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D-Index
48
Citations
33395
World Ranking
1069
National Ranking
465

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society

Overview

Akbar Zaheer is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Social Sciences. Within these broad fields, their work concentrates on subfields such as Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Safety Research.

The main topics covered in their research include Innovation and Knowledge Management, Social Capital and Networks, Firm Innovation and Growth, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, International Business and FDI, Knowledge Management and Sharing, and Business Strategy and Innovation.

Zaheer's recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Making connections: Social networks in international business, 2020, Journal of International Business Studies
  • How much does the firm's alliance network matter?, 2022, Strategic Management Journal
  • Network Stability: The Role of Geography and Brokerage Structure Inequity, 2021, Academy of Management Journal
  • The Paradox of Spatial and Relational Embeddedness: Tie Reinitiation after a Trust Violation, 2024, Academy of Management Journal
  • Structure in context: A morphological view of whole network performance, 2022, Social Networks

Frequent co-authors with whom Zaheer has collaborated multiple times include:

  • Pankaj Kumar
  • Xiaojin Liu
  • Bill McEvily
  • Giuseppe Soda
  • Ilya Cuypers

Zaheer has published frequently in several academic venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Academy of Management Journal
  • Journal of International Business Studies
  • Strategic Management Journal
  • Social Networks

Among recognitions received, Zaheer is noted as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society. This designation reflects their engagement with the strategic management community, although the specific year of the award is not documented.

Best Publications

  • Does Trust Matter? Exploring the Effectsof Interorganizational and Interpersonaltrust on Performance

    Akbar Zaheer;Bill McEvily;Vincenzo Perrone

  • Bridging ties: a source of firm heterogeneity in competitive capabilities

    Bill McEvily;Akbar Zaheer

  • Trust as an Organizing Principle

    Bill McEvily;Vincenzo Perrone;Akbar Zaheer

  • Strategic networks

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  • Relational governance as an interorganizational strategy: An empirical test of the role of trust in economic exchange

    Akbar Zaheer;N. Venkatraman

  • Benefiting from network position: firm capabilities, structural holes, and performance

    Akbar Zaheer;Geoffrey G. Bell

  • Guest editors’ introduction to the special issue: strategic networks

    Ranjay Gulati;Nitin Nohria;Akbar Zaheer

  • Introduction to the Special Issue: The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks

    Gautam Ahuja;Giuseppe Soda;Akbar Zaheer

  • Uncertainty in the transaction environment: An empirical test

    Kathleen M. Sutcliffe;Akbar Zaheer

  • Free to Be Trusted? Organizational Constraints on Trust in Boundary Spanners

    Vincenzo Perrone;Akbar Zaheer;Bill McEvily

  • Network Memory: The Influence of Past and Current Networks on Performance

    Giuseppe Soda;Alessandro Usai;Akbar Zaheer

  • Time Scales and Organizational Theory

    Srilata Zaheer;Stuart Albert;Akbar Zaheer

  • Geography, Networks, and Knowledge Flow

    Geoffrey G. Bell;Akbar Zaheer

  • Network Evolution: The Origins of Structural Holes.

    Akbar Zaheer;Giuseppe Soda

  • Determinants of Electronic Integration in the Insurance Industry: An Empirical Test

    Akbar Zaheer;N. Venkatraman

  • It's the Connections: The Network Perspective in Interorganizational Research

    Akbar Zaheer;Remzi Gözübüyük;Hana Milanov

  • Handbook Of trust research

    Reinhard Bachmann;Akbar Zaheer

  • Reparing Relationships Within and Between Organizations: Building A Conceptual Foundation

    Kurt T. Dirks;Roy J. Lewicki;Akbar Zaheer

  • Trust across borders

    Srilata Zaheer;Akbar Zaheer

  • Catching the wave: alertness, responsiveness, and market influence in global electronic networks

    Akbar Zaheer;Srilata Zaheer

  • Electronic Integration and Strategic Advantage: A Quasi-Experimental Study in the Insurance Industry

    N. Venkatraman;Akbar Zaheer

Frequent Co-Authors

N. Venkatraman
N. Venkatraman Boston University
Harry J. Sapienza
Harry J. Sapienza University of Minnesota
Ranjay Gulati
Ranjay Gulati Harvard University
Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria Harvard University
Todd Zenger
Todd Zenger University of Utah
Roy J. Lewicki
Roy J. Lewicki The Ohio State University
John Cantwell
John Cantwell Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Martin Kilduff
Martin Kilduff University College London
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe Johns Hopkins University
Dirk De Clercq
Dirk De Clercq Brock University

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