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Dr. Abhijith Acharya is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Dr. Acharya earned his PhD in Business Administration from The Pennsylvania State University, an MS in Marketing and Sociology from Clemson University, and an MBA from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to joining Wilfrid Laurier University in 2021, he was on the faculty of Singapore Management University.
Before joining academia, Dr. Acharya has worked in the consumer and investment banking divisions of an MNC financial institution and a brand consulting startup.
Dr. Acharya studies questions related to corporate governance and strategic leaderhship.
Specifically, he examines how corporate governance and strategic leadership both shape and are shaped by social evaluations and stakeholder engagement. He examines these issues among large publicly listed companies, entrepreneurial ventures around the initial public offerings (IPO), and not-for-profit social enterprises.
Dr. Acharya's current research examines the use of impression management tactics by CEOs to influence multiple stakeholder groups, performance and growth implications of female CEOs for entrepreneurial ventures, effects of boardoom dynamics on director turnover, and recovery strategies employed by wrongdoing companies.
Chin, M. K., Acharya, A. G., & Devers, C. E. 2023. Different strokes for different folks: The moderating effect of top managers' political ideologies on the efficacy of TMT vertical pay disparities. Strategic Organization: In Press.
Acharya, A. G., Gras, D., & Krause, R. 2022. Socially oriented shareholder activism targets: Explaining activists' Corporate target selection using corporate opportunity structures. Journal of Business Ethics, 178: 307-323.
Acharya, A. G., & Pollock, T. G. 2021. Too many peas in a pod? How overlaps in directors' local and global status characteristics influence board turnover in newly public firms. Academy of Management Journal, 64: 1472-1496.
Acharya, A. G., Gras, D. M., & Krause, R. A. 2016. No good deed goes unpunished: The effect of social performance on socially oriented shareholder activism. Academy of Management Conference Best Papers Proceedings, SIM Division.
Krause, R., Acharya, A. G., & Covin, J. G. 2014. Here I come to save the day: Proposing necessary and sufficient conditions for founder-CEO comeback. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 1-2: 26-30.
Misangyi, V. F., & Acharya, A. G. 2014. Substitutes or complements? A configurational examination of corporate governance mechanisms. Academy of Management Journal, 57: 1681-1705.
Acharya, A. G., & Pollock, T. G. 2013. Shoot for the stars? Predicting the recruitment of prestigious directors by newly public firms. Academy of Management Journal, 56: 1396-1419.
Acharya, A. G., Raymond, M. A., Hopkins, C. D., & Fine, A. C. 2009. Examining the customer equity framework from a consumer perspective. Journal of Brand Management, 17: 165-180.
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