the relationship between the frequency and the degree of experiencing infobe...
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A firm's investment in information technology (IT) has been widely considered as a key enabler of innovation. In this study, we intend to integrate prior findings for augmenting pathways (whereby IT investment supports innovation) with a new theory for suppressing pathways (whereby dynamic adjustment costs associated with IT investment can be detri...
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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is changing business models across countries and industries. Although IT-enabled services effectively deployed short-term work-from-home (WFH) solutions to facilitate commerce and omnichannel communication during the pandemic, many are now exploring the viability of a long-term work-at-home (WAH) approach. This sho...
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Enterprise systems are a double-edged sword for organizations. The positive impact of implementing these systems on the firm's performance has been widely researched. However, enterprise systems cannot be commended as the silver bullet for improving the firm's business operations. Past literature has identified that enterprise systems can reduce fl...
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While remote virtual workplaces have been studied, including those in IT leadership, the coronavirus pandemic has created an urgent need to address these work-from-home and work-from-anywhere approaches in greater detail and nuance. While the pandemic completely changed the functioning of the world, causing social damage and dislodging traditional...
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A firm's use of boundary-spanning information systems (BSIS) can be beneficial for innovation by providing access to market-facing information. At the same time, BSIS use can give rise to information overload, making it difficult for firms to leverage the most pertinent information for innovation. Although there has been progress in developing our...
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Digital platforms are transforming commerce practice. Technology is not separate from the socio-cultural environment in which it is used and, thus, platforms mostly capture and imbue values of their origins in the west. As digital platforms are “migrated” outside the west, western values intrinsically embedded in the digital platforms are also unkn...
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Digital platforms are transforming commerce practice in a variety of industries. Driven by network effects, platforms are incentivized to increase sup-plier and consumer participation. Increased participation on digital platforms can give rise to infobesity, a condition characterized by information overload whereby various stakeholders collect and...
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Digital platforms are conveniently connecting multiple service providers with their consumers. How does assortment and participation influence the performance of service providers on digital platforms? In particular, food delivery platforms are providing consumers with a high level of home delivery convenience. Food delivery platforms are also uniq...
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While prior research has established that information technology (IT) investment has a significant impact on firm performance, relatively few studies have provided insights into the antecedents of IT investment decisions. By integrating the behavioral theory of the firm and agency theory, we propose a behavioral agency theory to explain performance...
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Researchers can examine ethical implications of online rating systems to understand how they function as ‘knowledge instruments’ and affect social relations and networks connected with them. Research should address the fact that the underlying economic structures that design and deploy knowledge producing ‘technical objects’ on online platforms are...
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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 19th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2020, which took place virtually on December 12, 2020. The purpose of WeB is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss findings, novel ideas, and lessons learned to address major challenges and map out the future directions for e-Business....
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Enterprise systems are a double-edged sword for organizations. The positive impact of implementing these systems on the firm’s performance has been widely researched. However, enterprise systems cannot be commended as the silver bullet for improving the firm’s business operations. Past literature has identified that enterprise systems can reduce fl...
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In this study, we propose that research conducted in Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) domains does not necessarily generalize to the rest of the world. Growing, rural, eastern, aspirational, transitional (GREAT) domains now account for a significant proportion of world economic output and, thereby, warrant special att...
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Digital platforms have transformed various industries, with profound changes witnessed in settings characterized by repeated, low value, and novel transactions, such as ride sharing, household services, and food delivery. Platform providers need to understand the factor(s) that suppliers consider before choosing to participate on their platforms. W...
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Several questions relevant to IT investments by family firms remain unanswered, such as, how family ownership influences a firm’s IT investment and how the management type, including family management and professional management, further influences the family ownership and IT investment relationship. This study proposes several testable hypotheses,...
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Family-owned firms constitute majority of businesses in China, the United States, and India. We merge the Socioemotional Wealth perspective and microfoundations-based theories to explore the combined effect of nature of ownership and the top management team, on investment in IT-based Information Management. Analysis of an unbalanced 11-year panel o...
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We leverage machine learning methods to investigate the role of online ratings on ratee decision making on an online food delivery platform in India. Findings reveal that in the emerging economies, ratings are not likely to have a strong bearing on certain ratee decisions on the online platform. Research on the platform economy in the emerging mark...
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Questions pertaining to the locus of information systems (IS) governance have been extensively examined in existing research. However, questions pertaining to the decision rationale applied for IS portfolio prioritization (why are certain initiatives approved, and why are certain others rejected), noted to be a critical component of IS governance,...
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Recent literature documents mixed findings on the impact of information technology (IT) investment on firm innovation outputs, calling for deeper exploration of the mechanisms through which IT influences innovation that can reconcile these mixed findings. Based on the evolutionary theory of the firm, we theorize the impacts of IT investment on the...
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In light of information technology (IT) increasingly leading to enterprise transformation in contemporary firms, we aim to build a theory of IT-enabled capabilities in innovation activity of the firm. For so doing, we extensively review almost five hundred innovation studies in organization and IS literature and conduct a thematic analysis to ident...
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Resource-based theory views the firm as a bundle of resources administrated and coordinated by managers. We introduce the theoretical lens of Penrose effect to IS research, which refers to the fact that finite managerial capacities will suffer if the complexity of resource coordination is high. Therefore, although investment in knowledge-related as...
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How do managers make their decisions with regard to adjustment and deployment of information technology (IT) over time? Motivated by this complex dynamics, we draw on behavioral theory of the firm and theorize a bounded rational process of managerial decision making for IT investment. In particular, we explain the dynamic adjustment of IT investmen...
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We investigate the relationship between a firm's investments in knowledge-related assets and innovation. We propose curvilinear (inverted-U shaped) effects of human capital investments and IT capital investments on firm innovation respectively. Based on the analysis of 349 German firms across industries, corroborating support for the proposed relat...
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The complexity and scope of outsourced information technology (IT) demands relationship-specific investments from vendors, which, when combined with contract incompleteness, may result in underinvestment and inefficient bargaining, referred to as the holdup problem. Using a unique data set of over 100 IT outsourcing contracts, we examine whether co...
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This dissertation examines the structural properties of patterns in the decision-making processes used for information technology (IT) portfolio management with an emphasis on two key issues; (1) strategic alignment and (2) the mitigation of risks early-on during planning. Based on the cross sectional analysis of a large portfolio of decisions, I b...
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Alignment between business strategy and IS strategy is relevant to most large organizations today. We build on the literature on alignment and strategic IS planning to study patterns of antecedents that explain planning decisions. When addressing misalignment risks: Are there systematic differences in the patterns of antecedents that explain decisi...
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IT portfolio management and the related planning decisions for IT-dependent initiatives are critical to organizational performance. Building on the logic of appropriateness theoretical framework, we define an important characteristic of decision rules used during IT portfolio planning; rule appropriateness with regards to the risk-taking criterion....
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Firms use formal contracts as governance devices to manage their inter-organizational relationships. We examine 52 such contracts written for Information Technology (IT) services to investigate whether they possess properties as suggested by contract theory. We combine constructs from transaction costs economics and agency theory to understand driv...
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The importance for organizations and organizational processes to be flexible has long been recognized. Much research has been conducted to understand and improve flexibility at the level of the organization. At the process level, however, most research efforts have concentrated on ma nufacturing processes while managerial and ad- ministrative busin...
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Typescript. Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia State University, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-70).

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