Charu Naithani

Overview:

Charu Naithani is an Assistant Professor in the Information Technology Systems & Analytics area at the Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya. She has completed her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. During her doctoral program, she worked in the domain of agricultural and healthcare digital platforms and the social impact of IT affordances. Charu is interested in digital strategy, e-governance, and digital inclusion.

Academic background:

• Ph.D., IT & Systems, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
• B.Tech., Information Technology, National Institute of Technology Raipur

Affiliations:

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya (February 2023 – Present)
• Adjunct Faculty, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (January 2023 – February 2023)
• Software Engineer, 3dPLM Software Solutions Ltd. (a Dassault Systèmes company) (May 2014 – June 2017)

Teaching Interests:

• Management Information Systems
• Digital Strategy
• Digital Platforms and e-Commerce
• e-Governance
• Digital Transformation
• Software Project Management
• Spreadsheet Modelling

Research Interests:

• Digital Platforms
• IT Governance and Strategy
• ICT and Social Impact
• Digital Inclusion
• IT-enabled Organisational Capabilities
• Dark side of Technology

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Research Publication:

Peer Reviewed Journal Publication:

• Naithani, C., Sekhar, S., & Jha, A. (2025). A meta-analytic exploration of cyberbullying and its dark associates. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2025.2506660
• Naithani, C., Sood, S. P., & Agrahari, A. (2021), “The Indian healthcare system turns to digital health: eSanjeevaniOPD as a national telemedicine service”, Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases, doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/20438869211061575

Conference Presentation:

• Naithani, Charu and Agrahari, Amit (2023). "Affordance Actualization of Digital Public Infrastructures", GlobDev 2023. 11. https://aisel.aisnet.org/globdev2023/11
• Naithani, C., Biswas, I., & Agrahari, A. (2024). “Signalling in Agricultural Markets”, XXVII Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management, IMT Ghaziabad (19-21 December 2024)
• Naithani, C., Agrahari, A., & Biswas, I. (2019). Better Price for Farmers: How computerization affects agriculture prices?, XXIII Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM2019)(p. 28). Kanpur, India: IME Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Retrieved from http://www.iitk.ac.in/SOM2019/files/SOM2019_Book_of_Abstract.pdf
• Naithani, C. & Agrahari, A. (2021). Heterogeneous Impact of ICT4D Initiatives on Beneficiaries: A Design Assumptions Perspective, 6th Pre-ICIS SIG Social Inclusion (SIGSI) Research Workshop, Austin, Texas (10 December, 2021)
• Naithani, C. (2021). Evaluating the Impact of Computerized Auctions on Price Discovery, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, Austin, Texas (17-19 December, 2021)