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Papers by Kingshuk Sinha

Research paper thumbnail of The role of infrastructure practices in the effectiveness of JIT practices: implications for plant competitiveness

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Generalizable Architectures and Principles of Informatics for Scalable Personalized and Precision Medicine (PPM) Decision Support

Health Informatics, 2019

Critical to the clinical success of precision medicine is the ability to deliver personalized dec... more Critical to the clinical success of precision medicine is the ability to deliver personalized decision support to millions of patients through interoperable, reliable and performant informatics systems. This chapter introduces general concepts and methods for creating such decision support systems at large (state and even national level) scales.

Research paper thumbnail of Moving frontier analysis

Research paper thumbnail of Taxing the Taxpayers: Examining the Drivers of Rebaselining in US Federal Government IT Programs

US federal information technology (IT) programs are often baselined multiple times, resulting in ... more US federal information technology (IT) programs are often baselined multiple times, resulting in wasteful expenditure of taxpayer money. While increasing program scope has often been attributed as a key driver of baseline changes, understanding how execution factors associated with the program may interplay with program scope to affect baseline changes has significant potential for improving the utilization of taxpayer contributions. We take a closer look at three execution factors relevant to federal IT programs – namely the granularity of the program in terms of the number of component activities, the project management competency in the program, and the project management methodology pursued in the program. The empirical analysis is carried out using publicly available data from the US federal government on 250 IT programs across 19 federal agencies. Consistent with our predictions, the results indicate that increasing scope of a federal IT program is associated with increasing f...

Research paper thumbnail of Comparative Evaluation of Efficiency across Distributed Project Organizations: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis. Retrieved 17 April 2013 from http://doku.iab.de/fdz/events/2009/Mishra_Sinha_Thirum alai.pdf

Anant Mishra Department of Operations and Management Science Carlson School of Management Univers... more Anant Mishra Department of Operations and Management Science Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455 Ph: (612) 626-9761, Fax: (612) 624-8804 Email: mish0049@umn.edu ... Kingshuk Sinha Department of Operations and ...

Research paper thumbnail of U.S. Food Processing Plants

This paper presents a model-based approach for competitive analysis of manufacturing plants in th... more This paper presents a model-based approach for competitive analysis of manufacturing plants in the U. S. food processing industry. As part of this approach, plant competitiveness is measured using Operational Competitiveness Ratings Analysis (OCRA) -a new non-parametric method of computing relative inefficiency. Drivers of competitiveness are identified in terms of policies related to plant structure and infrastructure. Policies related to plant structure are those decisions that are related with “bricks and mortar” and have long term implications, such as decisions related to plant size and capacity. Policies related to plant infrastructure are decisions related to how the “ bricks and mortar” are used. These policies are typically under the direct control of the operations managers and have a short-term orientation, such as decisions related to equipment, quality, inventory, workforce and confusion-engendering activities (e.g. new product introductions and product variety). The em...

Research paper thumbnail of Managing Commodity Stock‐outs in Public Health Supply Chains in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis

Production and Operations Management

Public health supply chains are channels through which health commodities are distributed among e... more Public health supply chains are channels through which health commodities are distributed among end-clients. In developing countries, significant resource constraints hamper the effective and efficient delivery of health commodities, leading to supply chain failures such as “stock-outs.” While the prevalence of commodity stock-outs is well-acknowledged, there is little by way of systematic and rigorous empirical research that sheds light on the factors that drive such stock-outs in developing countries. The study documented in this paper is anchored in the “logistics cycle” framework that is well-accepted and widely adopted by organizations involved in managing public health supply chains. Using this framework, we empirically investigate how commodity range and a health facility’s logistics management information system (LMIS) practices impact the likelihood of stock-outs. We estimate our models using a novel field dataset spanning 4,000 health facilities across five developing countries. Our results indicate that the likelihood of stock-outs increases with an expansion in the range of health commodities offered through the public health supply chain. However, the detrimental impact of offering a wider range of health commodities is more severe in resource-constrained rural facilities relative to their urban counterparts. Further, we find that urban facilities can significantly reduce the likelihood of stock-outs by updating their LMIS records on a daily basis. However, in rural facilities, daily LMIS updating is beneficial only when used in conjunction with an electronic LMIS. Our findings have implications for resource allocation to reduce the risk of health commodity stock-outs in developing countries.

Research paper thumbnail of Robot‐assisted surgical care delivery at a hospital: Policies for maximizing clinical outcome benefits and minimizing costs

Journal of Operations Management

Research paper thumbnail of Product Recall Decisions in Medical Device Supply Chains: A Big Data Analytic Approach to Evaluating Judgment Bias

Production and Operations Management

Research paper thumbnail of Designing Work Within and Between Organizations

Organization Science, Jul 1, 2005

... Kingshuk K. Sinha Operations and Management Science Department, 3-150 Carlson School of Manag... more ... Kingshuk K. Sinha Operations and Management Science Department, 3-150 Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, ... Page 2. Sinha and Van de Ven: Designing Work Within and Between Organizations 390 Organization Science 16(4), pp. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Collaborative Demand Forecasting: Toward the Design of an Exception-Based Forecasting Mechanism

Journal of Management Information Systems, 2014

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Measuring Complexity in High-Technology Manufacturing: Indexes for Evaluation

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of aflatoxin B1 on chlorophyll, nucleic acid and protein contents in maize

Biol Plant, 1997

BIOLOGIA PLANT ARUM 38(1): 47-50, 1996 BRIEF COMMUNICATION Effect of anatoxin Bx on chlorophyll, ... more BIOLOGIA PLANT ARUM 38(1): 47-50, 1996 BRIEF COMMUNICATION Effect of anatoxin Bx on chlorophyll, nucleic acid and protein contents in maize G. PRASAD, KK SINHA and MM ALI University Department of Botany, Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur - 812 007 ... Cherry et al. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Health Care Supply Chain Design for Primary Care: Reducing Disparities in Behavioral Health Care

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of To Personalize or Not to Personalize Online Purchase Interactions: Implications of Self-Selection by Retailers

Information Systems Research, Mar 13, 2013

ABSTRACT Personalization technologies today enable retailers to tailor online purchase interactio... more ABSTRACT Personalization technologies today enable retailers to tailor online purchase interactions to the individual preferences and needs of customers. With personalization being increasingly perceived as a source of competitive advantage, there is a growing trend toward pursuing technology-enabled personalization strategies in online retailing. However, the choice of a retailer whether or not to select into technology-enabled personalization and its implications for customer loyalty are at best ambiguous. This paper is an attempt to resolve this apparent ambiguity. Specifically, the paper conceptualizes retailer selection into technology-enabled personalization strategies relevant to two steps of an online purchase, namely, transaction personalization strategy and decision personalization strategy, based on the operating characteristics of a retailer. The implications of the retailers' self-selection into technology-enabled personalization strategies for customer loyalty are then empirically investigated with data collected from 422 retailers. Further, based on a counterfactual analysis, the paper reveals the implications of making a normatively incorrect decision with respect to personalization strategy. Contrary to popular belief, the results of this study indicate that personalization may not be uniformly beneficial in terms of customer loyalty to all retailers. Although a majority of retailers pursue transaction personalization and realize benefits by way of improved customer loyalty, we find that the choice of a retailer to pursue decision personalization is self-selected and dependent on idiosyncratic characteristics related to its operating context. Retailers that have relatively large-scale operations, provide greater variety and realize higher customer satisfaction with product selection, and that do not necessarily compete on price (i.e., realize lower customer satisfaction with prices relative to competing retailers) are more likely to pursue the decision personalization strategy. Although some retailers pursue decision personalization because they clearly stand to benefit from doing so, other retailers are better off not following suit. Theoretical contributions of the study, managerial implications of the study findings, limitations, and directions for future research are identified.

Research paper thumbnail of Product Recalls in the Medical Device Industry: An Empirical Exploration of the Sources and Financial Consequences

Management Science, Jan 20, 2011

Medical devices play an increasingly significant role in the delivery of health care today. Howev... more Medical devices play an increasingly significant role in the delivery of health care today. However, persistent quality problems with medical devices and the associated recalls present potential health risks to patients and personnel using these devices. This study addresses three key issues in this regard. First, it empirically assesses the financial implications of medical device recalls to understand if these

Research paper thumbnail of Computer-aided design and economic analysis of continuous flow gas lift systems /

Research paper thumbnail of Work Design and Integration Glitches in Globally Distributed Technology Projects

Production and Operations Management, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Mycotoxin production by some IndianAlternaria species

Mycotoxin research, 1994

A total of seven species ofAlternaria: A. alternata (Fr.) Keissler;A. capsici-annui Savul & Sandu... more A total of seven species ofAlternaria: A. alternata (Fr.) Keissler;A. capsici-annui Savul & Sandu;A. citri Ellis & Pierce;A. porri (Ellis) Clfferi;A. radicina Meler, Drechsler & Eddy;A. tenuissima (Kunze: Pers) Wiltshire andA. tomato (Cooke) Jones were screened on rice culture medium for their ability to elaborate five majorAlternaria mycotoxins viz. tenuazonlc acid (TA), alternariol (AOH), alternariol methyl ether (AME), altenuene (ALT) and altertoxin-l (ATX-I). All the species produced mycotoxins in varying concentrations. A.capsici-annul was recorded as the mycotoxin producer for the first time. ALT byA. citri andA. tomato; ALT, and ATX-I byA. tenuissima; ALT, TA and AME byA. porri and TA byA. radicina are the new additions to the list of mycotoxins produced by the respective species ofAlternaria.

Research paper thumbnail of Contamination of freshly harvested maize kernels withFusarium mycotoxins on Bihar state, India

Mycotoxin research, 1991

Freshly harvested maize samples, collected from different fields of Bhagalpur during January-Marc... more Freshly harvested maize samples, collected from different fields of Bhagalpur during January-March, 1989, were analysed for the presence of Fusarium species and their toxins.F. moniliforme was most common followed byF. roseum,F. sporotrichioides,F. graminearum andF. equiseti. Different strains of these species produced zearalenone (11.2-28.2 μ/g), DON (0.3-2.9 μg/g) and T-2 (5.2-20.6 μg/g) toxins on mostrice medium. Fifteen per cent, out of 86 maize samples analysed, were found to be contaminated with various levels of above toxins, which occurred either alone or in groups. Toxin concentration in contaminated samples varied from 0.76-1.5 μg/g (ZEN), 0.41-202 μg/g (DON) and 0.55-2.92 μg/g (T-2).

Research paper thumbnail of The role of infrastructure practices in the effectiveness of JIT practices: implications for plant competitiveness

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Generalizable Architectures and Principles of Informatics for Scalable Personalized and Precision Medicine (PPM) Decision Support

Health Informatics, 2019

Critical to the clinical success of precision medicine is the ability to deliver personalized dec... more Critical to the clinical success of precision medicine is the ability to deliver personalized decision support to millions of patients through interoperable, reliable and performant informatics systems. This chapter introduces general concepts and methods for creating such decision support systems at large (state and even national level) scales.

Research paper thumbnail of Moving frontier analysis

Research paper thumbnail of Taxing the Taxpayers: Examining the Drivers of Rebaselining in US Federal Government IT Programs

US federal information technology (IT) programs are often baselined multiple times, resulting in ... more US federal information technology (IT) programs are often baselined multiple times, resulting in wasteful expenditure of taxpayer money. While increasing program scope has often been attributed as a key driver of baseline changes, understanding how execution factors associated with the program may interplay with program scope to affect baseline changes has significant potential for improving the utilization of taxpayer contributions. We take a closer look at three execution factors relevant to federal IT programs – namely the granularity of the program in terms of the number of component activities, the project management competency in the program, and the project management methodology pursued in the program. The empirical analysis is carried out using publicly available data from the US federal government on 250 IT programs across 19 federal agencies. Consistent with our predictions, the results indicate that increasing scope of a federal IT program is associated with increasing f...

Research paper thumbnail of Comparative Evaluation of Efficiency across Distributed Project Organizations: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis. Retrieved 17 April 2013 from http://doku.iab.de/fdz/events/2009/Mishra_Sinha_Thirum alai.pdf

Anant Mishra Department of Operations and Management Science Carlson School of Management Univers... more Anant Mishra Department of Operations and Management Science Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455 Ph: (612) 626-9761, Fax: (612) 624-8804 Email: mish0049@umn.edu ... Kingshuk Sinha Department of Operations and ...

Research paper thumbnail of U.S. Food Processing Plants

This paper presents a model-based approach for competitive analysis of manufacturing plants in th... more This paper presents a model-based approach for competitive analysis of manufacturing plants in the U. S. food processing industry. As part of this approach, plant competitiveness is measured using Operational Competitiveness Ratings Analysis (OCRA) -a new non-parametric method of computing relative inefficiency. Drivers of competitiveness are identified in terms of policies related to plant structure and infrastructure. Policies related to plant structure are those decisions that are related with “bricks and mortar” and have long term implications, such as decisions related to plant size and capacity. Policies related to plant infrastructure are decisions related to how the “ bricks and mortar” are used. These policies are typically under the direct control of the operations managers and have a short-term orientation, such as decisions related to equipment, quality, inventory, workforce and confusion-engendering activities (e.g. new product introductions and product variety). The em...

Research paper thumbnail of Managing Commodity Stock‐outs in Public Health Supply Chains in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis

Production and Operations Management

Public health supply chains are channels through which health commodities are distributed among e... more Public health supply chains are channels through which health commodities are distributed among end-clients. In developing countries, significant resource constraints hamper the effective and efficient delivery of health commodities, leading to supply chain failures such as “stock-outs.” While the prevalence of commodity stock-outs is well-acknowledged, there is little by way of systematic and rigorous empirical research that sheds light on the factors that drive such stock-outs in developing countries. The study documented in this paper is anchored in the “logistics cycle” framework that is well-accepted and widely adopted by organizations involved in managing public health supply chains. Using this framework, we empirically investigate how commodity range and a health facility’s logistics management information system (LMIS) practices impact the likelihood of stock-outs. We estimate our models using a novel field dataset spanning 4,000 health facilities across five developing countries. Our results indicate that the likelihood of stock-outs increases with an expansion in the range of health commodities offered through the public health supply chain. However, the detrimental impact of offering a wider range of health commodities is more severe in resource-constrained rural facilities relative to their urban counterparts. Further, we find that urban facilities can significantly reduce the likelihood of stock-outs by updating their LMIS records on a daily basis. However, in rural facilities, daily LMIS updating is beneficial only when used in conjunction with an electronic LMIS. Our findings have implications for resource allocation to reduce the risk of health commodity stock-outs in developing countries.

Research paper thumbnail of Robot‐assisted surgical care delivery at a hospital: Policies for maximizing clinical outcome benefits and minimizing costs

Journal of Operations Management

Research paper thumbnail of Product Recall Decisions in Medical Device Supply Chains: A Big Data Analytic Approach to Evaluating Judgment Bias

Production and Operations Management

Research paper thumbnail of Designing Work Within and Between Organizations

Organization Science, Jul 1, 2005

... Kingshuk K. Sinha Operations and Management Science Department, 3-150 Carlson School of Manag... more ... Kingshuk K. Sinha Operations and Management Science Department, 3-150 Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, ... Page 2. Sinha and Van de Ven: Designing Work Within and Between Organizations 390 Organization Science 16(4), pp. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Collaborative Demand Forecasting: Toward the Design of an Exception-Based Forecasting Mechanism

Journal of Management Information Systems, 2014

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Measuring Complexity in High-Technology Manufacturing: Indexes for Evaluation

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of aflatoxin B1 on chlorophyll, nucleic acid and protein contents in maize

Biol Plant, 1997

BIOLOGIA PLANT ARUM 38(1): 47-50, 1996 BRIEF COMMUNICATION Effect of anatoxin Bx on chlorophyll, ... more BIOLOGIA PLANT ARUM 38(1): 47-50, 1996 BRIEF COMMUNICATION Effect of anatoxin Bx on chlorophyll, nucleic acid and protein contents in maize G. PRASAD, KK SINHA and MM ALI University Department of Botany, Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur - 812 007 ... Cherry et al. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Health Care Supply Chain Design for Primary Care: Reducing Disparities in Behavioral Health Care

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of To Personalize or Not to Personalize Online Purchase Interactions: Implications of Self-Selection by Retailers

Information Systems Research, Mar 13, 2013

ABSTRACT Personalization technologies today enable retailers to tailor online purchase interactio... more ABSTRACT Personalization technologies today enable retailers to tailor online purchase interactions to the individual preferences and needs of customers. With personalization being increasingly perceived as a source of competitive advantage, there is a growing trend toward pursuing technology-enabled personalization strategies in online retailing. However, the choice of a retailer whether or not to select into technology-enabled personalization and its implications for customer loyalty are at best ambiguous. This paper is an attempt to resolve this apparent ambiguity. Specifically, the paper conceptualizes retailer selection into technology-enabled personalization strategies relevant to two steps of an online purchase, namely, transaction personalization strategy and decision personalization strategy, based on the operating characteristics of a retailer. The implications of the retailers' self-selection into technology-enabled personalization strategies for customer loyalty are then empirically investigated with data collected from 422 retailers. Further, based on a counterfactual analysis, the paper reveals the implications of making a normatively incorrect decision with respect to personalization strategy. Contrary to popular belief, the results of this study indicate that personalization may not be uniformly beneficial in terms of customer loyalty to all retailers. Although a majority of retailers pursue transaction personalization and realize benefits by way of improved customer loyalty, we find that the choice of a retailer to pursue decision personalization is self-selected and dependent on idiosyncratic characteristics related to its operating context. Retailers that have relatively large-scale operations, provide greater variety and realize higher customer satisfaction with product selection, and that do not necessarily compete on price (i.e., realize lower customer satisfaction with prices relative to competing retailers) are more likely to pursue the decision personalization strategy. Although some retailers pursue decision personalization because they clearly stand to benefit from doing so, other retailers are better off not following suit. Theoretical contributions of the study, managerial implications of the study findings, limitations, and directions for future research are identified.

Research paper thumbnail of Product Recalls in the Medical Device Industry: An Empirical Exploration of the Sources and Financial Consequences

Management Science, Jan 20, 2011

Medical devices play an increasingly significant role in the delivery of health care today. Howev... more Medical devices play an increasingly significant role in the delivery of health care today. However, persistent quality problems with medical devices and the associated recalls present potential health risks to patients and personnel using these devices. This study addresses three key issues in this regard. First, it empirically assesses the financial implications of medical device recalls to understand if these

Research paper thumbnail of Computer-aided design and economic analysis of continuous flow gas lift systems /

Research paper thumbnail of Work Design and Integration Glitches in Globally Distributed Technology Projects

Production and Operations Management, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Mycotoxin production by some IndianAlternaria species

Mycotoxin research, 1994

A total of seven species ofAlternaria: A. alternata (Fr.) Keissler;A. capsici-annui Savul & Sandu... more A total of seven species ofAlternaria: A. alternata (Fr.) Keissler;A. capsici-annui Savul & Sandu;A. citri Ellis & Pierce;A. porri (Ellis) Clfferi;A. radicina Meler, Drechsler & Eddy;A. tenuissima (Kunze: Pers) Wiltshire andA. tomato (Cooke) Jones were screened on rice culture medium for their ability to elaborate five majorAlternaria mycotoxins viz. tenuazonlc acid (TA), alternariol (AOH), alternariol methyl ether (AME), altenuene (ALT) and altertoxin-l (ATX-I). All the species produced mycotoxins in varying concentrations. A.capsici-annul was recorded as the mycotoxin producer for the first time. ALT byA. citri andA. tomato; ALT, and ATX-I byA. tenuissima; ALT, TA and AME byA. porri and TA byA. radicina are the new additions to the list of mycotoxins produced by the respective species ofAlternaria.

Research paper thumbnail of Contamination of freshly harvested maize kernels withFusarium mycotoxins on Bihar state, India

Mycotoxin research, 1991

Freshly harvested maize samples, collected from different fields of Bhagalpur during January-Marc... more Freshly harvested maize samples, collected from different fields of Bhagalpur during January-March, 1989, were analysed for the presence of Fusarium species and their toxins.F. moniliforme was most common followed byF. roseum,F. sporotrichioides,F. graminearum andF. equiseti. Different strains of these species produced zearalenone (11.2-28.2 μ/g), DON (0.3-2.9 μg/g) and T-2 (5.2-20.6 μg/g) toxins on mostrice medium. Fifteen per cent, out of 86 maize samples analysed, were found to be contaminated with various levels of above toxins, which occurred either alone or in groups. Toxin concentration in contaminated samples varied from 0.76-1.5 μg/g (ZEN), 0.41-202 μg/g (DON) and 0.55-2.92 μg/g (T-2).