Subrata Chakrabarty

Dr. Subrata Chakrabarty
Assistant Professor (Research),
Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL), USA

BIO

Dr. Subrata Chakrabarty is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA.

He received his PhD degree in Strategic Management in August 2009 from Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, USA. His dissertation committee members were Dr. Asghar Zardkoohi (Chair), Dr. Michael A. Hitt, Dr. R. Duane Ireland, Dr. Ramona L. Paetzold, and Dr. Donald R. Fraser. He was a winner of the doctoral dissertation proposal award at the 2008 Strategic Management Society special conference, and was a runner-up at the spring 2009 dissertation proposal competition held by Duke University’s Center of Leadership and Ethics.

His overall research stream centers on stakeholder relationships — the relationships among organizational stakeholders (leaders and employees), product market stakeholders (customers, suppliers, & host communities), and capital market stakeholders (shareholders & creditors). He has published in Journal of International Management and Information & Management, among other journals. Further, several of his papers have been accepted in major conferences and as book chapters (he was a recipient of the best paper award at the 3rd China Goes Global conference at Harvard University in October 2009).

He has diverse work experiences in the automobile industry (at Toyota) and the software industry (at Infosys Technologies), during which he interacted with customers and suppliers from multiple countries. He was honored as the 1st ranked student in academic performance at his undergraduate college, and had excelled in academic performance during his graduate studies.

EDUCATION

PhD in Strategic Management, from Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, USA. (completed, Aug 2009)

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE (full time)

Infosys Technologies (client: British Telecom)
Toyota

KEY JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Zardkoohi, A., Bierman, L., Panina, D., & Chakrabarty, S. 2010. Revisiting a Proposed Definition of Professional Service Firms. Academy of Management Review.
Whitten, D., Chakrabarty, S., and Wakefield, R. 2010. The Strategic Choice to Continue Outsourcing, Switch Vendors, or Backsource: Do Swithcing Costs Matter? Information & Management, 47(3): 167-175
Chakrabarty, S. 2009. The Influence of National Culture and Institutional Voids on Family Ownership of Large Firms: A Country Level Empirical Study. Journal of International Management, 15(1): 32-45.

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