Rohit
Nishant
Affiliate Professor
Research Team Member, Centre de recherche en technologies de l’information et affaires (CeRTIA)
Department of Management Information Systems
FSA ULaval
Pavillon Palasis-Prince
Local 1523
Teaching Areas
- Data Mining
- Business Intelligence
- Data Visualization
- AI/ML for Managers
- IS for sustainability
Education
- Doctorate in Administration, Organizational Information Systems (Ph. D.), National University of Singapore
- Master of Business Administration, Systems and Operations (MBA), T.A.PAI Management Institute
- Bachelor in Manufacturing Engineering (B. Sc.), National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology
Publications
Articles
- Kumar Kar, A., Mikalef, P., Nishant, R., Luo, X., & Gupta, M. (2025). Metaverse opportunities and challenges: A research agenda and editorial on the special issue on the evolution of Metaverse platforms (part 2). Decision Support Systems, 194, 114456. DOI : 10.1016/j.dss.2025.114456
- Pan, S. L., Nishant, R., Tuunanen, T., & Choudrie, J. (2025). AI agents: Potential implications for IS research?. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 34(2), 101906. DOI : 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101906
- Pan, S. L., Nishant, R., Tuunanen, T., & Choudrie, J. (2024). Is AI a strategic IS? Reflections and opportunities for research. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 33(4), 101866. DOI : 10.1016/j.jsis.2024.101866
- Kumar Kar, A., Mikalef, P., Nishant, R., Luo, X., & Gupta, M. (2024). The evolution of organizations and stakeholders for metaverse ecosystems: Editorial for the special issue on metaverse part 1. Decision Support Systems, 188(4), 114353. DOI : 10.1016/j.dss.2024.114353
- Nishant, R., Schneckenberg, D., & Ravishankar, M. N. (2024). The formal rationality of artificial intelligence-based algorithms and the problem of bias. Journal of Information Technology, 39(1), 19-40. DOI : 10.1177/02683962231176842
- Nishant, R., Nguyen, K., Teo, T. S. H., & Hsu, P.-F. (2024). Role of substantive and rhetorical signals in the market reaction to announcements on AI adoption: A configurational study. European Journal of Information Systems, 33(5), 802-844. DOI : 10.1080/0960085X.2023.2243892
- Issa, H., Kadian, A., Ahuja, S., & Nishant, R. (2024). When a dream turns into a nightmare: A case study of an education technology startup to uncover the dark side of generative AI. Association for Information Systems, 54, 1048-1078. DOI : 10.17705/1CAIS.05444
- Nishant, R., Singh, D., Singhal, V., & Austin, R. (2023). Computers as creative collaborators for businesses?. California Management Review. https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2023/09/computers-as-creative-collaborators-for-businesses/
- Nishant, R., & Teo, T. S. H. (2023). Ivey case: Ola Electric: Igniting Conversations on Privacy. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371158693_Ivey_case_Ola_Electric_Igniting_Conversations_on_Privacy
- Subramanian, A. M., Nishant, R., Van De Vrande, V., & Hang, C. C. (2022). Technology transfer from public research institutes to SMEs: A configurational approach to studying reverse knowledge flow benefits. Research Policy, 51(10), 104602. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2022.104602
- Zhan, X., Mu, Y., Nishant, R., & Singhal, V. R. (2022). When Do Appointments of Chief Digital or Data Officers (CDOs) Affect Stock Prices?. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 69(4), 1308-1321. DOI : 10.1109/TEM.2020.2984619
- Donati, F., Dente, S. M. R., Li, C., Vilaysouk, X., Froemelt, A., Nishant, R., Liu, G., Tukker, A., & Hashimoto, S. (2022). The future of artificial intelligence in the context of industrial ecology. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26(4), 1175-1181. DOI : 10.1111/jiec.13313
- Nishant, R., & Teo, T. S. H. (2022). Reducing AI's Carbon Footprint with the 3R Framework. Cutter Business Technology Journal. https://www.cutter.com/article/reducing-ai%E2%80%99s-carbon-footprint-3r-framework
- Nishant, R., & Teo, T. S. H. (2022). Greening Data Management for AI. Cutter Business Technology Journal, 35(5), 41-45. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360603655_Greening_Data_Management_for_AI
- Nishant, R., & Teo, T. (2021). Optimizing Heterogeneous Data to Fight Climate Change. Cutter Business Technology Journal. https://www.cutter.com/article/using-heterogeneous-data-fight-climate-change
- Yuan, X., & Nishant, R. (2021). Understanding the complex relationship between R&D investment and firm growth: A chaos perspective. Journal of Business Research, 129, 666-678. DOI : 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.11.043
- Gholami, R., Nishant, R., & Emrouznejad, A. (2021). Modeling Residential Energy Consumption: An Application of IT-Based Solutions and Big Data Analytics for Sustainability. Journal of Global Information Management, 29(2), 166-193. DOI : 10.4018/jgim.2021030109
- Nishant, R., & Teo, T. (2021). A Framework for Environmentally Friendly AI. Cutter Business Technology Journal, 34(10). https://www.cutter.com/article/framework-environmentally-friendly-ai
- Nishant, R., & Ravishankar, M. N. (2020). QCA and the harnessing of unstructured qualitative data. Information Systems Journal, 30(5), 845-865. DOI : 10.1111/isj.12281
- Nishant, R., Zhan, X., Mu, Y., & Singhal, V. (2020). Stock market reaction to chief data or digital officers appointments. IEEE Engineering Management Review, 48(4), 86-91. DOI : 10.1109/EMR.2020.3027189
- Nishant, R., Kennedy, M., & Corbett, J. (2020). Artificial intelligence for sustainability: Challenges, opportunities, and a research agenda. International Journal of Information Management, 53, 1-13. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102104
- Azadegan, A., Mellat-Parast, M., Lucianetti, L., Nishant, R., & Blackhurst, J. (2020). Supply chain disruptions and business continuity: An empirical assessment. Decision Sciences, 51(1), 38-73. DOI : 10.1111/deci.12395
- Nishant, R., Srivastava, S. C., & Teo, T. S. H. (2019). Using Polynomial Modeling to Understand Service Quality in E-Government Websites. MIS Quarterly, 43(3), 807-826. DOI : 10.25300/MISQ/2019/12349
- Agi, M. A., & Nishant, R. (2017). Understanding influential factors on implementing green supply chain management practices: An interpretive structural modelling analysis. Journal of Environmental Management, 188(3), 351-363. DOI : 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.11.081
- Nishant, R., Teo, T., & Goh, M. (2017). Do Shareholders Value Green Information Technology Announcements?. Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), 18(8), Article 3. DOI : 10.17705/1jais.00466
- Nishant, R., Singh, V. K., & Kitchen, P. J. (2016). Self or simulacra of online reviews: an empirical perspective. Psychology & Marketing, 33(12), 1112-1118. DOI : 10.1002/mar.20946
- Teo, T. S., Nishant, R., & Koh, P. B. (2016). Do shareholders favor business analytics announcements?. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 25(4), 259-276. DOI : 10.1016/j.jsis.2016.05.001
- Nishant, R., Goh, M., & Kitchen, P. J. (2016). Sustainability and differentiation: Understanding materiality from the context of Indian firms. Journal of Business Research, 69(5), 1892-1897. DOI : 10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.10.075
- Nishant, R., Teo, T. S. H., & Goh, M. (2014). Energy Efficiency Benefits: Is Technophilic Optimism Justified?. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 61(3), 476-487. DOI : 10.1109/tem.2014.2314703
- Teo, T., Nishant, R., Goh, M., & Aggarwal, S. (2011). Leveraging Collaborative Technologies to Build a Knowledge Sharing Culture at HP Analytics. MIS Quarterly Executive, 10(1), 198-214. https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol10/iss1/5/
- Nishant, R., & Sharief, M. L. (2007). Road Information System: A Step Forward in Supply Chain Management in India. IIMB Management Review, 19(1), 13-19. https://www.iimb.ac.in/node/4240
Chapters in Collective Works
- Kouyo, G. A. S., Nishant, R., & Khechine, H. (2024). Cybersecurity management for digital transformation. In Dong, J. Q., & Verhoef, P. C. (Eds.). A Research Agenda for Digital Transformation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 255-280). Edward Elgar Publishing. doi : 10.4337/9781035306435.00017.
- Nishant, R., & Teo, T. (2022). Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to ac. In Dwivedi, Yogesh K., Laurie Hughes, Arpan Kumar Kar, Abdullah M. Baabdullah, Purva Grover, Roba Abbas, Daniela Andreini et al. (Ed). Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action. International Journal of Information Management. doi : 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102456.
- Nishant, R., Choudhary, A., Liu, H. Y., & Goh, M. (2018). Disentangling Environment-Specific Sustainability-Oriented Innovation: Insights from the Airbus-Boeing Duopoly. In de Boer, L., & Andersen P. H. (Eds.). Operations Management and Sustainability: New Research Perspectives (pp. 135-149). Palgrave Macmillan. doi : 10.1007/978-3-319-93212-5_8.
- Pervin, N., Nishant, R., & Kitchen, P. J. (2016). Food for Thought: Managing Secondary Data for Research. In Rossi, D., Gacenga, F., & Danaher, P. (Eds.) (Eds.). Navigating the Education Research Maze: Contectual, Conceptual, Methodological and Transformational Challenges and Opportunities for Researchers (pp. 199-215). Palgrave Macmillan. doi : 10.1007/978-3-319-39853-2_12.
Communications in a Conference with Proceedings
- Kouyo, K. G. A., Nishant, R., & Khechine, H. (2025). An affordance perspective on artificial intelligence's role in data protection. AMCIS 2005 Proceedings, United States of America.
- Jabbari, A., Lukyanenko, R., Hertelendy, A., Samuel, B., & Nishant, R. (2025). Information Quality in the AI Era. American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS-2025), Montréal, Canada.
- Kouyo, K. G. A., Nishant, R., & Khechine, H. (2023). Using stakes consciousness to better understand information security awareness. AMCIS 2023 Proceedings, Panama City, Panama.
- Nishant, R., Schneckenberg, D., Ravishankar, M. N., & Chakraborty, S. (2023). Exploring the causes of frequent and severe AI failures in problem-solving: A management design perspective. 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023, Cagliari, Italy.
- Kouyo, G. A. S., Nishant, R., & Khechine, H. (2023). Using AI differently in cybersecurity management to achieve cyber immunity. Pre-ECIS Workshop on Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Infrastructures, Kristiansand, Norway.
- Nishant, R., Srivastava, S. C., & Bahli, B. (2020). Does Virtualization Capability Maturity Influence Information Systems Development Performance? Theorizing the Non-Linear Payoffs. Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
- Contreras-Pacgeci, O. E., Claasen, C., & Nishant, R. (2017). Knowledge sharing among engineers: An empirical examination. IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Conference (TEMSCON), Santa Clara, United States of America.
- Nishant, R., Teo, T. S. H., & Goh, M. (2015). Are there limits to the emissions-operational performance linkage?. United States of America.
- Nishant, R., & Goh, M. (2014). Sustainability and India’s Supply Chain: Some Insights. United States of America.
- Nishant, R., Teo, T. S. H., & Goh, M. (2013). Environmental performance and organizational performance: Insights from the climate leaders program. United States of America.
- Nishant, R., Teo, T. S. H., & Koh, P. B. L. (2013). Do shareholders view business analystics announcements favorably?. United States of America.
- Nishant, R., Teo, T. S. H., & Goh, M. (2012). Are green IT announcements effective market signals?. United States of America.
- Nishant, R., & Goh, M. (2012). Collaborative Innovation : Conceptualizing a Multifaceted Phenomenon. United States of America.
- Srivastava, S. C., Teo, T. S. H., & Nishant, R. (2011). What is electronic government service quality?. 19th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
- Nishant, R., Teo, T. S. H., & Goh, M. (2011). Do green IT announcements improve market value of firms?. PACIS 2011 - 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific.
Communications in a Conference Without Proceedings
- Kouyo, G. A. S., Nishant, R., Corbett, J., & Azadegan, A. (2024). Firms’ network and blockchain: A configurational study. Production and Operations Management Society Annual Conference (POMS 2024), Minneapolis, United States of America.
- Nishant, R. (2023). Objective and subjective measurements of time: implications for QCA versus panel data analysis. QCA Conference of the Americas 2023, Los Angeles, United States of America.
- Nishant, R., & Corbett, J. (2021). Firms' network and Blockchain use: An Empirical Examination. DSI 2021.
- Nishant, R. (2019). Temporal Evolution if US for Sustainability : A text mining approach. ICIS, Munich, Germany.
Submitted Case Studies
- Nishant, R., Thompson, T., Goh, M., & Agarwal, S. (2014). Insights Analytics: Technology for a Knowledge Management Program.
Miscellaneous
- Pan, S. L., & Nishant, R. (2023). OPINION - Artificial intelligence for digital sustainability: An insight into domain-specific research and future directions. International Journal of Information Management.
- Pan, S. L., Nishant, R., Tuunanen, T., & Nah, F. F. (2023). EDITORIAL - Literature review in the generative AI era - how to make a compelling contribution. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems.