What is it about?
This paper got its start during the doctoral work phase of Nir Kshetri at the University of Rhode Island (URI), where he worked under the supervision of Nikhilesh Dholakia. Nir's studies opened up many avenues to study e-commerce, Internet, and IT offshoring issues in Asia.
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This page is a summary of: E-Commerce Patterns in South Asia: A Look Beyond Economics, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, November 2005, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1300/j098v06n03_04.
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URI: Long Tradition of Tech/Markets/Consumption research; led by Ruby Roy Dholakia
Inspiration and background for research if this type: Starting from the mid-1980s, a strong, varied and insightful stream of research has developed under the direction of Professor Ruby Roy Dholakia at the University of Rhode Island (URI), examining multiple aspects of Telecom, E-Commerce, M-Commerce, Social Media, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Smart Homes, Internet of Things, and many related aspects of technology-induced changes in markets and consumer behaviors.
Nir Kshetri - U of N Carolina, Greensboro
The fast-growing scholarly output of Nir Kshetri is best tracked via this Google Scholar page. Some of the early work was in collaboration with Nikhilesh Dholakia, Nir’s doctoral adviser at the University of Rhode Island (URI). Working from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), Nir has subsequently developed many strong streams of research examining the global business and technology connections of Asia and the West.
Dholakia and Sinha: An early qualitative study of retailing in India... another change phenomenon in S. Asia
South Asia, especially India, is changing on multiple dimensions -- electronic and physical. This article is a window into changes in the physical retailing in India.
Booming E-commerce in South Asia: Amazon in India
This paper by Nir Kshetri and Nikhilesh Dholakia was a preview of things to come… now, in the second decade of this century, e-commerce (and especially its mobile “m-commerce” forms) are booming in many forms in South Asia.
Booming E-commerce in South Asia: Flipkart India
India's large homegrown e-commerce firm raises a billion dollars from investors.
Google Scholar Page: Ruby Roy Dholakia
Rich portal into 3 decades of research into tech-markets-strategies-cultures-and-consumers, done at the University of Rhode Island (URI), led by Ruby Roy Dholakia, with publications by her and her local and global research collaborators. Also visit the related Google Scholar page of Nikhilesh Dholakia to see works with a greater focus on consumer culture issues in information and communication technology settings.
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