Ramkrishnan (Ram) V. Tenkasi Benedictine University, USA
Ramkrishnan (Ram) Tenkasi, Ph.D., began his academic career as an assistant professor with the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1993, and joined Benedictine University in 1998 as an associate professor.
Tenkasi's research and practice interests are in the areas of organizational knowledge, learning and change and their mediation/moderation by organizational design choices, including the role of information technologies in facilitating/inhibiting these processes in organizations. He approaches the study of these issues from both interpretive and positivist frameworks usually combining these traditions to draw on their unique strengths.
Multiple grants from federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Defense, and corporations such as Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments, AlliedSignal, Merck and Co., Pfizer, Pratt and Whitney, and Procter and Gamble have funded his research.
Tenkasi serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Change Management and has been a program review panel member for the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and is currently part of a core team brought together by the National Cancer Institute to assist in the identification of effective implementation systems for tobacco control in the United States.
Tenkasi is also the division/program chair-elect for the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management. His more than 50 articles and book chapters appear in both academic and practitioner outlets such as Organization Science, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Employee Relations, Acquisition Review Quarterly, Research in Organizational Change and Development, Advances in the Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams and the OD Journal.
He is also a reviewer for several leading journals of the field such as the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Information Systems Research, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, MIT Sloan Management Review and Journal of Organizational Change Management.
