Biography

Rajendra Singh (Raj) is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. He joined the Management Science Department in Fall 2016. Prior to that he was at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.

Raj received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University in 2011. His dissertation examines the challenges of IT-enabled information management in complex organizations. The dissertation is titled: “Towards Information Polycentricity Theory: Investigation of a Hospital Revenue Cycle”.

Prior to joining the Ph.D. program at the Center for Process Innovation (CEPRIN) in Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Raj worked for over 14 years as a production engineer, business process analyst, software quality consultant, and IT project manager. He worked in several enterprise resource planning, e-commerce, supply chain management, data resource management, and IT project governance initiatives. 

Raj seeks to leverage his doctoral training, industry experience, and engineering background to conduct cross-disciplinary investigation of complex problems in healthcare and other organizations, and to create and share knowledge with students, academic peers, and industry partners.

Raj has published in journals such as Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), and Health Services Research (HSR). He has also published in the proceedings of several conferences, including the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM), and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

Recently, his paper was presented Best Paper Award in Information Technology in Healthcare track at HICSS-49 conference in January 2016. The paper is titled: IT-based Revenue Cycle Management: An Action Research into Relational Coordination.