Jiwat RAM Research Active Faculty - Full Professor
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    • Department
      Supply Chain, Purchasing & Project Management Department
    • Languages
      English
    • Teaching specialisations
      Project management, Research Methods, Artificial Intelligence
    • Areas of research
      Project Management, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, AI ethics and machine morality, Prompt engineering
    • Campus
      Tours

    Biography

    Dr Jiwat Ram is a Professor in Project Management and joined Excelia Business School in 2018. He has considerable experience of working internationally in diverse cultures and business environments.

    Dr Ram is currently serving on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Project Management. He actively contributes to the project management community. His work has been published in top scientific journals and some of his published papers have remained in Top25 most downloaded papers. Additionally, two of his papers have been ranked as the Most Cited article published since 2012. More recently, he has published a number of articles on some of the issues confronting project management in various industry-based outlets.

    Dr Jiwat Ram is keen to supervise PhD students on a variety of topics and issues to help develop theory and practical solutions for real life challenges and would welcome interest and research proposals from perspective Phd students for further discussions.

  • 2011

    PhD in Management Sciences, University of South Australia, Australia

    2001

    MBA International Business, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

    1993

    Bachelor of Engineering, Mehran University College of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan

  • 2018

    Research Active Faculty - Full Professor, Excelia, La Rochelle, France

    2017-2018

    Editor in Chief, School of Management Working Paper Series Publication,

    2014-2017

    Director Project Management Program

  • Journal articles

    DESGOURDES, C., RAM, J. (2024). The role of big data analytics for decision-making in projects: uses and challenges. Enterprise Information Systems.
    RAM, J., DESGOURDES, C. (2024). Using big data analytics (BDA) for improving decision-making performance in projects. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 74. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jengtecman.2024.101849.
    RAM, J., DOLLA, T. (2023). Investigating the leadership and visionary capabilities to make projects resilient: Processes, challenges, and recommendations. Project Management Journal.
    RAM, J. (2023). Using Social Media in Projects: Information Management Challenges and Recommendations. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 1-18. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/08874417.2023.2187481.
    RAM, J., ZHANG, Z. (2022). Adopting big data analytics (BDA) in Business-to-business (B2B) organizations – Development of a model of needs. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 63.
    RAM, J., ZHANG, Z. (2021). Examining the needs to adopt Big DatAnalytics in B2B organizations: Development of propositions and model of needs. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 37 (4), 790-809.
    RAM, J., ZHANG, C. (2021). Examining the role of social media analytics in providing competitive intelligence- The impacts and limitations. Journal of Global Information Management, 29. doi:10.4018/JGIM.20211101.oa15.
    RAM, J., ZHANG, Z. (2021). Examining Global Supply Chain Risks: Development of Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) Supply Chain Disruption Model. Management International, 25, 70-90.
    RAM, J., S.LIU, "Social Commerce and Innovative Business Engagements: An Empirical Investigation ", Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, May 2019, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 94-108
    RAM, J., MANOHARAN, A., SUN, S. (2019). Online-To-Offline (O2O) Business: Empirically Examining the Adoption Vs. Non-adoption. Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés, 52 (2), 189-198. doi:https://doi.org/10.18280/jesa.520212.
    RAM, J., MANOHARAN, A., SUN, S. (2019). Examining the Adoption of Online-to-Offline (020): Facilitating and Impeding Factors. Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, pp. Online.
    RAM, J., S.LIU, "Social Commerce and innovative business engagements: An empirical investigation", Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, November 2018, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 94-108
    RAM, J., S.LIU, "Social media driven innovations: An exploratory study in China", Journal of Innovation Economics & Management, , 2018, vol. 3, pp. 123-146
    RAM, J., "The Project Management Development Roadmap in China", Project Management Review, 2017, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 20-21
  • Proceedings from scholarly meetings

    RAM, J., TITARENKO, R. (2020). Project Delivery and Communication Challenges–A Social Media Use Perspective. AP20 Thailand Conference.
    RAM, J., TITARENKO, R. (2019). What are the information management challenges when using Social media in Project Management?. TASS 2nd International Conference on Management,Tourism, Culture and Language, Business Economics & Leadership.
    RAM, J. (2019). Adopting Virtual reality (VR) in project management: Development of a competency model. IRSBM-19 London.
    RAM, J. (2019). The role of Acritical Intelligence (AI) in project management: Uses and Challenges. ICSCT 2019, Hong Kong.

    Papers presented at academic or professional meetings

    RAM, J., H.YANG, "Investigating the implication of Big Data analytics on consumer finance in China" in 5th International Conference of Managing Information Technology (CMIT 2017), 2017, Sydney, Australia

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