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
American Sociological Review, 2023 (with Aayan Das) - When the Tasks Line Up: How the Nature of Supplementary Tasks Affects Worker Productivity
ILR Review, 2023 - Identification and Worker Responses to Workplace Change: Evidence from Four Cases in India
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2021
- Work-Family Programs and Non-Work Networks:Within-Group Inequality, Network Activation, and Labor Market Attachment
Organization Science, 2020 (with David Pedulla)
(Clayman Institute coverage) - Getting their Hands Dirty: How Female Managers Motivate Female Worker Productivity through Subordinate Scut Work
Management Science, 2020 (with Ranjitha Shivaram)
- A Numbers Game: Quantification of Work, Auto-Gamification and Worker Productivity
American Sociological Review, 2020 (with Alan Benson)
(GSB Coverage) - The Production of Merit: How Managers Understand and Apply Merit in the Workplace
Organization Science, 2020 (with Emilio Castilla) (Press coverage) - Train Them to Retain Them: Work-Readiness and the Retention of First-Time Women Workers in India
Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018
(Editor’s Summary, ASQ Blog Interview, Stanford GSB Insights, King Center coverage, Responsible Research in Management and Business Article) - The Artisan and His Audience: Identification with Work and Price-Setting in a Handicraft Cluster in Southern India
Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018
(Editor’s Summary, ASQ Blog Interview, Stanford GSB Insights, ASA Economic Sociology interview, ASA Work In Progress blog, VoxDev) - Professionalization and Market Closure: The Case of Plumbing in India
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013 - Globalization and Outsourcing: Confronting New Human Resource Challenges in India’s BPO Industry
Industrial Relations Journal, 2010 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla) - Economic Development Strategies and Macro and Micro Level Human Resource Policies: The Case of India’s Outsourcing Industry
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla)
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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
- Research: Asynchronous work can fuel creativity, Harvard Business Review, 05/05/2023
- The road to meritocracy at work, IEDP Editorial, 08/19/2022
- Managing People in the Global Context, MBA Program