User Profile
- Name:
- Erran Carmel
- Position:
- Professor and Orkand Chair
- Graduate School of Management and Technology
- Bio:
Professor Carmel's area of expertise is globalization of technology. He studies global software teams, offshoring of information technology, and emergence of software industries around the world.
His 1999 book Global Software Teams was the first on this topic and is considered a landmark in the field. His second book Offshoring Information Technology came out in 2005 and is in third printing.
He has written over 80 articles, reports, and manuscripts. He consults and speaks to industry and professional groups.
He is a tenured full Professor at the Information Technology department, Kogod School of Business at American University. In the 1990s he co-founded and led the program in Management of Global Information Technology. In 2005-2008 he was department Chair. In 2008-2009 he is on leave as the Orkand Chaired Professor at the University of Maryland, University College. He has been a Visiting Professor at Haifa University (Israel) and University College Dublin (Ireland).
He received his Ph.D., in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona; his MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.
