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Business and Management

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41
Citations
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1523
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643

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38
Citations
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World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS)

Overview

Omar A. El Sawy is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, encompassing 11 publications. Key subfields include Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Intellectual Property and Patents
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods

Omar A. El Sawy's recent papers feature studies published in notable venues such as MIS Quarterly, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Korea Business Review. Selected publications include:

  • "Theorizing the Multiplicity of Digital Phenomena: The Ecology of Configurations, Causal Recipes, and Guidelines for Applying QCA" (2020, MIS Quarterly)
  • "When and Who Do Platform Companies Acquire? Understanding the Role of Acquisitions in the Growth of Platform Companies" (2021, MIS Quarterly)
  • "Theorizing the Multiplicity of Digital Phenomena: The Ecology of Configurations, Causal Recipes, and Guidelines for Applying QCA" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Digital Transformation to Real-Time Enterprise to Sustain Competitive Advantage in the Digitized World: The Role of Business Intelligence and Communication Systems" (2020, Korea Business Review)
  • "When and Who Do Platform Companies Acquire? Understanding the Role of Acquisitions in the Growth of Platform Companies" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)

The most frequent publication venues for this researcher are:

  • MIS Quarterly
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Korea Business Review
  • Management and business review.

Frequent co-authors include Peer C. Fiss, Milan Miric, Margherita Pagani, Youngki Park, and Young-Ki Park. These collaborations have contributed to the multidisciplinary nature of their research.

Omar A. El Sawy was recognized as a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Digital business strategy: toward a next generation of insights

    Anandhi Bharadwaj;Omar A. El Sawy;Paul A. Pavlou;N. Venkatraman

  • Building an Information System Design Theory for Vigilant EIS

    Joseph G. Walls;George R. Widmeyer;Omar A. El Sawy

  • From IT Leveraging Competence to Competitive Advantage in Turbulent Environments: The Case of New Product Development

    Paul A. Pavlou;Omar A. El Sawy

  • Understanding the Elusive Black Box of Dynamic Capabilities

    Paul A. Pavlou;Omar A. El Sawy

  • Absorptive capacity configurations in supply chains: gearing for partner-enabled market knowledge creation

    Arvind Malhotra;Sanjay Gosain;Omar Sawy

  • The “Third Hand”: IT-Enabled Competitive Advantage in Turbulence Through Improvisational Capabilities

    Paul A. Pavlou;Omar A. El Sawy

  • Coordinating for Flexibility in e-Business Supply Chains

    Sanjay Gosain;Arvind Malhotra;Omar A. El Sawy

  • Research Commentary---Seeking the Configurations of Digital Ecodynamics: It Takes Three to Tango

    Omar A. El Sawy;Arvind Malhotra;YoungKi Park;Paul A. Pavlou

  • Impactful research on transformational information technology: an opportunity to inform new audiences

    Henry C. Lucas;Ritu Agarwal;Eric K. Clemons;Omar A. El Sawy

  • Digital Business Strategy: Toward a Next Generation of Insights

    Anandhi Bharadwaj;Omar A. El Sawy;Paul A. Pavlou;N. Venkat Venkatraman

  • Assessing Information System Design Theory in Perspective: How Useful Was our 1992 Initial Rendition?

    Joseph G. Walls;George R. Widermeyer;Omar A. El Sawy

  • IT-intensive value innovation in the electronic economy: insights from Marshall industries

    Omar A. El Sawy;Arvind Malhotra;Sanjay Gosain;Kerry M. Young

  • How LEGO Built the Foundations and Enterprise Capabilities for Digital Leadership

    Omar El Sawy;Henrik Amsinck;Pernille Kræmmergaard;Anders Lerbech Vinther

  • The effects of animation on information seeking performance on the World Wide Web: securing attention or interfering with primary tasks?

    Ping Zhang

  • Personal information systems for strategic scanning in turbulent environments: can the CEO go on-line?

    Omar A. Ei Sawy

  • Leveraging Standard Electronic Business Interfaces to Enable Adaptive Supply Chain Partnerships

    Arvind Malhotra;Sanjay Gosain;Omar A. El Sawy

  • Business Modelling in the Dynamic Digital Space: An Ecosystem Approach

    Omar A. El Sawy;Francis Pereira

  • Redesigning Enterprise Processes for E-Business

    Omar A. El Sawy

  • Redesigning the customer support process for the electronic economy: insights from storage dimensions

    Omar A. El Sawy;Gene Bowles

  • Theorizing the Multiplicity of Digital Phenomena: The Ecology of Configurations, Causal Recipes, and Guidelines for Applying QCA

    YoungKi Park;Peer C. Fiss;Omar A. El Sawy

  • Seeking the Configurations of Digital Ecodynamics: It Takes Three to Tango

    Omar A. El Sawy;Arvind Malhotra;YoungKi Park;Paul A. Pavlou

  • The 'Third Hand': IT-Enabled Competitive Advantage in Turbulence Through Improvisational Capabilities

    Omar A. El Sawy;Paul A. Pavlou

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Pavlou
Paul A. Pavlou University of Miami
Arvind Malhotra
Arvind Malhotra University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
N. Venkatraman
N. Venkatraman Boston University
Ann Majchrzak
Ann Majchrzak University of Southern California
Atreyi Kankanhalli
Atreyi Kankanhalli National University of Singapore
Kevin C. Desouza
Kevin C. Desouza Queensland University of Technology
Stefan Wrobel
Stefan Wrobel University of Bonn
M. Lynne Markus
M. Lynne Markus Bentley University
Richard T. Watson
Richard T. Watson University of Georgia
Robert D. Galliers
Robert D. Galliers Bentley University

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