
Dr. Indika Dissanayake
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management

Background
Indika Dissanayake is an Assistant Professor and a Margaret Hill Dean’s Notable Scholar in the Department of Information Systems & Supply Chain Management, the Bryan School of Business and Economics at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the recipient of the 2020 Junior Faculty Teaching Award by the Bryan School of Business and Economics. She obtained her doctoral degree in Information Systems from the College of Business Administration, the University of Texas at Arlington in 2015. She received MS in Information Technology and Management from the University of Texas at Dallas. Before joining UNCG, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at D’Amore-McKim Business School Department of Supply chain and Information Management at Northeastern University. Indika’s research interests include crowdsourcing, sharing economies, social media, and virtual communities. Her research has appeared in Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information & Management, and Information Systems Management.
Research and Awards
Competition Matters! Self-Efficacy, Effort, and Performance in Crowdsourcing Teams
Dissanayake, I., Mehta, N., Palvia, P., Taras, V., & Amoako-Gyampah, K.
2019
Information & Management
Medical Crowdsourcing: Harnessing the “Wisdom of the Crowd” to Solve Medical Mysteries
Dissanayake, I., Nerur, S., Singh, R., & Lee, Y.
2019
Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Strategic Effort Allocation in Online Innovation Tournaments
Dissanayake, I., Zhang, J., Yasar, M., & Nerur, S.
2018
Information & Management
Exploratory Analysis of Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare: A Topic Modeling & Co-citation Approaches.
Dantu, R., Dissanayake, I., & Nerur, S.
2020
Information Systems Management
Impacts of Helping Others in a Competitive Crowdsourcing Community
Dissanayake, I., Nerur, S., Wang, J., Yasar, M., & Zhang, J.
2020
Journal of Association for Information Systems
Forthcoming
Task Division for Team Success in Crowdsourcing Contests: Resource Allocation and Alignment Effects
Dissanayake, I., Zhang, J., & Gu, B.
2015
Journal of Management Information Systems