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59
Citations
63846
World Ranking
563
National Ranking
247

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Ranjay Gulati is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily resides within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focused contribution spanning related subfields including Accounting, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

The scientist's work addresses diverse topics appearing in multiple publications. These main topics of research include:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
  • Ethics in Business and Education

Among frequent venues for publication, Ranjay Gulati's work appears notably in:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Organization Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Academy of Management Annals
  • Strategy Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating on research projects include Marlo Raveendran, Luciana Silvestri, Alicia DeSantola, Pavel Ivanov Zhelyazkov, and Franz Wohlgezogen.

Recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of Gulati's research. Key examples include:

  • "The Role of Interdependence in the Micro-Foundations of Organization Design: Task, Goal, and Knowledge Interdependence" (2020, Academy of Management Annals)
  • "External Interfaces or Internal Processes? Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures" (2022, Organization Science)
  • "Can Purpose Foster Stakeholder Trust in Corporations?" (2023, Strategy Science)
  • "Interfirm Ties Between Ventures and Limited Partners of Venture Capital Funds: Performance Effects in Financial Markets" (2020, Organization Science)
  • "Deep purpose: why pursue it, and how to implement it" (2022, The "business & management collection")

Ranjay Gulati has been recognized as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, reflecting their professional standing within the strategic management community.

Best Publications

  • Alliances and networks

    Ranjay Gulati

  • Does Familiarity Breed Trust? The Implications of Repeated Ties for Contractual Choice in Alliances

    Ranjay Gulati

  • Social Structure and Alliance Formation Patterns: A Longitudinal Analysis

    Ranjay Gulati

  • Network location and learning: the influence of network resources and firm capabilities on alliance formation

    Ranjay Gulati

  • Where Do Interorganizational Networks Come From

    Ranjay Gulati;Martin Gargiulo

  • The Architecture of Cooperation: Managing Coordination Costs and Appropriation Concerns in Strategic Alliances

    Ranjay Gulati;Harbir Singh

  • The dynamics of learning alliances: competition, cooperation, and relative scope

    Tarun Khanna;Ranjay Gulati;Nitin Nohria

  • Is Slack Good or Bad for Innovation

    Nitin Nohria;Ranjay Gulati

  • Strategic networks

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  • Customization or Conformity? An Institutional and Network Perspective on the Content and Consequences of TQM Adoption

    James D. Westphal;Ranjay Gulati;Stephen M. Shortell

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

    Ranjay Gulati;Nitin Nohria;Akbar Zaheer

  • Is Slack Good or Bad for Innovation ?

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  • Which ties matter when? the contingent effects of interorganizational partnerships on IPO success

    Ranjay Gulati;Monica C. Higgins

  • Dependence Asymmetry and Joint Dependence in Interorganizational Relationships: Effects of Embeddedness on a Manufacturer's Performance in Procurement Relationships

    Ranjay Gulati;Maxim Sytch

  • Meta‐organization design: Rethinking design in interorganizational and community contexts

    Ranjay Gulati;Phanish Puranam;Michael L Tushman

  • Get the right mix of bricks & clicks.

    R Gulati;J Garino

  • Adaptation in vertical relationships: beyond incentive conflict

    Ranjay Gulati;Paul R. Lawrence;Phanish Puranam

  • Interorganizational Trust, Governance Choice, and Exchange Performance

    Ranjay Gulati;Jackson Nickerson

  • Managing Network Resources: Alliances, Affiliations, and Other Relational Assets

    Ranjay Gulati

  • Cooperative or Controlling? The Effects of CEO-Board Relations and the Content of Interlocks on the Formation of Joint Ventures

    Ranjay Gulati;James D. Westphal

  • The Two Facets of Collaboration: Cooperation and Coordination in Strategic Alliances

    Ranjay Gulati;Franz Wohlgezogen;Pavel Ivanov Zhelyazkov

  • The Nature of Partnering Experience and the Gains from Alliances

    Ranjay Gulati;Dovev Lavie;Harbir Singh

  • Stacking the deck: the effects of top management backgrounds on investor decisions

    Monica C. Higgins;Ranjay Gulati

Frequent Co-Authors

Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria Harvard University
Michael L. Tushman
Michael L. Tushman Harvard University
Tarun Khanna
Tarun Khanna Harvard University
Martin Kilduff
Martin Kilduff University College London
Harbir Singh
Harbir Singh University of Pennsylvania
James D. Westphal
James D. Westphal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeffrey J. Reuer
Jeffrey J. Reuer Purdue University West Lafayette
Stephen M. Shortell
Stephen M. Shortell University of California, Berkeley

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