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 Ram Tenkasi
Ramkrishnan (Ram) V. Tenkasi is Professor of Organization Change with the PhD program in Organization Development and Change at Benedictine University in Chicago. His prior appointment was with the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California where he started his career as an Assistant Professor. He earned his PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.

His research and practice interests on Institutional and large scale organizational change, knowledge, learning, information technology and innovation has been funded by multiple federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, the Fulbright Foundation and private foundations such as the Lucent Technologies Knowledge Universe Foundation. A recent research project funded by the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright foundation seeks to rigorously examine the question “where do India’s capabilities in the software industry come from?”

His more than 70 articles and chapters have appeared in leading journals such as Organization Science, Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, ACM Transactions on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Research volumes such as Research in Organization Development and Change. His article “Perspective Making and Perspective Taking with Richard J. Boland was selected as one of the most influential article for articles published in the journal Organization Science for the period 1991-2001 based on citation index counts.

As invited faculty, Ram has presented his research at several international universities such as the University of Technology, Sydney; Work Research Institute, Oslo, Copenhagen Business School, Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge, INSEAD, University of Melbourne, Monash University, Melbourne, Melbourne Business School, University of Wollongong, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has also given key note addresses particularly on his research on designing large scale transformational organizational change and the factors underlying the revolutionary growth of the Indian software industry.

He has served as funding program panel member for the National Science Foundation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Department of Defense, and is core innovation team member for a 3 country project initiated by the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute.

Among others, he serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences and the Journal of Organizational Change Management. He is Division Chair of the Organization Development and Change Division of the National Academy of Management and was recently awarded the prestigious Fulbright Senior Research Scholar Award to continue his research on the Indian Software Industry. Among others, he is listed in “Who’s Who in America”, “Who’s Who in American Education”, “Who’s who in Science and Engineering”, “Who’s Who in Finance in Business” and “Who’s Who in the World”.

Ram’s has consulted on issues of large scale transformational change, learning and knowledge generation processes, and innovation for several firms such as Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Texas Instruments, St. Paul Insurance, PacifiCare Health Systems, Prudential Insurance, Pratt & Whitney, Honeywell, Shell Oil, Kaiser Permanente, Procter and Gamble, Allied Signal, Lucent Technologies, Pfizer, McDonald’s, Synopsis and Merck & Company.