Ramón O'Callaghan (born 1954) is a Spanish

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, emeritus professor of information systems and innovation management at the

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, former dean of Porto Business School, at the

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, and current President of Gisma University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam and Berlin, Germany. He is particularly known for his work on

electronic data interchange Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the concept of businesses electronically communicating information that was traditionally communicated on paper, such as purchase orders, advance ship notices, and invoices. Technical standards for EDI exist to ...

.Iacovou, Charalambos L., Izak Benbasat, and Albert S. Dexter.
Electronic data interchange and small organizations: adoption and impact of technology
" MIS Quarterly (1995): 465-485.

Biography

Born 1954, O'Callaghan received an

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from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1976, an MBA from

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in 1983, and a

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from

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in 1989.Ramon O'Callaghan
Nazarbayev University O'Callaghan started his academic career as researcher at the Cybernetics Institute of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1976. From 1977 to 1989, he spend time in industry with

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as sales engineer and project manager; at

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as controller; at

as researcher; and at the management consulting firm Institut Cerdà as director. Back in Spain in 1989 he became associate professor at the

. In 1994, he moved to the Netherlands to the Nyenrode Business Universiteit, where he became director of the MBA program. From 1997 to 2013, he was professor of information systems at

. There he also directed the MBA program, and other masters programs for some years, and was dean of the TIAS School for Business and Society from 2009 to 2012 as successor of

Philippe Naert Philippe Autor Naert (born 1943

. He was also associated with the

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and the Universidad de Deusto. From 2013 to 2015, he was dean of the graduate school of business at

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Selected publications

O'Callaghan has published numerous articles in the field of strategic management of technology. Books, a selection: * 1995, ''EDI in Europe : how it works in practice''. With Helmut Krcmar and Niels Bjørn-Andersen. Chichester; New York : Wiley. . * 2005. ''Transforming enterprise : the economic and social implications of information technology''. With William H. Dutton, Brian Kahin, and Andrew W. Wyckoff (eds). Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. . Articles, a selection: * O'Callaghan, Ramon, Patrick J. Kaufmann, and Benn R. Konsynski.
Adoption correlates and share effects of electronic data interchange systems in marketing channels
" The Journal of Marketing (1992): 45-56. * O'Callaghan, Ramon, and Jon A. Turner.
Electronic Data Interchange Concepts and Issues
" (1995). * Peterson, Ryan R., Ramon O'Callaghan, and Piet Ribbers.
Information technology governance by design: investigating hybrid configurations and integration mechanisms
" Proceedings of the twenty first international conference on Information systems. Association for Information Systems, 2000.

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Ramon O'Callaghan
{{DEFAULTSORT:OCallaghan, Ramon Living people Spanish engineers Spanish business theorists University of Navarra alumni Harvard Business School alumni Academic staff of the University of Navarra Academic staff of Nyenrode Business University Academic staff of Tilburg University 1954 births