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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 18:17:50+00:00

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Social Media & Business Practices; ICTs, Development & Business; Management Information Systems (MIS); eCommerce; Market / Business Research Methods.
Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD); Urban Women Microentrepreneurs & Mobile phones; Electronic Governance; ICT Employment in India; Indian IT Industry - Inter firm linkages, small firms, R&D centers of MNCs; Social Media & Business applications; Social Media Analytics.
Joseph, N., Kar, A. K., Ilavarasan, P. V., & Iyer, G. (Forthcoming). Review of discussions on Internet of Things (IoT): Insights from Twitter Analytics. Journal of Global Information Management. (IGI - Global).
Rathore, A. K., Tuli, N., & Ilavarasan, P. V. (2016). Pro-Business or Common Citizen?: An Analysis of an Indian Woman CEO's Tweets. International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking (IJVCSN), 8(1), 19-29. (IGI - Global).
Srinivasan, N., & Ilavarasan, P. V. (2015). White Elephant or a Game Changer?: An Analysis of National Optical Fibre Network of India. Economic & Political Weekly, 50(42), 59.
Gunaratne, R. L., Ilavarasan, P. V., Fernando, S., & Rohman, I. K. (2015). National Broadband Networks of Malaysia, India, Indonesia and Australia: A Comparative Study. Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, 16(1), 23-47.
Ilavarasan, P. V. (2014). R&D Centers of ICT multinationals in India: Executing arms or equal partners? Economic and Political Weekly, 49 (34), 56-63.
Chew, H., Ilavarasan, P. V., and Levy, M. R. (2012). A latency effect for mobile phone investments by microentrepreneurs, Media Asia, 39(2), 99-10. (Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Singapore).
Chew, H., Levy, M. R., and Ilavarasan, P. V. (2011). The limited impact of ICTs on microenterprise growth: A study of businesses owned by women in urban India. Information Technologies and International Development, 7(4), 1-16.
Malish, C.M., and Ilavarasan, P.V. (2010). Exploring the professional status of software work in India, IEEE Technology & Society Magazine, 29(4), 50-54.
Hutchinson, F. and Ilavarasan, P.V. (2008). IT/ITES sector and economic policy at the sub-national level in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 43(46), 64-70.
Ilavarasan, P.V., and Gupta, S. (2007). Impact of Technological Lock-in: Case of OOXML in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (48), 28-33.
Ilavarasan, P.V. (2006). Are Opportunities Equal for Women in the Information Technology Workplace? Some observations from the Indian software industry. IEEE Technology & Society 25 (4):43-49.
Ilavarasan, P.V. (2004). Small Software Firms in India: A descriptive analysis. Journal of Systems & Information Technology, 8 (1): 30-39. (Emerald Publications).
Kar, A.K., Gupta, M.P., Ilavarasan, V., & Dwivedi, Y. (Eds.) (2017) Advances in Smart Cities – Smarter People, Governance and Solutions. (Eds). CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, UK. ISBN: TBD.
Ilavarasan, P. V. (Forthcoming). Information and Communication Technologies in India: Outweighing negatives in development. In: Seetharaman, P. & Cranefield, J. (Ed.). Automation and Computers. Routledge.
Jain, A., Sharma, R. and Ilavarasan, P. V. (forthcoming). In: Sushil and Singh, S. P. (Eds.). Measuring Innovation by Universities & Higher Academic Technical Institutions in India: Total Interpretive Structural Modelling Based Framework. Springer.
Singh, A. N and Ilavarasan, P. V. (2016). New Media, Governance, and Transparency in India. In: Narayan, S. S., and Narayanan, S. (Eds). India Connected. Sage: New Delhi.
Singh, A. K and Ilavarasan, P. V. (Forthcoming). Social Auditing & Transparency: Domestic Cooking Gas Cylinders Distribution in India. Civic Media Reader, MIT Press.
Ilavarasan, P. V and Hutchinson, F. (2014). Electronics Industry in India: A Regional Policy Approach. In: Hutchinson, F (Ed.) Architects of Growth? Sub-national Governments and Industrialization in Asia. Singapore: ISEAS.
Malik, P. and Ilavarasan, P.V. (2013). Information and communications technology sector in India. In: Pradon, G. D., Nepelski, D., and Simon, J. P (Ed.) Asia in the Global ICT Innovation Network: Dancing with the tigers. Chandos: Oxford.
Ilavarasan, P.V. (2013). Digital Divide in India: Inferences from Information and Communication Technology Workforce. In: Ragnedda, M and Muschert, G. W. (Eds.). The Digital Divide: Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective. London and New York: Routledge.
Tara, S., and Ilavarasan, P. V. (2012). Altering approaches to Marriage: A study of unmarried women agents in Indian call center industry. Rekha, P., T. Weide , and N. Flipsen (ed) Globalization, Technology Diffusion and Gender Disparity: Social Impacts of ICTs, IGI Press, 262-276.
Ilavarasan, P. V. (2011). Center for Global’ or ‘Local for Global’? R&D Centers of ICT Multinationals in India, In: Howlett, R. J (Ed.) Innovation through Knowledge Transfer 2010, Berlin: Springer, 275-282.
Malish, C.M., and Ilavarasan, P.V. (2011). Cultural capital and information capitalism: A case of Indian software industry. In Karatas-Ozkan M (ed) Global Knowledge Workers: Diversity and Relational Perspectives, Edward Elgar Press, p. 114-139.
Tara, S., and Ilavarasan, P. V. (2009). Parental reactions to daughter’s unconventional work hours at call centers in India. In M. S. Bhatt and A. Illiyan. (Eds.) Information Technology in the Indian Economy, Century, New Delhi, p. 231-243.
Ilavarasan, P. V. (2008). Indian software workforce: A labour process view. In C. Upadhya and A. R. Vasavi (Eds.) In an outpost of the Global Economy: Work and Workers in the India’s Information Technology Industry, Routledge, New Delhi, p.162-189.
Malhotra, C., Chariar, V., Das, L. and Ilavarasan, P. V. (2007). ICT for rural development: An inclusive framework for e-Governance. In G.P. Sahu (Ed.) Adopting e-Governance, GIFT Publishing, New Delhi, p. 216-226. .
Ilavarasan, P. V. (2007). Software Workforce. In: Alternative Economic Survey, India: 2006-2007, Alternative Survey Group, Daanish Books, New Delhi, p.253-260.
Ilavarasan, P. V. (2006). R & D in Indian software industry. In Roli Varma (Univ. of New Mexico, authored) Managing Industrial Research Effectively, ICFAI University Press, India, 2006, p. 134-143.
Sharma, A. K. and Ilavarasan, P. V. (2005). Dilemmas of Sustainable Development in India in Readings in Environmental Ethics: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. D.C.Srivastava (Ed.), Rawat Publications, Jaipur, pp.227-240.
Rathore, A. K., Shioramwar, S., & Ilavarasan, P. V. (2016). Social Customer Relationship Management as Predictor of Customer Relationship Performance: An Empirical Study of B2B and B2C Companies. In Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (pp. 173-182). Springer International Publishing.
Ilavarasan, P. V., & Chew, H. E. (2016). A Toolkit on mobile apps for business growth: Insights from design and development. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (p. 41-48). (ACM Press).
Ilavarasan, V., & Rathore, A. (2015, July). Social Media use in Indian Businesses: Inputs for Appropriateness. In ECSM2015-Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Social Media 2015: ECSM 2015 (p. 218). Academic Conferences Limited.
Alathur, A & Ilavarasan, P. V. (2015). A Genre Analysis of E-Participation: The Case of Lokpal Movement for Enactment of Anti-Corruption Bill in India, IFIP 9.4: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, Negombo, Sri Lanka. pp. 26-37.
Kumar. J., Ilavarasan, P. V., & Dalvi, G. (Eds.) (2014). Proceedings of the India HCI 2014 Conference on Human Computer Interaction. IHCI '14, New Delhi, 7-9 Dec 2016.
Alathur, S., Ilavarasan, P. V., and Gupta, M. P. (2011). Citizen Readiness for Participation in EDemocracy: Insights from India. IADIS International Conference on e-Democracy, Equity and Social Justice, Rome, Italy. pp 56-60.
Ilavarasan, P. V. and Levy, M. R. (2009). Fone band... Dukan band! (Mobile Phone Close… Shop Close!) Design Issues and Preliminary Findings from a Study of ICTs and Urban Micro-Enterprises in India, Proceedings of the 3rd International IDIA Development Informatics Conference, 28-30 October, 226-244.
Ilavarasan, P. V. (2007). Exclusivity of the ICT direct employment: A case of Indian software workforce. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Bangalore, 15-16, December, p. 273-278.
Bhattacharya, J., Ilavarasan, P. V., and Gupta, S. (2007). Open standards and accessibility to information: A critical analysis of OOXML in India. Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Vol. 232, 151-154.
Ilavarasan, P. V. (2007). How do small software firms survive in India? Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics, Scientometrics and Science and Society, New Delhi, March 6-9, p.337-343.
Ilavarasan, P. V., and Sharma, A. K. (2005). I don’t remember what my designation is: Classifying Indian software workers. Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, July 7-10, Bangkok, Thailand, p.69-85.
Sharma, A. K. and Ilavarasan, P. V. (2003). Issues in sustainable development. Proc. of the International Conference on Population, Development and Environment. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India), 15-16 Mar., p.100-108.
Ilavarasan, P. V., and Sharma, A. K. (2002). Does capability maturity model matter? Mature Vs immature software organizations. In Subic, A. J. et al. ICQR 2002: Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Quality and Reliability. RMIT University, Melbourne, 28-30 August, Australia, p.133-141.
Ilavarasan, P. V & Vagrani, A. (2015). E-inclusion - Information technology training for rural scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and women beneficiaries: An impact assessment study. Report submitted to Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, New Delhi, May.
Ilavarasan, P. V. (2013). 'Center-for-global' or 'local-for-global’? An examination of FDI in R&D centers of IT MNEs in India. Technology Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council (TIFAC), Department of Science & Technology.
2007. Small ICT Firms in Developing Countries: An Analytical Case Study of India. International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore. (Jointly with Dr. Balaji Parthasarathy).
2006. Equity Assurance Plan for the Disadvantaged Groups in Vocational Education and Training in India. For World Bank & Directorate of Employment and Training, Ministry of Labour and Employment, India.
2009. Why doesn't Infosys innovate? Financial Express, 17 Aug.
2008. BPOs take tier-II call for new operations. Economic Times, 8th March. (Jointly with Francis Hutchinson).
2007. Small IT firms face big growth challenges. Economic Times, 16th August.
2004. How to manage benched staff? IT People 8th March.
Forthcoming. The Local Impact of Globalization in South and Southeast Asia: Offshore Business Processes in Services Industries. Journal of Southeast Asian Economies.
Forthcoming. The Long Revolution: The Birth and Growth of India's IT Industry. Economic and Political Weekly.
2008. Information Society and Development: The Kerala Experience. Sociological Bulletin.
2006. Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy. Regional Studies Journal, 40 (6), 805-806.
2006. Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development: An Institutional Design Perspective. On the Horizon, 14 (3), 139-142.
2005. Innovative milieu for high-tech SMEs in West of England and Singapore-Johor areas. Regional Studies Journal, 39 (6): 829-830.
2016. Digital Literacy Training to Non-IT Literate Citizens: An Impact Assessment Study of the National Digital Literacy Mission / Digital Saksharta Abhiyan. CSC e-Governance Services India Limited, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, New Delhi. INR 68,00,000 (Jointly with Arpan Kumar Kar).
2008-2010. 'Center-for-global' or 'local-for-global’? An examination of FDI in R&D centers of IT MNEs in India. Technology Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council (TIFAC), Department of Science & Technology. India. INR. 3, 95, 000.
2006-2007. Equity Assurance Plan for the Disadvantaged Groups in Vocational Education and Training in India. For World Bank & Directorate of Employment and Training, Ministry of Labour and Employment, India. Cost: INR 8, 00,000.
2010. Open text books – eContent generation and sharing laboratory, Ministry of Human Resourced Development, India. INR 18, 0000. (PI - Dr. Shishir Jha).
2004-05. Small ICT Firms in Developing Countries: An Analytical Case Study of India. The Leverhulme Trust, London. UK. ~ INR 19, 00, 000 (PI - Dr. Balaji Parthasarathy).
2015. Content analysis and use of CAQDAS. Dept. of Education, Delhi University. 20 Feb. (Invited by Dr. Sailaja).
2015. CAQDAS in Qualitative Research. National University of Education Planning and Administration, New Delhi. 30 July. (Invited by Dr Suman Negi).
2015. Panelist - From NOFN to Bharat Net – Critical Success Factors. Second Regional ITS Conference, Connectivity for All: Future Technologies, Markets and Regulation', at New Delhi, December 13-15.
2015. Measuring Innovation by Universities & Higher Academic Technical Institutions in India: Interpretive Structural Modelling based Framework’. Fifteenth Global Conference of Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management (GLOGIFT 15). Symbiosis International University, Pune, India. 23-25 October. (Presented by Jain, A).
2014. National Broadband Networks: What works and what doesn’t? 3rd Florence Conference on the Regulation of Infrastructures, Firenze. 13 June. (Presented by R. L. Gunaratne).
2014. 'Improving service delivery in the electricity sector in Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh: Possible lessons from the telecom sector. ICMB 2014, London School of Economics and Political Science, 4-5 June.
2012. Linkage between period of mobile phone usage and business growth: An empirical study of microentrepreneurs in Mumbai, India. m4d2012, New Delhi, 28-29, Feb.
2011. Analysis of Electronics Industry in Chennai, Tamilnadu: Inputs for Regional Policy Making. State Policy and Industrial Transformation at the Sub-National Level in Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 7 Oct.
2010. ICTs and Economic growth in urban microenterprises. ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice and Policy. March 11-12, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
2009. Open windows of opportunity and local interdependencies: The IT/ITES sector and economic policy at the sub-national level in India. Technology, Public Policy and Development: Shifting Contexts, Transforming Agendas" January 22– 24, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
2008. ICT in India: Value added, R&D Expenditure, Personnel & Trade Flows. Workshop on The trends in public and private investments in ICT R&D in China, India and Taiwan and on the globalisation of R&D and the competitiveness of their innovation system in ICT, 29th September, European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Brussels.
2008. High-tech labour and social segmentations: A case of Indian software workforce. XXXII Indian Social Science Congress, 17-22 December, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi.
2007. When we started, nothing was here: Insights on firm location of small software firms in India. International Seminar on IT Industry in India-Prospects, Retrospects and Policies, 1-2 November, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
2007. Disadvantaged groups in Industrial Training Institutes in India: Problems and Remedial Measures. National Seminar on Enhancing Access and Performance of Disadvantaged Sections of Society in Technical and Vocational Education, March 22-23, Chandigarh.
2007. Small software firms at the margins: Some observations. National Conference on Decentralized Innovation: Focus on Rural and Small Urban Enterprises, NISTADS, New Delhi, 16-17, March.
2006. Indian software workforce: Inferences for the digital divide. Invited paper for a panel discussion under Research Committee 21, 32nd National Conference of the All India Sociological Society, Chennai, 26-28, December.
2006. Unevenness in Indian Software Workforce. 10th Annual Conference of Indian Political Economy Association (IPEA), August 11 & 12, Udaipur.
2006. Firm location preferences of Indian software export entrepreneurs. 32nd All India Sociological Conference, Chennai, 27-29 December.
2006. Indian software workforce: A case of digital divide. 32nd All India Sociological Conference, Chennai, 27-29 December.
2006. Unevenness in the Indian software workforce. 10th Annual Conference of Indian Political Economy Association, Udaipur, August 11 & 12.
2005. Invisible barriers to entry for minorities in Indian software workforce. Paper presented at the XXXI All India Sociological Conference, Jammu, 25-27 October, 2005.
2005. Role of Social Capital in Evolution of Small Software Firms in India. National Seminar on the concept of Social Capital and its Relevance for Theory, Research and Policy, Dept. of Sociology, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, Mar. 10-11.
2016. Co - Director. Residential Workshop on ‘How to engage in broadband policy and regulatory processes?’ IIT Delhi. 16-19 Dec, Jointly with LIRNEasia. Funded by the Ford Foundation.
2016. Co - Director. Residential Workshop on ‘How to engage in broadband policy and regulatory processes?’ IIT Delhi. 19-22 Aug & 16-20 Dec Jointly with LIRNEasia. Funded by the Ford Foundation.
2016. Co – Chair. Expert Forum on Strategies for optimizing benefits of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for growth of MSMEs in the developing world. 26 April. IIT Delhi, Jointly with LIRNEasia. Funded by the DFID, UK & IDRC, Canada.
2016. Co Program Chair. International Conference in Smart Cities. IIT Delhi. 22-23 Jan. Jointly with Swansea University and Waterford Institute of Technology.
2015. Co-Director. Short term / TEQIP course on Advancing Research in Management. IIT Delhi, 3-5 Dec 2015.
2015. Co-Chair. HITLAB Innovators Summit India. IIT Delhi, 7 Aug. 2015, Jointly with HITLAB.
2010 (Dec), Co-Editor. Special Issue on ICTs and Development, Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, HongKong University. (Jointly with Mark Levy).
2010. ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice and Policy. March 11-12, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
2009. Brainstorming Workshop on Enabling Innovation in Indian IT industry, at TIFAC / IIT Delhi. (Jointly with Ms. Kiran). November, 13.
2005. Conference Secretary. International Conference on Productivity, Quality and Research (ICPQR), 12-14 Dec., IIT Delhi.
P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan (PhD - IIT Kanpur) is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He researches and teaches about production and consumption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with a special focus on India. His specific research interests are Information and Communication Technologies & Development (ICTD); Indian IT industry; and Social Media. He is an active contributor to the international journals and conferences of repute.
Dr. Ilavarasan has been a Visiting Research Fellow at United Nations University - School of Computing and Society (Macau). He is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship Award at IIT Delhi and Prof. M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize of the Indian Sociological Society. He is also a Research Fellow at LIRNEasia, a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank. He has received large research grants from IDRC (Canada), Govt. of India, Oxford Analytica (UK), IPTS (European Commission) and IdeaCorp (Philippines).
Dr Ilavarasan had taught at Pondicherry Central University and Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, Indore and Amritsar. His present teaching interests include: Management Information Systems; E-Commerce; Social Media; Business / Market Research Methods; and ICTs, Development & Business.

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