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Abhijit Jain ("Abhi")

Ph.D. Candidate (A.B.D.) and University Fellow
Department of Management Information Systems
Fox School of Business
Temple University, Philadelphia

Contact Details:

Department of MIS,
Room 210, Speakman Hall, Temple University,
1810 N. 13th St., Philadelphia, PA 19122.

Cell Phone: (215) 939 7574
Office Phone: (215) 204 4868

Note: I will be attending ICIS 2005 in Las Vegas.

Summary:

  • While a doctoral student, have had solo-authored papers accepted at ICIS, the Academy of Management Annual Conference (AOM) and HICSS.
  • Currently working on final stages of dissertation with an eminent dissertation advisory committee.
  • Awarded a Temple University "University Fellowship", the most competitive and prestigious research grant awarded to doctoral students at Temple, worth $30,000.
  • Taught undergraduate students at Temple and received excellent teaching evaluations.
  • SAP AG (Germany) certified SAP Technical Development Consultant.

Detailed and Updated Vita:

About my Dissertation: (Completion expected by May 2006)

  • Dissertation Title: When Preconceptions Matter: Understanding Preprototype Usefulness of Information Technology, the Case of a Municipal Wireless Network
  • Dissertation Status: ABD (proposal defended, data-collection completed).
  • Click for abstract and committee composition.

Research Interests:

  • Societal and Organizational Dimensions of Information Technology.
  • E-Government (Digital Government) and E-Commerce.
  • Philosophical Foundations of Information Systems Research.
  • Unintended Consequences of Information Technology (e.g. Spam).
  • Critical Theory.

Conference Publications:

Jain, Abhijit; "Assimilation of IT Usage into the Status Quo: A Study of Government Employees in the U.S."; Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Conference (AOM 2004), CMS Group - Shared Interest Track, August 6-11, 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jain, Abhijit; "IT Penetration in the Government Workforce: A resource based analysis of the 50 U.S. State Governments"; Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS - 10), August 5-8, 2004, New York, New York.

Jain, Abhijit; "Non-Dualism and Information Systems Research"; Proceedings of the Manchester 20th Year IFIP WG 8.2 Conference, July 15-17, 2004, Manchester, U.K.

Jain, Abhijit; "Veterans and Internet Use: Implications for Career Preparation and Development Support"; Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMIS CPR* Annual Conference, April 22-24, 2004, Phoenix, Arizona.
*(ACM SIGMIS CPR = Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Management Information Systems Computer Personnel Research) Click for paper

Jain, Abhijit; "Performance Paradox: Information Technology Investments and Administrative Performance in the case of the 50 U.S. State Governments", Proceedings of the Twenty Fourth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS-24), (editors March, S.T., Massey A., and DeGross, J.I.), December 15-17, 2003, Seattle, Washington. Click for paper

Jain, Aby; "Using the Lens of Max Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy to examine E-Government Research", Proceedings of the Thirty Seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), January 4-8, 2004, Big Island, Hawaii. Click for paper

Jain, Abhijit and Patnayakuni, Ravi; "Public Expectations and Public Scrutiny: An Agenda for Research in the context of E-Government"; Proceedings of the Ninth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS-9), August 4-6, 2003, Tampa, Florida. Click for paper

Book Chapters:

Jain, Abhijit; "Non-Dualism and Information Systems Research"; Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory And Informed Practice (Editors: Bonnie Kaplan, Duane P. Truex, David Wastell, A. Trevor Wood-Harper and Janice I. Degross), 2004, Kluwer: Boston, MA, pp. 675-680. Click to download

Presentations at Professional Meetings and Workshops:

Jain, Abhijit; "E-Government, Domestic Security and the Internet: Balancing State Power and Individual Freedoms", presented at the Workshop titled "'Cyberdeviance' in the Digital Economy: Ethical, Legal and Economic Implications", organized by the Irwin L. Gross eBusiness Institute at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 6, 2003.

Jain, Abhijit; "Exploring whether E-Government can promote McDonaldization of Government", Proceedings of the First International E-Services Workshop, Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC-5), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 30, 2003.

Jain, Abhijit; "What do They Think of Us? Interpreting Spam as Mirroring of Society", Organizations and Society in Information Systems (OASIS) 2003 Workshop, organized by the the IFIP 8.2 Working Group on Information Systems in Organizations, Seattle, Washington, December 14, 2003. Click for abstract

Jain, Abhijit; "On Interpreting E-Government as McDonaldization of Government: Exploring Potential Research Methods", Organizations and Society in Information Systems (OASIS) 2003 Workshop, organized by the the IFIP 8.2 Working Group on Information Systems in Organizations, Seattle, Washington, December 14, 2003. Click for abstract

Research in Progress:

  • (With Mandviwalla, Munir) The Digital 'Caste' System.
  • (With Mandviwalla, Munir) Perspectives on Municipal Wireless Networks.
  • Differences in the diffusion of information technology between the private and the government sectors.
  • (With Turetken, Ozgur) How work, individual and technology related factors lead to Telecommuting Success.
  • (With Mandviwalla, Munir & Others) Municipal Wireless Networks: The Promise of Anytime, Anywhere Broadband Access.
  • An investigation of the centralization thesis in relation to information technology adoption by organizations.
  • Gender and information technology usage in US government organizations.
  • Veterans and information technology usage: Implications for post-service career preparation.
  • ToulKit: An agent-based framework for protecting sensitive information in publicly accessible government websites based on Toulmin’s model of argumentation.
  • Understanding E-Government through the Lens of Max Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy.
  • Good for us but not necessarily for me: Individuals attitudes towards group adoption of information technology.
  • McDonaldization: A model to envision the future evolution of e-government.

Papers under Review:

  • (With Mandviwalla, Munir and others) Municipal Broadband Wireless Networks: Realizing the Vision of Anytime, Anywhere Connectivity, currently under review at Communications of the ACM (CACM).

Courses Taught at Temple University:

Teaching Interests:

  • Strategy (General and Information Systems-related).
  • Human-Computer Interaction / User Interface Design.
  • E-Commerce / Marketing.
  • Database Analysis and Design.
  • Enterprise Systems / Enterprise Resource Planning.
  • Decision Support Systems.
  • Knowledge Management.

Reviewing Duties Undertaken:

  • Served as a reviewer for ICIS from 2003 to 2004.
  • Served as a reviewer for AMCIS and HICSS from 2003 to 2005. Served as a reviewer for various other conferences between 2003 and 2005.
  • Have reviewed papers for several journals including Information Systems Journal, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Global Information Management, Journal of International Management, Journal of Information Technology Education, Journal of Issues in Informing Science and and Information Technology, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of International Management.

Professional Activities:

  • Co-organizer (with Dr. Munir Mandviwalla) of the "Municipal Wireless Networks" mini-track at AMCIS 2006 in Cancun Acapulco, Mexico.

References (please click on their names for contact details):

  • Dr. Munir Mandviwalla, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Management Information Systems, Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia.
  • Dr. Ozgur Turetken, Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems, Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia.
  • Dr. Dennis Galletta, Professor of Business Administration, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
  • Dr. Ravi Patnayakuni, Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, UAH Business School, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama.

Honors:

  • Temple University "University Fellowship", the highest research grant awarded to doctoral students at Temple, worth $30,000.
  • Fox School Tuition Scholarship.
  • Management Information Systems Departmental Research Assistantship.

Research Philosophy Statement: Click to download

Teaching Philosophy Statement: Click to download

Rankings: Fox School of Business / Temple University:

  • Top 1% of institutions worldwide cited for research in the field of business and economics (ISI Essential Science Indicators - Institute for Scientific Information).
  • Business School Research Ranking: 62nd in the World (ISI Essential Science Indicators - Institute for Scientific Information).
  • Top 75 Business Schools in the World (Forbes).
  • Top 50 MBA Programs in USA (Financial Times, London).
  • Top 60 MBA Programs in USA (U.S. News and World Report).
  • 4th Most Connected Campus in USA (Princeton Review).
  • Accredited by AACSB International.

 

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Contact Details

Summary

Detailed and Updated Vita

About my Dissertation

Research Interests

Conference Publications

Book Chapters

Presentations at
Professional Meetings
and Workshops

Research in Progress

Papers under Review
Courses Taught

Teaching Interests

Reviewing Duties

Professional Activities

References
Honors

Research Philosophy Statement

Teaching Philosophy Statement

Fox / Temple Rankings

 

At the Florida
Aquarium in Tampa,
during AMCIS,
August 2003.

 

At the Boeing Museum
of Flight in Seattle,
during ICIS,
December 2003.