Research Areas:

Personal values and attitudes; Personality theories; Conflict and emotions in small groups and teams, Individual and group decision making; Corporate social responsibility; Social entrepreneurship; Flow, joy and creativity in work; Multiple Identities; Personal growth: eastern and western approaches; Illusion of control, locus of control, and locus of causality; Personal mission and career choices 

Academic Positions:

IIM Bangalore: 2010-present

Other Assignments:
Assistant Manager, Process Reengineering Group, Citibank N.A. (Global Corporate and Investment Bank)

Associate Consultant, Enterprise Solutions Group, Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Assistant Manager, Process Redesign Group, ICICI Bank

Awards:
Academy of Management Best Paper Award (2006) for the paper: The Key Role of Personal Values in Decoupling Task Conflict from Relationship Conflict. Peterson, R.S., Ranganathan, R., Chi, S.C., Tsai, H.H., Chen, S.C.

Key Working Papers:

Peterson, R.S., Ranganathan, R., Chi, S.C., Tsai, H.H., Chen, S.C. The Key Role of Personal Values in Decoupling Task Conflict from Relationship Conflict.

Ranganathan, R., Peterson, R.S. Meeting Competing Goals Simultaneously: Uncovering the Potential of Value Diversity in Groups.

Ranganathan, R. Value Behaviour Non Congruence: An analysis at the individual and group levels.

Ranganathan, R, Narayanan, J,, To Work or not to Work: An examination of people's choices to expend effort.

Ranganathan, R. Gender, Framing and post decision-making impact on attitudes.

Ranganathan, R. Attachment to Expected Outcome and the Illusion of Control.

Ranganathan, R. The Effect of Perspective Taking on Nested Multiple Identities of the Self.