Faculty and ResearchExpert Guide

Education

• Ph.D. in Social Engineering
  Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
• Master of Science in Industrial Engineering
  Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
  University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Areas of Expertise

• Behavioral, qualitative and neuro Information Systems (IS) research (capability emergence, digital communities, collective intelligence, studies on how individuals’ characteristics may affect technology use, as well as exploring links between neural activation, self-reported measures, task performance and real-life behaviors)
• Responsible and sustainable operations (assessing Corporate Social Responsibility - CSR initiatives/projects, resilient supply chains, and Text Analytics - TA applied to analyzing collections of CSR documents)

Courses Taught

• Business Statistical Analysis
• Business Statistics and Analysis II
• Global Logistics
• International Marketing
• Managing Global Production and Technology
• Operations Management
• Special Topics in International Business
• Strategy Development and Implementation

Refereed Journal Articles

Gupta, M., Dennehy, D., Parra, C. M., Mäntymäki, M., & Dwivedi, Y.

(2023).

Fake News Believability: The Effects of Political Beliefs and Espoused Cultural Values.

Information & Management

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Gupta, S., Parra, C. M., & Kumar, S.

(2022).

Emerging research problems in different business domains: An analytics perspective.

Production and Operations Management

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Gupta, S., Tekriwal, M., & Parra, C. M.

(2022).

Permeation of the Term “Analytics” in Production and Operations Management Research.

Production and Operations Management

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Parra, C. M., Gupta, M., & Cadden, T.

(2022).

Towards an Understanding of Remote Work Exhaustion: A Study on the Effects of Individuals’ Big Five Personality Traits.

Journal of Business Research

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Parra, C. M., Gupta, M., & Dennehy, D.

(2022).

Likelihood of Questioning AI-based Recommendations Due to Perceived Racial/Gender Bias .

IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society

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Poudel, R., Tobia, M. J., Reidel, M. C., Salo, T., Flannery, J. S., Hill, L. D., Dick, A. S., Laird, A. R., Parra, C. M., & Sutherland, M. T.

(2022).

Risky decision-making strategies mediate the relationship between amygdala activity and real-world financial savings among individuals from lower income households: A pilot study.

Behavioural Brain Research

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Parra, C. M., Poudel, R., & Sutherland, M. T.

(2021).

Towards an Understanding of Low-Income Individuals’ Financial Resiliency: Exploration of Risk Preferences, Personality Traits, and Savings Behavior.

Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies

, 13(5)

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Gupta, M., Parra, C. M., & Dennehy, D.

(2021).

Questioning Racial and Gender Bias in AI-based Recommendations: Do Espoused National Cultural Values Matter?

Information Systems Frontiers

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Gupta, M., Parra, C. M., & Mennecke, B.

(2021).

Robust Analytics.

Cutter Business Technology Journal

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Parra, C. M., Gupta, M., & Mikalef, P.

(2021).

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-Enabled Severe Moral Communities And How The Pandemic Might Bring New Ones.

International Journal of Information Management

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Paul, K., & Parra, C. M.

(2021).

Corporate Social Responsibility in International Business Literature: Results from Text Mining Data of the Journal of International Business Studies.

International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility

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Gupta, M., Parra, C. M., & Salcedo, E.

(2020).

Are Americans Nowadays More Willing to Use Bitcoin-Like Cryptocurrencies?

Cutter Business Technology Journal

, 33(11)

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Parra, C. M., Tremblay, M. C., Paul, K., & Castellanos, A. (2017). Exploratory Content Analysis Using Text Data Mining: Corporate Citizenship Reports of Seven U.S. Companies from 2004-2012. Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 2017(66).

Parra, C. M., Tremblay, M., & Castellanos, A.

(2016).

Visualizing Term Eigenvector Prominence in a Corporate Social Responsibility Context.

Journal on Advances in Theoretical and Applied Informatics

, 2(2)

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Parra, C. M. (2008). Quality of Life Markets: Capabilities and Corporate Social Responsibility. Journal of Human Development, 9(2).

Connection Failure

Parra, C. M., & Yano, M.

(2005).

Testing Educational System Typologies using Colombian data.

International Education Journal

, 6(1)

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Parra, C. M.

(2005).

Rules and Knowledge.

Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review

, 2(1)

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Parra, C. M., & Yano, M.

(2004).

Distinctions as Embodied Experiences.

Semiotica

, 151(1-4)

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Parra, C. M., & Yano, M.

(2002).

Tridimensional Recursive Learning Model.

Cybernetics and Human Knowing

, 9(3&4)

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