Discipline
Information Systems
Supervisors
- Rob Austin
- Nicole Haggerty
Fateme Bakhshi is an Information Systems PhD student at the Ivey Business School. She studies how social media influences the ways businesses, movements, and individuals interact online. Her research examines how social media transforms the dynamics of stakeholder engagement, framing processes, and organizational legitimacy. Combining qualitative and computational approaches, her work bridges insights from social media analytics, organizational theory, and information systems research.
Education
- Master of Business Administration, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2019
- Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2016
Research Interests
- Social Media
- Digital Activism
- Media Framing
- Stakeholder Engagement
- IT-Enabled Organizational Change
Publications
- Nasr, A.K., Alaei, S., Bakhshi, F., Rasoulyan, F., Tayaran, H., Farahi, M. (2019). “How Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Can Affect Short-term and Long-term Firm Performance: Evidence from the Iranian Banking System”, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues.
Awards and Honours
- Sharif University Scholarship
Conferences
- Bakhshi, F., Oluwole, O., Kekesi, E., & Haggerty, N. (2025). "Theorizing Organizational Change in EHR Implementation" presented at Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
- Bakhshi, F., Faik, I., & Haggerty, N. (2024). "Social Media as a Battleground Between Social Movements and Formal Organizations: The Art of Framing" presented at International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS)
- Bakhshi, F., Faik, I. (2023). "Exploring the Interactions between Social Movement Activists and Target Organizations on Social Media" presented at Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
- Bakhshi, F., Kiamehr M. (2019). “Investigating the effect of Institutional-based Trust and the Trust to the Banks on the Trust to the Mobile-Bank Services in Iran” Presented at 16th International Management conference, Tehran, Iran
Academic Expereince
- Lecturer, Business Analytics (2025) - Huron University College, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
