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Hayagreeva Rao Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Personal page: |
Prof. Hayagreeva Rao (PhD, Case Western Reserve University) is the Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at Kellogg School of Management, North Western University.
His main research interests are focused on three particular sub-process of organizational change: a) creation of new social structures, b) the transformation of existing social structures, and c) the dissolution of existing social structures.
His most recent work analyzes and explicates how director interlocks influence the decisions of firms to defect from NASDAQ to NYSE, and how firms rely on recruitment of talent from rivals to develop new products. In his current work, he is seeking to understand the role of social movements as motors of cultural innovation.
He has received grants from the William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, and the Halle Institute, Emory University.
He has served as a Consulting Editor of the American Journal of Sociology and a guest editor of the Academy of Management Journal's Special Research Forum on Organizational Ecology. He is a Senior Editor of Organization Science and serves on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Academy of Management Review. He has been a Member of the Organizational Innovation and Change Panel of the National Science Foundation.
He teaches courses on Organizational Change. He has consulted with, made presentations to, and conducted executive workshops with executives in the U.S., France and India. He has worked with organizations such as IBM, Lend-Lease, Group Suez, and the American Cancer Society.
Prof. Rao has received the Best Symposium Award, Organization and Management Theory Division, Academy of Management in 2001; The Donald Keough Award for Faculty Excellence, Goizueta Business School, Emory University in 1997; The Daniel Jordan Faculty Fellow, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, 1996-1997.
These are his current project
Hayagreeva Rao, Phillipe Monin and Rodolphe Durand. Identity Movements as Sources of Institutional Change: Why French Chefs Left Classical Cuisine for Nouvelle Cuisine.
Michael Lounsbury and Hayagreeva Rao. Institutional Change as an Editing Process: The Reconstitution of Product Categories by Industry Media in the Mutual Fund Industry; 1945-1985.
Heather Haveman, Hayagreeva Rao and Srikant Parachuri. State Policy and the Distribution of Organizational Forms in the Early California Thrift Industry.
Paul Ingram and Hayagreeva Rao. Store Wars: The Anti-Chain Movement and Pro-Chain Countermovement in the United States, 1925-1970.
At AILUN Prof. Rao teaches the students on how human resource management is essential to execute strategy in the tourism and hospitality industries. His course focuses on the levers of human resource management: a) recruitment, b) training and development, c) appraisal of performance, d) reward systems, e) information sharing, f) teams, and g) balanced scorecard. It also looks at the challenges of team management, post-acquisition integration, and cultural change.
Some publications
Hayagreeva Rao (forthcoming), Tests Tell: Constitutive Legitimacy and Consumer Acceptance of the Automobile; 1985-1912, The New Institutionalism in Strategic Management, edited by Paul Ingram and Brian Silverman, JAI Press.
Hayagreeva Rao and Robert Drazin (2002), Overcoming Resource Constraints on Product Innovation by Recruiting Talent from Rivals: A Study of the Mutual Fund Industry; 1986-1994, Academy of Management Journal,. June
Robert Drazin and Hayagreeva Rao (2002), Harnessing Managerial Knowledge to Implement Product-line Extensions: When Do Mutual Fund Families Share Portfolio Managers Across Old and New Funds? Academy of Management Journal, June
Hayagreeva Rao (2002), How do New Organizations Emerge? Translated as Wie Tauchen Neue Organisationen Auf? Kolner Zeitschrift fur Sociologie und Sozialpsychologie
Hayagreeva Rao, Henrich Greve and Gerald Davis (2001), Fool's Gold: Social Proof in the Initiation and Abandonment of Coverage by Wall Street Analysts, Administrative Science Quarterly 46: 502-526
Hayagreeva Rao (2001), Interorganizational Ecology, Companion to Organizations, edited by Joel A.C. Baum, Basil Blackwell: London. 541-556
Hayagreeva Rao, Cal Morill and Mayer Zald (2000), Power Plays: How Social Movements and Collective Action Create New Organizational Form, Research in Organizational Behavior, edited by Barry Staw and Robert Sutton, JAI Press, Vol. 22. 237-282
Hayagreeva Rao, Gerald M. Davis and Andrew Ward (2000), Embeddedness, Social Identity and Mobility: Why Organizations Leave Nasdaq and JoinNew YorkStock Exchange, Administrative Science Quarterly 45, 268-292
Hayagreeva Rao and K. Sivakumar (1999), Institutional Sources of Boundary-Spanning Structures: The Establishment of Investor Relations Departments in the Fortune 500 Industrials, Organization Science 10: 1, 27-42
Hayagreeva Rao (1998), Caveat Emptor: The Construction of Non-Profit Consumer Watchdog Organizations, American Journal of Sociology 103, 912-961
Heather Haveman and Hayagreeva Rao (1997), Structuring a Theory of Moral Sentiments: Institutional and Organizational Co-Evolution in the EarlyCalifornia Thrift Industry. Co-author: Heather Haveman, American Journal of Sociology102, 1606-1651