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Anitesh Barua

Dept. Chair, Professor

Department:     Information, Risk & Operations Management

Additional Titles:     David Bruton Jr. Centennial Chair Professor Distinguished Fellow, INFORMS Information Systems Society Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin Director, Information Management program

Industry Areas:     E-Business, E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software

Research Areas:     Application Service Providers (ASPs), Ecommerce, Game Theory, Information Systems, The New Economy

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Barua, Anitesh
David Bruton Jr. Centennial Chair Professor, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, McCombs School of Business.

Anitesh Barua received his B.E. from Jadavpur University (India), and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. His research and teaching interests include unstructured data analytics, mobile apps, cryptocurrency and blockchain, open source innovation, measuring business value of information technology, analyzing strategic information technology investments, and economics of Information Systems.

ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP & AWARDS

2023

Teaching Awards

INFORMS IS Society Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award

2015

Distinguished Fellow, INFORMS Information Systems Society

2012

University of Texas Regents Teaching Excellence Award

 

2001

Piper Professor Award

2000

University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor

 

1994

CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors

Vasundhara Sharma, Ashish Agarwal, and Anitesh Barua.
Demand-Side Effects of Open Innovation: The Case of Cryptocurrency Forking. Management Science.  Forthcoming.

Haoyuan Liu, Wen Wen, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston.
Making Lemonade from Lemons: A TCE Perspective on Third-party Disruptions in a Multi-vendor IT Service.
Information Systems Research.  Forthcoming.

Aditya Karanam, Ashish Agarwal, and Anitesh Barua. June 2023. Design for Social Sharing: The Case of Mobile Apps. 
Information Systems Research 34(2): 721-743.


 

Anitesh Barua and R. Mukherjee. Impact of Network Effects on Migration in Online Networks. MIS Quarterly, forthcoming.

 

Anitesh Barua and Rajiv Mukherjee. 2021. Multi-Homing Revisited: Level of Adoption and Competitive Strategies. MIS Quarterly 45(2), 897-924.

 

Anitesh Barua and Deepa Mani. 2018. Reexamining the Financial Value of Information Technology Decisions. Information Systems Research29(1), 225-240.

 

Deepa Mani and Anitesh Barua. 2015. The Impact of Firm Learning on Value Creation in Strategic Outsourcing Relationships. Journal of Management Information Systems 32(1), 9-38.

 

Anitesh Barua and Deepa Mani. 2014. Conflict Resolution or Informational Response? An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Governance Choice in Business Process Outsourcing Relationships. Journal of Management Information Systems 31(3).

 

Ravi Bapna, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2014. Special Issue: Economics of Electronic Commerce. Journal of Management Information Systems 31(2), 7-10.

 

Deepa Mani, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2013. Outsourcing Contracts and Equity Prices. Information Systems Research 24(4), 1028-1049.

 

Deepa Mani, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2012. An Empirical Analysis of the Contractual and Information Structures of Business Process Outsourcing Relationships. Information Systems Research 23(3), 618-634.

 

Anjana Susarla and Anitesh Barua. 2011. Contracting Efficiency and New Firm Survival in Markets Enabled by Information Technology. Information Systems Research 22(2), 306-324.

 

Mani Deepa, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2010. An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Information Capabilities Design on Business Process Outsourcing Performance. MIS Quarterly 34(1), 39-62.

 

Ravi Bapna, Anitesh Barua, Deepa Mani, and Amit Mehra. 2010. Cooperation, Coordination and Governance in Multisourcing: An Agenda for Analytical and Emprirical Research. Information Systems Research 21(4), 785-795.

 

Anjana Susarla, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2010. Multitask Agency, Modular Architecture, and Task Disaggregation in SaaS. Journal of Management Information Systems 26(4), 87-117.

 

Anjana Susaria, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2009. A Transaction Cost Perspective of the "Software as a Service" Business Model. Journal of Management Information Systems 26-2, 205-240.

 

Mishra, Abhay Nath, Prabhudev C. Konana, and Anitesh Barua. 2007. Antecedents and Consequences of Internet Use in Procurement: An Empirical Investigation of U.S. Manufacturing Firms. Information Systems Research 18, 103-120.

 

Anitesh Barua, Prabhudev C. Konana, Andrew B. Whinston, and Fang Yin. 2004. An Empirical Investigation of Net-Enabled Business Value. MIS Quarterly 28, 585-620.

 

Anitesh Barua, Patrick L. Brockett, William W. Cooper, Honghui Deng, Barnett R. Parker, Timothy W. Ruefli, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2004. DEA Evaluations of Long- and Short-run Efficiencies of Digital Vs. Physical Product “dot Com” Companies. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 38, 233-253.

 

Anitesh Barua, M. Krishnan, C.H. Kriebel, and V. Krishnamurthy. 2003. The Action Relevant Description of States: Implications for Choice and Design of Information Structures. Decision Support Systems.

 

A. Susarla, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2003. Understanding the 'Service' Component of Application Service Provision: An Empirical Analysis of Satisfaction With ASP Services. MIS Quarterly 27, 91-123.

 

A. Susarla, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2002. Multitasking and Incentives in Application Service Provider Contracts for Customer Relationship Management, in Proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems,

 

B. Kim, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2002. Virtual Field Experiments for a Digital Economy: A New Research Methodology for Exploring an Information Economy. Decision Support Systems 32, 215-231.

 

A. Mishra, Prabhudev C. Konana, and Anitesh Barua. 2001. Determinants of the Level of Internet-Based Procurement: An Empirical Study of Procurement of Production Goods in Manufacturing Firms, in Proceedings of the Americas Information Systems Conference,

 

A. Mishra, Prabhudev C. Konana, and Anitesh Barua. 2001. Determinants of the Level of Internet-Based Procurement: An Empirical Study of the Procurement of Production Goods in Manufacturing Firms, in Proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems, Boston, MA.

 

Anitesh Barua, Prabhudev C. Konana, Andrew B. Whinston, and F. Yin. 2001. Driving E-Business Excellence. Sloan Management Review 43, 36-44.

 

A. Susarla, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2001. Making the Most out of an ASP Relationship. IEEE IT Professional 3, 63-67.

 

Anitesh Barua, Prabhudev C. Konana, Andrew B. Whinston, and F. Yin. 2001. Measures for E-Business Value Assessment. IEEE IT Professional 3, 47-51.

 

A. Susarla, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2001. Myths About Outsourcing to Application Service Providers. IEEE IT Professional 3, 32-35.

 

Anitesh Barua and R. Chellappa. 2001. Quasi-Naturally Occurring Experiments with Electronic Markets and Digital Products, in Business Modeling, C. Holsapple, V. Jacob, and H.R. Rao, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

A. Mishra, Prabhudev C. Konana, and Anitesh Barua. 2000. An Empirical Investigation of Internet-Based Procurement, in Third International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce, Dallas, TX.

 

Anitesh Barua and T. Mukhopadhyay. 2000. Business Value of Information Technologies: Past, Present and Future, in Framing the Domains of IT Management: Glimpsing the Future Through the Past, Robert Zmud, ed.

 

Anitesh Barua, P. Desai, and Rajendra Srivastava. 2000. Economics of Digital Marketing, in Digital Marketing, Vijay Mahajan and J. Wind, eds.

 

Anitesh Barua, Prabhudev C. Konana, Andrew B. Whinston, and F. Yin. 2000. Making E-Business Pay: Eight Key Drivers for Operational Success. IEEE IT Professional 2, 22-30.

 

C.H. Lee, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2000. The Complementarity of Mass Customization and Electronic Commerce. Economics of Innovation and New Technology 9, 81-110.

 

Anitesh Barua, Andrew B. Whinston, and F. Yin. 2000. Value and Productivity in the Internet Economy. Computer (IEEE Computer Society) 33, 102-105.

 

Bryan W. Lee and Anitesh Barua. 1999. An Integrated Assessment of Productivity and Efficiency Impacts of Information Technology Investments: Old Data, New Analysis and Evidence. Journal of Productivity Analysis 12, 21-43.

 

Anitesh Barua, C-H S. Lee, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1999. Incentives and Computing Systems for Team Based Organizations: A Complementarity Perspective, in , G. DeSanctis, ed. Sage Publications.

 

Andrew B. Whinston, Anitesh Barua, Jon Pinnell, and Jay Shutter. 1999. Measuring the Internet Economy: An Exploratory Study, in E-Commerce and Official Statistics, Selected Papers from the ISI Cutting Edge Conference on the Measurement of E-Commerce,

 

Anitesh Barua and Andrew B. Whinston. 1998. Complementarity-Based Decision Support for Managing Organizational Design Dynamics. Decision Support Systems 22, 45-58.

Bryan W. Lee, B. Kim, and Anitesh Barua. 1998. The Impact of Electronic Commerce on the Marketing Channel Competition, in Proceedings of AIS,

 

Anitesh Barua and Bryan W. Lee. 1997. An Economic Analysis of the Introduction of an Electronic Data Interchange System. Information Systems Research 8, 398-422.

 

Anitesh Barua and Andrew B. Whinston. 1997. Business Value Complementarity: A New Approach to Getting the Most Out of Your Reengineering Projects. Business and Strategy 7, 13-15.

 

Anitesh Barua, Sury Ravindran, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1997. Coordination in Information Exchange Between Organizational Decision Units. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 27, 690-698.

 

Bryan W. Lee, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1997. Discovering and Validating Causality in MIS: Reengineering the MIS Field Research Methodology. MIS Quarterly 21, 109-136.

 

Andrew B. Whinston, Byungtae Lee, and Anitesh Barua. 1997. Discovery and Representation of Causal Relationships in MIS Research: A Methodological Framework. MIS Quarterly 21, 99-133.

 

R. Chellappa, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1997. E3: An Electronic Infrastructure to Support Virtual Universities. Communications of the ACM 40, 56-58.

 

Anitesh Barua, Sury Ravindran, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1997. Effective Intra-Organizational Informational Flows. Journal of Information Science 23, 239-248.

 

Anitesh Barua, Sury Ravindran, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1997. Efficient Selection of Suppliers Over the Internet. Journal of MIS 13, 117-134.

 

Andrew B. Whinston, Anitesh Barua, and Sury Ravindran. 1997. Efficient Selection of Suppliers Over the Internet. Journal of Management Information Systems 13, 117-137.

 

S. Ravindran, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1997. Electronic Network Based Trading Partner Selection, in Proceedings of the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems,

R. Chellappa, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1997. Electronic Publishing Versus Publishing Electronically, in Readings in Electronic Commerce, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

 

R. Chellappa, Anitesh Barua, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1997. Intranets: Looking Beyond Internal Corporate Web Servers, in Readings in Electronic Commerce, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

 

Anitesh Barua, Kazuo Watabe, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1997. Redesigning Business Organizations Based on Business Value Model and Complementarity. Journal of the Japan Society for Management Information 9, 45-55.

 

Andrew B. Whinston, Anitesh Barua, and Kazuo Watabe. 1997. Redesigning Business Organizations Based on Business Value Model and Complementarity. Keiei to Joho 9.

Anitesh Barua and Bryan W. Lee. 1997. The IT Productivity Paradox Revisited: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation in the Manufacturing Sector. The International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems 9, 145-166.

 

Anitesh Barua, R. Chellappa, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1996-1997. Design and Implementation of Internet and Intranet Based Collaboratories. International Journal of Electronic Commerce 1, 32-58.

 

Anitesh Barua and Sury Ravindran. 1996. Reengineering Information Sharing Behavior in Organizations. Journal of Information Technology 11, 261-272.

 

Anitesh Barua, R. Chellappa, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1996. Social Computing: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware, in The Handbook of Human Factors, Gavriel Salvendy, ed. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

 

Andrew B. Whinston, Sury Ravindran, Anitesh Barua, and Bryan W. Lee. 1996. Strategies for Smart Shopping in Cyberspace. Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce 6, 33-50.

 

Andrew B. Whinston, Anitesh Barua, and C.H. Sophie Lee. 1996. The Calculus of Reengineering. Information Systems Research 7, 409-428.

 

Anitesh Barua, R. Chellappa, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1995. Creating an MIS Collaboratory in Cyberspace: Theoretical Foundations and an Implementation. Journal of Organizational Computing 5, 417-442.

 

Anitesh Barua, C-H S. Lee, and Andrew B. Whinston. 1995. Incentives and Computing Systems for Team Based Organizations. Organization Science 6, 487-504.

 

Anitesh Barua, C.H. Kriebel, and T. Mukhopadhyay. 1995. Information Technologies and Business Value: An Analytic and Empirical Investigation. Information Systems Research 6, 3-23.

 

Andrew B. Whinston, Anitesh Barua, C.H. Sophie Lee, and K. Watabe. 1995. Integrated Modeling of Reengineering and Kaizen. Journal of the Japan Society for Management Information 4, 57-77.

 

Anitesh Barua, C.H. Kriebel, and T. Mukhopadhyay. 1991. An Economic Analysis of Strategic Information Technology Investments. MIS Quarterly15, 313-331.

 

Andrew B. Whinston and Anitesh Barua. 1991. An Information Economics Approach to Analyzing Information Systems for Cooperative Decision Making, in Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Information Systems, New York, NY.