Ravi Dharwadkar

Ravi Dharwadkar is the Whitman Advisory Council Professor of Management and the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management. He also serves as the chair of the Management Department. Professor Dharwadkar is a recipient of numerous awards including Whitman’s Thomas Finucane Award for Exceptional Scholarship, 2002, the inaugural Whitman Research Fellowship (2004-2006), the Teaching Recognition Award of the Meredith Professorship, 2003, the Whitman Teaching Fellowship (2006-2008), Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award, 2007, Syracuse University, and Poets and Quants 2017 Top 40 Undergraduate Professors, among others. Professor Dharwadkar received his B.Sc.(Mathematics) from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India, his MBA in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur, India, and his Ph.D. degree in Management from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Dharwadkar’s research interests include corporate governance, corporate strategy, and international business. His research articles appear in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Review of Accounting Studies, among other journals. Dr. Dharwadkar teaches courses in international business, organization theory, and strategy at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Dharwadkar is serving his fourth term on the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal and is an editor at Corporate Governance: An International Review. He recently served as a co-chairperson of SU’s Internationalization Council and SU’s Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Gender Pay Equity. He has also been a member of SU’s Faculty Salary Pay Review Committee, Sesquicentennial Celebration Steering Committee (2017-2019), and University Lecture Series Committee (2019). Prior to joining academia, Professor Dharwadkar worked for Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector company.

Research Topics

• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Strategy
• International Business

Corporate Governance, Corporate Strategy, International Business

Research Impact (1/13/2021)
-Web of Science: 1657 citations, 1645 without self-citations
-Scopus: 1857
-Google Scholar: 5461

Selected Publications

• "Time is of the essence!: Retired independent directors' contributions to board effectiveness", Journal of Business Ethics, 2021 (with Brandes, P., Linna, S., Ross, J.)
• "Corporate social irresponsibility and boards: The implications of legal expertise", Journal of Business Research, 125, 143-154, 2021 (with Guo, J., Shi, L., Yang, R.)
• "The initiation of audit committee interlocks and the contagion of accounting policy choices: Evidence from special items", Review of Accounting Studies, 20, 120-158, 2020 (with Harris, D., Shi, L., Zhou, N.)
• "The governance transfer of block holders: Evidence from block acquisitions and earnings management around the world", Journal of Corporate Finance, 45, 586-607, 2017 (with Dai, L., Shi, L., Zhang, B.)
• "To thine shareholders be true? Linking large corporate ownership to firms' use of commitment human resource practices", Human Resource Management, 55(4), 567-589, 2016 (with Mullins, F., Brandes, P.)
• "I know something you don’t know!: The role of linking pin directors in monitoring and incentive alignment", Strategic Management Journal, 37(5), 964-981, 2016 (with Brandes, P., Suh, S.)
• "Virtual interfirm relationships: Examining heterogeneity in the effects of dependence structures on relational outcomes", Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2015
• "Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR): The moderating roles of attainment discrepancy and organization slack", Corporate Governance: An International Review, 19(2), 136-152, 2011 (with Arora, P.)
• "Owners on both sides of the deal: Mergers and acquisitions and overlapping institutional ownership", Strategic Management Journal, 31, 1114-1135, 2010 (with Goranova, M., Brandes, P.)
• "Institutional ownership and monitoring effectiveness: It’s not just how much but what else you own", Organization Science, 19(3), 419-440, 2008 (with Goranova, M., Brandes, P., Khan, R.)
• "The importance of being ‘Indian’: Identity centrality and work outcomesin an off-shored call center in India", HUMAN RELATIONS, 61(11), 1499-1530, 2008 (with Das, D., Brandes, P.)
• "Information Systems Outsourcing: Linking Transaction Cost and Institutional Theories", Communications of AIS, 20, 346-370, 2007 (with Vitharana, P.)
• "Managerial ownership and corporate diversification: A longitudinal view", Strategic Management Journal, 28(3), 211-225, 2007 (with Goranova, M., Alessandri, T., Brandes, P.)
• "Information systems outsourcing: Linking transaction cost and institutional theories", Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 20, 346-370, 2007 (with Vitharana, P.)
• "Japanese career progress: An empirical examination", Journal of International Business Studies, 37(1), 148-161, 2006 (with Graen, G., Grewal, R., Wakabayashi, M.)
• "Institutional ownership and CEO compensation: a longitudinal examination", Journal of Business Research, 58(8), 1078-1088, 2005 (with Khan, R., Brandes, P.)
• " Understanding the rise and fall of stock options compensation: Taking principal–agent conflicts to the institutional (battle)field", Human Resource Management Review, 15(2), 97-118, 2005 (with Brandes, P., Das, D.)
• "Social exchanges within organizations and work outcomes - The importance of local and global relationships", GROUP & ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT, 29(3), 276-301, 2004 (with Brandes, P., Wheatley, K.)
• "Effective stock option design: Reconciling stakeholder, strategic, and motivational factors", Academy of Management Executive, 17(1), 77-95, 2003 (with Brandes, P., Lemesis, G.)
• "Effective stock option design: Reconciling stakeholder, strategic, and motivational factors", ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES, 17(1), 77-93, 2003 (with Brandes, P., Lemesis, G.)
• "The role of the institutional environment in marketing channels", Journal of Marketing, 66, 82-97, 2002 (with Grewal, R.)
• "The relationship of internal and external commitment foci to objective job performance measures", Academy of Management Journal, 44(3), 570-579, 2001 (with George, G., Siders, M.)
• "Privatization in emerging economies: An agency theory perspective", Academy of Management Review, 25(3), 650-669, 2000 (with George, G., Brandes, P.)
• "Privatization in emerging economies: An agency theory perspective", Academy of Management Review, 25, 650-669, 2000 (with George, G., Brandes, P.)
• "Organizational cynicism", Academy of Management Review, 23(2), 341-352, 1998 (with Brandes, P., Dean, J.)
• "Organizational cynicism", Academy of Management Review, 23(2), 341-352, 1998 (with Dean, J., Brandes, P.)