18 November, 2020, Bengaluru: A paper titled, “A 'Linking Pin' or Beyond? A Decision Rights Perspective of the Guardian Vendor Role in IT Multisourcing”, co-authored by Professor Rajendra K Bandi, Dean, Administration, IIM Bangalore as well as Chair, Information Systems area, and Bhavya Peapully Shroff, doctoral student of the Information Systems area at IIMB, has won the ‘Best Short Paper in Track’ for the track – IS Development and Project Management – at ICIS 2020. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) is a conference of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).
As per a notification from the ICIS 2020 Program Co-Chairs, this also means that the paper is nominated for the Best Short Paper Award at ICIS 2020. All the nominees will be honored and the winners announced at the conference during the award session on Tuesday, December 15, 2020.
Congratulating the winners, Professor Rahul Dé of the Information Systems area at IIMB said, “This is a rare achievement because getting a paper into ICIS is very difficult, let alone win a best paper award!”
Please visit https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2020/is_development/ for the track description.
The research interests of Prof. Bandi are in the Social Impacts of Computing, IT Adoption, Enterprise Systems, Software Engineering, and Software Development Process Models. He has published several papers in international journals, presented papers at many international conferences and is the recipient of other major awards as well. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Panel, Department of IT, Government of Karnataka, and guides several departments in their e-Governance initiatives.