Ramkrishnan (Ram) V. Tenkasi, Ph.D.

Colorado Technical University, Adjunct Professor

Colorado Springs, CO

Best, A., Tenkasi, R.V., Trochim, W. K., Lau, F. Y., Holmes, B., Huerta, T., Moor, G., Leischow, S., & Clark, P. I. (2006). Systemic Transformational Change in Tobacco Control: An overview of the initiative for the study and implementation of systems (ISIS). In Casebeer, A., Harrison, A., and Mark, A (Eds.), Innovations in Health Care: A Reality Check. Palgrave-MacMillan.

Boland, R.J., & Tenkasi, R.V. (1995). Perspective Making and Perspective Taking in Communities of Knowing. Organization Science (Special issue on Electronic Communication and Changing Organizational Forms) 6(4.), 350-372.

Boland, R.J., & Tenkasi, R.V. (2000). Perspective Making and Perspective Taking in Communities of knowing. In DeSanctis, G. & Fulk, J. (Eds.), Shaping organizational form: Communication, connection, and community (Reprint, pp. 327-367). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Boland, R.J., & Tenkasi, R. V. (2001). Communication and Coordination in Distributed Cognition . In G. Olson, T. Malone and J. B. Smith (Eds.), Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology: A volume in the Computers, Cognition and Work series (pp. 51-66) New York: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, Inc.

Boland, R.J., Tenkasi, R.V., & Te’eni, D. (1996). Designing Information Technology to Support Distributed Cognition. In J. Meindl, C. Stubbart, and J. Porac (Eds.), Cognition Within And Between Organizations (Reprint pp. 245-280). Sage Series.

Hay, G. W., Woodman, R. W., & Tenkasi, R. V. (2008). Closing the ODC application gap by bringing ODC knowledge closer to ODC practice. OD Practitioner, 40(2), 55-60.

Kripp, D. & Tenkasi, R.V. (2002). Play Ball. American Society for Quality, 19(1), 1-11.

Leban, W.V., & Tenkasi, R.V. (2003). How emotional intelligence impacts leadership style-A research note. Management Next, 1(6), 12-13.

Mohrman, S.A., Mohrman, A.M., & Tenkasi, R.V. (1997). The Discipline of Organization Design. In Susan Jackson and Cary Cooper (Eds.), Creating Tomorrow’s Organizations: A Handbook for Future Research in Organizational Behavior (pp. 191-206), New York; Wiley.

Mohrman, S.A., Tenkasi, R.V., Lawler, E. E., & Ledford, G. E. (1995). Total Quality Management: Practice and Outcomes in the Largest US Firms. Employee Relations, (Special issue on Total Quality Management), 5(3), 26-41.

Mohrman, S.A., Tenkasi, R.V., & Mohrman, A.M. (2000). Learning and Knowledge in Team Based New Product Development Organizations. In M. Beyerlein and D. Johnson (Eds.), Advances in Interdisciplinary Study of Work Teams: New Product Development Teams, Vol. 5 (pp. 63-88) Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Mohrman, S.A., Tenkasi, R.V., & Mohrman, A.M. (2003). The Role of Networks in Fundamental Organizational Change: A Grounded Analysis (Special issue on Planned Organizational Change and Social Networks). Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 39(3), 301-323.

Mupepi, M., Mupepi, S. Tenkasi, R. V., & Jewell, G. (2008). Precision in managing organizational change: Identifying and analyzing needs using social constructs. International Journal of Management Practice, 3(2), 115-139.

Snider, K.F., Barrett, F. J., & Tenkasi, R.V. (2002). Considerations in acquisition lessons learned system design, Acquisition Review Quarterly, 9(1), 67-84.

Tenkasi, R.V. (1995). The Sociocognitive Dynamics of Knowledge Creation in Scientific Knowledge Work Environments, In M. Beyerlein and D. Johnson (Eds.), Advances in Interdisciplinary Study of Work Teams: Knowledge Work the Creative Edge, Vol. 2, (pp. 163-204). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Tenkasi, R.V. (2000). The Dynamics of Cognitive Oversimplification Processes in R&D Environments: An Empirical Assessment of Some Consequences (Special issue on Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management). International Journal of Technology Management, 20(5/6/7/8), 782-798.

Tenkasi, R.V. (2000). The Dynamics of Cultural Knowledge and Learning in Creating Viable Theories of Global Change and Action. Organization Development Journal, 18(2), 74-90.

Tenkasi, R.V. (2002). A review of The Complexity Challenge: Technological Innovation for the 21st Century, Robert Rycroft and Don Kash, London: Pinter Press [Review of the book The Complexity Challenge: Technological Innovation for the 21st Century], Journal of Organizational Change Management, 15.

Tenkasi, R. V. (2007). Organization Development as Applied Organizational Science: Some thoughts on the translation of academic research to inform practice. Academy of Management Organization Development and Change Division Newsletter, Summer 2007, 7-10.

Tenkasi, R.V. (2007) Transforming Tobacco Control Through Systems Thinking: Integrating Research and Practice to Improve Outcomes. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph 18. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, NIH Publication.

Tenkasi, R.V. & Boland, R. J. (1996). Exploring knowledge diversity as a basis for integration in knowledge intensive firms: A new role for information technology. Journal of Organizational Change Management. (Special issue on Organizational learning). 9(1), 79-91.

Tenkasi, R.V. & Boland, R. J. (1998) Knowledge Integration in Knowledge Intensive Firms and the role of Knowledge diversity. Journal of Systemic Knowledge Management, 1(1), 21-32.

Tenkasi, R. V. & Chesmore, M. C. (2003). Social Networks and Planned Organizational Change: The Impact of Strong Network Ties on Effective Change Implementation and Use (Special issue on Planned Organizational Change and Social Networks). Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 39(3), 281-300.

Tenkasi R.V. & Hay, G. W. (2004). Actionable Knowledge and Scholar-Practitioners: A process model of theory-practice linkages. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 17(3), 177-206.

Tenkasi, R.V. & Hay, G. W. (2008) Following the Second Legacy of Aristotle: The Scholar-Practitioner as an Epistemic Technician. In A.B. Shani, N. Adler, S. A. Mohrman, W. A. Pasmore, and B. Stymne,(Eds.), Handbook of Collaborative Management Research (pp. 49-72), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Tenkasi, R.V. & Maheshwari, A (1996) A review of Management in China during the age of reform. John Child, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, [Review of the book Management in China during the age of reform] Journal of Organizational Change Management. 9(2), 81-84.

Tenkasi, R.V., & Mohrman, S.A. (1995). Technology Transfer as Collaborative Learning. In T. E. Backer, S. L. David, and G. Soucy, (Eds.). The Behavioral Science Knowledge Base on Technology Transfer (pp. 147-168). Rockville: MD: U.S. Department of Health Services.

Tenkasi, R.V., & Mohrman, S.A. (1998). Accelerated Learning During Organizational Transition. In S. A. Mohrman, J. R. Galbraith, and E. E. Lawler (Eds). Tomorrow’s Organization: Crafting Winning Capabilities in a Dynamic World (pp. 330-361). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Tenkasi, R.V., & Mohrman. S.A. (1999). Global Change as contextual-collaborative knowledge creation. In D. L. Cooperrider and J. E. Dutton (Eds.), Organizational Dimensions of Global Change: No Limits to Cooperation (pp. 114-136). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Trochim, B., Bammer, G., Best, A., Tenkasi, R., Leischow, S., & Clark, P. (2007). Synthesis and conclusions: integrating system thinking to link science and practice. In Best A., Clark P., Leischow S., & Trochim W. (Eds.). Transforming Tobacco Control Through Systems Thinking: Integrating Research and Practice to Improve Outcomes. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph 18. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, NIH Publication.

Trochim, W., Cabrera, D., Tenkasi, R., Berland, A., Best, A., Huerta, T., Green, L. W., & Milstein, B. (2007). How we organize: Purposeful adaptive systems. In Best A., Clark P., Leischow S., & Trochim W. (Eds.), Transforming Tobacco Control Through Systems Thinking: Integrating Research and Practice to Improve Outcomes. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph 18. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, NIH Publication.