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Terry College of Business

Georgia's flagship business school, founded in 1912

Amrit Tiwana

  • Associate Professor

Education

Degree Field of Study Institution Graduation Year
PhD Information Systems
Georgia State University
 2002

Areas of Expertise

  • Software ecosystems
  • Modularity
  • Corporate IT governance
  • IT strategy

Prior Professional Positions

Organization / Department Title Years of Service
Iowa State University
 Union Pacific Professorship and Associate Professor of MIS 2004 to 2010
Emory University
 Assistant Professor 2001 to 2004

Consulting

Company Location Year(s)
UPS, Eli Lilly, Hewlett-Packard, KPMG, SAP AG, PMI US -
IBM, Hitachi, Sony, Toshiba, NEC, Mitsui, Sumitomo Steel, NTT Japan -
Ericsson Denmark -

Awards

Award Name Awarded By Year Awarded
Service Award
Information Systems Research (INFORMS)
 2011
University-wide Early Achievement in Research award
Iowa State University
 2010
Outstanding Associate Editor award
Information Systems Research (INFORMS)
 2009
Best paper award
Decision Sciences Journal
 2006
Best paper award
European Conf. on Information Systems
 2001

Editorial Appointments

Position Name of Journal Year(s)
Editorial Board
Journal of Management Information Systems
2010 -
Editorial Board
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
2010 -
Special Issue Co-editor
Journal of Management Information Systems
 2012 -
Senior Editor
Information Systems Research
 2013 -
Associate Editor
MIS Quarterly
 2012 - 2013
Associate Editor
Information Systems Research
2008 - 2011

Service

Organization Title Year(s) Service Type
Terry Speciality Certificates Committee
Chair 2010 - 2011 University
Doctoral Program Coordinator
 MIS 2012 - University
Graduate Programs Committee
 Departmental Rep 2012 - University
Business Technology Management Institute
 Research board 2007 - Community
Japan Electronics & IT Industry Association (JEITA)
 Advisory 2005 - 2007 Community
Nobel Fulbright Institute
 Advisory council 2003 - 2007 Community
Japan’s Joint Forum for Strategic Software Research
 Advisor 2006 - 2009 Community

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

  • Tiwana. 2012. Novelty-Knowledge Alignment: A Theory of Design Convergence in Systems Development. Journal Of Management Information Systems, 29(1), 2012, 13-50..
  • Tiwana. 2009. Knowledge-Governance Fit in Systems Development Projects. Information Systems Research, (20(2)): 180-197.
  • Tiwana, A. and B. Konsynski. 2010. Complementarities between Organizational IT Architecture and Governance Structure. Information Systems Research, (21(2)): 288-304.
  • Tiwana, Konsynski, and Bush. . Platform Evolution: Coevolution of Platform Architecture, Governance, and Environmental Dynamics. Information Systems Research, (Dec 2010).
  • Fichman, R, M. Keil, and A. Tiwana. 2005. Beyond Valuation: Real Options Thinking in IT Project Management. California Management Review, (47(2)): 74-100. (Harvard reprint ID: CMR304.).
  • Tiwana, A.. 2008. Impact of Classes of Development Coordination Tools on Software Development Performance. Acm Transactions On Software Engineering & Methodology, (17(2)): 1-47.
  • Tiwana, A. . 2008. Does Interfirm Modularity Complement Ignorance? A Field Study of Software Outsourcing Alliances. Strategic Management Journal, (29(11)): 1241-1252.
  • Tiwana, A. . 2008. Does Technological Modularity Substitute for Control? A Study of Alliance Performance in Software Outsourcing. Strategic Management Journal, (29(7)): 769-780.
  • Tiwana, A. . 2008. Do Bridging Ties Complement Strong Ties? An Empirical Examination of Alliance Ambidexterity. Strategic Management Journal, (29(3)): 251-272.
  • Tiwana, A. and M. Keil . 2007. Does Peripheral Knowledge Complement Control? A Study of Technology Outsourcing Alliances. Strategic Management Journal, 28(6): 623-634.
  • Tiwana. forthcoming . Systems Development Ambidexterity: Explaining the Complementary and Substitutive Roles of Formal and Informal Controls. Journal Of Management Information Systems.
  • Tiwana and Bush. 2007. A Comparison of Transaction Cost, Agency, and Knowledge-based Predictors of IT Outsourcing Decisions. Journal Of Management Information Systems, 24(1): 263-305.
  • Tiwana, A. and M. Keil. 9-44. LEAD PAPER. Control in Internal and Outsourced Software Projects. Journal Of Management Information Systems, 26(3), (2010).
  • Tiwana, A. and E. McLean . 2005. Expertise Integration and Creativity in Information Systems Development. Journal Of Management Information Systems, 22(1): 13-43. LEAD PAPER.
  • Tiwana, A., M. Keil, R. Fichman. 2006. IS Project Continuation in Escalation Situations: A Real Options Model. Decision Sciences Journal, 37(3), . Won The 2006 Decision Scienc: 357-391.
  • Tiwana, J. Wang, M. Keil, and P. Ahluwalia. 2007. The Bounded Rationality Bias in Managerial Valuation of Real Options: Theory and Evidence from IT Projects. Decision Sciences Journal, 38(1): 157-181.

Books

  • Tiwana. 1999. The Knowledge Management Toolkit: Orchestrating IT, Strategy, and Knowledge Platforms [Translated into French, Polish, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Korean,and and Turkish]. Prentice-Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ.
  • Tiwana. 2001. Knowledge Management: E-business and Customer Relationship Management Applications [Translations into French, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, and Portuguese]. Prentice-Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ.
  • Tiwana. 1998. Web Security. Elsevier Press: Woburn, MA.
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