V.K. Narayanan

V.K. Narayanan is currently the Stubbs Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship in Drexel University, Director of the Undergraduate Program in Entrepreneurship in Technology, and Chair of the Academic Council of the Laurence A. Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship in Technology. Narayanan holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a post graduate degree in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Ph.D. in business from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has authored (or co-authored) over 60 papers, and four books.

Publications

Elaborating the Project Management System: Influence on Project Managers
Elaborating the Project Management System: Influence on Project Managers
V. K. Narayanan. © 2018. 18 pages.
This chapter elaborates on the perspective of project management as an organizational capability, crucial for strategy execution and hence necessitating the attention of senior...
Linking Information Technology, Knowledge Management, and Strategic Experimentation
Linking Information Technology, Knowledge Management, and Strategic Experimentation
V. K. Narayanan. © 2011. 8 pages.
Historically, the focus of IT infrastructure had been to capture the knowledge of experts in a centralized repository (Davenport & Prusak, 1998; Grover & Davenport, 2001; Nolan...
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Deborah J. Armstrong, H. James Nelson, Kay M. Nelson, V.K. Narayanan. © 2010. 17 pages.
The software development process has undergone a considerable amount of change from the early days of spaghetti code to the present state of the art of development using...
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Deborah J. Armstrong, H. James Nelson, Kay M. Nelson, V. K. Narayanan. © 2010. 18 pages.
The software development process has undergone a considerable amount of change from the early days of spaghetti code to the present state of the art of development using...
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Deborah J. Armstrong, H. James Nelson, Kay M. Nelson, V.K. Narayanan. © 2010. 18 pages.
The software development process has undergone a considerable amount of change from the early days of spaghetti code to the present state of the art of development using...
Linking Information Technology, Knowledge Management, and Strategic Experimentation
Linking Information Technology, Knowledge Management, and Strategic Experimentation
V. K. Narayanan. © 2009. 6 pages.
Historically, the focus of IT infrastructure had been to capture the knowledge of experts in a centralized repository (Davenport & Prusak, 1998; Grover & Davenport, 2001; Nolan...
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Deborah J. Armstrong, H. James Nelson, Kay M. Nelson, V.K. Narayanan. © 2008. 17 pages.
The software development process has undergone a considerable amount of change from the early days of spaghetti code to the present state of the art of development using...
From Strategic Management to Strategic Experimentation: The Convergence of IT, Knowledge Management, and Strategy
From Strategic Management to Strategic Experimentation: The Convergence of IT, Knowledge Management, and Strategy
V. K. Narayanan, Mari W. Buche, Benedict Kemmerer. © 2008. 17 pages.
The new competitive landscape of the 21st century is forcing organizations to move away from traditional conceptualizations of strategy formulation towards an approach of...
Strategic Experimentation and Knowledge Management
Strategic Experimentation and Knowledge Management
V. K. Narayanan. © 2008. 7 pages.
Historically, the focus of IT infrastructure has been to capture the knowledge of experts in a centralized repository (Davenport & Prusak, 1998; Grover & Davenport, 2001). These...
Causal Mapping for Research in Information Technology
Causal Mapping for Research in Information Technology
V.K. Narayanan, Deborah J. Armstrong. © 2005. 396 pages.
Causal Mapping for Research in Information Technology provides an introduction to causal mapping for IS researchers and practitioners and goes further to provide IS researchers...
Causal Mapping: An Historical Overview
Causal Mapping: An Historical Overview
V. K. Narayanan. © 2005. 19 pages.
In this chapter, I provide an historical overview of the use of causal mapping, and its migration from political science to organization theory, and more recently into research...
Expanding Horizons: Juxtaposing Causal Mapping and Survey Techniques
Expanding Horizons: Juxtaposing Causal Mapping and Survey Techniques
Deborah J. Armstrong, V. K. Narayanan. © 2005. 21 pages.
In this chapter, we compare the findings from causal maps derived from semi-structured interviews with that obtained from survey respondents, using a data set originally...
An Outline of Approaches to Analyzing the Behavior of Causal Maps
An Outline of Approaches to Analyzing the Behavior of Causal Maps
V. K. Narayanan, Jiali Liao. © 2005.
Analysis of the behavior of casual maps is not as well developed as the analysis of their content and structure. In this chapter, we propose a set of approaches to examine the...
Strategic Experimentation and Knowledge Management
Strategic Experimentation and Knowledge Management
V. K. Narayanan. © 2005. 5 pages.
Historically, the focus of IT infrastructure has been to capture the knowledge of experts in a centralized repository (Davenport & Prusak, 1998; Grover & Davenport, 2001). These...
From Strategic Management to Strategic Experimentation: The Convergence of IT, Knowledge Management, and Strategy
From Strategic Management to Strategic Experimentation: The Convergence of IT, Knowledge Management, and Strategy
V. K. Narayanan, Mari W. Buche, Benedict Kemmerer. © 2003. 20 pages.
The new competitive landscape of the 21st century is forcing organizations to move away from traditional conceptualizations of strategy formulation towards an approach of...