Portsmouth Business School

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Ritanjan Das – BSc (Hons) (LSE), PgCert, PgDip, Master, MSc (LSE)

I specialise in the area of information systems analysis and development.  My teaching interests lie in the areas of ebusiness, systems development, telecommunication systems, information systems strategy and statistical modelling. In the past I’ve also been involved in a variety of courses including strategic management and decision support systems.

I’ve been the admissions tutor and year tutor in the past. I’m also involved with providing pastoral care to students in a variety of capacities.  

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the area of IT and governance, particularly focusing on the developing country context. In the past I’ve been involved in several consulting exercises with a number of NGOs and governmental organisations in India. Some of my past publications include:

• What’s left? Socialist modernization and land expropriation in Asia (2009), co-authored with Luisa Steur, Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology (54), 67-72.
• Ideology vs. Politics: A Study of Policy Transition in West Bengal (2009), BASAS Conference 2009, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Present and the Future of the M-Commerce Industry (2005), in the Handbook of Research in Mobile Business: Technical, Methodological and Social Perspectives; IDEA group publishing (IGP), Hershey, PA,USA, 2005.
• A Socio-Economic Analysis on the Trend of M-Commerce Applications in the Post-Modern World (2004), UKAIS Conference Proceedings 2004, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK.
• Understanding Information System Failures: A Brief Review of the Different Viewpoints and the Complexity Framework (2005), Working Paper Series, No 9, Army Institute of Management, Kolkata