Evgeny Káganer
Department of Information Systems
University of Navarra
Spain
Biography
Evgeny Kaganer is Associate Professor at IESE Business School where he teaches MBA and executive courses in digital business, IT strategy, and dynamic organization. His research focuses on understanding how rapid digitalization reshapes business models and organizations. Evgeny has published on these topics in premier academic and business journals, including MIT Sloan Management Review, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and European Journal of Information Systems among others. His work on the effects of digitalization in business and education has been widely cited in major media outlets, such as Financial Times, Business Week, Handelsblatt, CIO Magazine, and San Francisco Chronicle. Evgeny has extensive experience working with executive audiences in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Middle East, and Russia. He has taught, directed custom programs, and consulted with multinational companies, including HP, Oracle, Amadeus, Carlsberg, Schneider Electric, and Desigual. He regularly advises early-stage start-ups on issues of business model and technology design. Currently, Evgeny also serves as Academic Director for Learning Innovation at IESE Business School, helping the school navigate digital transformation of the business education space. Prior to joining academia Evgeny spent several years working for a major financial services firm in Russia. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from Louisiana State University, MBA from Syracuse University, and MD degree from the Ural State Medical Academy, Russia.
Research Interest
* Web-enabled business practices * Enterprise 2.0 * IT innovation * Healthcare information systems
Publications
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Ghemawat P. Strategies for Higher Education in the Digital Age. California Management Review. 2017 Aug;59(4):56-78.
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Flickinger M, Tuschke A, Gruber-Muecke T, Fiedler M. In this study, we introduce the concept of legitimacy to the rigor-relevance debate and investigate empirically how rigor, relevance, and legitimacy are related to the process of knowledge dissemination within a research field. We argue that this analysis has been a missing piece in the debate on rigor and relevance when institutional logics about what constitutes both elements lead researchers to... Journal of Business Economics. 2014;84(1):129-44.
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Carmel E, Káganer E. Ayudarum: an Austrian crowdsourcing company in the Startup Chile accelerator program. Journal of Business Economics. 2014 Apr 1;84(3):469-78.
