Kevin Desouza

Kevin C. Desouza
Born 1979
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Residence Phoenix, Arizona
Fields Information Systems
Public Administration
Knowledge Management
Institutions Arizona State University
Alma mater University of Illinois at Chicago,
Illinois Institute of Technology
Notable students Peter Baloh
Known for Studies of Innovation and Knowledge Management Systems
Public Administration and Strategic Information Systems
Public Sector Networks and Innovation
Influences Thomas H. Davenport
Ian Mitroff
Herbert A. Simon
F.A. Hayek

Kevin C. Desouza (born 1979) is an Indian academic, associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University, and Associate Dean for Research at the College of Public Service & Community Solutions, known for his work on knowledge management.[1][2]

Biography

Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India he grew up in Doha, Qatar where he completed his primary and secondary education. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996 to study accounting and information & decision sciences, graduating in 2000. He then completed his MBA from the Stuart Graduate School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2006.

Prior to joining Arizona State University, he directed the Metropolitan Institute at the Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies and served as associate professor at the Center for Public Administration and Policy within the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech.[3] From 2005 to 2011, he was on the faculty at the University of Washington Information School and held adjunct appointments in the university’s College of Engineering and at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs.

While at the University of Washington, he was an affiliate faculty member of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy and holds a visiting professorship at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Economics. He has held visiting positions at the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School in France, and the Accenture Institute for High Business Performance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Work

Desouza has authored, co-authored, and/or edited nine books, and his research has been featured more than 125 articles in practitioner and academic journals. His research has also been featured by a number of publications such as Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Businessweek, and Computerworld, among others. He also regularly contributes to practitioner magazines such as the Business Information Review.

Desouza has advised, briefed, and/or consulted for major international corporations, non-governmental organizations, and public agencies on strategic management issues ranging from management of information systems, to knowledge management, competitive intelligence, government intelligence operations, and crisis management.

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Rising, Linda, and Mary Lynn Manns. Fearless change: patterns for introducing new ideas. Pearson Education, 2004.
  2. ↑ Heymann, Paul, and Hector Garcia-Molina. Collaborative creation of communal hierarchical taxonomies in social tagging systems. (2006).
  3. ↑ Kevin Desouza named director of Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute More Sharing ServicesShare at vtnews.vt.edu, Aug. 18, 2011. Accessed 10-03-2015

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