Dr Mamata Bhandar Assistant Professor mbhandar@u21global.edu.sg

Based in Singapore, Mamata Bhandar has more than six years of experience in lecturing at the National University of Singapore. She also has industry experience in the software and manufacturing sectors.

Dr Bhandar obtained her PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2007. Her research interests are in knowledge management, specifically knowledge integration in the inter-organisational context and social capital. Her thesis examined the role of social capital in knowledge integration in three Singapore-based inter-organisational projects. Dr Bhandar’s work has been published in the Journal of American Society of Information Systems and Technology (JASIST). It has also been selected for presentation in premium conferences such as Academy of Management Meeting (AOMM Atlanta 2006), European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS Regensburg 2005), Information Resources Management Association (IRMA 2005) and Organizational Knowledge Learning Conference (OKLC Boston 2005).

Subject(s) Taught

• MBA 770: Information Technology Systems for Business
• MBA 751: Enterprise Knowledge Management

Professional Affiliations

• Association for Information Systems
• Academy of Management
• Information and Knowledge Management Society

Professional Activities

• Adhoc Reviewer, Information Systems Research
• Adhoc Reviewer, Journal of Enterprise Information Management
• Adhoc Reviewer, Academy of Management Meeting (2006)
• Adhoc Reviewer, International Conference on Information Systems (2005, 2006)
• Adhoc Reviewer, IRMA International Conference (2004, 2005)

Selected/Recent Publications

• Bhandar, M., Pan, S.L., & Tan, Bernard C.Y. (2006). Towards understanding the roles of social capital in knowledge integration: a case study of a collaborative information systems project. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(2), 263-274.
• Bhandar, M.(2005, December). Inter-organizational project management in JTC. In Pan, S.L. (Ed.), Managing emerging technologies and organizational transformation in Asia: a casebook. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte. Ltd.
• Bhandar, M.(2005, December). In Pan, S.L. (Ed.), Managing emerging technologies and organizational transformation in Asia: a casebook. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte. Ltd.

Selected/Recent Presentations

• Bhandar, M., Pan, S.L., & Tan, Bernard C.Y. (2006). Understanding knowledge integration in inter-organizational IS projects. Accepted for Academy of Management Meeting (AOMM).
• Bhandar, M. (2006, June). Knowledge integration and social capital. Academic seminar at Department of Information Systems, National University of Singapore.
• Bhandar, M., Pan, S.L., Tan, Bernard C.Y., & Goh, P.G. (2005). Roles of social capital in collaborative IS projects. Proceedings of the 2005 European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
• Bhandar, M. (July 2005). Knowledge integration processes. Working paper presentation at Department of Information Systems, National University of Singapore, IS Workshop.
• Bhandar, M., Pan, S.L., Tan, Bernard C.Y., & Goh, P.G. (2005). Integrating knowledge across organizations: the role of social capital. Proceedings of the 2005 IRMA International Conference.
• Bhandar, M. (2004). Social capital as a motivator, integrator and facilitator of knowledge integration in inter-organizational IS projects. OASIS Workshop, Washington D.C.
• Bhandar, M., Chan, Calvin M.L., Oh, L.B., & Chan, H.C. (2004). Recognition and participation in a virtual community. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2004).

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