Date & Time: July 3, 2025 9:30-11:30
Venue：Meeting Room 725, Engineering Management & Intelligent Manufacturing Research Center
Speaker：Sutirtha Chatterjee, full professor
Institution：University of Nevada
Organizer：School of Management, Hefei University of Technology
Abstract：
The need for more research on the role of information technology (IT) on innovation in public organizations motivates this study. A review of existing literature highlights a limited understanding of IT-based capabilities and their role in public organizational innovation. To address this shortcoming, we theorize that important factors, namely, IT affordances and dynamic capabilities, are important influencers of innovation in public organizations. Using affordance theory, we conceptualize three IT affordances related to collaboration, process management, and organizational memory, which influence dynamic capabilities in public organizations, which in turn makes the public organization innovative. An important construct, unique to public organizations, namely organizational welfare focus, plays an important moderating role in our theorization. Analysis of data collected from an initial survey of managers in US public organizations supports our hypotheses. This study unpacks the salience of IT in public organizations and offers important IT-related constructs that can further research on public organizational innovation. From a practical standpoint, the results highlight that policies and programs about public organizational innovation should be implemented so as to raise the salience of IT and increase its appropriation in public organizations.
Biography：
Sutirtha Chatterjee is a full professor of information systems (IS) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received his Ph.D. in MIS from Washington Stated University in 2008. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., he received a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from Jadavpur University, India. Suti's research interests are information systems ethics, IT and innovation, electronic markets, and mobile work. His research has been published (or is forthcoming) in leading journals like MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS). He has presented his work at conferences like International Conference on Information Systems, Hawaiian International Conference of Systems Sciences (HICSS).
