Associate Editor, Information Systems Research, 2006 – 2008
Editorial Board Member of Information Systems Frontiers: Journal on Research
and Innovation and Journal of Database Management
Co-editor (with Robert Fichman, Alok Gupta, and Sam Ransbotham), Special
Issue on Ubiquitous IT and Digital Vulnerabilities, Information Systems
Research, January 2015 – January 2017
Associate Editor, Special Issue on Transformational Issues of Big Data
and Analytics in Networked Business, Management Information Systems
Quarterly, 2015
Co-editor (with Prabhudev Konana), Special Issue on Social Computing,
Operations and Markets, Decision Sciences Journal, 2011
Co-editor (with Jim Marsden and Jan Vanthienen), Special Issue on Recent
Advances in Data and Text Mining, Decision Support Systems, 2010
Conferences and Workshops
President, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, 2016 - 2018
Co-chair, Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, November 2014,
San Francisco
Vice President, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, 2012-2015
Co-chair, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, December 2008,
Paris, FRANCE
Chair, Information Systems Cluster, CORS-INFORMS International, June 2009,
Toronto, CANADA
Technology Instruction Chair, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems,
2009 and 2010
Mini-Track Chair for Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Economy, Hawaii
International Conference on Systems and Science, 2001-2002
Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, 2001-
present
Program Committee, China Summer Workshop on Information Management,
2011 - present
Awards
Information Systems Society’s Distinguished Fellow Award, 2015
GE Capital Endowed Professor of Business, 2002-present
Ackerman Research Scholar, 1998-2007
CIBER Research Fellow, 1999-2002
School of Business Research Excellence Award, 2008, 2012
School of Business Best Research Article
“Interval Protection of Confidential Information in a Database,” 1998
“Confidentiality via Camouflage: CVC Technique for the Protection of
Confidential Data in a Database,” 2000
“Privacy Protection of Binary Confidential Data against Deterministic, Stochastic,
and Insider Threat,” 2002
“Freedom of Privacy: Anonymous Data Collection with Respondent-Defined
Privacy Protection,” 2010
Best Associate Editor Award, Information Systems Research, 2007
MBA Teacher of the Year Award, Operations and Information Management,
2003, 2009, 2012, 2013
School of Business Graduate Teaching Award, 2003, 2018
School of Business Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2002
Chancellor’s Information Technology Award, 2001
School of Business Outstanding Service Award, 2000
Yaraghi, N., Gopal, R. D., “The Role of HIPAA Omnibus Rules in Reducing the
Frequency of Medical Data Breaches: Insights from an Empirical Study”, The Milbank
Quarterly 96(1): 144-166, 2018.
Han, X., Yaraghi, N., and Gopal, R. D. “Winning at All Costs: Analysis of Inflation in
Nursing Homes’ Rating System”, Production and Operations Management, 27(2): 215-
233, 2018.
Gopal, R. D., Hidaji, H., Patterson, R, Rolland, E, and Zhdanov, D., “How Much to Share
with Third Parties? User’s Privacy Concerns and Website’s Dilemma”, MIS Quarterly,
42(1), 143-164, 2018.
Eftekhari, S., Yaraghi, N., Singh, R., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. “Do Health Information
Exchanges Deter Repetition of Medical Services?” ACM Transactions on Management
Information Systems, 8 (1): 2, 2017.
Ransbotham, S., Fichman, R. G., Gopal, R. D., and Gupta, A., “Special Section
Introduction—Ubiquitous IT and Digital Vulnerabilities,” Information Systems Research,
Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 834 - 847, November 2016.
Gopal, R. D., Hidaji, H., Patterson, R, Rolland, E, and Zhdanov, D., “Design
Improvements for Message Propagation in Malleable Social Networks,” Production and
Operations Management Journal, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 993–1005, 2016.
Gopal, R. D., Li, Xinxin, Singh, Harpreet, “Pipes, Pools and Filters: How Collaboration
Networks Affect Innovative Performance”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 37, Issue
8, pp. 1649–1666, 2016.
Boylu, F., Bhattacharjee, S., Bai, X., and Gopal, R. D., “Growth Projections and
Assortment Planning of Commodity Products across Multiple Stores: A Data Mining and
Optimization Approach”, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 619-
635, 2015.
Gopal, R. D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., and Singh, R., “Drivers of Information Disclosure
on Health Information Exchange Platforms: Insights from an Exploratory Empirical
Study”, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 22(6): 1183-1186,
2015.
Wang, L., Gopal R. D., Shankar, S., and Pancras, J. “On the Brink: Predicting Business
Failure with Mobile Location-Based Checkins,” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 76, pp.
3-13, 2015.
Gopal, R. D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., Du, A., Sharman, R. “Health Information
Exchange as a Multi-sided Platform: Adoption, Usage and Practice Involvement in
Service Co-Production”, Information Systems Research, Vol. 26, Issue 1, pp. 1-18,
March 2015.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., Das-Smith, S., Du, A. Y, “Optimal Management of Digital
Content on Tiered Infrastructure Platforms,” Information Systems Research, Published
Online: December 24, 2014.
Gopal, R. D., Langer, N., Mehra, A., Bapna, R. “Examining Returns to Scale and Human
Capital Investments in the Offshore IT Services Industry: A Firm Level Analysis of
Small and Medium Enterprises,” MIS Quarterly, Vol. 38, Issue 3, pp. 757-771, 2014.
Gopal, R. D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., Du, A., Sharman, R. “Professional and
Geographical Network Effects on Healthcare Information Exchange Growth: Does
Proximity Really Matter?” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association,
Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 671-678, 2014.
Garfinkel, R. S., Alirezazadeh, P., Boylu, F., Gopal, R. D. “Optimal Identity Matching
via Statistical Estimation and Information Acquisition”, Decision Support Systems, Vol.
57, pp. 160-171, January 2014.
Bapna, R., Langer, N., Mehra, A, Gopal, R. D., Gupta, A., “Human Capital Investments
and Employee Performance: An Analysis of IT Services Industry”, Management Science,
Vol. 59, Issue 3, pp. 641-658, 2013.
Gopal, R. D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., Du, A., Sharman, R. “Network Effects in Health
Information Exchange Growth,” ACM Transactions on Management Information
Systems, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp. 1-26, 2013.
Aggarwal, R., Gopal, R. D., Gupta, A., Singh, P, “Putting Money Where the Mouths are:
The Relation Between Venture Financing and Electronic Word-of-Mouth”, Information
Systems Research, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 976–992, 2012.
Aggarwal, R., Gopal, R. D., Sankaranarayanan, R., Singh, P., “Blog, Blogger, and the
Firm: Can Negative Posts by Employees Benefit Firms?” Information Systems
Research, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 306–322, 2012.
Bai, X., Gopal, R. D., Nunez, M., Zhdanov, D., “On The Prevention of Fraud and Privacy
Exposure in Process Information Flow” INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 24, Issue
3, pp. 416-432, 2012.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., Das-Smith, S., Du, A. Y. “Risk Hedging in Storage Grid
Markets: Do Options Add Value to Forwards?” ACM Transactions on Management
Information Systems, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 10:1-10:23, 2011.
Das, S., Du, A. Y., Gopal, R. D., and Ramesh, R., “Risk Management and Optimal
Pricing in Online Storage Grids,” Information Systems Research, 22(4), pp. 756-773,
2011.
Gopal, R. D., Li, X., Sankaranarayanan, R., “Search and Content Channel Interaction
in Online Keyword-Based Advertising” Decision Support Systems, 52(1), pp. 1-8,
December 2011.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Marsden, J., and Sankaranarayanan, R., “Digital
Goods and Markets: Emerging Issues and Challenges” ACM Transactions on
Management Information Systems, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 8:1-8:14, 2011.
Gopal, R. D., Li, X., Sankaranarayanan, R., “Search and Content Channel Interaction in
Online Keyword-Based Advertising” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 52, Issue 1, pp. 1-8,
2011.
Gopal, R. D., and Gupta, A., “Trading Higher Software Piracy for Higher Profits: The
Case of Phantom Piracy,” Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 11, pp. 1946-1962,
November 2010.
Bai, X., Gopal, R. D., Nunez, M., Zhdanov, D., “On Managing Information Security Risk
for Business Processes,” International Journal of Decision Sciences, 1 (1), 45-53, 2010.
Pathak, B., Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. D., Venkatesan, R., and Yin, F., “Empirical Analysis
of the Impact of Recommender Systems on Sales,” Journal of Management Information
Systems, Vol. 27, No. 02, pp. 159-188, Fall 2010.
Kumar, R., Gopal, R. D., and Garfinkel, R., “Freedom of Privacy: Anonymous Data
Collection with Respondent-Defined Privacy Protection,” INFORMS Journal on
Computing, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 471-481, Summer 2010.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Marsden, J., Sankaranarayanan, R., and Telang, R., “To
Theme or Not To Theme: Can Theme Strength be the Music Industry's "Killer App"?”
Decision Support Systems, Volume 48, Issue 1, pp. 141-149, December 2009.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertwachara, K., and Marsden, J., “Re- tuning the Music
Industry – Can They Re-attain Business Resonance,” Communications of the ACM,
Volume 52, Issue 6, pp. 136-140, June 2009.
Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. D., Pathak, B., and Yin, F., “Shopbot 2.0: Integrating
Recommendations and Promotions with Comparison Shopping,” Decision Support
Systems, Volume 46 Issue 1, pp. 61-69, December 2008.
Du, A. Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Topographically
Discounted Internet Infrastructure Resources: A Panel Study and Econometric Analysis,”
in Information Technology and Management, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 135-146, June 2008.
Nunez, M., Garfinkel, R., and Gopal, R. D., “Stochastic Protection of Confidential
Information in Statistical Databases: A Hybrid of Data Perturbation and Query
Restriction,” Operations Research, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 890-908, 2007.
Du, A. Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Capacity
Provision Networks: Foundations of Markets for Sharable Resources in Distributed
Computational Economies,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 126-144,
2007.
Sharman, R., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Ramanna S., “Cache Architecture for On-
Demand Streaming,” ACM Transactions on the Web, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 2007.
Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. D., and Thompson, S., “Releasing Individually Identifiable
Microdata with Privacy Protection against Stochastic Threat: An Application to Health
Information,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 23-41, 2007.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Marsden, J., and Telang, R., “The Effect of Digital
Sharing Technologies on Music Markets: A Survival Analysis of Albums on Ranking
Charts,” Management Science, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 1359-1374, 2007.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Stochastic Dynamics
of Music Album Lifecycle: An Analysis of the New Music Landscape,” International
Journal of Human Computer Studies, Vol. 65, Issue 1, pp. 85-93, 2007.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Impact of Legal
Threats on Individual Behavior: An Analysis of Music Industry Actions and Online
Music Sharing,” Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 91-114, April 2006.
Gopal, R. D., Bhattacharjee, S., and Sanders, G. L., “Do Artists Benefit from Online
Music Sharing?” Journal of Business, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 1503-1534, May 2006.
R. Bapna, P. Goes, R. D. Gopal, and J. Marsden, “Moving from Data-Constrained to
Data-Enabled Research: Experiences and Challenges in Collecting, Validating, and
Analyzing Large-Scale E-Commerce Data,” Statistical Science, 21(2) (2006).
Gopal, R. D., Phatak, B., Tripathi, A., and Yin, F., “From Fatwallet To eBay: An
Investigation of Online Deal Forums and Sales Promotions,” Journal of Retailing, 82(2),
pp. 155-164, 2006.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Consumer Search and
Retailer Strategies in the Presence of Online Music Sharing,” Journal of Management
Information Systems, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp.129-159, 2006.
Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. D., Rice, D., and Nunez, M., “Secure Electronic Markets for
Private Information,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part A:
Systems and Humans), Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 461-471, May 2006.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Whatever Happened To
Payola? An Empirical Analysis of Online Music Sharing” Decision Support Systems, pp.
104-120, Vol. 14, 2006.
Gopal, R. D., Thompson, S., Tung, A., and Whinston, A. B., “Managing Risks in
Multiple Online Auctions: An Options Approach,” in Decision Sciences, pp. 397-425,
Vol. 36, No.3, 2005.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Using P2P Sharing
Activity to Improve Business Decision Making: Proof of Concept for Estimating Product
Life-Cycle,” in Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, pp. 14-20, Vol. 4, No.
1, 2005.
Gopal, R. D., Sanders, G. L., Bhattacharjee, S., Agrawal, M., and Wagner, S. C., “A
Behavioral Model of Digital Music Piracy,” Journal of Organizational Computing and
Electronic Commerce, Vol. 14, No. 2, Pages 89-105, 2004.
Seung K. S., Gopal, R. D., Sanders, G. L., and Whinston, A. B., “Global Software Piracy
Revisited: Beyond Economics,” Communications of the ACM, pp. 103-107, Vol. 47, No.
1, January 2004.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “Digital Music And Online Sharing:
Software Piracy 2.0?” Communications of the ACM, pp. 107-111, Vol. 46, No. 7, July
2003.
Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Scaling Web Services with
Capacity Provision Networks,” IEEE-Computer, pp. 64-72, Vol. 36, No. 11, November
2003.
Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Trading Caches: Capacity
Provision Networks,” IEEE-IT Professional, pp. 30-36, Vol. 5, No. 4, July|August 2003.
Tung, Y. A., Gopal, R. D., and Whinston, A. B., “Multiple Online Auctions,” IEEE-
Computer, pp. 100-102, Vol. 36, No. 2, February 2003.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Microproducts in a Digital Economy:
Trading Small, Gaining Large,” International Journal of Electronic Commerce, pp. 9-29,
Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter 2003-4.
Garfinkel, R, Fernandez, and Gopal, R. D., “Design of an Interactive Spell Checker:
Optimizing the List of Offered Words,” Decision Support Systems, pp. 385-397, Vol. 35,
2003.
Garfinkel, R, Gopal, R. D, and Goes, P. B., “Privacy Protection of Binary Confidential
Data against Deterministic, Stochastic, and Insider Threat,” Management Science, pp.
749-764, Vol. 48, 2002.
Gopal, R. D, Goes, P. B, and Garfinkel, R., “Confidentiality via Camouflage: CVC
Technique for the Protection of Confidential Data in a Database,” Operations Research,
pp. 501-516, Vol. 50, 2002.
Gopal, R. D., Walter Z. D., and Tripathi, A. K., “AdMediation: New Horizons in Effective
Email Advertising,” Communications of the ACM, pp. 91-96, No. 44, No. 12, December
2001.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Zionts, S., “Criss-Cross Hash Joins: Design and Analysis,”
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 637-653, Vol. 13, No. 4,
July/August 2001.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Zionts, S., “Cascade Graphs: Analysis, Design and
Algorithms,” INFORMS Journal of Computing, pp. 2-28, Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter 2001.
Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “Global Software Piracy: You Can't Get Blood Out of
Turnip,” Communications of the ACM, pp. 82-89, Vol. 43, No. 9, September 2000.
Tung, A. Y., Gopal, R. D., and Marsden, J., “HypEs: An Architecture for Hypermedia-
enabled Expert Systems,” Decision Support Systems, 26, pp. 307-321, 1999.
Gopal, R. D., and Tung, A., “An Examination of the Role of Internet Technologies in
Developing Next Generational Executive Information Systems,” Journal of Computer
Information Systems, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 81-91, 1999.
Gopal, R. D. and Sanders, G. L., “International Software Piracy: Analysis of Key Issues
and Impacts,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 380-397, 1998.
Gopal, R. D, Goes, P. B, and Garfinkel, R., “Interval Protection of Confidential
Information in a Database,” INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1998.
Goes, P. B., Gopal, R. D., and Chen, N., “Query Evaluation Management: Design and
Prototype Implementation,” Decision Support Systems, No. 19, pp.23-42, 1997.
Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “Preventive and Deterrent Controls for Software Piracy,”
Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 13, No. 44, pp. 29-48, 1997.
Wang, C. H., Gopal, R. D., and Tung, A. Y., “Diffusion of Ladder-Type Innovations: A
Study of Computer and Communications Convergence,” Computers and Industrial
Engineering, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp.497-507, 1997.
Wang, C. H., Gopal, R. D., and Zionts, S., “Use of Data Envelopment Analysis in Assessing
Information Technology Impact on Firm Performance,” Annals of Operations Research, 73,
pp. 191-213, 1997.
Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., “The Query Clustering Problem: A Set Partitioning
Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, pp.885-899, Vol.7,
No. 6, December 1995.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Zionts, S., “Access Path Optimization in Relational Joins,” in
ORSA Journal on Computing, Vol. 7, No.3, Summer 1995.
Book Chapters
Gopal, R. D., Garfinkel, R. S., Nunez, M., Rice, D.. Information Systems Security and
Statistical Databases: Preserving Confidentiality through Camouflage. Handbooks of
Information Systems Volume 3 Series on Business Computing, Emerald Group
Publishing Limited, Bingley, UK, pp. 319-346, 2009
Gopal, R. D., Bhattacharjee, S., Sankaranarayanan, R., Marsden, J. R.. Economic
Determinants of Piracy of Digital Goods: Using Market Forces to Shape a Secure
Solution, Annals of Emerging Research in Information Assurance, Security and Privacy
Services, Eds. H. Raghav Rao & S. Upadhyaya, Elsevier, August 2008
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Marsden, J., and Telang, R., “A Survival Analysis of
Albums on Ranking Charts,” Peer-to-Peer Video: The Economics, Policy, and Culture of
Today’s New Mass Medium, edited by Eli Noam and Lorenzo Maria Pupillo, Springer
Science, LLC, New York, NY, 2008.
Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Topographical Leveraging of
Sharable Services: The Concept of Capacity Provision Networks,” Electronic Commerce and
the Digital Economy, edited by Michael J. Shaw, M. E. Sharpe Inc., Armonk, NY, in press,
2004.
Gopal, R. D., Walter Z. D., and Tripathi, A. K., “Economic Issues in Advertising via Email:
A Role for A Trusted Third Party?” Contemporary Research in E-Marketing Volume 1,
edited by Sandeep Krishnamurthy, Idea Group Inc., Hersey, PA, in press, 2004.
Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Capacity Provision Networks:
A Technology Framework and Economic Analysis of Web Cache Trading Hubs,”
Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks, edited by Anna Nagurney, Kluwer
Publishing Company, 2004.
Tung, A., Gopal, R. D., and Marsden, J. R., “Architectural Foundations for Hypermedia-
Enabled Expert Systems,” Multimedia Technology and Applications, pp. 34-44, Springer-
Verlag, Singapore, 1997.