Sunil Wattal

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Sunil Wattal

  • Fox School of Business and Management

    • Management Information Systems

      • Professor

      • Schaefer Senior Research Fellow

    • Office of Research and Doctoral Programs

      • Associate Dean of Research and Doctoral Programs

Biography

Sunil Wattal (PhD, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University) joined the MIS Department at Temple University as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2007. He also holds a Bachelors in Engineering from BITS Pilani (India), an MBA from IIM Calcutta (India), and an MS (Industrial Administration) from Carnegie Mellon University.

Sunil currently teaches management information systems at the undergraduate level and a capstone course at the masters level. His research interests include economics of information systems, technology adoption, privacy, software security, and internet marketing.

Research Interests

  • Peer to peer sharing economy
  • Online crowdfunding
  • Ride sharing
  • Online consumer behavior
  • Fake news
  • Privacy
  • Security

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BA 9783

Research Project II

Graduate

BA 9883

Research Project III

Graduate

BA 9883

Directed Reading/Study

Graduate

MIS 5801

Managing Information in the Enterprise

Graduate

MIS 9002

Inf Sys Found & Theory

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Zifla, E. & Wattal, S. (2019). Understanding it-enabled social features in online peer-to-peer businesses for cultural goods. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 20(5), 629-646. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00546.