Shivraj Kanungo

Shivraj (Raj) Kanungo is the Vice Dean for Graduate Programs, Program Director of the MS in Interdisciplinary Business Studies, and an Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at the George Washington University School of Business. He previously served for two years as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate programs in the Business School at the George Washington University. Prior to that he was the Chair of the Department of Decision Sciences at GWU. Before joining GWU, he taught at the Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi.

His areas of expertise include Information Technology Management, Software Engineering, and Information Systems Evaluation. He teaches courses in operations management, analytics, and social networks.

Dr. Kanungo's research focuses on the value of IT and its impact on organizational effectiveness, particularly in the context of team performance and decision-making. His methodological interests include agent-based modeling and system dynamics.

He has consulted extensively with industry and his books include CMMI Implementation: Embarking on High Maturity Practices (Tata-McGrawHill, with A. Goyal), Making Information Technology Work (Sage), Computer and Network Technologies and Applications, (Tata-McGrawHill, with B. N. Jain) and Information Technology at Work: A Collection of Managerial Experiences (HPC).

Prof. Kanungo’s research spans IT value in organizations, organizational decision making, and the relationship between organizational culture and IT value using multiple approaches that include statistical modeling, system dynamics modeling and qualitative methods. Journals that have published his research include System Dynamics Review, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Strategic Information Systems, International Journal of Information Management, International Journal of Information Systems, Software Process: Improvement and Practice, Information Technology and People, Computers in Human Behavior, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems and International Journal of Knowledge Management.

Dr. Kanungo earned his integrated bachelor's and master's degree (Master of Management Studies, 1986) from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, the M.S. degree (1988) in Management Information Systems from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, IL and the Ph.D. degree (1993) in Information and Decision Systems from The George Washington University, Washington DC.