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Hüseyin Tanriverdi - The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business. Austin, TX, UNITED STATES

Hüseyin Tanriverdi

Associate Professor, Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management | The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business

Austin, TX, UNITED STATES

Diversification, mergers and acquisitions, information systems strategy, and knowledge management

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Areas of Expertise (11)

Information Systems

Knowledge Management

Technology and Capital Markets

It Due Diligence and Integration/Separation

It Audit and Security

Software Industry Diversification

Virtual Knowledge Networks

Telemedicine

Digital Healthcare

Corporate Diversification

Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures

Biography

Hüseyin Tanriverdi is an educator and researcher with expertise in information technology, software, telecommunication, and telemedicine. He researches in the areas of corporate diversification; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; information systems strategy; and knowledge management.

Among other topics, he has examined how knowledge management and information technology influence a firm's capability and value.

Tanriverdi is an associate professor in the department of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin.

He is a widely published researcher, and serves as associate editor for Management Science, and is an editorial board member for Organization Science. He has organized and presented at academic symposia around the world.

He previously was a research associate at the Systems Research Center at the Boston University School of Management.

Education (4)

Boston University School of Management: D.B.A., Information Systems 2001

London School of Economics and Political Science: M.Sc., Information Systems 1995

Middle East Technical University: M.Sc., Electrical Engineering 1993

Ankara, Turkey

Middle East Technical University: B.Sc., Electrical Engineering 1989

Ankara, Turkey

Media Appearances (5)

Study pegs security benefits of new IT spending

FCW  online

2017-04-10

"Security Breaches in the U.S. Federal Government" by Min-Seok Pang, associate professor, Fox School of Business at Temple University, and Huseyin Tanriverdi, associate professor, McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Report: Legacy systems once thought secure are susceptible to cyberthreats

CIO Dive  online

2017-03-20

Cybersecurity incidents in the U.S. federal government increased 1,121% between 2006 and 2014, according to new research from Min-Seok Pang, an assistant professor of management information systems at Temple University, and Huseyin Tanriverdi, an associate professor in the Information, Risk and Operations Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Legacy IT Makes Federal Agencies Less Secure, Study Says

Fed Scoop  online

2017-03-20

“Security Breaches in the U.S. Federal Government.” It was written by two academics from the Fox Business School at Temple University and the Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and published last week by the Social Science Research Network.

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Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches

Computer World  online

2017-03-16

The research paper was written by Min-Seok Pang, an assistant professor of management information systems at Temple University, and Huseyin Tanriverdi, an associate professor in the Information, Risk and Operations Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Dell and the HPs: Two Sides of the IT Coin

Dun & Bradsheet  online

2015-11-11

Huyesin Tanriverdi, an associate professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, researches mergers and acquisitions in the IT sector. He said the companies are actually headed in a similar strategic direction, selling a full range of IT products and services.

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Articles (9)

Hüseyin Tanriverdi Citations


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Listing of top scholarly works by Hüseyin Tanriderdi.

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Unifying the Role of IT in Hyperturbulence and Competitive Advantage Via a Multilevel Perspective of IS Strategy


MIS Quarterly

2017-07-01

While information technology (IT) serves as a new source of sustainable competitive advantage for firms, it also induces hyperturbulent environments (or hyperturbulence) that erode that sustainable competitive advantage. In this paper, we posit that these contradictions might be due to cross-level nonlinear causality between firm-level IT-based strategic actions and collective-level IT-induced hyperturbulence.

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When IT Capabilities are Not Scale-Free in Merger and Acquisition Integrations: How Do Capital Markets React to IT Capability Asymmetries Between Acquirer and Target


European Journal of Information Systems

2015-03-27

In this study, we argue that IT M and A integration does not always lead to greater value creation.

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Cross-Business Information Technology Integration and Acquirer Value Creation in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions


Information Systems Research

2011-12-01

This study develops and tests the idea that the cross-business information technology integration (CBITI) capability of an acquirer creates significant value for shareholders of the acquirer in mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

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Complementarity-based hypercompetition in the software industry: Theory and empirical test, 1990-2002


Strategic Management Journal

2010-12-01

This study examines the hypercompetition phenomenon within the prepackaged software industry. It theoretically develops and empirically validates the idea that dynamically changing complementarity relationships among software product markets increase industry hypercompetition.

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The Choice of Sourcing Mechanisms for Business Processes


Information Systems Research

2006-12-31

This study views the digitally enabled extended enterprise as a complex system of business processes and examines how sourcing choices are made in such enterprises.

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Performance Effects of Information Technology Synergies in Multibusiness Firms


MIS Quarterly

2005-12-31

This study examines sources of cross-unit IT synergy and the conditions under which cross-unit IT synergies improve the performance of multibusiness firms.

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Information Technology Relatedness, Knowledge Management Capability, and Performance of Multibusiness Firms


MIS Quarterly

2004-12-31

This study examines how the IT resources of a firm should be organized and managed to enhance the firm's knowledge management (KM) capability, and whether and how KM capability influences firm performance.

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Diffusion of Telemedicine: A Knowledge Barrier Perspective


Telemedicine Journal

1998-12-31

In this study, we extend Attewell's theory of knowledge barriers to explain why diffusion of telemedicine remains low.

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