Dinesh Mirchandani, Ph.D.

Dinesh A. Mirchandani is Professor and Chair of the Information Systems and Technology department in the College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. He received a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Management Information Systems) from the University of Kentucky, an M.S in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering (with honors) from the University of Bombay. His research interests include information systems planning and electronic business. His papers have been published in academic journals such as Business & Society, Communications of the ACM, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Information & Management, and Information Systems Journal among others. He is a recipient of the Douglas E. Durand Award for Research Excellence and the Anheuser-Busch Excellence in Teaching Award in the College of Business Administration. He is a member of the Association for Information Systems and serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Global Information Technology Management.

Education

Ph.D. (Business Administration), University of Kentucky, 2000

M.S. (Electrical Engineering), Purdue University, 1994

B.S. (Honors - Electronics Engineering), University of Bombay, 1991

Courses

INFSYS 2800: Information Systems Concepts and Applications

INFSYS 5800 - Management Information Systems

BUS AD 7100: Scientific Inquiry in Business 

BUS AD 7800: Sustaining & Interuptive Information Technologies

Research

Areas: IS Planning; Electronic Business

Selected Significant Publications:

• "How Hospitals in Mainland China Responded to the Outbreak of COVID-19 using Information Technology–Enabled Services: An analysis of Hospital News Webpages," Aihua Yan, Yi Zou, and Dinesh A Mirchandani, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 27(7), pp. 991–999, 2020.
• "Personality and Pay Satisfaction: Exploring the Influence of Organizational Justice and Gender in South Africa," Bindu Arya, Dinesh Mirchandani, and Michael Harris, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(2), pp 219-250, 2019.
• "The Impact of Internationalization of U.S. Multinationals on Public Affairs Strategy and Performance: A Comparison at 1993 and 2003," Julius Johnson, Jr., Dinesh A. Mirchandani and Martin B. Meznar, Business & Society, 54 (1), pp. 89-125, 2015.
• "Autonomy and Procedural Justice in Strategic Systems Planning," Dinesh A. Mirchandani and Albert Lederer, Information Systems Journal, 24(1), pp. 29-59, 2014.
• "The Impact of Core and Infrastructure Business Activities on Information Systems Planning and Effectiveness," Dinesh A. Mirchandani and Albert L. Lederer, International Journal of Information Management 34 (5), pp. 622-633, 2014.

Conference Proceedings

• "Predicting Success in Using ERP Systems," Proceedings of the 2020 Computers and People Research Conference, May 2020.
• "Personality Types as Performance Predictors in Learning a Complex Enterprise Resource Planning System," Bih-Ru Lea, Katherine Yu, Dinesh Mirchandani, Mary Sumner, and Nhu Thai, Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Annual Conference, New Orleans, November 2019.
• "Cognitive Aptitude, Personality Traits, and Demographic Background as Performance Predictors in Learning a Complex Enterprise System," B-R Lea, Dinesh A. Mirchandani, and Mary Sumner, Decision Sciences Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2017.
• "Synchronous Collaboration Technology Use in Teamwork," Thanaporn Sundaravej and Dinesh A. Mirchandani, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2015.

Book Chapters

• "Factors Influencing the Adoption of Electronic Commerce by Small Businesses," Charles Chowa and Dinesh Mirchandani, in Information Systems in an E-World, M. Gordon Hunter and A. Wenn (eds.), Las Vegas: Information Institute, pp. 193 – 210, 2005.
• "A Deterrence Theory Perspective on Personal Web Usage," Dinesh Mirchandani, in Personal Web Usage in the Workplace: A Guide to Effective Human Resource Management, M. Anandarajan and C. Simmers (eds.), Hershey: Idea Group Publishing, pp. 111-123, 2003.
• "An Experimental Analysis of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Teams with Partial Problem Domain Knowledge," Dinesh Mirchandani and Jaideep Motwani, in Knowledge and Information Technology Management: Human and Social Perspectives, Chapter 7, A. Gunasekaran, O. Khalil, and S. Rahman (eds.), Hershey: Idea Group Publishing, 2003.
• "The Link between Information Strategy and Electronic Commerce," Albert Lederer, Dinesh Mirchandani and Kenneth Sims, in Doing Business Electronically: A Global Perspective of Electronic Commerce, E. Romm and F. Sudweeks (eds.), London: Springer-Verlag, pp. 27-45, 1998.