Pratyush Bharati
Department:
Management Science & Info Sys
Title:
Professor
Location:
McCormack Hall Floor 05
Phone:
617.287.7695
Areas of Expertise
Social Media and Organizations, Green Information Systems, Social Media and Social Movements, International Production of Software and Services, Diffusion of Information Technologies in SMEs.
Degrees
PhD, Rensselaer
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Bharati, P., Du, K., Chaudhury, A. and Agrawal, N. M. (Forthcoming) “Idea Co-creation on Social Media Platforms: Towards a Theory of Social Ideation,” The 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.
- Bharati, P. and Chaudhury, A. (2006), “Current Status of Technology Adoption: Micro, Small and Medium Manufacturing Firms in Boston”, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 49, No. 10, pp. 88-93.
- Bharati, P. and Chaudhury, A. (2004), “An Empirical Investigation of Decision-Making Satisfaction in Web-Based Decision Support Systems”, Decision Support Systems, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 187-197.
Additional Information
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
- Past-President, Special Interest Group on Green Information Systems (SIGGreen) of Association for Information Systems
- Editorial Review Board, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE-TEM)
- Track Chair, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2009-Present
Honors
- Fulbright Senior Researcher Award
- AIS Distinguished Member, Association for Information Systems
- Senior Editor of the Year Award, Association for Computing Machinery's SIGMIS
- Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Grant
- CM Commonwealth Award, University of Massachusetts
- Public Service Endowment Grant, University of Massachusetts
Research Interests
- Social Media and Organizations
- Green Information Systems
- Social Media and Social Movements
- International Production of Software and Services
- Diffusion of Information Technologies in SMEs