Biography:Arun Sundararajan
Arun Sundararajan | |
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| Nationality | India n |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester Indian Institute of Technology Madras |
| Known for | Network effects Digital rights management Price discrimination |
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| Fields | Economics Information Systems Network Science Economy of India |
| Institutions | New York University |
Arun Sundararajan (Tamil: அருண் சுந்தர்ராஜன்) (born in the United Kingdom ) is the NEC Faculty Fellow, Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics and a Doctoral Coordinator at the Stern School of Business, New York University.[1] For 2010–12, he is the Distinguished Academic Fellow at the Center for IT and the Networked Economy, Indian School of Business.[2] Sundararajan is an expert on the economics of digital goods and network effects. He also conducts research about network science and the socioeconomic transformation of India.[3]
Life and work
Arun Sundararajan graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1993 with a BTech in electrical engineering. He subsequently attended the University of Rochester where he received an M. Phil in operations research and a PhD in business administration. After he earned his doctorate, he joined the faculty at New York University, where his work focuses on the transformation of business and society by information technologies, and the Indian economy.[4]
Sundararajan's scholarly research analyzes what makes the economics of IT products and industries unique. He asserts that there are three technological invariants—digitization, exponential growth, and modularity—that have characterized and distinguished information technologies since the 1960s,[5] and that these invariants lead to the ubiquity of information goods, digital piracy and network effects in IT industries. His research papers illustrate how these distinctive economics of information technologies warrant new pricing strategies,[6][7] careful digital rights management,[8][9] and a deeper understanding of network structure and dynamics.[10][11]
Sundararajan periodically writes and speaks about transformation through information technologies and business[12][13] with a frequent focus on privacy[14][15][16] and on India.[17][18][19][20] He has been elected to the editorial boards of the prestigious journals Management Science and Information Systems Research (where he is currently a Senior Editor[21]). He co-founded the NYU Summer Workshop on the Economics of Information Technology[22] and the Workshop on Information in Networks.[23] He received a 2010 Google-WPP Marketing Research Award,[24] the Best Paper award at the 2008 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, and the Best Overall Paper award at the 2004 International Conference on Information Systems.
See also
- Digital rights management
- Network effects
- Price discrimination
- Sharing economy
Bibliography
Patent:
- Sundararajan, Arun; Ipeirotis, Panagiotis and Anindya Ghose, "System, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium for incorporating qualitative and quantitative information into an economic model", US patent 7848979, issued 7 December 2010
Book:
- Arun Sundararajan (13 May 2016). The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03457-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=2Zz2CwAAQBAJ.
References
- ↑ NYU Stern faculty index page for Arun Sundararajan
- ↑ Fellows, Srini Raju Center for IT and the Networked Economy
- ↑ "Digital Identity: Socioeconomic Transformation through IT in India". NYU Stern. 12 October 2011. https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/india-unique-id.
- ↑ "NYU Stern - Arun Sundararajan - Associate Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences". http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/facultyindex.cgi?id%3D155.
- ↑ Dhar, Vasant; Arun Sundararajan (2007). "Information technologies in business: a blueprint for education and research". Information Systems Research 18 (3): 125–141. doi:10.1287/isre.1070.0126.
- ↑ Sundararajan, Arun (2004). "Nonlinear pricing of information goods". Management Science 50 (12): 1660–1673. doi:10.1287/mnsc.1040.0291. http://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/27798.
- ↑ Ghose, Anindya; Arun Sundararajan (2006). "Evaluating pricing strategy using e-commerce data: Evidence and estimation challenges". Statistical Science 21 (2): 131–142. doi:10.1214/088342306000000187. Bibcode: 2006math......9170G.
- ↑ Sundararajan, Arun (2004). "Managing digital piracy: pricing and protection". Information Systems Research 15 (3): 287–308. doi:10.1287/isre.1040.0030. http://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/27797.
- ↑ Oestreicher-Singer, Gal; Arun Sundararajan (2004). "Are digital rights valuable? Theory and evidence from the ebook industry". ICIS 2004 Proceedings. http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2004/42/.
- ↑ Sundararajan, Arun (2007). "Local network effects and complex network structure". The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 7 (1). doi:10.2202/1935-1704.1319. http://www.bepress.com/bejte/vol7/iss1/art46. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
- ↑ Aral, Sinan; Muchnik, Lev; Arun Sundararajan (2009). "Distinguishing influence-based contagion from homophily-driven diffusion in dynamic networks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (51): 21544–21549. doi:10.1073/pnas.0908800106. PMID 20007780. Bibcode: 2009PNAS..10621544A.
- ↑ "Steve Jobs: The "Consumerizer" of Digital Technology". NYU Stern Opinion. 6 October 2011. http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/CON_031873.
- ↑ "Plugging in to Transformation". Financial Times. 5 February 2009. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1f509532-f256-11dd-9678-0000779fd2ac.html.
- ↑ "Google Insists Privacy Change is Legal". Information Week. 1 March 2012. http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/232601890.
- ↑ "Lessons in Privacy from Sony's Data Theft". Financial Times. 8 June 2011. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e1e31e64-9153-11e0-b1ea-00144feab49a.html.
- ↑ "Don't Gamble your Company's Reputation on Data Governance". CIO Magazine. 26 May 2011. http://www.cio.com/article/682686/Don_t_Gamble_Your_Company_s_Reputation_on_Data_Governance.
- ↑ "Nurturing the Aadhaar ecosystem". Wall Street Journal India (LiveMint). 7 November 2011. http://www.livemint.com/2011/11/06221459/Nurturing-the-Aadhaar-ecosyste.html.
- ↑ "Too much transparency?". Wall Street Journal India (LiveMint). 14 April 2011. http://www.livemint.com/2011/04/13223626/Too-much-transparency.html.
- ↑ "Building Institutions through Identity". Wall Street Journal India (LiveMint). 29 September 2010. http://www.livemint.com/2010/09/29212440/Building-institutions-through.html.
- ↑ "Getting the 3G Policy Right". Economic Times. 5 September 2007. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/getting-the-3g-policy-right/articleshow/2338157.cms.
- ↑ ISR Editorial Board
- ↑ NYU-CeDER Summer Workshop on the Economics of IT
- ↑ First Workshop on Information in Networks
- ↑ Professors Anindya Ghose and Arun Sundararajan Granted Prestigious Google & WPP Marketing Research Awards
External links
- Arun Sundararajan's personal web page
- NYU Stern Faculty Page
- Center for IT and the Networked Economy, Indian School of Business
- "Arun Sundararajan". EconPapers. https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/psu46.htm.
- Arun Sundararajan publications indexed by Google Scholar
- "Arun Sundararajan". JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=au%3A%22Arun+Sundararajan%22+&acc=off&wc=on&fc=off&group=none.
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