Venkat Venkatraman

N Venkat Venkatraman is the David J McGrath Jr Professor of Management and the Chairman, IS Department at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. He was awarded the 2004 and 2006 IBM Faculty Fellowship for his work focusing on business challenges in the network era. His research and teaching lie at the interface between strategic management and information technology, with a particular focus on how companies position to win in a network era.

He has been recently recognized by Thomson Financial/ISI as one of the most cited researchers in strategy and information technology. His 1989 paper in Management Science is considered as one of the highly cited papers over the 50 years of the history of the journal. His research has won awards from The Academy of Management (AT Kearney Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research) and Strategic Management Society (McKinsey Honorable Mention) and his doctoral students have been awarded prizes for their thesis work.

He writes papers for managerial audience and academic publications. His papers for managers have been published in the Sloan Management Review over the last decade. He has also been published in IBM Systems Journal (1993 Special Issue on Strategic Alignment; the Turning Points issue in 2000), Business Strategy Review (London Business School) and Financial Times. His academic research has been published in Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Information Systems Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and others.

He has consulted and/or lectured for many corporations in the USA, Europe and South Africa including IBM, Microsoft, CSC, BP, Novartis, Ericsson, ABN-AMRO, Zurich Financial, McKinsey & Co, Federal Express and others.

Presently, he is engaged in a variety of projects to understand the challenges of winning in the network era given the confluence of computers and communication technology.

EDUCATION

PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Katz Graduate School of Business, 1985 MBA, Indian Institute of Management, 1979 BTech, Indian Institute of Technology, 1976

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Venkatraman, N. (2019). "How to Read and Respond to Weak Digital Signals", Sloan Management Review
• Venkatraman, N., Iyer, B., Subramaniam, M. (2019). "Competing in Digital Ecosystems", Business Horizons, 62 (1), 83-94
• Venkatraman, N., Srinivasan, A. (2018). "Architectural Convergence and Platform Evolution: Empirical Test of Complementor Moves in Videogames", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 99 (12), 43482-43482
• Srinivasan, A., Venkatraman, N. (2018). "Entrepreneurship in digital platforms: A network-centric view", Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 12 (1), 54-71
• Venkatraman, V. (2017). "The Digital Matrix New Rules for Business Transformation Through Technology", LifeTree Media
• Tiwana, A., Konsynski, B., Venkatraman, N. (2013). "Special Issue: Information Technology and Organizational Governance: The IT Governance Cube", Journal of Management Information Systems, 30 (3), 7-12
• Bharadwaj, A., El Sawy, O., Pavlou, P., Venkatraman, N. (2013). "Digital Business Strategy: Toward A Next Generation of Insights", MIS Quarterly, 37 (2), 471-482
• Venkatraman, N. (2012). "Software Business", Springer Verlag
• Lee, C., Venkatraman, N., Tanriverdi, H., Iyer, B. (2010). "Complementarity-Based Hypercompetition in the Software Industry: Theory and Empirical Test", Strategic Management Journal, 31 (13), 1431-1456
• Subramani, M., Venkatraman, N. (2003). "Safeguarding investments in asymmetric interorganizational relationships: Theory and evidence", Academy of Management Journal, 46 (1), 46-62
• Chirstiaanse, E., Venkatraman, N. (2002). "Beyond sabre: An empirical test of expertise exploitation in electronic channels", MIS Quarterly, 26 (1), 15-38
• Subramaniam, M., Venkatraman, N. (2001). "Determinants of transnational new product development capability: Testing the influence of transferring and deploying tacit overseas knowledge", Strategic Management Journal, 22 (4), 359-378
• Venkatraman, N. (2000). "Five steps to a dot-com strategy: How to find your footing on the Web", MIT Sloan Management Review, 41 (3), 15-+
• Venkatraman, N., Tanriverdi, H., Stokke, P., Davenport, T., Sproull, L., Storck, J. (1999). "Is it working? Working from home at Statoil, Norway",
• Bensaou, M., Coyne, M., Venkatraman, N. (1999). "Testing metric equivalence in cross-national strategy research: An empirical test across the United States and Japan", Strategic Management Journal, 20 (7), 671-689
• Henderson, J., Venkatraman, N. (1999). "Strategic alignment: Leveraging information technology for transforming organizations", IBM Systems Journal, 38 (2-3), 472-484
• Venkatraman, N. (1998). "IT agenda 2000:: Not fixing technical bugs but creating business value",
• Venkatraman, N., Henderson, J. (1998). "Real strategies for virtual organizing", MIT Sloan Management Review, 40 (1), 33-+
• Venkatraman, N. (1997). "Coping with turbulence", MIT Sloan Management Review, 38 (3), 5-5
• Venkatraman, N. (1997). "Beyond outsourcing: Managing IT resources as a value center", MIT Sloan Management Review, 38 (3), 51-64
• Bensaou, M., Venkatraman, N. (1996). "Inter-organizational relationships and information technology: A conceptual synthesis and a research framework", European Journal of Information Systems, 5 (2), 84-91
• HENDERSON, J., VENKATRAMAN, N. (1992). "STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT - A MODEL FOR ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", TRANSFORMING ORGANIZATIONS 97-117
• VENKATRAMAN, N., ZAHEER, A. (1989). "ELECTRONIC INTEGRATION AND STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE - A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY", PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS 353-362

SELECTED RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

• Venkatraman, N. Expert Keynote, Bern, Switzerland, 2018
• Venkatraman, N. , Cheng, Z. , Mohan, S. , Ling, X. What drives international alliance formation? The effect of domestic competition networks, Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Atlanta, GA, 2017
• Venkatraman, N. The Digital Matrix, Yonesi University Distinguished Lecture, Yonsei Business School, Seoul, South Korea, 2017

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2019, Google Citations, Google
• 2015, Distingusihed Alumnus, Indian Institute of Management