Ashwini Baje

Oct 29, 2025 | Doctoral Researchers, People

Doctoral Student

📍: Room no 312

📧: ashwini.baje@iiitb.ac.in

Education :

  • B. Tech in Information Technology (Cochin University of Science and Technology, India);
  • M.Sc in Global Business Management (ESC Rennes School of Business, France);
  • PhD (in progress) (International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India)

Ashwini Baje is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Digital Humanities and Societal Systems at IIIT Bangalore. As an Information Systems scholar, her research examines the digital transformation of agricultural value chains in the Global South and their sustainability outcomes, such as smallholder inclusion, income enhancement, and reduced environmental impact. She is also interested in questions explored within third-wave Human–Computer Interaction, particularly the impact of digital technologies on intangible cultural heritage. Her work employs qualitative interpretive methods. Before joining academia, she worked as a Business Analyst at IBM India and as a Research Associate at IIM Bangalore.

Digital transformation of agricultural value chains; Information systems for sustainability; Actor alignment and digital mediation; Digital technologies and intangible cultural heritage; Qualitative interpretive methods.

  • Baje, Ashwini and Prakash, Amit, “Digitalization, Actor Alignment and Sustainability Outcomes in Agricultural Value Chains” (2025). ICIS 2025 Proceedings. 18. https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/sustain/sustain/18
  • Baje, A., & Prakash, A. (2023). “Agritech Startups and Inclusion of Small-Scale Producers: Evidence from High-Value Chains in Karnataka, India”. In Transfer, Diffusion and Adoption of Next-Generation Digital Technologies (pp. 220–233). Springer.
  • Baje, A., & Naik, G. (2017). “Post-harvest Management of Agricultural Value Chain in India”. In “Rural India Perspective 2017”. NABARD.
  • Baje, A., & Naik, G. (2017). “Maize Production in India”. In “Commodity Year Book 2017”. NCML.

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