Ramón O'Callaghan (born 1954) is a Spanish

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, Emeritus Professor of Information Systems and Innovation Management at the

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, and Dean of Porto Business School, the business school of the University of Porto in

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. He is particularly known for his work on Electronic data interchange.Iacovou, Charalambos L., Izak Benbasat, and Albert S. Dexter.
Electronic data interchange and small organizations: adoption and impact of technology
" MIS Quarterly (1995): 465-485.

Biography

O'Callaghan received his

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from the

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in 1976, his MBA from

IESE Business School IESE Business School is the graduate business school of the University of Navarra. Founded in 1958 in Barcelona where its main campus is located,López, T. & Pampliega, J“La fundación del IESE (1956–1958)” Universidad de Navarra, Bibliotec ...

in 1983, and his

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from

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in 1989.Ramon O'Callaghan
Nazarbayev University O'Callaghan started his academic career as researcher at the Cybernetics Institute of the

in 1976. From 1977 to 1989 he spend time in industry with

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as sales engineer and project manager; at

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as controller; at

as researcher; and at the management consulting firm Institut Cerdà as director. Back in Spain in 1989 he became Associate Professor at the

. In 1994 he moved to the Netherlands to the Nyenrode Business Universiteit, where he became Director of the MBA program. From 1997 to 2013 he was Professor of Information Systems at

. There he also directed the MBA program, and other Masters programs for some years, and was Dean of the

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from 2009 to 2012 as successor of

Philippe Naert Philippe Autor Naert (born 1943

. He was also associated with the

Open University of Catalonia The Open University of Catalonia ( ca, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC; ) is a private open university based in Barcelona, Spain. The UOC offers graduate and postgraduate programs in Catalan, Spanish and English in fields such as Psycholog ...

and the

Universidad de Deusto The University of Deusto ( es, Universidad de Deusto; eu, Deustuko Unibertsitatea) is a Spanish private university owned by the Society of Jesus, with campuses in Bilbao and San Sebastián, and the Deusto Business School branch in Madrid. The U ...

. From 2013 to 2015, he was Dean of the Graduate School of Business at

Nazarbayev University Nazarbayev University (NU) is an autonomous research university in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Founded as a result of the initiative of the first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev in 2010 (June), it is an English-medium institu ...

Selected publications

O'Callaghan has published numerous articles in the field of strategic management of technology. Books, a selection: * 1995, ''EDI in Europe : how it works in practice''. With Helmut Krcmar and Niels Bjørn-Andersen. Chichester ; New York : Wiley. * 2005. ''Transforming enterprise : the economic and social implications of information technology''. With William H. Dutton, Brian Kahin, and Andrew W. Wyckoff (eds). Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. Articles, a selection: * O'Callaghan, Ramon, Patrick J. Kaufmann, and Benn R. Konsynski.
Adoption correlates and share effects of electronic data interchange systems in marketing channels
" The Journal of Marketing (1992): 45-56. * O'Callaghan, Ramon, and Jon A. Turner.
Electronic Data Interchange Concepts and Issues
" (1995). * Peterson, Ryan R., Ramon O'Callaghan, and Piet Ribbers.
Information technology governance by design: investigating hybrid configurations and integration mechanisms
" Proceedings of the twenty first international conference on Information systems. Association for Information Systems, 2000.

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Ramon O'Callaghan
{{DEFAULTSORT:OCallaghan, Ramon Living people Spanish engineers Spanish business theorists University of Navarra alumni Harvard Business School alumni Academic staff of the University of Navarra Academic staff of Nyenrode Business University Academic staff of Tilburg University 1954 births