Scientia Professor Manju Ahuja

Manju Ahuja is Professor of Information Systems and Technology Management, School of Business, University of New South Wales. She also hold the Frazier Family Professor of Information Systems at the College of Business, University of Louisville, Kentucky (on leave). She has previously held faculty positions at the Kelley School of Business (Indiana University), Florida State University, and Pennsylvania State University. Her publications have appeared in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, Journal of AIS, Organization Science, Journal of Management, European Journal of Information Systems, and many other outlets. Manju has been ranked among the top 50 researchers in the field of Information Systems worldwide by a variety of sources (e.g., Association of Information Systems ranking of 27th among the researchers publishing in top three journals for the period 2017-2019). She appears on the Stanford University’s list of top 2% scientists in the world.

Manju is Vice-President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Association of Information Systems.  She serves as Senior Editor at Information Systems Research. She was a Senior Editor at the MIS Quarterly during 2014-2017 and the Journal of AIS during 2017-2019. In the past, she has served in other editorial roles at several premier journals including Management Information Systems Quarterly (Associate Editor, 2010-2013), Information Systems Research (Associate Editor, 2006-08), and Management Science (Guest Editor).

Manju was named a Fellow of the Association of Information Systems in 2021. She is also the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from Academy of Management’s OCIS division for 2020. In 2022, she was selected for the University of Louisville’s Presidential Distinguished Faculty Award for Research in social sciences. In 2023, she was honored with the Enterprising Women Award by Louisville Business First. She is actively involved in research on issues related to IT workforce, AI Ethics, innovation and entrepreneurship related to IT, digital transformation, and Future of Work.

Manju has held visiting scholar appointments at premier institutions across the world, including HEC (Paris), University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), National University of Singapore, University of California (Irvine), and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has received four National Science Foundation grants totaling over $2,000,000 for her research on IT workforce issues. Her research has been cited by publications such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Times of India, London School of Economics Business Review, INSEAD Knowledge, Strategy+Business, Computerworld, and others.