Research

Rajiv M. Dewan
 

RESEARCH

I am primarily interested in analyzing organizational and industrial organization issues in Information systems and technology area. My primary reference discipline is economics. I am currently working on a number of projects on the economics of the Internet industry. They range from access provider - content provider competition, creation of portal web sites, web page design, nature of on-line advertising and hybrid search mechanisms. I have worked on Workflow design and organizational standards in the last couple of years. Some of my recent work is detailed below.

Award Winning Papers

1. "Managing web sites for profitability: Balancing advertising and content," with Marshall Freimer and Jie Zhang, awarded the best paper award in Internet and Digital Economy Track for the 2002 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Kona, Hawaii. PDF Version

2. "Workflow Redesign through Consolidation in Information Intensive Business Processes," with Abraham Seidmann and Zhiping Walter, awarded the best paper award in Collaborative Technology Track for the 1998 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Kona, Hawaii. PDF version

3. "Strategic Choices in IS Infrastructure: Corporate Standards versus `Best of Breed' Systems," with Shankar Sundaresan and Abraham Seidmann, was judged Best Paper in Conference Theme for the International Conference of Information Systems, Amsterdam, 1995. PDF Version

Recent and on-going work:

"Firms as Incubators of Open Source Software," with Marshall Freimer, and Amit Mehra, forthcoming in Information Systems Research Journal. PDF version

"A Temporary Monopolist: Taking Advantage of Information Transparency on the Web," with Marshall Freimer, and Yabing Jiang,Journal of Management Information Systems, Volume 24, No. 2, Fall 2007. PDF version

"Activity consolidation to improve responsiveness," with Jeff Rummel, Zhiping Walter, and Abraham Seidmann, European Journal of Operations Research, Vol 161 Issue 3, 2005. PDF version

"Web portals: Evidence and analysis of media concentration," with Jie Zhang and Marshall Freimer, JMIS, Vol. 21, No.2, Fall 2004. PDF version

"Consumers prefer bundled add-ins," with Marshall Freimer in Journal of Management Information Systems, Volume 20, No. 3, Winter 2003-04. PDF version

"Product Customization and Price Competition on the Internet," with Bing Jing and Abraham Seidmann, Management Science, Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1055-1070, August 2003. PDF Version

"Managing web sites for profitability: Balancing advertising and content," with Marshall Freimer and Jie Zhang, awarded the best paper award in Internet and Digital Economy Track for the 2002 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Kona, Hawaii. PDF Version

"Adoption of Technology in Organizations: Use of Incentives and Standards for Control and Coordination," with Marshall Freimer, Abraham Seidmann and Shankar Sundaresan, Working Paper, March 2001.

"Adoption of Internet-Based Product Customization and Pricing Strategies," with Bing Jing and Abraham Seidmann, JMIS, vol. 17, No. 2, Fall 2000. PDF version

"Organizing Distribution Channels for Information Goods on the Internet," with Marshall Freimer and Abraham Seidmann, Management Science, vol. 46, No. 4, April 2000. PDF version

"Proprietary Content and Access Providers: Analyzing the intensifying cyberspace battle for users' dollars," with Marshall Freimer and Abraham Seidmann, Commun. Of the ACM, pp 43 - 48, August, 1998. PDF Version

"One to one marketing on the Internet," with Avi Seidmann and Jing Bing, in Proceedings of ICIS, 1999. PDF Version

"Evolution of Internet infrastructure in the 21st century: The role of private interconnection agreements," with with Marshall Freimer and Pavan Gundepudi, in Proceedings of ICIS, 1999. PDF Version

"Portal Kombat: The fight to become the common entry point for consumers to the web," with Marshall Freimer and Abraham Seidmann. Proceedings, HICSS 31, Hawaii, 1998. PDF Version

"Communications in Hierarchical Organizations and Standards Policies for Information Technology," with Shankar Sundaresan and Abraham Seidmann, Journal of Electronic Commerce, Spring 1997, 43-63. PDF Version

Ph.D. Dissertations Chaired:

Shankar Sundaresan, Pennsylvania State University.

Zhiping Walter, University of Denver.

Shigetaka Yamakawa, International University of Japan.

Bing Jing, New York University

Pavan Gundepudi, industry.

Jie Zhang, Univesity of Toledo

Yabing Jiang, Fordham University

Amit Mehra, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India

Atanu Lahiri, University of Washington, Seattle

 

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