BRIEF PROFILE

I am a fifth year doctoral student in the Management Information Systems (MIS) area at the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli (IIM Trichy). Through my doctoral thesis centred around Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), I engage with issues of significant social significance and hope to contribute to the theory and practice of healthcare in various ways.

My thesis delves into the challenges involved in implementing HIT, focusing particularly on the resistance it faces from doctors and on various issues around its integration in chronic healthcare management.

I am committed to a robust research program, beginning with a paper that has been published in an A rated (ABDC ranking) journal. Multiple other papers are at different stages of my research pipeline. I have attended various prestigious conferences such as the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS) and the Americas Conference­­­­­­­­­ on Information Systems (AMCIS). I am scheduled to attend the ICIS-2018 doctoral consortium that invites a select pool of 40 candidates annually from across the globe.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research employs social theories to examine how the broader social context affects and gets affected by the implementation, adoption and diffusion of Information Technology (IT). In particular, I focus on the sociological context of Healthcare to examine IT related phenomena that include:

1. Healthcare Information Technology Resistance: Focusing on challenges emanating from the role of healthcare professionals in implementing Healthcare Information Technology in their clinical practice.    
2. Self-care Technology: Use and challenges of using self-care from patients’ perspective. 
3. Information Technology in Chronic Care: Challenges emanating from patients as well as healthcare professionals’ usage of IT in Diabetes Care Management. 
4. Online Health Communities: Healthcare consumer’s engagement, issues around privacy and health specific factors.

RESEARCH OUTPUT

Journal Publications:

• Singh, J. B., Chandwani, R., & Kumar, M. (2018). Factors affecting Web 2.0 adoption: exploring the knowledge sharing and knowledge seeking aspects in health care professionals. Journal of Knowledge Management, 22(1), 21-43. (Ranked A in ABDC journal ranking) 

Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings:

• Kumar, M. & Singh, JB. (2016). “Examining Technology Resistance: A Cognitive Load Perspective”, “Proceedings of the Twenty-second Americas Conference on Information Systems”, San Diego, USA, 1-5 
• Kumar, M. & De, R. (2016). “Can E-government give Voice to Citizens? An empirical examination of the “Jaankari” Project”, “Electronic Government and Electronic Participation: Joint Proceedings of Ongoing Research, PhD Papers, Posters and Workshops of dual IFIP EGOV-ePart conference, Guimaraes, Portugal ”, HJ Scholl, O Glassey & M Janssen (Eds), IOS Press, 23, 233-240.  
• Kumar M. (2017). "A Discursive Perspective on the Organizational Field Formation Process: Issues of Information Technology in Indian Healthcare". Proceedings of the 55^th ACM SIGMIS Computers and People Conference (SIGMIS CPR) 2017, IIM Bangalore, India. 

Conference/Workshop Presentations:

Kumar, M. & Singh, JB. (2016). “Multi-Level Perspective on User Resistance of Health

Information Technology: A Conceptual Model”. “Pre-ICIS Special Interest Group-Health

(SIGHealth) workshop”, Dublin, Ireland 

 

EDUCATION

2014-Present

• Fellow Program in Management (Equivalent to Ph.D.), IIM Trichy, India

      Dissertation Tittle: Information Technology in Healthcare: Understanding healthcare professionals’ resistance and complexities of chronic care (Advisor: Prof. Jang Bahadur Singh)

 

2012-2014

                Master of Business Administration (MBA), Pondicherry University, India

2008-2012

                 Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science & Engineering, West Bengal University of Technology, India  

 

TEACHING / TRAINING EXPERIENCE

• Teaching Assistant in the core course of MIS area for the MBA program of IIM Trichy), January 2017- March 2017

Analysis of student submissions, design of question papers, handling student queries after class hours.

•  Assisted Prof Rajesh Chandwani (IIM Ahmedabad) in his MDPs on HR analytics, November 2017 and April 2018.

Providing inputs around appropriate usage of advanced features of excel sheet  

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Fellow Program Representative at IIM Trichy (Jan 2015- June 2016)

Conference Volunteer for ICIS-2016, Dublin, 2016: I was part of the student volunteer team for the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS)- 2016, being held in Dublin, Ireland.

Ad-Hoc Reviewer for:

Journal: Journal of Global Information Management 

Conferences: ICIS, AOM, PAN-IIM, SIGHEALTH

AWARDS & HONORS

UGC-JRF Award (in Management), June, 2013, University Grant Commission.

ICIS 2018 Doctoral Consortium, Pacific Grove, USA.

ISDSI Doctoral Colloquium, 2017, IIM Trichy, India (In absentia).

Associations for Information Systems Conference Grant, ICIS-2016, Dublin, Ireland.

 

SKILLSET

Research Methods: Survey Research, Interpretive Research, Shadowing, Interviews, Observation, Case Study.  

Research Tools: SPSS, SmartPLS, MAXQDA

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBSERSHIP

Associations for Information Systems (AIS)

Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)