Nainika Seth Patnayakuni, Ph.D.

Nainika Seth Patnayakuni, Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems

Office: Business Administration Bldg. 320
Phone: 256.824.6182
Email: Naina.Seth@uah.edu
Homepage: http://cba.uah.edu/patnayn

Education

  • Ph.D. - Department of Management, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL,  2002
    Dissertation: Towards a Theoretical Model of Digitally Induced Enterprise Transformation
                       Empirical Study of IT Infrastructure, Resource Flow Integration, Partnerships and Performance in
                       Supply Chains
  • M.B.A. - Department of Management, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 1992
  • Post Graduate Degree - Management, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India, 1988
  • B.S. - Math, Ravishankar University, Raipur, India, 1984

Research Interests

  • Information Technology in supply chains
  • Inter-organizational relationships, Networks and information sharing
  • Electronic Government
  • Digital Divide

Teaching Interests

  • Introductory IS course, Graduate and Undergraduate
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • Business Statistics and Research Methods
  • Networking/ Telecommunications
  • Introduction to Programming with Visual Basic
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Service and Professional Activities

  • Mini-Track Co-Chair with Cynthia Ruppel and Jeet Gupta for track on Digitization in Supply Chains in Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2006.
  • "Supply Chain Management in the Digital Economy", Mini-track co-chair with Ravi Patnayakuni, AMCIS 2002.
  • "Information Technology Outsourcing in the New Economy", Mini-track co-chair with Ravi Patnayakuni, AMCIS 2001
  • Reviewing for information systems conferences (IRMA, AMCIS etc.) and journals (Decision Sciences, Database etc.

Publications

Journals

  • Patnayakuni, R, A Rai, and N Seth, "Relational antecedents of information flows in supply networks," Journal of Management Information Systems , 23, 1,(2006), 13.
  • Rai, A, R Patnayakuni, and N Seth, "Firm performance impacts of digitally-enabled supply chain integration capabilities," MIS Quarterly 30, 2, (2006), 225-246.
  • Setzekorn, K, V Sugumaran, N Patnayakuni "A comparison of Implementation resistance factors for DMSS versus other information systems", Information Resources Management Journal , vol. 15, no. 4, (2002) 48-63.
  • Patnayakuni, R and N Patnayakuni, "Information processing theory as a guide to choosing information delivery models on the WWW," Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research , 58, 2, (1999), 203-210.
  • Rai, A, R Patnayakuni and N Patnayakuni, "Technology investments and business performance," Communications of the ACM , 40, 7, (1997), 89-97.
  • Rai, A, R Patnayakuni and N Patnayakuni, "Refocusing where and how IT value is realized." Omega: The International Journal of Management Science , 24, 4, (1996), 399-412.

Working Papers - Research in Progress

  • Patnayakuni, R, N Seth and A Rai, "Building social capital with IT and collaboration in supply chains: An empirical investigation" accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Information Systems, Milwaukee, WI, December 2006.
  • Rai, A, R Patnayakuni, P Zhang and N Seth, "Identifying supply chain capabilities that impact facets of firm performance." (working paper).
  • Seth, N, R Patnayakuni, A Rai, "Physical flow integration under supply chain uncertainty" (working paper).
  • Patnayakuni, R, N Seth and A Rai, "Leveraging digital supply chain integration for business value creation," (working paper).
  • Seth, N and R Patnayakuni, "Social Translucence Theory and Use Context of Instant Messaging" (working paper).

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