AUT - Harminder Singh

Dr Harminder Singh

Senior Lecturer, Business Information Systems

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 – ext: 5029

Email: harminder.singh@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

• May 2010: Doctor of Philosophy, Michigan State University, USA
  
• June 2005: Master of Business, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  
• July 1998: Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  

Biography:

Harminder Singh is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business & Law at the Auckland University of Technology, where he teaches courses in information systems.

From August 2005 to May 2010, he was a doctoral student at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management in Michigan State University. In 2009, he received the “PhD Student Excellence in Research” Award from the Department of Accounting and Information Systems.

His primary area of interest is the tension between change and control in IT-enabled work environments, and how this is governed. For his dissertation, he examined the phenomenon of portfolio drift. Using Bourdieu’s practice lens and the concept of sociomateriality, he identified different patterns of drift, and their antecedents and consequences.

He is also interested in multi-level methods and spatial data analysis.  His work has been published in the Journal of Information Technology and the Communications of the AIS and various conference proceedings. Prior to his research career, he was a financial accountant and auditor in Singapore.

Teaching Areas:

• Business Information Systems and Technology
• IT governance
• Strategic IT

Interests in Research Supervision

• IT governance and auditing
• Organizational value of IT
• E-Government

Research areas:

• IT governance and portfolio management
• IT project management
• Organizational value of IT
• E-Government

Current Research Projects:

• IT portfolio management
• IT governance
• Clan control in IT projects

Publications:

1. Soh, C., Chua, C. and Singh, H. “Managing Diverse Stakeholders in Enterprise Systems Projects: A Control Portfolio Approach”, Journal of Information Technology, (26:1), pp. 16–31
   
2. Singh, H., Das, A., and Joseph, D. (2007) “Country-Level Determinants of e-Government Maturity”, Communications of the AIS, 20(40), November 2007. pp 632-648.

1. Singh, H. and Philips, B. (2011) “The Impact of Absorptive Capacity and Organizational Slack on IT Portfolio Management”, 2011 Academy of Management Meeting, San Antonio, TX, Aug 12-16 2011
   
2. Singh, H., Das, A., and Joseph, D. (2011) "A Longitudinal Study of e-Government Maturity", 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Brisbane, Australia, Jul 7-11 2011
   
3. Pentland, B., Singh, H. and Yakura, E. (2011) “Services, processes and routines: A literature review and implications”, 2011 International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM), Seoul, S Korea, June 12-14 2011
   
4. Singh, H. (2010) “Selecting IT Control Objectives and Measuring IT Control Capital”, 21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Brisbane, Australia, Dec 1-3 2010
   
5. Singh, H. (2009) “A Practice Theory View of IS Governance”, Presented at the Pre-ICIS JAIS Theory Development Workshop, Phoenix, Arizona, Dec 14 2009.
6. Wimble, M., Singh, H. and Sambamurthy, V. (2009) “The Influence of Industry Growth and Firm Market Share on Firm-Level IT Value”, 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 6-9 2009, San Francisco CA.
7. Singh, H. (2008) “Watching (Out For) Each Other: The Role of Clan Controls in Managing Project Teams”, Proceedings of the 68th Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, CA, Aug 8-13 2008 [the top 10% of all papers are published in the proceedings]
8. Wimble, M., Singh, H. and Sambamurthy, V. (2008) “IT and Firm Clustering: A Point-Pattern Comparison of the Service & Manufacturing Industries”, Fourth Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research, New York, May 18-19 2008.
9. Singh, H. (2007) “Fuzzy Pictures- Process Models in the Service Industry “, Presented at the 67th Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 3-8 2007. Won Best Interactive Paper Award, Organizational Communication & Information Systems (OCIS) Division.
10. Singh, H. (2007) “No Rules for Riches?- A Behavioral Perspective of IT Value”, Presented at the Post-ICIS JAIS Theory Development Workshop, Montreal, Canada, Dec 12 2007.
11. Singh, H., Sethi, V. and Sethi, V. (2005) “Changing Inside, Watching Outside: Understanding Business Model Adaptations to Guide Information Technology Decisions”, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Las Vegas, NV [13% conference paper acceptance rate.]