Faculty Profile

Nilesh Saraf

Associate Professor & Area Coordinator, Management Information Systems
Ph.D. (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), M.B.A. (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India), B.Eng. (Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India)

Burnaby Phone: 778-782-6725
Burnaby Office: WMC 3317

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Website: http://www.sfu.ca/~nsaraf/resume.htm

Biography

Professor Saraf focuses his research on the diffusion of enterprise information technology and its role in creating business value. He also conducts research on open source software development, strategic behavior of IT product and service vendors and on the emergence of technology standards.

Professor Saraf's research has appeared in top journals namely, MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research. His research has won competitive awards including the Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence Awards for 2011 and the runner-up award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation competition (ACM-SIGMIS) in 2004. He has also won competitive external grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Professor Saraf completed his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He has an undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering from M.S. University, India, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management. He is married and is a parent of two children.

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Working Papers