UMass Boston

Research interests are: artificial intelligence, social media analytics, big data, and green information systems.

PhD, Rensselaer

• Bharati, P., Du, K., Dellarocas, C., Schwarz, A., Tarafdar, M., Xu, J. J., & Xu, P. (Forthcoming). Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Frontiers, and the Challenges Facing IS Scholars. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 59, pp-pp.
• Lee, C., P. Bharati, and E. Vaast. (2026) “Entangling and Coalescing on Social Media: A Study of Issue Boundary Spanning in Movement of Movements.” Information Systems Journal, 1–19.
• Bharati, P., Lee, C., and Syed, R. (Forthcoming), “Social Media Domination: An Empirical Investigation of Trolling Dynamics,” ACM SIGMIS Data Base for Advances in Information Systems.
• Saraf, N., Bharati, P. and Ravichandran, T. (2023) “Does Social Capital Arise from Enterprise or Public Social Media Use? A Model of Social Media Antecedents and Consequences,” Vol. 25, Information Systems Frontiers, pp. 2353-2375.
• Bharati, P., Du, K., Chaudhury, A. and Agrawal, N. M. (2021) “Idea Co-creation on Social Media Platforms: Towards a Theory of Social Ideation,” Vol. 52, No. 3, ACM SIGMIS Data Base for Advances in Information Systems.
• Carberry, E., Bharati, P., Levy, D. L., and Chaudhury, A., (2019) “Social Movements as Catalysts for Corporate Social Innovation: Environmental Activism and Adoption of Green Information Systems,” Vol. 58, No. 5, Business and Society, pp. 1083-1127.
• Bharati, P., and Chaudhury, A. (2018). “Assimilation of big data innovation: Investigating the roles of IT, social media, and relational capital,” Information Systems Frontiers, pp. 1-12.
• Seidel, S., Bharati, P. et al. (2017) "The Sustainability Imperative in Information Systems Research," Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 40, Article 3.
• Manning, S., Larsen, M.M., Bharati, P. (2015) “Global Delivery Models: The Role of Talent, Speed and Time Zones in the Global Outsourcing Industry,” Journal of International Business Studies, 46 (7), pp. 850 - 877.
• Bharati, P., Zhang, W., Chaudhury, A. (2015), “Better Knowledge with Social Media? Exploring the Roles of Social Capital and Organizational Knowledge Management,” Journal of Knowledge Management, 19 (3), pp. 456 - 475.
• Bharati, P., Zhang, C., and Chaudhury, A. (2014), “Social Media Assimilation in Firms: Investigating the Roles of Absorptive Capacity and Institutional Pressures,” Information Systems Frontiers, 16 (2), pp. 257-272.

Background

Deloitte Consulting, New York, NY.

Courses Taught

Project and Change Management, IT Project Management, Management of Information Technology for Quality and Competitive Advantage, Introduction to Information Systems and Web Fluency.

Professional Activities

• Senior Editor, The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems Journal
• Associate Editor, Communications of Association for Information Systems
  • Coordinating Editor, Information Systems Frontiers
• Associate Vice President (AVP) Sustainability, Association for Information Systems
• Past-President, Special Interest Group on Green Information Systems (SIGGreen) of Association for Information Systems
• Track Chair, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

Honors

• Fulbright Senior Researcher Award
• AIS Distinguished Member, Association for Information Systems
• Senior Editor of the Year Award, Association for Computing Machinery's SIGMIS

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence
• Social Media and Organizations
• Green Information Systems
• Social Media and Social Movements
• International Production of Software and Services
• Diffusion of Information Technologies in SMEs

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