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