Gurneeta Vasudeva is an assistant professor in the strategic management and organization department at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Her research interests include knowledge transfers in inter-organizational alliances and networks, innovation and technology management, and the role of national institutions in shaping firms’ inter-organizational strategies. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science and Research Policy. Gurneeta serves on the editorial review board of the Global Strategy Journal, and as an ad-hoc reviewer for a number of management journals. Gurneeta’s doctoral thesis received the best dissertation awards from the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business. She has received multiple research grants including one from the National Science Foundation to work as a visiting researcher at the International Institute of Applied Systems Anaylsis in Austria, and two Grant-in-Aid awards from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the academia Gurneeta worked as an international development specialist and energy policy analyst in Washington D.C., U.S.A. and New Delhi, India.
Gurneeta Vasudeva and Jaideep Anand. 2011. Unpacking Absorptive Capacity: A Study of Knowledge Utilization from Alliance Portfolios. Academy of Management Journal 54(3): 611-623.
Gurneeta Vasudeva. 2009. How National Institutions Influence Technology Policies and Firms Innovation Strategies: A Study of Fuel Cell Innovation in Industrialized Countries. Research Policy, 38(8):1248-1259.
Gurneeta Vasudeva, Jennifer Spencer and Hildy Teegen. 2013. Bringing the Institutional Context Back In: A Cross-National Comparison of Alliance Partner Selection and Knowledge Acquisition. Organization Science 24(2). (Featured paper in this issue).
Gurneeta Vasudeva, Akbar Zaheer and Exequiel Hernandez. 2012. The Embeddedness of Networks: Institutions, Structural Holes and Innovativeness in the Fuel Cell Industry. Organization Science. (Posted in Articles in Advance, July 2012).
Alex Sleptsov, Jaideep Anand and Gurneeta Vasudeva. Relational Configurations with Information Intermediaries: The Effect of Firm-Investment Bank Ties on Expected Acquisition Performance". Strategic Management Journal. Forthcoming.
Gurneeta Vasudeva. Weaving Together the Normative and Regulative Roles of Government: How the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund's 'Responsible' Conduct is Shaping Firms’ Cross-Border Investments. Organization Science. Forthcoming.
Gurneeta Vasudeva and Hildy Teegen. 2012. Why Do Private Firms Invest in Public Goods? In Cross-Sector Leadership for the Green Economy . Marcus et al. (Ed.). Palgrave.
Gurneeta Vasudeva and Petra Sonderegger. 2007. R&D Internationalization: Building organizational capabilities to balance exploration and exploitation. In A New Generation in International Strategic Management. Ed. Steven B. Tallman. Edward Elgar.
Gurneeta Vasudeva and Exequiel Hernandez. Capability Evolution and Governance in Alliance Portfolios: Evidence from the Emergent Fuel Cell Industry. Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management Conference, 2010. Montreal, Canada. (Business Policy and Strategy Division, Best Paper Proceedings).
Gurneeta Vasudeva and Jaideep Anand. Searching for the Sweet Spot: Portfolio Effects of Technological Diversity on Knowledge Acquisition. Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management Conference, 2008. Anaheim, California. (Business Policy and Strategy Division, Best Paper Proceedings).
2004 Young Scientists Fellowship from the U.S. National Science Foundation
2006 Richard N. Farmer Best Dissertation Award in International Business
(Awarded by the Academy of International Business)
2006 Barry M. Richman Best Dissertation Award in International Management
(Awarded by the Academy of Management)
2008-2009 Grants-In-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship from the Graduate School, University of Minnesota
Inter-Organizational Alliances, Knowledge-Building Strategies, Technological Innovation, Institutions, and Cross-National Comparisons
