Professor Sankar Sivarajah,Dean of School of Management
Information about Professor Sankar Sivarajah at the University of Bradford.
- School of Management
(Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences) - Email:
- u.sivarajah@bradford.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 1274 234496
Biography
Sankar Sivarajah joined the School of Management at the University of Bradford in December 2017 and is a Professor of Technology Management and Circular Economy and is currently the Dean of the School of Management.He enjoys interdisciplinary research and teaching focusing on the use of emerging digital technology by businesses and organisations for the betterment of society. He is the DeputyEditor of Journal of Enterprise Information Management and has published over 70 scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research tackling societalchallenges such as energy-efficient digital currencies, consumer behaviour andreduction of waste has featured in reputable media publications such as TheWorld Economic Forum, BBC Yorkshire and The Conversation.
To date, he has a successful track record as Principal and Co-investigator in over £3 million worth of R&I and consultancy projects funded by national, international funding bodies and commercial organisations. Some of the notable funders have been the European Commission (FP7, H2020, Marie Curie), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Innovate UK/DEFRA and British Council focusing on projects addressing business and societal challenges surrounding themes such as Blockchain use in Financial Services, Smart Waste and Cities, Energy-efficient data centres, Social innovation and Participatory Budgeting. Some of the key past and present industry and public sector partners that he has collaborations with are Fraunhofer, Deloitte, Thales, Enel, Telefonica, Vodafone, Leeds Council, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Cambridgeshire County Council, Hounslow Council, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Arup and PA Consulting to name a few.
He was awarded a PhD in 2014 in Management Studies from Brunel University London, which focused on the development of a technology evaluation and impact assessment framework for local government authorities. He holds a first-class BSc (Hons) in Business and Management specialising in Computer Sciences from Brunel University London and MSc with Distinction in Management specialising in Entrepreneurship from Bayes Business School (previously known as Cass), City University London. He was also recognised and awarded by Bayes Business School an honorary membership to the Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) society, an international honour society recognizing business excellence.
He is an elected governing Council Member and Treasurer of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) in the UK, Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the British Academy of Management (BAM).
He tweets at @SankarSivarajah.
Research
- Technology Management and Evaluation
- Circular Economy
- Business Analytics
- Digital Government
- Social Innovation
- EU 2016 - 2018: ‘Enabling Multichannel Participation through ICT Adaptations (EMPATIA)’ European Commission Horizon 2020 – P674710. Co-Investigator: Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Grant Total £106,383.
- EU 2016 - 2020: ‘Sustainable energy demand side management for GREEN Data Centers (GREENDC)’ European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) – P734273. Co-Investigator: Uthayasankar Sivarajah Grant Total £219,000.
- EU 2014 - 2018: ‘Social Innovation Drive (SI-DRIVE)’ European Commission FP7 – P612870. Co-Investigator: Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Grant Total £355,525.
- EU 2014 - 2017: ‘Decision Support Advisor for innovative business models and user engagement for smart Energy Efficient Districts (DAREED)’ European Commission FP7 – P609082. Co-Investigator: Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Grant Total £283,000. Current Projects EU
Research projects
| Role | Date | Title/description | Funder | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-01T00:00:00 | http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/110045_en.html | |||
| 2016-01-01T00:00:00 | http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/199845_en.html | |||
| 2017-01-01T00:00:00 | http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/206516_en.html | |||
| 2014-01-01T00:00:00 | http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/111472_en.html |
Teaching
Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Professor Sankar Sivarajah as follows:
Teaching interests
- Circular Economy: Core Principle and Concepts (MBA, DL).
- Business Data Analytics
- Supply Chain Analytics and Technology Management
- Operations Management
Publications
There are 64 publications involving or that are attributed to Professor Sankar Sivarajah. They are listed as:
- article (1)
- book chapter (1)
- conference publication (7)
- peer reviewed journal (55)
Article
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A case analysis of E-government service delivery through a service chain dimension | 2018 | International Journal of Information Management | Weerakkody V.;El-Haddadeh R.;Sivarajah U.;Omar A.;Molnar A. | 0268-4012 | 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.11.001 |
Book Chapter
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developing Criteria for Evaluating a Multi-channel Digitally Enabled Participatory Budgeting Platform | 2017 | Omar, A.; Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar |
Conference Publication
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participatory budgeting: The case for engaging citizens in local government decision making | 2018 | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series | Acm International Conference Proceeding Series | Omar A.;Sivarajah U.;Weerakkody V. | 9781450365260 | 10.1145/3209281.3209387 | |||||
| Cloud based e-government services: A proposal to evaluate user satisfaction | 2017 | AMCIS 2017 - America's Conference on Information Systems: A Tradition of Innovation | AMCIS 2017 - America's Conference on Information Systems: A Tradition of Innovation | 2017-August | Sivarajah U.;Lee H.;Irani Z.;Omar A.;Hackney R.;El-Haddadeh R. | 9780996683142 | |||||
| Developing criteria for evaluating a multi-channel digitally enabled participatory budgeting platform | 2017 | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) | Lecture Notes in Computer Science | 10429 LNCS | 3 - 11 | Omar A.;Weerakkody V.;Sivarajah U. | 0302-9743 | 10.1007/978-3-319-64322-9_1 | |||
| Open data platforms and their usability: Proposing a framework for evaluating citizen intentions | 2015 | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) | Lecture Notes in Computer Science | 9373 | 261 - 271 | Kapoor K.;Weerakkody V.;Sivarajah U. | 0302-9743 | 10.1007/978-3-319-25013-7_21 | |||
| E-Diplomacy: A systematic literature review | 2016 | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series | Acm International Conference Proceeding Series | 01-03-March-2016 | 131 - 134 | Almuftah H.;Weerakkody V.;Sivarajah U. | 9781450336406 | 10.1145/2910019.2910083 | |||
| The public value of social media in the UK public sector | 2014 | Innovation and the Public Sector | Innovation and the Public Sector | 21 | 276 - 286 | Osmani M.;Weerakkody V.;Sivarajah U.;El-Haddadeh R. | 1871-1073 | 10.3233/978-1-61499-429-9-276 | |||
| Opportunities and challenges of using web 2.0 technologies in government | 2016 | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) | Lecture Notes in Computer Science | 9844 LNCS | 594 - 606 | Sivarajah U.;Weerakkody V.;Irani Z. | 0302-9743 | 10.1007/978-3-319-45234-0_53 |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open data and its usability: an empirical view from the Citizen’s perspective | 2017 | Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P.; Irani, Zahir; Kapoor, K.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Dwivedi, Y.K. | |||||||||
| Evaluating the use and impact of Web 2.0 technologies in local government | 2015 | Government Information Quarterly | 32 | Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Irani, Zahir; Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P. | |||||||
| Critical analysis of Big Data challenges and analytical methods | 2017 | Journal of Business Research | 70 | Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Kamal, M.M.; Irani, Zahir; Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P. | |||||||
| Risks and rewards of cloud computing in the UK public sector: A reflection on three Organisational case studies | 2017 | Jones, S.; Irani, Zahir; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Love, P.E.D. | |||||||||
| Digitally enabled service transformation in UK public sector: A case analysis of universal credit | 2017 | International Journal of Information Management | 37 | 350 - 356 | Omar, A.; Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar | ||||||
| Factors influencing e-diplomacy implementation: Exploring causal relationships using interpretive structural modelling | 2018 | Government Information Quarterly | 35 | 502 - 514 | Al-Muftah, H.; Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P.; Rana, Nripendra P.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Irani, Zahir | ||||||
| Fostering Smart Cities through ICT Driven Policy-Making: Expected Outcomes and Impacts of DAREED Project | 2014 | Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Lee, Habin; Irani, Zahir; Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P. | |||||||||
| A User Satisfaction Study of London's Congestion Charge e-Service: A Citizen Perspective | 2015 | Lee, Habin; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Molnar, A.; Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P.; Irani, Zahir | |||||||||
| The role of e-participation and open data in evidence-based policy decision making in local government | 2016 | Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce | 26 | Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P.; Waller, P.; Lee, Habin; Irani, Zahir; Choi, Y.; Morgan, R.; Glikman, Y. | |||||||
| Investigating the effects of smart technology on customer dynamics and customer experience | 2018 | Computers in Human Behavior | 80 | Foroudi, P.; Gupta, S.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Broderick, A. | |||||||
| Critical factors affecting leadership: a higher education context | 2018 | Hassan, A.; Gallear, D.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar | |||||||||
| Idiosyncratic risk and the cross-section of stock returns: the role of mean-reverting idiosyncratic volatility | 2018 | Bozhkov, S.; Lee, H.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Despoudi, S.; Nandy, M. | |||||||||
| Millennial Chinese consumers' perceived destination brand value | 2018 | Luo, J.; Dey, B.L.; Yalkin, C.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Punjaisri, K.; Huang, Y.; Yen, D.A. | |||||||||
| Cloud computing utilization and mitigation of informational and marketing barriers of the SMEs from the emerging markets: Evidence from Iran and Turkey | 2019 | International Journal of Information Management | 46 | Hosseini, S.; Fallon, G.; Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar | |||||||
| Operational complexity tackled using a intranet platform in a multinational engineering company: physical and behavioural alignment | 2019 | International Journal of Information Management | 12 | Hussain Z I and Sivarajah U, Hussain N | Elsevier | 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.09.014 | |||||
| A case analysis of E-government service delivery through a service chain dimension | 2019 | International Journal of Information Management | 47 | 233 - 238 | Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P.; El-Haddadeh, R.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Omar, A.; Molnar, A. | ||||||
| The role of a digital engineering platform in appropriating the creation of new work-related mind-set and organisational discourse in a large multi-national company | 2019 | International Journal of Information Management | 48 | Hussain, Zahid I.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Hussain, N. | |||||||
| Role of big data and social media analytics for business to business sustainability: A participatory web context | 2019 | Industrial Marketing Management | 86 | Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Irani, Zahir; Gupta, S.; Mahroof, Kamran | |||||||
| Achieving Agility in Evacuation Operations: An Evidence-Based Framework | 2019 | Rodríguez-Espíndola, O.; Despoudi, S.; Albores, P.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar | |||||||||
| Enabling multichannel participation through ICT adaptation | 2017 | International Journal of Electronic Government Research | 13 | 66 - 80 | Kapoor K.;Omar A.;Sivarajah U. | 1548-3886 | 10.4018/IJEGR.2017040104 | ||||
| Do agile managed Information Systems Projects fail due to a lack of Emotional Intelligence? | 2019 | Information Systems Frontiers | Luong, T.T., Sivarajah, U., Weerakkody, V. | ||||||||
| Open data and its usability: an empirical view from the Citizenâs perspective | 2017 | Information Systems Frontiers | Weerakkody, V.;Irani, Z.;Kapoor, K.;Sivarajah, U.;Dwivedi, Y.K.; | 10.1007/s10796-016-9679-1 | |||||||
| A theoretical perspective of an e-diplomacy maturity framework | 2016 | International Journal of Electronic Government Research | Al-Muftah, H.;Sivarajah, U.; | 10.4018/IJEGR.2016100103 | |||||||
| Examining the Relationship between Social Media Analytics Practices and Business Performance in the Indian Retail and IT Industries: The Mediation Role of Customer Engagement | 2020 | International Journal of Information Management | TBC | Garg, P., Gupta, B., Dzever, S., Sivarajah, U. and Kumar, V. | |||||||
| A framework for analysing blockchain technology adoption: Integrating institutional, market and technical factors | 2020 | Janssen, M.; Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P.; Ismagilova, Elvira; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Irani, Zahir | |||||||||
| Examining the Role of Procurement 4.0 towards Remanufacturing Operations and Circular Economy | 2020 | Production Planning and Control | N/A | Bag, S., Dhamija, P., Gupdat, S. and Sivarajah, U | |||||||
| Role of technological dimensions of green supply chain management practices on firm performance | 2020 | Journal of Enterprise Information Management | Bag S.;Gupta S.;Kumar S.;Sivarajah U. | 1741-0398 | 10.1108/JEIM-10-2019-0324 | ||||||
| Towards a Circular Economy: An Emerging Economies Context | 2020 | Journal of Business Research | Patwa, N., Sivarajah, U., Seetharaman, A., Sarkar, S., Maiti, K. and Hingorani, K. | ||||||||
| Towards a circular economy: An emerging economies context | 2020 | Journal of Business Research | Patwa N.;Sivarajah U.;Seetharaman A.;Sarkar S.;Maiti K.;Hingorani K. | 0148-2963 | 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.05.015 | ||||||
| Influencing subjective well-being for business and sustainable development using big data and predictive regression analysis | 2021 | Journal of Business Research | 131 | Weerakkody V.;Sivarajah U.;Mahroof K.;Maruyama T.;Lu S. | 0148-2963 | 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.07.038 | |||||
| Fostering Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries: Predicting User Acceptance of Mobile Wallets in Cameroon | 2020 | Journal of Global Information Management | Samuel Fosso Wamba, Maciel M. Queiroz, Constantin Blome and Uthayasankar Sivarajah | ||||||||
| Examining the role of procurement 4.0 towards remanufacturing operations and circular economy | 2020 | Production Planning and Control | Bag S.;Dhamija P.;Gupta S.;Sivarajah U. | 0953-7287 | 10.1080/09537287.2020.1817602 | ||||||
| Influencing subjective well-being for business and sustainable development using big data and predictive regression analysis | 2020 | Journal of Business Research | Forthcoming | Weerakkody, V., Sivarajah, U., Mahroof, K., Maruyama, T., Lu, S. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.07.038 | ||||||
| Self-building Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Empower Big Data Analytics in Smart Cities | 2020 | Information Systems Frontiers | Damminda Alahakoon, Rashmika Nawaratne, Yan Xu, Daswin De Silva, Uthayasankar Sivarajah and Bhumika Gupta | 10.1007/s10796-020-10056-x | |||||||
| Servitization Implementation in the Manufacturing Organisations: Classification of Strategies, Definitions, Benefits and Challenges | 2020 | International Journal of Information Management | Muhammad Mustafa Kamal, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Ali Ziaee Bigdeli, Farouk Missi and Ioannis Koliousis | Elsevier | |||||||
| Artificial Intelligence and Food Security: Swarm Intelligence of AgriTech Drones for Smart AgriFood Operations | 2020 | Production Planning and Control | Konstantina Spanaki, Erisa Karafili, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Stella Despoudi and Zahir Irani | Taylor & Francis | |||||||
| Drone as a Service (DaaS) in promoting Cleaner Agricultural Production and Circular Economy for Ethical Sustainable Supply Chain Development | 2020 | Journal of Cleaner Production | 0 | Mahroof, K.; Omar, A.; Rana, N.P.; Sivarajah, S.; Weerakkody, V. | |||||||
| An Integrated Artificial Intelligence Framework for Knowledge Creation and B2B Marketing Rational Decision Making for Improving Firm Performance | 2021 | Industrial Marketing Management | 92 | Bag, S., Gupta, S., Kumar, A. and Sivarajah, U. | |||||||
| Disruptive Technologies in Agricultural Operations: A Systematic Review of AI-driven AgriTech Research | 2021 | Annals of Operations Research | Spanaki, K., Sivarajah, U., Fakhimi, M., Despoudi, S and Irani, Z. | ||||||||
| Can We Create a Circular Pharmaceutical Supply Chain (CPSC) to Reduce Medicines Waste? | 2020 | Pharmacy | 8 | Alshemari A;Breen L;Quinn G;Sivarajah U; | 2226-4787 | MDPI | 10.3390/pharmacy8040221 | ||||
| Circular Economy versus Planetary Limits: A Slovak Forestry Sector Case Study | 2021 | Journal of Enterprise Information Management | Beckmann, A., Sivarajah, U. and Irani, Z. | ||||||||
| Determining Sustainability Key Performance Indicators for Food Loss Reduction | 2021 | Journal of Enterprise Information Management | Al-Dalaeen, Q., Sivarajah, U. and Irani, Z. | ||||||||
| Big Data Analytics-enabled Sensing Capability and Organizational Outcomes: Assessing the Mediating Effects of Business Analytics Culture | 2020 | Annals of Operations Research | Samuel Fosso Wamba, Maciel M. Queiroz, Lunwen Wu and Uthayasankar Sivarajah | ||||||||
| Measuring the Perceived Benefits of Implementing Blockchain Technology in the Banking Sector | 2020 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | Poonam Garg, Bhumika Gupta, Ajay Chauchan, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Shivam Gupta and Sachin Modgil | ||||||||
| Exploring circular economy in the hospitality industry: empirical evidence from Scandinavian hotel operators | 2021 | Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism | Fabrice, S. and Sivarajah, U. | ||||||||
| Supply chain agility for coping with unprecedented changes: Empirical evidence from the UK food supply chain during COVID-19 crisis | 2021 | Supply Chain Management-An International Journal | Do, Quynh; Mishra, Nishikant; Wulandhari, Nur Baiti Ingga; Ramudhin, Amar; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Milligan, Gavin | ||||||||
| Leveraging customer engagement to improve the operational efficiency of social commerce start-ups | 2021 | Journal of Business Research | Zhenyuan Liu, Shuihua Han, Chao Li, Shivam Gupta and Uthayasankar Sivarajah | ||||||||
| Demystifying Corporate Inertia Towards Transition to Circular Economy: A Management Frame of Reference | 2022 | International Journal of Production Economics | 244 | Fred A. Yamoah, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Kamran Mahroof and Iker González Peña | |||||||
| Ethical Framework for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies | 2021 | International Journal of Information Management | Mona Ashok, Rohit Madan, Anton Joha and Uthayasankar Sivarajah | ||||||||
| Exploring the role of social capital mechanisms in cooperative resilience | 2022 | Journal of Business Research | 143 | Wulandhari, N. B. I., Gölgeci, I., Mishra, N., Sivarajah, U., and Gupta, S. | |||||||
| The future is yesterday: Use of AI-driven facial recognition to enhance value in the travel and tourism industry | 2022 | Information Systems Frontiers | Gupta, S., Modgil, S. Lee, C. and Sivarajah, U. | ||||||||
| Artificial intelligence and blockchain integration in business: Trends from a bibliometric-content analysis | 2022 | Information Systems Frontiers | Satish Kumar, Weng Marc Lim, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, and Jaspreet Kaur | ||||||||
| Blockchain for Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Trends and Ways Forward | 2022 | Journal of Electronic Commerce Research | Saumyaranjan Sahoo, Satish Kumar, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Weng Marc Lim, J. Christopher Westland and Ashwani Kumar | ||||||||
| Blockchain Technology for Supply Chains operating in emerging markets: an empirical examination of technology organization-environment (TOE) framework | 2022 | Annals of Operations Research | Venkataiah Chittipaka, Satish Kumar, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Jana Lay-Hwa Bowden and Manish Mohan Baral | ||||||||
| Adoption of artificial intelligence and cutting-edge technologies for production system sustainability: A moderator-mediation analysis | 2022 | Information Systems Frontiers | Sheshadri Chatterjee, Ranjan Chaudhuri, Sachin Kamble, Shivam Gupta and Uthayasankar Sivarajah |