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Amitava Dutta

亚洲AV Costello College of Business Faculty Amitava Dutta
Titles and Organizations

Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management
Additional Roles: LeRoy Eakin Endowed Chair

Contact Information

Email: adutta@gmu.edu
Phone: (703) 993-1779
Office Location: Enterprise Hall 142
Office Hours: By appointment

Biography

Amitava Dutta is a professor and the area chair of information systems and operation management. He holds the LeRoy Eakin Endowed Chair in electronic commerce.

Prior to joining Mason in 1992, Dutta held faculty positions at the University of Iowa and the Simon School of The University of Rochester, New York. He was also a visiting professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India.

Dutta's research interests include telecommunications and electronic commerce, systems thinking/business simulation, and decision support systems. Journals in which his research has appeared include Management Science, Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, European Journal of Operational Research, and IIE Transactions.

Dutta serves on the editorial boards of several information technology journals and frequently serves on the program committees of national conferences in information technology management. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and he is a member of IEEE, ACM and INFORMS.

Dutta was recently appointed an international research fellow at the Electronic Commerce Research Center of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He has consulted with and conducted training seminars for several organizations in the government and private sector.

Dutta earned a B.Tech in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, an MS in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, and a PhD in management information systems from Purdue University.

Research Interests

  • Design and Performance Analysis of Business Process
  • Systems thinking approaches to business problems
  • IT Governance and Auditing
  • Management of IT Services

Education

  • PhD - Management Information Systems, Purdue University
  • MS - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California
  • BS - Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

Research and Awards

  • Published an article titled, 鈥淭echnology Diffusion - Shift Happens: The Case of iOS and Android Handsets鈥 (coauthored with Abhinay Puvvala, Rahul Roy, and Priya Seetharaman) in Technological Forecasting & Social Change in 2017.
  • Had the presentation titled 鈥淢obile Application Developers Platform Choice Model鈥 published in the proceedings from the Hawaii International Conference on Information Systems Sciences in 2016 (with coauthors Avinay Puvvala, Rahul Roy, Priya Seetharaman).
  • Had the presentation titled 鈥淚mplementing EMR: A User Perception View鈥 published in the proceedings from the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) in 2015 (coauthored with Deepa Krishnan, Ramkumar Mohan, Sivaraman Ramanathan, and Rahul Roy).
  • Published an article titled, 鈥淒igital Systems and Competitive Responsiveness: The Dynamics of IT Business Value鈥 in Information & Management in 2014
    (with coauthors Masoud Yasai-Ardekani and Hun Lee).
  • Had the presentation titled 鈥淐alibration of Systems Dynamics Models of Technology Diffusion with Structural Breaks: The Case of Android Handsets鈥 published in the proceedings from the 32nd Annual Conference of Systems Dynamics Society (with coauthors Avinay Puvvala, and Rahul Roy) in 2014.
  • Published an article titled, 鈥淒igital Systems and Competitive Responsiveness: The Dynamics of IT Value鈥 in Information & Management in 2014 (with colleagues Hun Lee and Masoud Yasai).
  • Published an article titled, 鈥淐ourse Management System Adoption and Usage: A Process Theoretic Perspective鈥 (coauthored with Rahul Roy and Priya Seetharaman) in Computers in Human Behavior in 2013.
  • Presented the paper titled, 鈥淪ystem Dynamics Modeling of ICT Diffusion鈥 at the 16th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2012) in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam in聽 in 2012 (with coauthors Rahul Roy, Priya Seetharaman).The paper was also published in the conference proceedings.
  • Presented the paper titled 鈥淜nowledge Leadership: What, Why and How鈥 (with coauthors) at the IFORS 2011 in Melbourne, Australia- VIC in 2011. The presentation was also published in the conference proceedings.
  • Published an article titled, 鈥淪oftware Bundling for Competitive Advantage: Vendor Strategies and Public Policy Implications鈥 (with coauthors) in the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems.
  • Presented the paper titled 鈥淚nformational Determinants of Customer Acquisition and eTailer Revenue鈥 at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) in Lima, Peru. The paper was also published in the conference proceedings.
  • Presented the paper titled 鈥淜nowledge Management or Knowledge Leadership鈥 at the INFORMS-ALIO in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Presented the paper titled 鈥淒rivers of Knowledge Creation in Open Fora: Findings From Wikipedeans鈥 at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) in Lima, Peru. The presentation was published in the conference proceedings.聽
  • Presented the paper titled 鈥淚nformational Determinants of Customer Acquisition and eTailer Revenue鈥 (with Nirup Menon) at the AMCIS in Lima, Peru.
  • Presented the paper titled 鈥淒o Wikipedia Pages Have Parents: An Article Level Inquiry into Wikipedia Inequalities鈥 at the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems in Phoenix, Arizona. The paper was also published in the conference proceedings.
  • Had the presentation titled 鈥淭he Small Worlds of Wikipedia: Implications for Growth, Quality and Sustainability鈥 published in the proceedings from the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).