Benn R. Konsynski

George S. Craft Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management

Atlanta GA UNITED STATES

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Benn R. Konsynski arrived at Goizueta Business School following six years on the faculty at the Harvard Business School where he taught in the MBA program and several executive programs. Prior to arriving at HBS, he was a professor at the University of Arizona where he was a co-founder of the university's multi-million dollar group decision support laboratory. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University.

He has published in such diverse journals as Communications of the ACM, Harvard Business Review, IEEE Transactions on Communications, MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, Data Communications, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Education

Purdue University

PhD

Computer Science

Areas of Expertise

Electronic data interchange (EDI)

Channel systems

Electronic integration

Information partnerships

Digital Commerce

Publications

Research commentary-Platform evolution: Coevolution of platform architecture, governance, and environmental dynamics

Information Systems Research

2010

The emergence of software-based platforms is shifting competition toward platform-centric ecosystems, although this phenomenon has not received much attention in information systems research. Our premise is that the coevolution of the design, governance, and ...

Complementarities between organizational IT architecture and governance structure

Information Systems Research

2010

This study addresses the theoretically neglected interplay between organizational information technology (IT) architecture and IT governance structure in shaping IT alignment. We theoretically develop the idea that IT architecture modularity helps sustain IT ...

Second Life and other virtual worlds: A roadmap for research

28th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

2007

Virtual worlds like Second Life are becoming important tools for, among other activities, socialization, social networking, entertainment, collaboration, and business development. These environments offer information systems researchers a unique ...

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Research Spotlight

Mar 13, 2019

1 min

Happy Birthday, WWW!

Goizueta information systems and operations management professor Benn Konsynski on the 30th birthday of WWW: "... Many of us were on the internet before WWW -researchers, academic, military, libraries, etc. The operating protocols on top of the basic Internet protocols were useful, but often specialized. The world of commerce and social interchange needed a simple standard to offer creative outlet beyond specific applications and closed systems. "Sir Tim Berners-Lee brought that with common protocols for describing content (HTML), moving/referencing content (HTTP) and browser technologies for viewing and manipulating content. Over the next few years, commerce and social exchange exploded after these protocols took root. By 1995 the internet world opened to business and the general market with expectations and promise."

May 19, 2016

1 min

Regulation, Sharing, Innovation

As Airbnb and Uber take America by storm, are cities in the right or wrong to clamp down, regulate and get their cut of the sharing economy? Emory’s Charles S. Goetz of the Goizueta Business School can help explain if government is in the right and how law makers need to adapt to the economic innovation and modern ways of doing business. Source:

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Networking 2.0 Series: What’s Next for Professional Networking?

CKGSB Knowledge online

2017-09-10

Data analytics can help identify factors that correlate with success in particular projects or occupation, which should help break down certain kinds of older networks that weren’t based on merit.

IDR, Inc. Presents Inaugural Speaker Series, “Elevate 2016”

PRWEB online

2016-04-11

Eric French, Founder and President of IDR, is proud to introduce speakers Kelly Kierans, President and COO at Celtic Testing Experts, Mike Cleland, Staffing Industry Consultant at Charted Path, Nash Ogden, President at Innoppl Inc. and Dr. Benn Konsynski, Professor at Goizueta Business School Emory University. Hiring managers, CIO’s, industry leaders and executives are among the guest list...

The inconvenient truth about the convenience of technology

Emory News Center online

2015-12-14

What followed was an “explosion of adoption and consumer-driven content,” says Benn Konsynski, George S. Craft Distinguished University Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management at Goizueta. “Consumers came online and were not just shopping but also adding content.”...