Prashant Palvia

Prashant Palvia is Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor and director of the McDowell Research Center in the Bryan School of Business & Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Dr. Palvia served as department head from 2000 to 2004 and Information Systems PhD Director from 2003 to 2008. Prior to 25 years in academics, he had 9 years of industry experience. He received his PhD, MBA and MS from the University of Minnesota and BS from the University of Delhi, India. Prof. Palvia received UNCG’s senior research excellence award in 2005. He is a leading authority in the field of Global Information Technology Management (GITM) and chairs the annual GITMA world conference, the next one being in Mexico City, Mexico in June 2009. Professor Palvia is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM), and is on editorial board of several journals. His research interests include global information technology management, virtual teams, open source software, electronic commerce, media choice theory, and trust in exchange relationships. He has published over eighty journal articles including in MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, Communications of the AIS, Information & Management, Decision Support Systems, and ACM Transactions on Database Systems, and over one hundred and fifty conference articles. He has co-edited four books on global information technology management; the last one was published in May 2007.

Publications

The Impact of Twitter Users' Characteristics on Behaviors: Insights Into the Role of Followers
The Impact of Twitter Users' Characteristics on Behaviors: Insights Into the Role of Followers
Vishal Uppala, Prashant Palvia, Kalyani Ankem. © 2023. 19 pages.
Researchers have focused on leadership, often overlooking followership. The notion of followership was irreversibly transformed with the advent and societal adoption of...
Differing Perceptions of Mobile Devices: Company-Issued Devices and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Differing Perceptions of Mobile Devices: Company-Issued Devices and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Wiley S. Brown, Prashant C. Palvia. © 2020. 10 pages.
Employees are constantly engaging in new technologies that allow them to be more productive. The increased ubiquity of information and communication technologies, in particular...
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour. Est. 2010.
The International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) provides a critical forum that discusses the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as it applies to global...
Foreword
Foreword
Prashant Palvia. © 2009. 2 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Handbook of Research on Contemporary Theoretical Models in Information Systems.
Encouraging Global IS Collaborative Networks with a Knowledge Portal
Encouraging Global IS Collaborative Networks with a Knowledge Portal
Carol Pollard, Prashant Palvia, Mary Lind, Choton Basu. © 2007. 7 pages.
This article describes the proposed design, development, implementation and evaluation of an extensive interactive knowledge portal to support the global IT management community....