Anshuman Prasad


University of New Haven - Faculty Member
Anshuman Prasad
Title: Professor of Management and University Research Scholar
College: College of Business
Dept: Management
Phone:203.932.7124
Email: Aprasad@newhaven.edu

Office:

Maxcy 120a
300 Boston Post Rd.
West Haven Ct. 06516


Education

Ph.D. in Management: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

M.B.A.: Xavier Institute, Jamshedpur, India

B.A. (Honors): University of Delhi, India

Published Books and Articles

Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement. Editor. New York: Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martin's Press. (2003)

Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity. Co-editor (with P. Prasad, A. Mills, & M. B. Elmes). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (1997)

Review of Critical Management Studies: A Reader, by C. Grey & H. Willmott (Eds.). Academy of Management Review, Vol. 33(1): pp. 278-283. (2008)

Organizational Challenges at the Periphery: Career Issues for the Socially Marginalized (with P. Prasad & C. D'Abate). In H. Gunz & M. Peiperl (eds.), Handbook of Career Studies: pp. 169-187. Sage Publications (2007)

The Jewel in the Crown: Postcolonial Theory and Workplace Diversity. In A. Konrad et al. (eds.), Handbook of Workplace Diversity: pp. 121-144. Sage. (2006)

Globalization as Radical Economic Transformation: Critical Implications. Journal of International Business Research, Vol. 5(1): pp. 101-117. (2006)

The Contest over Meaning: Hermeneutics as an Interpretive Methodology for Understanding Texts. Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 5(1): pp. 12-33. (2002)

Digging Deep for Meaning: A Critical Hermeneutic Analysis of CEO Letters to Shareholders in the Oil Industry (with R. Mir). The Journal of Business Communication, Vol. 39(1): pp. 92-116. (2002)

The Coming of Age of Interpretive Organizational Research (with P. Prasad). Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 5: 4-11. (2002)

Understanding Workplace Empowerment as Inclusion: An Historical Investigation of the Discourse of Difference in the United States. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 37(1): pp. 51-69. (2001)

(Un)Willing to Resist? The Discursive Production of Local Workplace Opposition (with P. Prasad). Studies in Cultures, Organizations, and Societies, Vol. 7: 105-125. (2001)

Stretching the Iron Cage: The Constitution and Implications of Routine Workplace Resistance (with P. Prasad). Organization Science, Vol. 11(4): pp. 387-403. (2000)

Everyday Struggles at the Workplace: The Nature and Implications of Routine Resistance in Contemporary Organizations (with P. Prasad). Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 1998, Vol. 15: pp. 225-257. (1998)

Provincializing Europe: Towards a Postcolonial Reconstruction. Studies in Cultures, Organizations, and Societies, Vol. 3: pp. 91-117. (1997)

Ideology and Demystification (with J. M. Cavanaugh). Journal of Management Education, Vol. 21(3): pp. 309-324. (1997)

The Ideology of Professionalism and Work Computerization: An Institutionalist Study of Technological Change (with P. Prasad).  Human Relations, Vol. 47: 1433-1458. (1994)

Reconceptualizing Alienation in Management Inquiry: Critical Organizational Scholarship and Workplace Empowerment (with P. Prasad). Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 2(2): pp. 169-183. (1993)

 

Courses Taught

MG 669 Strategic Management (MBA)

MG 637 Management Process (MBA)

MG 550 Business Policy (Undergraduate)

Other

Dr. Anshuman Prasad is Professor of Management and University Research Scholar at the University of New Haven. Prior to coming to New Haven, he has taught in the Faculty of Management of the University of Calgary (Canada), and at the International MBA Program of the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland), one of Europe's leading MBA Programs. At the UNH College of Business he teaches courses in Strategic Management/Business Policy and Management Process.

Professor Prasad has produced over 100 scholarly works, including books, research articles, book chapters, conference papers and presentations, and other intellectual contributions. His research has been published in some of the leading academic journals of the field, including Academy of Management Review; Organization Science; Organizational Research Methods; Human Relations; Research in the Sociology of Organizations; Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies; Journal of Applied Behavioral Science; Journal of Business Communication; Journal of Management Education; and Journal of Management Inquiry. He is the editor of Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, 2003), a pioneering scholarly book that has received strong endorsements from some of the leading researchers of the discipline, and a co-editor of Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity (Sage Publications, 1997), an acclaimed book on workplace diversity and multiculturalism. His books have been positively reviewed by top-tier journals like the Academy of Management Review; Administrative Science Quarterly; and Organization Studies. He brings an interdisciplinary orientation in his research, which deals with such themes as globalization and its implications for business and management, strategic action and corporate legitimacy in the global petroleum industry, workplace diversity and multiculturalism, organizational culture and ideology, resistance and empowerment in organizations, and epistemological and pedagogical issues.

Dr. Prasad lends his expertise to a number of academic journals as editorial board member, special issue editor, and ad-hoc reviewer, and has acted as Program Committee Member/Track Chair at several important scholarly conferences in the United States and abroad. He served as Executive Committee Member (2002-2004) and Program Chair (2003-2004) for the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management, the world's largest scholarly association in the field of management. He has also served as Track Chair at conferences organized by the International Critical Management Studies (CMS) Group, EGOS (the European Group for Organizational Studies), and the Eastern Academy of Management. Professor Prasad has been invited to present his research at several major universities, including the University of Cambridge (U.K.), Rutgers University, and Lund University (Sweden). Before joining academe, he earned an MBA degree with concentration in finance, and worked as an executive in the commercial banking sector for nine years.

 

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