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Papers by Indranil Bardhan
Mitigating preventable readmissions, where patients are readmitted for the same primary diagnosis... more Mitigating preventable readmissions, where patients are readmitted for the same primary diagnosis within thirty days, is a significant challenge in delivery of high quality healthcare. Towards this end, it is imperative to understand the cause, risk propensity and timing associated with patient readmissions. We develop a patient profiling model that can predict the propensity of readmission for a patient as well as the timing of future readmissions. We develop a new model termed as BG/EG Hurdle model that can simultaneously estimate both the propensity and timing of patient readmissions. We test this model using a unique dataset that tracks both patient demographic and clinical data for individual patients across 72 hospitals in North Texas. The results indicate that patient profiles derived from our model can serve as the building block for a clinical decision support system to identify patients with high readmission risk. a b a b J J J
37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of the, 2004
The valuation of information technology (IT) investments is particularly challenging because it i... more The valuation of information technology (IT) investments is particularly challenging because it is characterized by long payback periods, uncertainty, and changing business conditions. Corporate budgeting methods use accounting-based criteria like return on investment (ROT), internal rate of return (IRR), and payback period which were designed for projects with no option features. However, the uncertainties underlying IT investment decisions and the
SYNOPSIS: Family firms represent a majority of businesses worldwide, and play a crucial role in t... more SYNOPSIS: Family firms represent a majority of businesses worldwide, and play a crucial role in the socio-economic development of both developed countries and emerging economies. We study the relationship between family firm characteristics and the quality of internal control over financial reporting, relative to non-family firms. Using a relatively large sample of S&P 500 firms, we report that family firms exhibit more material weaknesses in their internal control over financial reporting than non-family firms. Further investigation suggests that the greater likelihood of material weaknesses is driven by family firms with dual-class shares. Our results are consistent with the entrenchment argument that family owners are motivated to maintain weaker internal controls in order to extract private benefits. Our study contributes to the extant literature on family firms by providing further insight into the mechanisms through which family firms can exert undue influence on internal control over financial reporting.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06), 2006
Page 1. Antecedents of Business Process Outsourcing in Manufacturing Plants Indranil R. Bardhan J... more Page 1. Antecedents of Business Process Outsourcing in Manufacturing Plants Indranil R. Bardhan Jonathan Whitaker Sunil Mithas ... Teng, Cheon and Grover (1995) note that the strategic orientation of a firm may affect its propensity to outsource the IS function. ...
Production and Operations Management, 2013
ABSTRACT The impact of information technology (IT) on the performance of distributed projects is ... more ABSTRACT The impact of information technology (IT) on the performance of distributed projects is not well understood. Although prior research has documented that dispersion among project teams has an adverse effect on project performance, the role of IT as an enabler of communication to bridge the spatial distance among team members in distributed networks has not been empirically studied. We focus on the role of IT as a moderator of the relationship between team dispersion and project performance using projects as the unit of analysis. We find that IT mitigates the negative effect of team dispersion on project performance, especially in high information volume projects. Our central contribution is the development of an empirically tested model to improve the understanding of the operational impact of IT as a vehicle to bridge spatial dispersion among distributed teams that are engaged in knowledge-intensive work.
Production and Operations Management, 2009
T his paper develops a conceptual model to study the role of outsourcing strategies and plant-lev... more T his paper develops a conceptual model to study the role of outsourcing strategies and plant-level information technology (IT) application infrastructure in the outsourcing of production and support business processes, as well as their subsequent impact on overall plant performance. We validate this model empirically using cross-sectional survey data from U.S. manufacturing plants. We find that some IT applications are more effective at enabling the outsourcing of business processes than others. For example, the implementation of enterprise management systems is associated with the outsourcing of both production and support processes, whereas operations management systems are not associated with the outsourcing of plant processes. Plants with a low-cost outsourcing strategy are more likely to outsource support processes than plants with a competency-focused outsourcing strategy. However, both cost-and competency-based strategies have a positive and similar impact on the outsourcing of production processes. In terms of implications for plant performance, our findings indicate that the outsourcing of production and support processes is associated with higher gross margins. Although plant IT infrastructure is positively associated with favorable on-time delivery rates, there is no positive association between the incidence of plant outsourcing and on-time delivery rates. These results have implications for crafting plant-level outsourcing strategies and for investments in IT systems to facilitate the outsourcing of business processes for enhanced plant performance.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2007
As firms focus on new product, process, and service innovations, improving the performance and pr... more As firms focus on new product, process, and service innovations, improving the performance and productiv-ity of projects that help deliver these innovations assumes greater importance. Information technology (IT) has been an enabler of manufacturing ...
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2006
Antia, Kersi D. See Hulland, John. Bardhan, Indranil; Whitaker, Jonathan; and Mithas, Sunil. “Inf... more Antia, Kersi D. See Hulland, John. Bardhan, Indranil; Whitaker, Jonathan; and Mithas, Sunil. “Information Technology, Production Process Outsourcing, and Manufacturing Plant Performance,” in JMIS, vol. 23, no. 2 (Fall 2006), pp. 13–40. Benaroch, Michel; Shah, Sandeep; and Jeffery, Mark. “On the Valuation of Multistage Information Technology Investments Embedding Nested Real Options,” in JMIS, vol. 23, no. 1 (Summer 2006), pp. 239–261. Benbasat, Izak. See Lim, Kai H. ———. See also Wang, Weiquan. Bhattacharjee, Sudip; ...
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2010
... research interests span the economics of IS, competitive strategy and technology, It value, p... more ... research interests span the economics of IS, competitive strategy and technology, It value, pricing, supply chain management, and theory development and empirical methods. ... his research on the valuation and risk management of It-enabled services has appeared in the ...
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2006
spans a number of areas, including the productivity effect of information technology, the role of... more spans a number of areas, including the productivity effect of information technology, the role of technology in product development, and the economics of software development. He has consulted extensively with Fortune 1000 companies as a Principal with PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. His research on information work productivity has been featured in business publications such as Optimize.
Information Technology and Management, 2008
Information Systems Research, 2006
Prior research suggests that supply chain collaboration has enabled companies to compete more eff... more Prior research suggests that supply chain collaboration has enabled companies to compete more efficiently in a global economy. We investigate a class of collaboration software for product design and development called collaborative product commerce (CPC). Drawing upon prior research in media richness theory and organizational science, we develop a theoretical framework to study the impact of CPC on product development. Based on data collected from 71 firms, we test our research hypotheses on the impact of CPC on product design quality, design cycle time and development cost. We find that CPC implementation is associated with greater collaboration among product design teams which, in turn, have a significant positive impact on product quality and a reduction in cycle time and product development cost. Further analyses reveals that CPC implementation is associated with substantial cost savings that can be attributed to improvements in product design quality, design turnaround time, greater design reuse, and lower product design documentation and rework costs.
Information Systems Research, 2013
European Journal of Operational Research, 1996
... to re-turns to scale in DEA are all made precise in Banker and Thrall (1992), who also extend... more ... to re-turns to scale in DEA are all made precise in Banker and Thrall (1992), who also extend the analysis to allow for alternate optima, for which they give the following characterizations: I. Increasing returns-to-scale prevail at (Xo, Yo) if and only if uo > 0 for all optimal solutions. ...
Mitigating preventable readmissions, where patients are readmitted for the same primary diagnosis... more Mitigating preventable readmissions, where patients are readmitted for the same primary diagnosis within thirty days, is a significant challenge in delivery of high quality healthcare. Towards this end, it is imperative to understand the cause, risk propensity and timing associated with patient readmissions. We develop a patient profiling model that can predict the propensity of readmission for a patient as well as the timing of future readmissions. We develop a new model termed as BG/EG Hurdle model that can simultaneously estimate both the propensity and timing of patient readmissions. We test this model using a unique dataset that tracks both patient demographic and clinical data for individual patients across 72 hospitals in North Texas. The results indicate that patient profiles derived from our model can serve as the building block for a clinical decision support system to identify patients with high readmission risk. a b a b J J J
37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of the, 2004
The valuation of information technology (IT) investments is particularly challenging because it i... more The valuation of information technology (IT) investments is particularly challenging because it is characterized by long payback periods, uncertainty, and changing business conditions. Corporate budgeting methods use accounting-based criteria like return on investment (ROT), internal rate of return (IRR), and payback period which were designed for projects with no option features. However, the uncertainties underlying IT investment decisions and the
SYNOPSIS: Family firms represent a majority of businesses worldwide, and play a crucial role in t... more SYNOPSIS: Family firms represent a majority of businesses worldwide, and play a crucial role in the socio-economic development of both developed countries and emerging economies. We study the relationship between family firm characteristics and the quality of internal control over financial reporting, relative to non-family firms. Using a relatively large sample of S&P 500 firms, we report that family firms exhibit more material weaknesses in their internal control over financial reporting than non-family firms. Further investigation suggests that the greater likelihood of material weaknesses is driven by family firms with dual-class shares. Our results are consistent with the entrenchment argument that family owners are motivated to maintain weaker internal controls in order to extract private benefits. Our study contributes to the extant literature on family firms by providing further insight into the mechanisms through which family firms can exert undue influence on internal control over financial reporting.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06), 2006
Page 1. Antecedents of Business Process Outsourcing in Manufacturing Plants Indranil R. Bardhan J... more Page 1. Antecedents of Business Process Outsourcing in Manufacturing Plants Indranil R. Bardhan Jonathan Whitaker Sunil Mithas ... Teng, Cheon and Grover (1995) note that the strategic orientation of a firm may affect its propensity to outsource the IS function. ...
Production and Operations Management, 2013
ABSTRACT The impact of information technology (IT) on the performance of distributed projects is ... more ABSTRACT The impact of information technology (IT) on the performance of distributed projects is not well understood. Although prior research has documented that dispersion among project teams has an adverse effect on project performance, the role of IT as an enabler of communication to bridge the spatial distance among team members in distributed networks has not been empirically studied. We focus on the role of IT as a moderator of the relationship between team dispersion and project performance using projects as the unit of analysis. We find that IT mitigates the negative effect of team dispersion on project performance, especially in high information volume projects. Our central contribution is the development of an empirically tested model to improve the understanding of the operational impact of IT as a vehicle to bridge spatial dispersion among distributed teams that are engaged in knowledge-intensive work.
Production and Operations Management, 2009
T his paper develops a conceptual model to study the role of outsourcing strategies and plant-lev... more T his paper develops a conceptual model to study the role of outsourcing strategies and plant-level information technology (IT) application infrastructure in the outsourcing of production and support business processes, as well as their subsequent impact on overall plant performance. We validate this model empirically using cross-sectional survey data from U.S. manufacturing plants. We find that some IT applications are more effective at enabling the outsourcing of business processes than others. For example, the implementation of enterprise management systems is associated with the outsourcing of both production and support processes, whereas operations management systems are not associated with the outsourcing of plant processes. Plants with a low-cost outsourcing strategy are more likely to outsource support processes than plants with a competency-focused outsourcing strategy. However, both cost-and competency-based strategies have a positive and similar impact on the outsourcing of production processes. In terms of implications for plant performance, our findings indicate that the outsourcing of production and support processes is associated with higher gross margins. Although plant IT infrastructure is positively associated with favorable on-time delivery rates, there is no positive association between the incidence of plant outsourcing and on-time delivery rates. These results have implications for crafting plant-level outsourcing strategies and for investments in IT systems to facilitate the outsourcing of business processes for enhanced plant performance.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2007
As firms focus on new product, process, and service innovations, improving the performance and pr... more As firms focus on new product, process, and service innovations, improving the performance and productiv-ity of projects that help deliver these innovations assumes greater importance. Information technology (IT) has been an enabler of manufacturing ...
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2006
Antia, Kersi D. See Hulland, John. Bardhan, Indranil; Whitaker, Jonathan; and Mithas, Sunil. “Inf... more Antia, Kersi D. See Hulland, John. Bardhan, Indranil; Whitaker, Jonathan; and Mithas, Sunil. “Information Technology, Production Process Outsourcing, and Manufacturing Plant Performance,” in JMIS, vol. 23, no. 2 (Fall 2006), pp. 13–40. Benaroch, Michel; Shah, Sandeep; and Jeffery, Mark. “On the Valuation of Multistage Information Technology Investments Embedding Nested Real Options,” in JMIS, vol. 23, no. 1 (Summer 2006), pp. 239–261. Benbasat, Izak. See Lim, Kai H. ———. See also Wang, Weiquan. Bhattacharjee, Sudip; ...
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2010
... research interests span the economics of IS, competitive strategy and technology, It value, p... more ... research interests span the economics of IS, competitive strategy and technology, It value, pricing, supply chain management, and theory development and empirical methods. ... his research on the valuation and risk management of It-enabled services has appeared in the ...
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2006
spans a number of areas, including the productivity effect of information technology, the role of... more spans a number of areas, including the productivity effect of information technology, the role of technology in product development, and the economics of software development. He has consulted extensively with Fortune 1000 companies as a Principal with PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. His research on information work productivity has been featured in business publications such as Optimize.
Information Technology and Management, 2008
Information Systems Research, 2006
Prior research suggests that supply chain collaboration has enabled companies to compete more eff... more Prior research suggests that supply chain collaboration has enabled companies to compete more efficiently in a global economy. We investigate a class of collaboration software for product design and development called collaborative product commerce (CPC). Drawing upon prior research in media richness theory and organizational science, we develop a theoretical framework to study the impact of CPC on product development. Based on data collected from 71 firms, we test our research hypotheses on the impact of CPC on product design quality, design cycle time and development cost. We find that CPC implementation is associated with greater collaboration among product design teams which, in turn, have a significant positive impact on product quality and a reduction in cycle time and product development cost. Further analyses reveals that CPC implementation is associated with substantial cost savings that can be attributed to improvements in product design quality, design turnaround time, greater design reuse, and lower product design documentation and rework costs.
Information Systems Research, 2013
European Journal of Operational Research, 1996
... to re-turns to scale in DEA are all made precise in Banker and Thrall (1992), who also extend... more ... to re-turns to scale in DEA are all made precise in Banker and Thrall (1992), who also extend the analysis to allow for alternate optima, for which they give the following characterizations: I. Increasing returns-to-scale prevail at (Xo, Yo) if and only if uo > 0 for all optimal solutions. ...