Associate Professor | Dong Koo Kim Chancellor’s Chair in Social Entrepreneurship
Management of Organizations
About
Aruna Ranganathan holds the Dong Koo Kim Chancellor’s Chair in Social Entrepreneurship and is an Associate Professor at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Prof. Ranganathan is also affiliated with the Sociology department and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley. She was formerly an associate professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University. Ranganathan spent her childhood in the Middle East, India and Singapore before graduating with honors from University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business with a BCom in organizational behavior and human resources. She also received an MS in international and comparative labor from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and an MS/Phd in management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Work and Identity
- Work and Inequality
- Work and Technological Change
- Marching to Her Own Beat: Asynchronous Teamwork and Gender Differences in Performance on Creative Projects (opens in a new tab)
American Sociological Review, 2023 (with Aayan Das) - When the Tasks Line Up: How the Nature of Supplementary Tasks Affects Worker Productivity (opens in a new tab)
ILR Review, 2023 - Identification and Worker Responses to Workplace Change: Evidence from Four Cases in India (opens in a new tab)
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2021
- Work-Family Programs and Non-Work Networks:Within-Group Inequality, Network Activation, and Labor Market Attachment (opens in a new tab)
Organization Science, 2020 (with David Pedulla)
(Clayman Institute coverage) (opens in a new tab) - Getting their Hands Dirty: How Female Managers Motivate Female Worker Productivity through Subordinate Scut Work (opens in a new tab)
Management Science, 2020 (with Ranjitha Shivaram)
- A Numbers Game: Quantification of Work, Auto-Gamification and Worker Productivity (opens in a new tab)
American Sociological Review, 2020 (with Alan Benson)
(GSB Coverage (opens in a new tab)) - The Production of Merit: How Managers Understand and Apply Merit in the Workplace (opens in a new tab)
Organization Science, 2020 (with Emilio Castilla (opens in a new tab)) (Press coverage) (opens in a new tab) - Train Them to Retain Them: Work-Readiness and the Retention of First-Time Women Workers in India (opens in a new tab)
Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018
(Editor’s Summary (opens in a new tab), ASQ Blog Interview (opens in a new tab), Stanford GSB Insights (opens in a new tab), King Center coverage (opens in a new tab), Responsible Research in Management and Business Article (opens in a new tab)) - The Artisan and His Audience: Identification with Work and Price-Setting in a Handicraft Cluster in Southern India (opens in a new tab)
Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018
(Editor’s Summary (opens in a new tab), ASQ Blog Interview (opens in a new tab), Stanford GSB Insights (opens in a new tab), ASA Economic Sociology interview (opens in a new tab), ASA Work In Progress blog (opens in a new tab), VoxDev (opens in a new tab)) - Professionalization and Market Closure: The Case of Plumbing in India (opens in a new tab)
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013 - Globalization and Outsourcing: Confronting New Human Resource Challenges in India’s BPO Industry (opens in a new tab)
Industrial Relations Journal, 2010 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla (opens in a new tab)) - Economic Development Strategies and Macro and Micro Level Human Resource Policies: The Case of India’s Outsourcing Industry (opens in a new tab)
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla (opens in a new tab))
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Nagaraj, A. and A. Ranganathan. “Cutting Through the (Digital) Clutter: Technological Change and Careers of Men and Women in Cultural Markets.”
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Ranganathan, A. and A. Das. “Home Team Disadvantage: Nonstandard Work, Solidarity and Collective Mobilization.”
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Ranganathan, A. and R. Hinds. “Remote Control: How Organizations Decide Whether to Adopt Remote Work.”
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Ranganathan, A. and J. Hurwitz. “In a Class of Their Own: Using Cultural Capital to Win Jurisdiction.”
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Ranganathan, A. and J. Chatman. “Full-Cycle Research Methodology.”
At Haas since 2021
- 2023 – present, Dong Koo Kim Chancellor’s Chair in Social Entrepreneurship, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- 2021 – present, Associate Professor, Management of Organizations, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- 2019 – 2021, Associate Professor, Stanford University
- 2015 – 2019, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
- Fall 2020 – Visiting Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- Managing People in the Global Context, MBA Program