Anand Swaminathan

Anand Swaminathan is an Indian-American researcher and academic. He is the Robert C. Goizueta Chair of Organization and Management and Associate Dean of the Ph.D. program at the Emory University Goizueta School of Business. Previously, he held academic appointments at the University of Michigan School of Business and the University of California, Davis.

Education and career
Dr. Swaminathan received his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering with the University Merit Scholarship for all years at the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, in 1982, P.G.D.M. (equivalent to an M.B.A.) in Marketing and Organizational Behavior with the Duncan Scholarship in 1984 at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley.

He was the Sanford R. Robertson Assistant Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Business School from 1993-1998, and the Professor of Management at the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management from 1998-2007. Anand Swaminathan was then appointed as the Goizueta Professor of Organization and Management in 2007.

He is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the Strategic Management Society, and the Academy of International Business.

Research
Dr. Swaminathan, regarded as an "organization studies scholar", is best known for his work on the effectiveness of the NFL's Rooney Rule, the microbrewery movement and the U.S. brewing industry, mining software repositories, and the American Wine industries. His research on the NFL, along with his coauthors Christopher Rider, James Wade, and Andreas Schwab, led to wide scale scrutiny of the football league's diversity policies.

Swaminathan's other research areas include organizational theory and strategy, people analytics, interorganizational and social networks, industry evolution, small firm strategies, and organizational change and its consequences.

Most cited works
Dr. Anand Swaminathan has 9,504 citations. His three most cited works (according to Google Scholar), in decreasing order of citations were:


 * 1) Why the microbrewery movement? Organizational dynamics of research partitioning in the U.S. brewing industries (with Glen R. Carroll, the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at Stanford University).
 * 2) Mining email social networks.
 * 3) Framing interorganizational network change: A network inertia perspective.

Awards
Anand has received recognition for his research on business management, organization, and teaching, including:


 * Contributions to DEI and Access Award (2022) and the Donald R. Keough Award for Excellence by Emory University (2023)
 * Distinguished Alumnus Award for Professional Excellance by the National Institute of Technology, Warangal
 * Best Paper at the Davis Conference for Qualitative Research
 * Best Business Policy and Strategy Paper Award by the Academy of Management
 * Best International Business Paper Award by the Academy of Management