Indika Dissanayake : Isenberg School of Management : UMass Amherst

Education

PhD in Business Administration, University of Texas at Arlington, 2015

MS in Information Technology and Management, University of Texas at Dallas, 2009

BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, 2004

Academic Appointments Associate Professor, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024-present Associate Professor, Bryan School of Business and Economics, Uni

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024-present

Associate Professor, Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2023 -24

Assistant Professor, Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2016-23

Visiting Assistant Professor, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, 2015-16

Research Interests

Crowdsourcing

Gig Economy

Sharing Economies

Virtual Communities

Social Media

Teaching Interests

Artificial Intelligence in Business

Database Management Systems

Machine Learning

Programming Languages

Selected Publications

Dissanayake, I., Yasar, M., Vaghefi, M., & Nerur, S. (forthcoming). Driving the Innovation Race: Effect of Competitiveness in Crowdsourcing Contests, Journal of Management Information Systems.

Dissanayake, I., Nerur, S., Wang, J., Yasar, M., & Zhang, J. (2021). The Impact of Helping Others in Coopetitive Crowdsourcing Communities. Journal of Association for Information Systems, 22(1)

Dissanayake, I., Jeyaraj, A., & Nerur, S. (2021). The Impact of Structure and Flux of Corporate Boards on Organizational Performance: A Perspective from the Information Technology Industry. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 30(2)

Dissanayake, I., Nerur, S., Singh, R., & Lee, Y. (2019). Healthcare Crowdsourcing: Harnessing the “Wisdom of the Crowd” to Solve Medical Mysteries. Journal of Association for Information Systems, 20(11), 1589–1610.

Dissanayake, I., Zhang, J., & Gu, B. (2015). Task Division for Team Success in Crowdsourcing Contests: Resource Allocation and Alignment Effects. Journal of Management Information Systems, 32(2), 8–39