Faculty Profile

Gupta

Dr. Anil K. Gupta

Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy & Organization
Research Director, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship

Ph.D., Harvard University

4546 Van Munching Hall
301.405.2221
agupta@rhsmith.umd.edu
http://www.anilkgupta.com/

 

Primary Research Areas:

  • Global Strategy and Organization
  • Knowledge Management
  • The Quest for Synergy
  • Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Curriculum Vitae
Summary Bio
Working Papers

Selected Publications

Feinberg, S.E., & Gupta, A.K. 2008. MNC subsidiaries and country risk: Internalization as a safeguard against weak external institutions. Academy of Management Journal. In press.

Gupta, A.K., Tesluk, P.E., & Taylor, M.Susan. 2007. Innovation at and across levels. Organization Science. 18: 885-897.

Gupta, A.K., Smith, K.G., & Shalley, C. 2006. The interplay between exploration and exploitation. Academy of Management Journal. 49: 693-706.

Feinberg, S.E., Gupta, A.K. 2004. Knowledge spillovers and the assignment of R&D responsibilities to foreign subsidiaries. Strategic Management Journal. 25: 823-845.

Becerra, M., & Gupta, A.K. 2003. Perceived trustworthiness within the organization: The moderating impact of communication frequency on trustor and trustee effects. Organization Science. 14, 1: 32-44.

Gupta, A.K., & Govindarajan, V. 2000. Knowledge flows within multinational corporations. Strategic Management Journal. 21: 473-496.

Gupta, A.K., & Govindarajan, V. 2000. Knowledge management’s social dimension: Lessons from Nucor Steel. Sloan Management Review. Fall: 71-80.

 

Honors and Awards

2007- : Member of the Executive Committee and 2008 Program Chair, International Management Division, Academy of Management (will become Incoming Division Chair in AY2008-09).

2006-2008: Guest Editor, Information Systems Research special issue on “The Interplay Between Digital and Social Networks” (co-editors: Ritu Agarwal and Robert Kraut)

December 2006: Article by Peng & Zhou in Journal of International Management ranks my AMR (1991) article as the #7 most cited article in the list of all articles on global strategy published worldwide in all journals during 1991-2000.

2005: Winner, Best Paper (Runner-Up) Award at the annual meeting of the Academy of International Business.

2005: Invited to serve as Guest Editor for a special issue of Organization Science on “Multi-level Research on Innovation” (co-editors: Susan Taylor and Paul Tesluk).

2004: Invited to serve as Guest Editor for a special issue of Academy of Management Journal on “Managing Exploration and Exploitation” (co-editors: Ken Smith and Chris Shalley).

2004: Listed among the 243 most highly cited scholars in the entire field of economics and business covering macro- and micro-economics, finance, marketing, and strategy by ISIhighlycited.com (a unit of Thomson Scientific Company). This list includes only 20 strategy scholars including me.

2000: Included in the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame (under the “Honorable Mention” category).

2000 (Jan-Dec): Served as a visiting professor at Stanford University. 1991-1992: Served as a visiting professor at the Tuck School, Dartmouth College. In 1986-1987, was similarly invited by the Sloan School of Management at MIT to serve as a visiting faculty.

1997-1998: Received the “Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award” from The University of Maryland - the highest campus-level recognition given by the university to any of its professors (mentioned earlier).

1998: Second-time winner of the Allen J. Krowe Award for Excellence in Teaching, The Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park (mentioned earlier). Also, rated as the #1 most popular professor in a Business Week magazine survey of MBA students at The Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park.

1998: One of my 1984 Academy of Management Journal papers was included in the list of “The Ten Most Often Cited Articles Published in AMJ, 1958-95” by former editor Richard T. Mowday in “Celebrating 40 Years of the Academy of Management Journal,” AMJ, 40(6), 1997. Earlier, this article was also ranked as #2 in a survey of "The Fifty Most-Noted Strategy Works of 1980-1985" by Donald C. Hambrick of Columbia University.

1994: Ranked by Management International Review as one of the "Top 20 North American Superstars" for research in strategy and organization.

1992-1994: Elected Member of the Executive Committee, Business Policy & Strategy Division, Academy of Management.

1991: Received the 1991 Glueck Best Paper Award, Business Policy and Planning Division, Academy of Management.

 

Consulting Work

  • IBM
  • National Semiconductor
  • Marriott
  • First Data Corporation
  • Monsanto