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Papers by Jaideep Ghosh
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
European Management Journal
Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2014
MIS Quarterly Executive, 2021
In a collaboration network environment for software development, it is a highly desirable manager... more In a collaboration network environment for software development, it is a highly desirable managerial objective to establish and maintain a stable balance of ongoing engineering activities and workload distributions among the project engineers. Grounded on a theoretical framework and associated simulation models to understand the emergence of this balance, we show that conditioning the development process to remain confined in a stable region of the dynamics could be delicate affair in real applications. Nevertheless, we demonstrate that it is technically feasible to control ongoing development by suitably restricting relevant parameters of the production dynamics, which amounts to achieving a stable balance between self-directed and peer-induced work efforts expended by the project engineers in building the final software product. Strategies for realizing this condition have important implications for managerial decision-making in collaborative software development.
Scientometrics, 2014
This exploratory work sheds light on important functional information characteristics of the syst... more This exploratory work sheds light on important functional information characteristics of the system of research collaboration by examining large-scale topological structures of co-authorship networks, created through the affiliative ties of scholarly articles published by collaborating researchers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. The model adopted in this work to understand the underlying collaboration system incorporates the strengths of collaborative coupling among the researchers. The questions we examine in this work are as follows: (1) What new functional characteristics emerge when combined structural effects of collaborative coupling and large-scale connectivity exist in the networks? (2) What information does a specific closeness distribution of collaborating researchers convey with regard to the flow of knowledge through collaborative activities? (3) What is the temporal dynamics of large-scale structure formation in these networks? The work involves a comparative study of these characteristics using the networks of two countries: India and the US. Our results have important implications for scientometric studies of collaboration research.
Scientometrics, 2014
ABSTRACT In this exploratory study, we analyze co-authorship networks of collaborative cancer res... more ABSTRACT In this exploratory study, we analyze co-authorship networks of collaborative cancer research in India. The complete network is constructed from bibliometric data on published scholarly articles indexed in two well-known electronic databases covering two 6-year windows from 2000 to 2005 and 2006 to 2011 inclusive. Employing a number of important metrics pertaining to the underlying topological structures of the network, we discusses implications for effective policies to enhance knowledge generation and sharing in cancer research in the country. With some modifications, our methods can be applied without difficulty to examine policy structure of related disciplines in other countries of the world.
Physical Review A, 1990
The branching ratio between the one-electron-one-photon and two-electron-one-photon transitions i... more The branching ratio between the one-electron-one-photon and two-electron-one-photon transitions in doubly ionized K shells has been evaluated using an equivalent two-particle model with wave functions including angular correlations and relaxation in the length and velocity gauges. The accuracy of the results (choice of screening parameters and gauge dependence) will be discussed.
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2010
In recent years concurrent, overlapping development activities of engineering tasks have proved t... more In recent years concurrent, overlapping development activities of engineering tasks have proved to be a cost-effective and time-efficient way to build products geared toward meeting the demands of a competitive and quality-conscious market. In this study, we examine the structure and dynamics of a software project in information technology industrial research and development that has this methodology as its foundation.
Classical and Quantum Gravity, 1996
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2013
For many organizations today building goods and services over a period of time, the continuous pr... more For many organizations today building goods and services over a period of time, the continuous production of documented product development information is necessary for immediate as well as future internalization and reuse. Especially, in an environment where multiple, often geographically dispersed, teams of workers are involved, it becomes imperative that the information be generated in optimally balanced distributions of project resources, so that it can be disseminated and reused efficiently. We introduce in this study a model to address this problem. The model is validated by formulating its structure on the essential characteristics of the underlying problem domain. To simulate development situations where creative human endeavor is more emphasized than automated applications of routine procedures, we use a set of human-centered input decision variables and examine the optimal output production relative to their dynamics and control. Our model is not tied to the characteristics of any individual project per se but can be easily modified and generalized to address other allied types of production situations. Simulations are performed for a variety of practical decision-making scenarios. Our results suggest that workers' contextual work experience, interactions, and background learning all govern production optimality, although nonuniformly in distinct temporal domains of development.
Sociological Methods & Research, 2015
This article introduces a number of methods that can be useful for examining the emergence of lar... more This article introduces a number of methods that can be useful for examining the emergence of large-scale structures in collaboration networks. The study contributes to sociological research by investigating how clusters of research collaborators evolve and sometimes percolate in a collaboration network. Typically, we find that in our networks, one cluster among the leading ones eventually wins the growth race by percolating through the network, spanning it and rapidly filling up a significant volume of it. We show how this process is governed by the dynamics of cluster growth in the network. When operating in a percolating regime, this class of networks possesses many useful functional properties, which have important sociological implications. We first develop the methodological tools to perform a study of the intrinsic clustering process. Then, to understand the actual large-scale structure formation process in the network, we apply the theoretical methods to simulate a number of...
In this work the asymptotic properties of the massless spin 3/over2 fields are studied. First, in... more In this work the asymptotic properties of the massless spin 3/over2 fields are studied. First, in Minkowski space, the fields, their potentials and the associated gauges are analyzed in the Rarita-Schwinger description. The solutions reveal the existence of four complex conserved quantities (charges) in the fields. The space of these charges is shown to be isomorphic to flat twistor space.
Since the resurgence of growth in the globalization of information technology (IT) products and s... more Since the resurgence of growth in the globalization of information technology (IT) products and services in the late 1990s, the performance of the information technology/information technology enabled services & business process outsourcing (IT/ITES & BPO) sectors in India has indeed been remarkable. The contribution of this entire sector of the industry to India’s gross domestic product (GDP) alone has amounted close to 6.0% during the past decade. As indicated in a report by the National Association of Software Services and Companies (NASSCOM), employment opportunities in the Indian IT sector have exceeded two million in 2009. The IT and BPO industry is also the largest employer in the private sector in India, with annual revenues exceeding US $50 billion (U.S.; NASSCOM report). Nevertheless, over the past several years, India’s position as a leading, global IT player has been neither fully steady nor sufficiently stable. Indeed, Indian IT/ITES companies have been contending with ...
Structural cohesiveness, hierarchy, structural holes, and percolating clusters share both a compl... more Structural cohesiveness, hierarchy, structural holes, and percolating clusters share both a complementary as well as an overlapping existence in many social networks. Although the impacts of these ...
In the vast majority of modern technological and knowledge-intensive production systems, human ag... more In the vast majority of modern technological and knowledge-intensive production systems, human agency and the structure of social interactions among the human individuals are implicated in each other. While the force of agency drives an individual’s urge to introduce innovation and novelty into production, the force of the structuring interactions demands shared expectations and mutual adaptation for co-creation. In an organizational context, when the objective is to manage production work that is governed by the concurrent interplay of both these forces, one might ask whether the cumulative output of each could be reconciled through the emergence of a stable balance between them over time. In this article, I introduce a framework to study the conditions under which this balance can be attained. Based on a real-life application, I show, in particular, that, while a direct realization of the condition is unlikely in practice, it is possible, nevertheless, to establish indirectly the ...
This paper provides a simulation model for scheduling service task operations and distributing re... more This paper provides a simulation model for scheduling service task operations and distributing related human resources in dispersed work centres. The managerial concern for the minimisation of temporal overhead costs of task operations in the face of fluctuating, short-term service demands is examined under restrictions imposed by resource availability, work hour flexibility and task-backlog fulfilment. Scheduling strategies are developed directly from the constrained reduction of temporal overheads of appointment and release operations in distributed, non-interlinked work centres. To ensure the model’s structural validity, simulated task backlogs are adjusted to the actual backlog-reducing procedures in real applications. The model provides means for setting up balanced work schedules that can greatly lower temporal overheads of appointment and release operations if workers are selected in accordance with compatible time availability and task qualifications. Direct comparisons of w...
The importance of the information technology/information technology enabled services (IT/ITES) se... more The importance of the information technology/information technology enabled services (IT/ITES) sector in modern Iran is indubitable. As IT has started to penetrate deeper into the country in recent years, IT and telecommunications infrastructure continue to be developed and enhanced throughout Iran. This expansion is creating many job prospects for employees in Iran, as well as providing greater availability of e-business, e-commerce, e-learning, and e-government in the country. Improving the quality of education and healthcare is also influenced by the growing importance of IT in the country. As demonstrated in this chapter, the three top IT-related organizational issues in Iran are: revenue-generating IT innovations, business agility and speed to market, and alignment between IT and business. The top three technology issues are: enterprise application integration, networks and telecommunications, and ERP systems. The IT employees indicate they are moderately happy with their work ...
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
European Management Journal
Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2014
MIS Quarterly Executive, 2021
In a collaboration network environment for software development, it is a highly desirable manager... more In a collaboration network environment for software development, it is a highly desirable managerial objective to establish and maintain a stable balance of ongoing engineering activities and workload distributions among the project engineers. Grounded on a theoretical framework and associated simulation models to understand the emergence of this balance, we show that conditioning the development process to remain confined in a stable region of the dynamics could be delicate affair in real applications. Nevertheless, we demonstrate that it is technically feasible to control ongoing development by suitably restricting relevant parameters of the production dynamics, which amounts to achieving a stable balance between self-directed and peer-induced work efforts expended by the project engineers in building the final software product. Strategies for realizing this condition have important implications for managerial decision-making in collaborative software development.
Scientometrics, 2014
This exploratory work sheds light on important functional information characteristics of the syst... more This exploratory work sheds light on important functional information characteristics of the system of research collaboration by examining large-scale topological structures of co-authorship networks, created through the affiliative ties of scholarly articles published by collaborating researchers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. The model adopted in this work to understand the underlying collaboration system incorporates the strengths of collaborative coupling among the researchers. The questions we examine in this work are as follows: (1) What new functional characteristics emerge when combined structural effects of collaborative coupling and large-scale connectivity exist in the networks? (2) What information does a specific closeness distribution of collaborating researchers convey with regard to the flow of knowledge through collaborative activities? (3) What is the temporal dynamics of large-scale structure formation in these networks? The work involves a comparative study of these characteristics using the networks of two countries: India and the US. Our results have important implications for scientometric studies of collaboration research.
Scientometrics, 2014
ABSTRACT In this exploratory study, we analyze co-authorship networks of collaborative cancer res... more ABSTRACT In this exploratory study, we analyze co-authorship networks of collaborative cancer research in India. The complete network is constructed from bibliometric data on published scholarly articles indexed in two well-known electronic databases covering two 6-year windows from 2000 to 2005 and 2006 to 2011 inclusive. Employing a number of important metrics pertaining to the underlying topological structures of the network, we discusses implications for effective policies to enhance knowledge generation and sharing in cancer research in the country. With some modifications, our methods can be applied without difficulty to examine policy structure of related disciplines in other countries of the world.
Physical Review A, 1990
The branching ratio between the one-electron-one-photon and two-electron-one-photon transitions i... more The branching ratio between the one-electron-one-photon and two-electron-one-photon transitions in doubly ionized K shells has been evaluated using an equivalent two-particle model with wave functions including angular correlations and relaxation in the length and velocity gauges. The accuracy of the results (choice of screening parameters and gauge dependence) will be discussed.
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2010
In recent years concurrent, overlapping development activities of engineering tasks have proved t... more In recent years concurrent, overlapping development activities of engineering tasks have proved to be a cost-effective and time-efficient way to build products geared toward meeting the demands of a competitive and quality-conscious market. In this study, we examine the structure and dynamics of a software project in information technology industrial research and development that has this methodology as its foundation.
Classical and Quantum Gravity, 1996
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2013
For many organizations today building goods and services over a period of time, the continuous pr... more For many organizations today building goods and services over a period of time, the continuous production of documented product development information is necessary for immediate as well as future internalization and reuse. Especially, in an environment where multiple, often geographically dispersed, teams of workers are involved, it becomes imperative that the information be generated in optimally balanced distributions of project resources, so that it can be disseminated and reused efficiently. We introduce in this study a model to address this problem. The model is validated by formulating its structure on the essential characteristics of the underlying problem domain. To simulate development situations where creative human endeavor is more emphasized than automated applications of routine procedures, we use a set of human-centered input decision variables and examine the optimal output production relative to their dynamics and control. Our model is not tied to the characteristics of any individual project per se but can be easily modified and generalized to address other allied types of production situations. Simulations are performed for a variety of practical decision-making scenarios. Our results suggest that workers' contextual work experience, interactions, and background learning all govern production optimality, although nonuniformly in distinct temporal domains of development.
Sociological Methods & Research, 2015
This article introduces a number of methods that can be useful for examining the emergence of lar... more This article introduces a number of methods that can be useful for examining the emergence of large-scale structures in collaboration networks. The study contributes to sociological research by investigating how clusters of research collaborators evolve and sometimes percolate in a collaboration network. Typically, we find that in our networks, one cluster among the leading ones eventually wins the growth race by percolating through the network, spanning it and rapidly filling up a significant volume of it. We show how this process is governed by the dynamics of cluster growth in the network. When operating in a percolating regime, this class of networks possesses many useful functional properties, which have important sociological implications. We first develop the methodological tools to perform a study of the intrinsic clustering process. Then, to understand the actual large-scale structure formation process in the network, we apply the theoretical methods to simulate a number of...
In this work the asymptotic properties of the massless spin 3/over2 fields are studied. First, in... more In this work the asymptotic properties of the massless spin 3/over2 fields are studied. First, in Minkowski space, the fields, their potentials and the associated gauges are analyzed in the Rarita-Schwinger description. The solutions reveal the existence of four complex conserved quantities (charges) in the fields. The space of these charges is shown to be isomorphic to flat twistor space.
Since the resurgence of growth in the globalization of information technology (IT) products and s... more Since the resurgence of growth in the globalization of information technology (IT) products and services in the late 1990s, the performance of the information technology/information technology enabled services & business process outsourcing (IT/ITES & BPO) sectors in India has indeed been remarkable. The contribution of this entire sector of the industry to India’s gross domestic product (GDP) alone has amounted close to 6.0% during the past decade. As indicated in a report by the National Association of Software Services and Companies (NASSCOM), employment opportunities in the Indian IT sector have exceeded two million in 2009. The IT and BPO industry is also the largest employer in the private sector in India, with annual revenues exceeding US $50 billion (U.S.; NASSCOM report). Nevertheless, over the past several years, India’s position as a leading, global IT player has been neither fully steady nor sufficiently stable. Indeed, Indian IT/ITES companies have been contending with ...
Structural cohesiveness, hierarchy, structural holes, and percolating clusters share both a compl... more Structural cohesiveness, hierarchy, structural holes, and percolating clusters share both a complementary as well as an overlapping existence in many social networks. Although the impacts of these ...
In the vast majority of modern technological and knowledge-intensive production systems, human ag... more In the vast majority of modern technological and knowledge-intensive production systems, human agency and the structure of social interactions among the human individuals are implicated in each other. While the force of agency drives an individual’s urge to introduce innovation and novelty into production, the force of the structuring interactions demands shared expectations and mutual adaptation for co-creation. In an organizational context, when the objective is to manage production work that is governed by the concurrent interplay of both these forces, one might ask whether the cumulative output of each could be reconciled through the emergence of a stable balance between them over time. In this article, I introduce a framework to study the conditions under which this balance can be attained. Based on a real-life application, I show, in particular, that, while a direct realization of the condition is unlikely in practice, it is possible, nevertheless, to establish indirectly the ...
This paper provides a simulation model for scheduling service task operations and distributing re... more This paper provides a simulation model for scheduling service task operations and distributing related human resources in dispersed work centres. The managerial concern for the minimisation of temporal overhead costs of task operations in the face of fluctuating, short-term service demands is examined under restrictions imposed by resource availability, work hour flexibility and task-backlog fulfilment. Scheduling strategies are developed directly from the constrained reduction of temporal overheads of appointment and release operations in distributed, non-interlinked work centres. To ensure the model’s structural validity, simulated task backlogs are adjusted to the actual backlog-reducing procedures in real applications. The model provides means for setting up balanced work schedules that can greatly lower temporal overheads of appointment and release operations if workers are selected in accordance with compatible time availability and task qualifications. Direct comparisons of w...
The importance of the information technology/information technology enabled services (IT/ITES) se... more The importance of the information technology/information technology enabled services (IT/ITES) sector in modern Iran is indubitable. As IT has started to penetrate deeper into the country in recent years, IT and telecommunications infrastructure continue to be developed and enhanced throughout Iran. This expansion is creating many job prospects for employees in Iran, as well as providing greater availability of e-business, e-commerce, e-learning, and e-government in the country. Improving the quality of education and healthcare is also influenced by the growing importance of IT in the country. As demonstrated in this chapter, the three top IT-related organizational issues in Iran are: revenue-generating IT innovations, business agility and speed to market, and alignment between IT and business. The top three technology issues are: enterprise application integration, networks and telecommunications, and ERP systems. The IT employees indicate they are moderately happy with their work ...