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Singapore
2026

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20121
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1599
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Business and Management

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81
Citations
23231
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157
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  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Robert J. Kauffman is affiliated with Singapore Management University in Singapore. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Business, Management and Accounting, with specific attention to Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing, Information Systems, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion

Robert J. Kauffman has published research in several prominent venues. Frequent publication outlets are:

  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (9 publications)
  • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (6 publications)
  • Journal of Management Information Systems (5 publications)
  • Electronic Markets
  • Information Systems Research

Examples of recent papers authored include:

  • "Research directions for sharing economy issues," 2020, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
  • "Can we classify cashless payment solution implementations at the country level?", 2021, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
  • "Sustainability of Rewards-Based Crowdfunding: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Funding Targets and Backer Satisfaction," 2021, Journal of Management Information Systems
  • "Social informedness and investor sentiment in the GameStop short squeeze," 2023, Electronic Markets
  • "Blockchain solutions with consensus algorithms and immediate finality: Toward Panopticon-style monitoring to enhance anti-money laundering," 2024, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Robert J. Kauffman has collaborated frequently with multiple coauthors, including:

  • Thomas A. Weber
  • Kwansoo Kim
  • Michael Wessel
  • Rob Gleasure
  • Maurizio Naldi

Best Publications

  • On the Fintech Revolution: Interpreting the Forces of Innovation, Disruption, and Transformation in Financial Services

    Peter Gomber;Robert J. Kauffman;Christopher Parker;Bruce W. Weber

  • The economics of mobile payments: Understanding stakeholder issues for an emerging financial technology application

    Yoris A. Au;Robert J. Kauffman

  • A Case for Using Real Options Pricing Analysis to Evaluate Information Technology Project Investment

    Michel Benaroch;Robert J. Kauffman

  • Economics and Electronic Commerce: Survey and Directions for Research

    Robert J. Kauffman;Eric A. Walden

  • An evaluative framework for research on the performance effects of information technology investment

    R. J. Kauffman;P. Weill

  • New buyers' arrival under dynamic pricing market microstructure: the case of group-buying discounts on the Internet

    R.J. Kauffman;Bin Wang

  • Discovering potential and realizing value from information technology investments

    Michael J. Davern;Robert J. Kauffman

  • Making the `MOST' out of RFID technology: a research agenda for the study of the adoption, usage and impact of RFID

    John Curtin;Robert J. Kauffman;Frederick J. Riggins

  • Limits to value in electronic commerce-related IT investments

    A.M. Chircu;R.J. Kauffman

  • Understanding the paradigm shift to computational social science in the presence of big data

    Ray M. Chang;Robert J. Kauffman;Young Ok Kwon

  • Business Models for Internet-Based B2B Electronic Markets

    Qizhi Dai;Robert J. Kauffman

  • Justifying electronic banking network expansion using real options analysis

    Michel Benaroch;Robert J. Kauffman

  • Opening the Black Box of Network Externalities in Network Adoption

    Robert J. Kauffman;James McAndrews;Yu-Ming Wang

  • Service-oriented technology and management: Perspectives on research and practice for the coming decade

    Haluk Demirkan;Robert J. Kauffman;Jamshid A. Vayghan;Hans-Georg Fill

  • 50th Anniversary Article: The Evolution of Research on Information Systems: A Fiftieth-Year Survey of the Literature in Management Science

    Rajiv D. Banker;Robert J. Kauffman

  • Measuring gains in operational efficiency from information technology: a study of the Positran deployment at Hardee's Inc.

    Rajiv D. Banker;Robert J. Kauffman;Richard C. Morey

  • An Interdisciplinary Perspective on IT Services Management and Service Science

    Indranil Bardhan;Haluk Demirkan;P. Kannan;Robert Kauffman

  • How Should We Understand the Digital Economy in Asia? Critical Assessment and Research Agenda.

    Kai Li;Dan J. Kim;Karl Reiner Lang;Robert J. Kauffman

  • Making sense of technology trends in the information technology landscape: a design science approach

    Gediminas Adomavicius;Jesse C. Bockstedt;Alok Gupta;Robert J. Kauffman

  • Bid Together, Buy Together: On the Efficacy of Group-Buying Models in Internet-Based Selling.

    Robert John Kauffman;B. Wang

  • Reintermediation strategies in business-to-business electronic commerce

    Alina M. Chircu;Robert J. Kauffman

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric K. Clemons
Eric K. Clemons University of Pennsylvania
Rajiv D. Banker
Rajiv D. Banker Temple University
Alok Gupta
Alok Gupta University of Minnesota
Jun Liu
Jun Liu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mark Bergen
Mark Bergen University of Minnesota
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy National Institutes of Health
James J. McAndrews
James J. McAndrews University of Pennsylvania
Gediminas Adomavicius
Gediminas Adomavicius University of Minnesota
Haluk Demirkan
Haluk Demirkan University of Washington
Henry C. Lucas
Henry C. Lucas University of Maryland, College Park

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