Research

Research areas

  • Software sourcing strategies (outsourcing, crowdsourcing, and open sourcing)
  • IT in M&A
  • Business process management
  • Data visualization
  • Gender diversity 

Grants

  • Jain, R. (Co-Principal), Hazarika, S. (Co-Principal), Henry, T. (Co-Principal), LePere, M. (Co-Principal), Grant, “To improve gender diversity in the undergraduate program in Information Systems at Baruch College”, The Center for Inclusive Computing, Northeastern University, Private, $60,000.00, Funded. (start: July 1, 2021, end: June 30, 2023).
  • Jain, R. (Principal), Grant, “Competing or Complementary? Empirical investigation of firm and community dynamics in OSS product platform development”, PSC-CUNY, Local, $3,498.40, Funded. (start: July 1, 2019, end: June 30, 2020).
  • Jain, R. (Co-Principal), Mohan, K. (Co-Principal), Grant, “To increase and retain participation of women in the undergraduate program in Information Systems at Baruch College”, WiTNY, Local, $24,826.33, Funded. (start: July 1, 2019, end: June 30, 2020).
  • Jain, R. (Principal), Mohan, K. (Co-Principal), Koufaris, M. (Co-Principal), Croker, A. E. (Co-Principal), Grant, “To increase and retain participation of women in the undergraduate graduate program in information systems at Baruch”, WITNY, Local, $19,973.50, Funded. (start: August 1, 2018, end: June 30, 2019).
  • Jain, R. (Principal), Grant, “Integrating IT-enabled Business Processes in Post-merger Environment”, PSC-CUNY, Local, $3,500.00, Funded. (start: July 1, 2016, end: June 30, 2017).

Journal publications

  • Jain, R., & Ramesh, B. (2015). The Role of Contextual Elements in Post-merger Common Platform Development: An Empirical Investigation. European Journal of Information Systems, 24(2), 159-177.
  • Jain, R., Cao, L., Mohan, K., & Ramesh, B. (2015). Situated Boundary Spanning: An Empirical Investigation of Requirements Engineering Practices in Product Family Development. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 5(3), 32.
  • Jain, R., Poston, R., & Simon, J. (2011). An Empirical Investigation of Client Managers’ Responsibilities in Managing Offshore Outsourcing of Software-Testing Projects. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 58(4), 743 – 757.
  • Jain, R., Simon, J., & Poston, R. (2011). Mitigating Vendor Silence in Offshore Outsourcing: An Empirical Investigation. Journal of Management Information Systems, 27(4), 261 – 298.
  • Jain, R., Benbunan-Fich, R., & Mohan, K. (2011). Assessing Green IT Initiatives Using the Balanced Scorecard. IEEE IT Professional, 13(1), 26-32.
  • Poston, R., Simon, J., & Jain, R. (2010). Managing Offshore Outsourcing: Proven Communication Practices of Client-Vendor Relationships. Communications of the AIS, 27(9), 129-148.
  • Jain, R. (2010). Using Crowdsourcing to Address the Needs of the Bottom of the Pyramid. Cutter IT Journal (The Journal of Information Technology Management), 23(7), 11-17.
  • Mohan, K., & Jain, R. (2008). Using Traceability to Mitigate Cognitive Biases in Software Development. Communications of the ACM, 51(9), 110-114.
  • Mohan, K., Jain, R., & Ramesh, B. (2007). Knowledge Networking to Support Medical New Product Development. Decision Support Systems, 43(4), 1255-1273.
  • Meso, P., & Jain, R. (2006). Agile software development: Adaptive systems principles and best practices. Information Systems Management, 23(3), 19-30 (4th among the top ten cited articles in 2008).
  • Jain, R. (2005). Contextual Analysis of Enterprise Mobile Services Requirements. Journal of International Technology and Information Management (JITIM), formerly known as Journal of International Information Management (JIIM), 14(2), 145-154.
  • Ramesh, B., Jain, R., Nissen, M., & Xu, P. (2005). Managing Context in Business Process Management Systems. Requirements Engineering Journal (REJ), 10(3), 223-237.
  • Varshney, U., Malloy, A., Ahluwalia, P., & Jain, R. (2004). Wireless in the Enterprise: Requirements, Solutions, and Research Directions. International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC), 2(4), 354-367.
  • Varshney, U., & Jain, R. (2001). Issues in Emerging 4G Wireless Networks. IEEE Computer, 34(6), 94-96.

Conference Publications

  • Jain, Y. Cai, I. Vaghefi, Academy of Management Professional Development Workshop on Widening the divide through digital health innovation? A Towards Health Futures, “An Exploratory Investigation of OSS Business Model as an Enabler of Inclusive Digital Healthcare Innovation Process”, Accepted. (August 2022).

  • Benbunan-fich, R., Chi-Wen, C., Jain, R. , Mohan, K., Pre-ICIS workshop on SIG-Green, Milan, Italy, “Evaluating consumer’s willingness to pay for green IT products (Equal contribution, Authors appear in alphabetical order)”, published in proceedings. (December 2013).

  • Jain, R. , Workshop on Business Processes and Services, Orlando, FL, “Role of Application Reviews in Mobile Application Development Process”, Workshop, published in proceedings. (December 2012).
  • Jain, R. , 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Lima, Peru, “Investigation of Governance Mechanisms for Crowdsourcing Initiatives”, published in proceedings. (August 2010).
  • Jain, R. , Richardson, S., 1st Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Systems Testing, Memphis, TN, “Knowledge Partitioning and Knowledge Transfer Mechanisms in Software Testing: An Empirical Investigation”, published in proceedings. (May 2007).
  • Poston, R. S., Simon, J. C., Jain, R. , 1st Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Systems Testing, Memphis, TN, “Managing Offshore Outsourcing of Software Testing”, published in proceedings. (May 2007).
  • Jain, R. , Richardson, S., IFIP Working Group 8.2 on Information Systems and Organizations (IFIP 8.2 – OASIS Workshop), Milwaukee, WI, “Role of knowledge transfer mechanisms to enable skills acquisition and improvement in software testing: An empirical investigation”, published in proceedings. (December 2006).
  • Jain, R. , Flomenbaum, J. M., Mohan, K., 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Acapulco, Mexico, “A Cognitive Perspective on Pair Programming”, published in proceedings. (August 2006).
  • Woo, J., Conesa, J., Jain, R. , 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Acapulco, Mexico, “Dependency Management in Web Services Composition”, published in proceedings. (August 2006).
  • Jain, R. , Ramesh, B., 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Omaha, Nebraska, “Negotiating Strategic Business Value of BPM Systems: A Balanced Scorecard Approach”, published in proceedings. (August 2005).
  • Jain, R. , 43rd Annual ACM Southeast regional conference (ACM-SE, Atlanta, GA, “Improving Quality of Service for Streaming Multimedia Applications in Ubiquitous Mobile Environment”, published in proceedings. (March 2005).
  • Jain, R. , Southern Association of Information Systems Conference (SAIS), Savannah, GA, “Dynamic Outsourcing with Web Services: A Multi-Faceted Perspective”, published in proceedings. (March 2005).
  • Kim, J., Jain, R. , 38th Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS-38), Big Island, Hawaii, “Web Services Composition with Traceability Centered on Dependency”, published in proceedings. (January 2005).
  • Jain, R. , Meso, P., 10th Americas Conference Information Systems (AMCIS), New York, NY, “Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems and Agile Software Development”, published in proceedings. (August 2004).
  • Jain, R. , 9th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Tampa, FL, “Enterprise Mobile Services: Framework and Industry-Specific Analysis”, published in proceedings. (August 2003).
  • Jain, R. , 55th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Birmingham, AL, “Supporting Quality of Service in Multiple Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”, published in proceedings. (May 2002).

Book Chapters

  • Jain, R., & Ramesh, B. (2006). Development and Deployment of Web Services.. Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government and Mobile Commerce, Idea Group.
  • Kasi, V., & Jain, R. (2006). Internet Search Engines.. Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government and Mobile Commerce, Idea Group Inc.
  • Jain, R., & Varshney, U. (2002). ATM: Asynchronous Transmission Mode.. Computer Sciences: Macmillian Science Library, MacMillian Reference USA.