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Hindupur Ramakrishna
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Hindupur Ramakrishna

Hindupur Ramakrishna Ph.D.

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Business Administration & Management

Education

  • Ph.D. in business administration (Major: Decision Sciences) – Georgia State University 2003
  • BE in Mechanical Engineering – Bangalore University, India 1972

Professional Background

My academic training in engineering prepared me well for my Ph.D. in Decision Sciences (& information systems). My teaching and research has focused on the intersection of decision sciences and information systems – business analytics, GIS, and value of information systems, both from people and technology.

Previous Teaching Experience

  • Penn State University, Great Valley
  • Salisbury State University
  • Old Dominion University
  • University of Connecticut
  • Georgia State Univeristy

Previous Relevant Work Experience

  • Manager in a steel plant(in India) in-charge of maintenance

Consulting Experience

  • Role of IS in operations -- Government
  • Role of IS in Small Business
  • Intellectual property issues in IT start-ups

Publications

“Case:CoffeePlus.” Journal of Business Cases and Applications Volume 39. (2023) (with Avijit Sarkar & Bindiganavale Vijayaraman).

“Development of an Introductory MBA Course in Business Analytics Using Data-Driven Decision-Making (DDDM) Model,” Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, Vol. 22 (12), 2022, 181-196. (with Avijit Sarkar & Bindiganavale Vijayaraman).

“Infusion of GIS and spatial analysis in business school curricula: A status report”, Journal of Informatics Education Research, Spring/Fall 2010, http://www.sig-ed.org/jier/2010/JIER2010_ramakrishna.pdf (with A. Sarkar, and B. Vijayaraman).

“Factors affecting the design of short-term study abroad programs: An exploratory study of two business schools”, Journal of Teaching in International Business, Vol. 27 (2-3, 2016), pp. 124-141.(with Sarkar and Vijayaraman)

“A tutorial on geographic information systems: A ten-year update”, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2016, 38: 190-234 (with D. Farkas, B. Hilton, J. Pick, A. Sarkar, and N. Shin).

“Conceptualization and Exploration of composite Career Anchors: An Analysis of Information Systems Personnel,” Human Resource Development Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2003), pp. 199-214 (with Denise Potosky)

“Goal Orientation, Self-Efficacy, Organizational Climate, and Job Performance,” Human Performance, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2002), pp. 275-297 (with Denise Potosky).

“Perception of the Role of Information Technology in Organizations: Development of a Measure,” Computer Personnel, Vol. 20, No. 4 (1999 – actually published in 2002), pp. 39-54 (with Xiaohua Lin).

"The Fact-Net Model: A Problem Diagnosis Procedure," Interfaces, Vol. 16, No. 6 (1986), pp. 86-94 (with Harvey J. Brightman).

Awards and service

  • Recipient of Levi-Strauss Foundation Scholarship, 1980-1981
  • Recipient of the George E. Manner's award for Graduate Studies in Business, 1980-1981
  • Winner -- Best Empirical/Application Paper ABA Conference, 1994
  • Excellence in teaching award, 2008