Ramya K Murthy

Ramya K Murthy
Ramya K Murthy

PhD Candidate, Business Administration
Area of Study: Policy/Strategy
Anticipated Graduating Year: 2021

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Educational Background

Present PhD Candidate, Business Administration
Schulich School of Business
York University, Canada
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Anoop Madhok
2015 Master of Business Administration
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India
2005 Bachelor of Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University, India

Thesis Topic

Platform Sponsor Scope and Implications for Ecosystem Emergence, Growth and Value

Research Interests – Work in Progress

Ramya’s research interests are at the intersection of strategic management, entrepreneurship, and digital technologies. She is particularly interested in studying value cocreation in digital platform ecosystems. She focuses on platform sponsors’ scope as a strategic choice and examines its effects on platform-dependent entrepreneurs (complementors) within the ecosystem. She explores heterogeneity in the structure and dynamics of platform ecosystems at the incipient and growth stages of the lifecycle. Her research demonstrates the implications of platform sponsors’ scope choices on ecosystem emergence and growth. Ramya uses data from crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and videogame industry settings and employs qualitative comparative analysis, formal modelling, and econometrics techniques in her research. She currently has multiple papers progressing in the review process at FT50 management journals.

Awards and Honours

2020

Finalist, Corporate Strategy Interest Group Best Paper Award, SMS Annual Conference 2020 (for two papers)

Finalist, Best PhD Conference Paper Award, SMS Annual Conference 2020

Nominee, Best Conference Paper and Best Research Methods Awards, SMS Annual Conference 2020

2019-2020

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario, Canada

407 ETR Graduate Student Award

2016-present Schulich Doctoral Fellowship
2016-present Schulich PhD Conference Fund

Refereed Publications

Case Study:

  • Ramachandran, J., Ramya K. Murthy, and Pranav Garg. 2016. “Indian Software Services Industry: The Changing Landscape.” Harvard Business Publishing.

Refereed Conference Papers

Murthy, R. K., & Madhok, A. The Emergence of Digital Platform Ecosystems: A Problem-solving Perspective.

  • Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2020, Virtual Conference
  • Journal of Management Studies Conference 2019, Boston, US
  • Strategy Science Conference 2020 (poster session), Virtual Conference
  • Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Conference 2020, Virtual Conference

Murthy, R. K., & Lévesque, M. Disentangling the Impact of Platform Scope on Ecosystem Growth.

  • Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2020, Virtual Conference
  • Strategic Management Society Annual Conference 2020, Virtual Conference
  • Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Conference 2020, Virtual Conference
  • Great Lakes Entrepreneurship Network Conference 2019, Minneapolis, US

Murthy, R. K., & Madhok, A. Platform Scope Choices and Ecosystem Heterogeneity: A Configurational Approach.

  • Strategic Management Society Annual Conference 2020, Virtual Conference
  • Schulich School of Business Ph.D. Conference, 2019
  • Strategic Management Society Special conference 2018, Hyderabad, India

Murthy, R. K., & Madhok, A. 2018. Market Attributes in Ecosystems: Extending the Ecosystem Construct.

  • Academy of Management Specialized Conference on Big Data and Managing in a Digital Economy 2018, Surrey, UK
  • Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018, Chicago, US
  • Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Conference 2017, Montreal, Canada