Varun Grover

Varun GroverVarun Grover is a professor of Information Systems in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina and a Business Partnership Foundation Fellow. He holds a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, an MBA from SIUC, and a Ph.D. degree in MIS from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Grover has published extensively in the information systems field, with over 50 publications in refereed journals. His current areas of interest are business reengineering, strategic information systems, telecommunications and inter-organizational systems, and organizational impacts of information technologies. Dr. Grover is the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Decision Science Institute and is on the Editorial Review Board of many significant journals.

Publications

Revisiting Web 2.0
Revisiting Web 2.0
Michael Dinger, Varun Grover. © 2019. 12 pages.
This chapter revisits and considers the application of Web 2.0 technologies in contemporary business environments. Web 2.0 refers to a general category of internet technologies...
Revisiting Web 2.0
Revisiting Web 2.0
Michael Dinger, Varun Grover. © 2018. 10 pages.
This chapter revisits and considers the application of Web 2.0 technologies in contemporary business environments. Web 2.0 refers to a general category of internet technologies...
Mobile Phone Identity: The Mobile Phone as Part of Me
Mobile Phone Identity: The Mobile Phone as Part of Me
Michelle Carter, Varun Grover, Jason Bennett Thatcher. © 2016. 13 pages.
Mobile Devices and the Self: Developing the Concept of Mobile Phone Identity
Mobile Devices and the Self: Developing the Concept of Mobile Phone Identity
Michelle Carter, Varun Grover, Jason Bennett Thatcher. © 2013. 15 pages.
With increasing ubiquitousness of information technologies (IT), identity issues have begun to attract the attention of IS researchers. While some IS research has examined the...
The Web 2.0 Trend: Implications for the Modern Business
The Web 2.0 Trend: Implications for the Modern Business
Michael Dinger, Varun Grover. © 2010. 9 pages.
This article introduces and describes the use of Web 2.0 technologies in contemporary business environments. Web 2.0 refers to many current generation internet technologies that...
Free and Open Source Software
Free and Open Source Software
Mohammad AlMarzouq, Guang Rong, Varun Grover. © 2009. 6 pages.
Free and open source software (F/OSS) is emerging as a promising alternative to proprietary software. The interest in F/OSS solutions is growing as firms realize that it could...
Theory Development in Information Systems Research Using Structural Equation Modeling: Evaluation and Recommendations
Theory Development in Information Systems Research Using Structural Equation Modeling: Evaluation and Recommendations
Nicholas Roberts, Varun Grover. © 2009. 18 pages.
Structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques have significant potential for assessing and modifying theoretical models. There have been 171 applications of SEM in IS research...
International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC)
International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC)
Jingyuan Zhao. Est. 2005.
The International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC) addresses the design and implementation of e-collaboration technologies, assesses its behavioral impact on individuals and...
The Use of Structural Equation Modeling in IS Research: Review and Recommendations
The Use of Structural Equation Modeling in IS Research: Review and Recommendations
Kun S. Im, Varun Grover. © 2004. 22 pages.
The structural equation modeling (SEM) technique has significant potential as a research tool for assessing and modifying theoretical models. There have been 139 applications of...
Process Think: Winning Perspectives for Business Change in the Information Age
Process Think: Winning Perspectives for Business Change in the Information Age
Varun Grover, William Kettinger. © 2000. 416 pages.
"Process Think" is a managerial orientation to act proactively in identification of process opportunities, a capability to apply process concepts in problem solving, and a...
Business Process Change: Reengineering Concepts, Methods and Technologies
Business Process Change: Reengineering Concepts, Methods and Technologies
Varun Grover, William Kettinger. © 1998. 704 pages.
Corporations are undergoing massive restructuring efforts to cope with a changing competitive environment. Fundamental to these efforts is the redesign and change of business...
Strategic Use of Information Technology in International Business: A Framework for Information Technology Application
Strategic Use of Information Technology in International Business: A Framework for Information Technology Application
Steven J. Simon, Varun Grover. © 1993. 12 pages.
Information Technology’s (IT) link to the strategy of the firm has been explored in Information System literature, but the application of IT to the strategy of the international...
An Empirical Study on the Determinants of Effective Database Management
An Empirical Study on the Determinants of Effective Database Management
James T.C. Teng, Varun Grover. © 1992. 13 pages.
Data resource management (DRM) has been critical to IS for almost two decades and yet there have been curiously few research studies on the subject. This study proposes and tests...
Issues in Corporate IS Planning
Issues in Corporate IS Planning
Varun Grover. © 1991. 10 pages.
The most prevalent planning models that originated in the late sixties are the rational or top-down models, where the underlying notion of organizational level inputs to the IS...