Sandeep Purao

Sandeep Purao is on the faculty at the College of IST, Penn State University, University Park, PA.
His research focuses on the design, evolution and management of complex techno-organizational systems.

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Sandeep Purao's research deals with the design, evolution and management of complex techno-organizational systems. This requires blending research methods from organizational science and software engineering. Research outcomes include publications in archival journals, papers in conference proceedings, and the creation of software artifacts tied to empirical assessments. Sandeep also enjoys reflecting on the craft of teaching in this domain, and has published on pedagogical aspects of techno-organizational systems.

Reflection: Is it possible to articulate Grand Challenges for a research agenda that deals with organizations and information technologies? Are researchers with such research agendas helped or hampered by this Disciplinary Characterization?

After completing his PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he was on the faculty at the Computer Information Systems department at Georgia State University, before moving to the inter-disciplinary College (then School) of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. He served as the Graduate Student Adviser at the College from 2005 to 2008; and teaches organizational informatics and enterprise integration. Prior to his academic career, he was a practicing Chartered Accountant in Mumbai, India. He received his Bachelor's degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of Mumbai. He also holds an MBA from Northern Illinois University, where he assisted in the Accounting department.

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• Presentations on the Fundamentals and Processes of Enterprise Architecture at Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland. November 2009. More in Presentations
• Papers forthcoming at the WITS '09 Conference: With Storey and Sugumaran titled From User-contributed Tags to Domain-level Constructs, and With Karunakaran and Cameron titled Recombinable Knowledge Units for Systems Integration Projects December 2009. More in Conferences
• Paper forthcoming at the ICIS '09 Conference: With Karunakaran and Cameron titled From Method Fragments to Knowledge units December 2009. More in Conferences
• Editorial at Journal of Mechanical Design titled Mapping Design Domains, Bridging Design Cultures with Willis, Barton, Simpson and Hunter. August 2009. Download
• Papers forthcoming at the AMCIS '09 Conference: With Vaishnavi, Welke and Lenze on Problem-based Learning, With Srivatsan, He and Jansen on Information Needs of Systems Developers, and With Yi, Clark and Raghuram on Criteria for Process Automation. August 2009. More in Conferences
• Paper forthcoming in the CSCW Journal: With Haynes and Skattebo on Scenario-based Analysis for Evaluating Collaborative Systems, March 2009. More in Publications
• Paper forthcoming at the Integration Journal: With Yi and Clark on Processes to Services, March 2009. More in Publications To be presented at the Global Integration Summit, June 2009.
• Paper forthcoming at Communications of the AIS: With Baldwin, Hevner, Smith, Storey and Zhu on Sciences of Design available at Harvard Business School, Finance Working Paper 09-056 available via SSRN. November 2008. More in Publications

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