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Avimanyu Datta

Associate Professor

Office Address: SFHB 240 
Mailing Address: Campus Box 5580
Office Phone: (309) 438-7991 
Office Hours: 
Email: adatta@illinoisstate.edu

Dr. Datta’s teaching interests lies in the intersection of Hi-technology innovations, Strategy and Entrepreneurship. At Illinois State University he regularly teaches the undergraduate capstone class in Strategic Management and a Seminar in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. At the graduate of MBA level, Dr. Datta teaches Strategic Management.  

Datta’s research interest is deeply rooted in his love for Art, Science and technology its impact on Management. Specifically he is interested in uncovering entrepreneurial steps towards development and commercialization of radical and breakthrough innovations. His work has been published in elite journal like Technovation (Impact factor 3.449), Journal of International Management (2.781), R&D management (Impact Factor: 2.161), Information Systems Research (Impact Factor 4.131), International Journal of Innovation Management and the Communication of Association of Information Systems.

Datta received his PhD in Business Administration from Washington State University in 2011. Before his doctoral education he worked as an Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan and as a market sizing analyst at Access Markets International (AMI)-Partners. He worked on several consulting and research projects with large IT firms like IBM, HP, SAP, Dell and AMD.  He was regularly cited in business and practitioner magazines like Business Week, Transworld News, Yahoo Business, Network Magazine, CIO, CXO, CRN, DataQuest and so forth.

In his spare time, he is a painter and loves to brew espresso.

Education

Ph.D. Business Administration, Washington State University (2011)
MS. Information Systems, Hawaii Pacific University (2003)
BSc. Computing and Information Systems, University of London (2001) 

Selected Publications:

Publications in Premium Journals (Ranked in American Journal Guide of American Business Schools)

 

Other Refereed Journal Publications

 

Conference Papers and Presentations

  • Datta, A., Sayahm, A., and Sang, K. 2016. Sourcing of Knowledge in Creation of Breakthrough Innovations: Evidence from Patents in the Information Technology Industry. Western Academy of Management, Portland, OR, USA.
  • Datta, A., Sayahm, A., and Sang, K. 2015. Knowledge Sourcing and Breakthrough innovations: A Study of Patents from the Information Technology Industry. Knowledge & Innovation and Cooperative Strategies Interest at Annual Conference Strategic Management Society. Denver, Colorado.

  • Datta, A.2015. Where do Foundational Innovations come from? Findings from the Information Technology Industry. Western Academy of Management, Kaui, Hawaii, USA.
  • Datta, A. 2014. Combined effect of Exterior Sourcing and Technology Distinctness on Radical Innovation. Technology and Innovation Management’s Groups Junior Faculty Consortium at the Academy of Management Meeting. Philadelphia, PA.

  • Datta, A. 2013. Recombination of Exterior Sourcing and Technology Distinctness on Radical Innovations. 2013 Academy of Management Meeting. Orlando, Florida

  • Datta, A. 2013. How far should we go and how different should it be? Recombination of Exterior Sourcing and Technology Distinctness on Radical Innovations: A longitudinal look at Patents in the IT-Industry. Technology and Innovation Management’s Groups Junior Faculty Consortium at the Academy of Management Meeting. Orlando, Florida.

  • Ladd, D. and Datta, A. 2013. Defining a Fit-based Strategic DSS Evaluation Method. 2013 Mid-Western Association of Information Systems (MWAIS) conference. Normal, Illinois.

  • Datta, A. and Mukherjee, D. 2012. Capturing future markets through radical innovations: Evidence from patents and firms in IT industry. 2012 Academy of Management Meeting (Session: Innovation & Systems).  Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Datta, A. 2012. Looking beyond the focal industry and existing technologies for radical innovations: Evidence from Patents in the Information Technology Industry.Technology and Innovation Management’s Groups Junior Faculty Consortium at the Academy of Management Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Shaffer, M., Datta, A., Jessup, Len., Umesh, U.N. 2012.   Predicting Patent’s Lifetime Value (PLV) using Patent rank. 2012 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference. Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Datta, A. 2012. Exploring the effects of Exterior Sourcing and technology distinctness as indicators of radical innovations: Evidence of patents in the IT industry. Proceedings of the Southern Management Association. Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

  • Datta, A. 2011. Exterior Sourcing and Technology Distinctness as indicators of Radical Innovations: Evidence from Patents in the Information technology Industry. Competitive Strategy Interest Group's Junior Faculty and Paper Development Workshop at Annual Conference Strategic Management Society. Miami, Florida.  
  • Datta, A. 2010. IT-Based Knowledge Capability and Commercialization of Innovations. 2010 Academy of Management Meeting (technology Innovation Management track).  Montreal, Canada.

  • Ladd, D.A., Datta, A., Sarker, S. 2010. Trying to Outrun a Speeding Environment:  Developing “High-velocity” Strategic DSS Evaluation Criteria. Proceedings of 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Lima, Peru. (Nominated for Best Paper) http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2010/15/
  • Datta, A. 2010. A Theoretical Model of Commercialization of Innovations: Integrating Networks, Absorptive Capacity and Ambidexterity. Research-Development Workshop at the 2010 Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference (ACAC). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalbrowse&journal_id=1494605
  • Datta, A., & Jessup, L. 2009. The Role of Social Networks and Internet-based Virtual Environments in Social Entrepreneurship: A conceptual Model Proceedings of 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems San-Francisco. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2009/61/
  • Datta. A, Jessup. L, & Reed, R. 2008. Ability to commercialize innovations: An integrative model. Proceedings of the Southern Management Association. Tampa, Florida. 

  • Yu, Y., Datta, A., Ladd, D. A., & Sarker, S. 2008. Mobile Computing Trends in IS Research:  An Inductive Categorization Analysis, Proceedings of 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems Toronto, Canada. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2008/70/ 

Book Chapters (Published)

  • Datta, A. (2013) Information Technology Capability, Knowledge Assets and Firm Innovation: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing the Role of Information Technology in Firm Innovation. In Howard, C. (2013) Strategic Adoption of Technological Innovations (169-189). IGI Global, Hershey, PA.
  • Datta, A & Jessup, L. (2012) Patent wars: Staying ahead of the curve.  In Rang, Bin (2012) Contemporary Perspectives on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy (323-372). Information Age Publication, Charlotte, NC, USA.

 

 

Avimanyu Datta

Avimanyu Datta

Associate Professor

2017-08-22T09:20:18.976-05:00 2017