Stan Karanasios

Dr Stan Karanasios is a Professor in Information Systems at the UQ Business School, University of Queensland. He has a visiting Professor role at the University of Southampton. Prior to joining the University of Queensland he worked at RMIT University in Melbourne and the University of Leeds in the UK.

Stan's interests focus on how digital technology impacts organisations and society. Over the last ten years he has undertaken a program of research on the interaction between new digital technologies and organisations. Recently he completed a project for the International Telecommunications Union on digital transformation in Ghana and for Emergency Management Victoria on how social media platforms change the information landscape in the emergency sector. His research draws and expands on activity theory, an area in where he is recognised as an international expert. He holds a visiting position at the University of Leeds and regularly teaches on a summer school on activity theory in Europe.

He is a Senior Editor for Information Systems Journal, an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Information Systems, Section Editor for the Australian Journal on Information Systems, and on the Editorial Board for Mind, Culture & Activity and the International Journal of Information Management.

He has published in leading information systems journals such as the Journal of the Association of Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems and Journal of Information Technology. He also regularly publishes in leading information systems conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems, Americas Conference on Information Systems and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. In addition to academic publications, he has written reports for government and organisations, his research also appears in The Conversation and other news and media outlets.

Current PhD Supervision and Projects

Tech Firms Managing Generativity Tension with GenAI in Digital Product Innovation: This project examines how technology firms navigate the opportunities and tensions involved in building digital innovation with generative AI at its core.

• PhD Student: Jiamei Sun (mei.sun@business.uq.edu.au)
• Associate Advisor: Dr Avijit Sengupta

Agritech Startups and the Reshaping of Agricultural Ecosystem: This project examines how Indian agritechs drive digital transformation in agriculture and reduce information asymmetry for smallholder farmers.

• PhD Student: Rohan Chalwaldi (r.chalwadi@student.uq.edu.au)
• IIT Delhi Primary Advisor: Professor P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan

Redefining Boundaries: The Impact of Generative AI in Organizations

• PhD Student: Utsav Chaudhary (u.chaudhary@student.uq.edu.au)
• IIT Delhi Primary Advisor: Associate Professor Agam Gupta.
• Associate Advisor: Dr Avijit Sengupta

Digital Transformation Success Factors: This project examines how generative AI is reshaping the nature of knowledge work.

• PhD Student: Mingyuan (Jasmine) Jiang (m.jiang@uq.edu.au)
• Associate Supervisor: Associate Professor Christoph Breidbach

Understanding Reliance on Artificial Intelligence and Strategies to Retain Human Skills: The purpose of this research is to explore how AI is being used in work contexts and the strategies organizations deploy to maintain their employees’ skills in the era of AI.

• PhD Student: Liliping (liliping@student.uq.edu.au)
• Primary Supervisor: Dr Tapani Rinta-Kahila