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Abhinav Gupta
Professor of Management
Michael G. Foster Endowed Fellow

Education

  • PhD (2015)
  • PGDM International Management Institute, New Delhi (2010)
  • BCom Aligarh Muslim University (2008)

Expertise

business and politics, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, social activism, strategic leadership

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 2015

Selected Publications

  1. How Mega-threats Influence Workplace Cooperation: Effect of #BlackLivesMatter Salience on Cooperation among and between Black and White Coworkers
    Keck, S., Schumacher, C., Gupta, A., Leavitt, K. (forthcoming). Academy of Management Journal.
  2. The Origins and Evolution of Red, Blue, and Purple Employee Populations: A Theory of How Organizations Become Ideologically Skewed
    Dewan, Y., Gupta, A., and Hambrick, D.C. (forthcoming). Academy of Management Review.
  3. "Violence and Competition: The Effect of Mass Shootings and Domestic Terrorism on Organizational Risk-Taking in Response to Performance Shortfalls"
    Schumacher, C., Keck, S., and Gupta, A., (forthcoming). Academy of Management Journal.
  4. “How Ideologically Opposed Stakeholders Influence Organizational Practice Adoption: Theory and Evidence from the Diffusion of Domestic Partner Benefits in Higher Education“
    Abhinav Gupta , Chad Murphy , Forrest Briscoe, (forthcoming). Organization Science.
  5. “Presumed patriarchy: How a CEO’s masculine appearance affects perceptions of sexual harassment in organizations“
    Gish, J., Barnes, C., Gupta, A., and Nair, K., (2025). Journal of Management.
  6. “Upper Echelons and Intra-Organizational Learning: How Executive Narcissism Affects Knowledge Transfer among Business Units“
    Liu, X., Zhang, L., Gupta, A., Zheng, X., and Wu, C., (2022). Strategic Management Journal.
  7. “The Distinct Effects of Wealth- and CSR-oriented Shareholder Unrest on CEO Career Outcomes: A New Lens on Settling Up and Executive Job Demands“
    Journal Article:
    Lee, M. K., Gupta, A., and Hambrick, D. C., (2022). Academy of Management Journal.
  8. “Corporate Directors as Heterogeneous Network Pipes: How Director Political Ideology Affects the Interorganizational Diffusion of Governance Practices“
    Gupta, A., Wowak, A., and Boeker, W., (2022). Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 43(8), pp. 1469-1498.
  9. "Business Disruption from the Inside Out"
    Gupta, A., Briscoe, F., (2021). Stanford Social Innovation Review.
  10. “Out of Character: CEO Political Ideology, Peer Influence, and Adoption of CSR Executive Position by Fortune 500 firms“
    Gupta, A., Fung, A., and Murphy, C., (2021). Strategic Management Journal.
  11. “Rewarding Moral Executives: Corporate Social Responsibility, and Shareholder Say-On-Pay Voting“
    Fehr, R., Gupta, A., and Guarano, C., (2021). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
  12. “Organizational Political Ideology and Corporate Openness to Social Activism“
    Gupta, A., and Briscoe, F., (2020). Administrative Science Quarterly.
  13. “Placing Their Bets: The Influence of Strategic Investment on CEO Pay-for-Performance“
    Shi, W., Connelly, B. L., Mackey, J. D., and Gupta, A., (2019). Strategic Management Journal.
  14. “Dispositional Sources of Managerial Discretion: CEO Ideology, CEO Personality, and Firm Strategies“
    Gupta, A., Nadkarni, S., and Mariam, M., (2019). Administrative Science Quarterly.
  15. “Follow the Leader (or not): The influence of Peer CEOs’ Characteristics on interorganizational imitation“
    Gupta, A., and Misangyi, V., (2018). Strategic Management Journal.
  16. “Evenhandedness in Resource Allocation: Its Relationship with CEO Ideology, Organizational Discretion, and Firm Performance“
    Gupta, A., Briscoe, F., and Hambrick, D. C., (2018). Academy of Management Journal.
  17. “The Elephant (or Donkey) in the Boardroom: How Board Political Ideology Affects CEO Pay“
    Gupta, A., Wowak, A., (2017). Administrative Science Quarterly.
  18. “Red, Blue and Purple Firms: Organizational Political Ideology and Corporate Social Responsibility“
    Gupta, A., Briscoe, F., and Hambrick, D. C., (2017). Strategic Management Journal.
  19. “Social Activism In and Around Organizations“
    Briscoe, F., and Gupta, A., (2016). Academy of Management Annals.
  20. “Structural Interdependence within Top Management Teams: A key moderator of Upper Echelon Predictions“
    Hambrick, D. C., Humphrey, S. and Gupta, A., (2015). Strategic Management Journal.
  21. “Social Activism and Practice Diffusion: How Activist Tactics Affect Non-targeted Organizations“
    Briscoe, F., Gupta, A., and Anner, M., (2015). Administrative Science Quarterly.

Honors and Awards

- Ascendant Scholar Award, 2019 Western Academy of Management
- Dean’s Excellence Award for Faculty Research, Foster School of Business
- Dean’s Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Foster School of Business
- Winner of the best symposium award by the OMT division, 2020 Academy of Management Meeting
- Winner of the best paper award on social and environmental impact by OMT division, 2017 Academy of Management
- Winner of the best symposium award by the OMT division, 2016 Academy of Management Meeting
- Finalist for the 2014 Organization Science/INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition, San Francisco, CA
- Best student paper award in 2013 EGOS theme on Pluralism in Institutional Trajectories
- Jeanne and Charles Rider Fellowship, the Pennsylvania State University
- Frank J. Smeal Doctoral Scholarship, the Pennsylvania State University
- James B. & Michele J. Thomas Doctoral Scholarship, the Pennsylvania State University

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Abhinav Gupta

Academic Department

Management & Organization

Academic Service

Senior Editor, Organization Science
Editorial Board Member, Strategic Management Journal
Reviewer, Administrative Science Quarterly
Reviewer, Academy of Management Journal
Reviewer, American Sociological Review
Reviewer, Academy of Management Review
Member of OMT and BPS Divisions of the Academy of Management
Member of the Strategic Management Society

Collaborators

Keehyuk Ra Rohan Radke Vishal Rituraj

Current Research

Political ideology of corporations and elites, inter-organizational diffusion, social activism