Karhade, Prasanna

Biography

Prof. Prasanna Karhade joined the CUHK Business School as an Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics in August 2022.

Prof. Karhade is interested in digital innovation, design thinking and entrepreneurship. His research has been published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of Management Information Systems.

He has currently started an ambitious research programme on micro-financing in GREAT (growing, rural, eastern, aspirational, and transitional) economies. Prof. Karhade loves hiking, poetry & meditation. Prasanna means happiness and so there is no incorrect way to pronounce Prasanna — as long as you do it with a smile.

Teaching Areas

Digital Innovation
Entrepreneurship
FinTech

Research Interests

Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Digital Platforms & Decolonization
Governance & Control of IT in Family Business

• Publications and Working Papers

  Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship

  • Karhade, P. and Dong, J.Q. (2021), “IT Investment & Commercialized Innovation Performance: Dynamic Adjustment Costs and Curvilinear Effects,” MIS Quarterly, 45(3), 1007-1024.
  • Karhade, P. and Dong, J.Q. (2021), “Innovation outcomes of the digitally enabled collaborative problemistic search capability,” MIS Quarterly, 45(2), 693-718.
  • Dong, J.Q., Karhade, P., Rai, A., and Xu, S.X. (2021), “How Firms Make Information Technology Investment Decisions: Toward a Behavioral Agency Theory,” Journal of Management Information Systems, 38(1), 29-58. [Authors listed alphabetically.]

  Digital Platforms & Decolonization

  • Kathuria, A., Karhade, P., and Konsynski, B.R. (2020), “In the realm of hungry ghosts: Multi-level theory for restaurant participation in food delivery platforms,” Journal of Management Information Systems ,37(2), 396-430. [Kathuria A. and Karhade P. are both co-first authors.]
  • Karhade, P. and Kathuria, A. (2020), “Missing Impact of Ratings on Platform Participation in India: A Call for Research in GREAT Domains,” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 47(Article 19), 364-381. [Both authors are co-first authors.]

  Governance & Control

  • Karhade, P., Shaw, M.J., and Subramanyam, R. (2015), “Patterns in Information Systems Portfolio Prioritization: Evidence from Decision Tree Induction”, MIS Quarterly, 39(2), 413-433.
  • Susarla, A., Subramanyam, R., and Karhade, P. (2011), “Contractual Provisions to Mitigate Holdup: Evidence from Information Technology Outsourcing,” Information Systems Research, 21(1), 37-55.
  • Kathuria, A., Karhade, P., Ning, X., and Konsynski, B. “Blood and Water: IT Investment and Control in Family-Owned Businesses,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Accepted.

• Grants
  • “Search for Innovation: Integrating the Behavioural Theory of the Firm with Agency-Theoretic Explanations”, awarded by, Research Grants Council (RGC)of Hong Kong with HK$717,470, 2018-2021
  • “IT Assets and Firm Innovation Output: An Empirical Examination”, awarded by Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong with HK$ 215,670, 2012-2014

• Award & Honours
  • Excellence in Teaching Award Nomination, University of Hawaii, 2020
  • Dean’s Recognition of Excellent Teaching Performance, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2013-14
  • Dean’s Recognition of Excellent Teaching Performance, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2014-15
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2006
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2007

• Academic/Professional Services
  • Member, Association for Information Systems (AIS)
  • Member, Academy of Management (AoM)