Aakanksha Gaur

Aakanksha is a Junior Lecturer of IT Management at SDA Bocconi School of Management.

She is a core researcher at the DEVO (Digital Enterprise Value and Organization) Lab. She is also part of the core faculty for the Masters in food and beverage program and is also involved in the MFB program as a teaching assistant.

Her research areas include access and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the context of emerging economies, digital transformation and impact, and the use of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence. She is the author of several articles on the subject which have been published in leading journals and conference proceedings.

Before joining SDA Bocconi, she worked as a researcher for the H2020 projects sponsored by the European Union in the domain of digital business models and public sector innovation.

She holds a PhD in Business Administration from the ESSEC Business School, France. She was a visiting research scholar at the Judge Business School, Cambridge.

Teaching domains

• Artificial Intelligence
• Business Model Transformation
• Digital Innovation
• High Impact Technologies

Latest publications

• CENNAMO C., DIAFERIA L., GAUR A., SALVIOTTI G. Assessing Incumbents’ Risk of Digital Platform Disruption Mis Quarterly Executive, 2022, vol.2, no. 1, pp.7
• GAUR A. Companies and Digital Transformation in The Post-Digital Enterprise Gianluigi Castelli, Severino Meregalli, Ferdinando Pennarola(Ed), Springer International Publishing, chap. 1, pp.1-15, 2022
• GAUR A., POTNIS D. D. Service innovations in mobile banking for creating value for the poor in developing countries The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2021, pp.e12209
• POTNIS D. D., GAUR A., SINGH J. B. Analysing slow growth of mobile money market in India using a market separation perspective Information Technology for Development, 2020, vol.26, no. 2, pp.369-393
• ABBATEMARCO N., GAUR A., MEREGALLI S. Stuck in Pilot Purgatory: Understanding and Addressing the Current Challenges of Industrial IoT in Manufacturing Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3-7, 2022, (online)
• CENNAMO C., DIAFERIA L., GAUR A., SALVIOTTI G. Digital Transformation and Incumbent Businesses: How to Understand and Assess Platform Disruption 3rd Competitive Renaissance Through Digital Transformation Conference, February 18-19, 2021, Pavia, Italy