Area of Expertise: Offshore outsourcing, global software development, virtual teams, global teams, coordination across time zones, software industries around the world

Additional Information: Erran Carmel studies the special problems of the globalization of work, especially for the technology sector (software, IT). He studies how work teams coordinate their work. He also studies how nations’ tech sectors (especially software) compete; for example, what policies lead to success, and whether India will continue to lead. Carmel is the author of two important books on the globalization of technology work. 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. He is working on a third book on the special problems of coordination across many time zones. Carmel is a professor of the Information Technology Department at the Kogod School of Business. In the 1990s, he cofounded and led the program in management of global information technology. From 2005 to 2008, he was department chair, and from 2008 to 2009 he was the Orkand Endowed Chaired Professor at the University of MarylandUniversity College. He has also been a visiting professor at Haifa University (Israel) and University College–Dublin (Ireland). 

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