Research Areas:
Management of Knowledge Workers, Managing Technological Innovations, Organizational Culture, Organizational Politics

Current Projects:
The impact of Organizational Learning Disabilities on both organization and individuals
Linking top management's Peripheral Vision capabilities & gaps to their Leadership Orientations (Boleman and Deal), as perceived by subordinates
Coworkers perceptions of Impression Management

Academic Positions:
IIM Bangalore: 1992- present
Assistant Professor School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 1985-92

Other Assignments:
Worked in the Center for Science Policy and Management of R&D, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderbad, from 1976-1979

Significant Publications:
Most recent:
1) "The Temptation of Tennali Raman" (with Poornima Prasad), Jigyasa Journal of Human Resource and Organizational Development, Delhi School of Economics, 2009 (reprinted by popular demand) and 2006, pp.21-27
2) "In the Clutches of Immortality," Kaustubham, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Vol. 3, November 2007, pp. 51-56
3) "Making a Difference, Not Just Advancing to the Top and Surviving There: An Agenda for the Ambitious Manager," AIMA-AAMO 34th National Management Convention (All India Aanagement Association and Asian Association of Management Organizations), 6-8 September 2007, Kolkata

Classics:
1) "The Etiology of Organizational Politics: Implications for the Intrapreneur," SAM Advanced Management Journal, Summer 1993, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 35-41.
2) "Conceptualizing Organizational Politics as a Multi-dimensional Phenomenon" (with A. H. Rubenstein), IEEE Transactions on Engin¬eering Management, January 1992, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 4-12.
3) "The Objectives of In-house R&D in India," Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, September 1978, vol. 37, no. 9, pp. 439-444.