Research
The evidence behind the advice.
Ten peer-reviewed papers, thirteen conference papers and a teaching case other business schools use. On AI at work, on fairness, on sustainability, and on how leaders actually decide. This is the working file underneath every programme, every engagement and every keynote.
Cited, reviewed, ranked
Work that other researchers build on.
148+
Citations to date
Across journals, conferences and teaching cases
5/10
Papers in ABDC-A journals
The top tier of business-school research
10×
Papers at the Academy of Management
The field’s flagship conference
2023
Best Paper and Best Reviewer
Academy of Management, HR Division, Boston
h-index 5 · i10-index 3 · 22 indexed outputs · Source: Google Scholar, July 2026. Citation counts move; the figures above are as at that date.
What I study
Seven questions organizations keep running into.
Each of these began as a problem inside a real organization and ended as published research. The papers are listed further down the page.
AI and the future of work
“What is AI actually doing to trust inside our company?”
Where AI-enabled systems help, where they quietly erode privacy and trust, and how to introduce them without losing the workforce on the way.
Evidence-based people decisions
“Which of our people practices actually move the numbers?”
Separating the HR practices with a measurable link to firm performance from the ones that survive on habit.
Sustainability and green HRM
“We’ve committed to sustainability. How do we get the workforce to deliver it?”
The most-cited work here: how culture and people systems either carry a sustainability commitment or quietly bury it.
Fairness, well-being and culture
“What is an unfair culture costing us in output?”
How perceived unfairness turns into loneliness, knowledge hiding and disengagement, and what that does to discretionary effort.
Talent, careers and global mobility
“Why do our senior hires and overseas postings keep failing?”
What determines whether a senior person lands, adjusts and performs, and the barriers that quietly hold back women’s careers in India.
Leadership and judgment
“How do our leaders’ blind spots show up in results?”
Executive overconfidence, overqualification and abusive supervision: how leaders’ own cognition ends up in the P&L.
Growth-stage organizations
“How do we build people systems without becoming bureaucratic?”
Autonomy, trust and agility in new ventures, and what happens to innovation under informal competition.
Peer-reviewed
Ten papers. Five in top-tier journals.
ABDC is the Australian Business Deans Council ranking; the A band is the top tier below A*. Citation counts are from Google Scholar. Every entry links to the paper itself.
01
Green human resource management and green culture: An integrative sustainable competing values framework and future research directions
Organization & Environment, 37(1), 32–56 · 2024
02
Understanding the role of meaningfulness of work: A moderated-mediation model of bullying during work from home
Personnel Review, 53(7), 1710–1728 · 2024
03
Watch out, you are live! Toward understanding the impact of AI on the privacy of employees
Communications of the AIS, 55, 603–626 · 2024
04
The digital escape: Examining the impact of cyberloafing on gossip-induced emotional exhaustion and the mediating role of self-esteem
Evidence-based HRM, 14(1), 120–137 · 2026
05
Sailing through the international assignment: Exploring the role of perceived credibility in expatriate adjustment and socialization in the host country
Journal of Global Mobility, 12(3), 502–519 · 2024
06
The hidden toll of unfair workplaces: Examining the mediating role of workplace loneliness
International Journal of Conflict Management, 37(3), 629–646 · 2026
07
Governance beyond borders: Exploring executive overconfidence and firm performance using meta-analysis
Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, 32(2), 414–435 · 2025
08
How does informal competition shape innovation? Exploring the roles of labour flexibility and special economic zones in emerging economies
IIMB Management Review, 38(1), art. 100638 · 2026
09
Invisible norms, visible challenges: Unravelling multi-level barriers to career engagement of women in India
Asia Pacific Journal of Management · 2026 · Online first
10
Agility in new ventures: Examining the role of autonomy and trust using a job demands-resources lens
Evidence-based HRM · 2026 · Online first
Taught elsewhere
A case other business schools teach from.
Research that stays in journals changes nothing. This one is a published teaching case, the kind of document an MBA cohort is handed on a Monday morning and argued over by Wednesday.
AMRG & Associates is a family-run firm that had outgrown its own informal habits. GST arrived in 2016 and the improvised processes stopped holding. What follows is the part most transformation stories skip: the actual mechanics (formal job descriptions, performance-linked incentives, a legal compliance unit) and what it cost the leadership to push them through.
It is the same problem most growing organizations bring to him.
AMRG & Associates: Crafting Professionalization Through HR Transformation
Journal of Organizational Behavior Education, 17, 31–40 · 2024
NeilsonJournals Publishing
Keywords: professionalization · HR transformation · change management · family-managed business · leadership
Presented
Thirteen papers. Ten at the Academy of Management.
The Academy of Management is the field’s flagship meeting. Work is argued in front of the people best placed to take it apart, which is the point.
2026
6th HRIC · IIM Bangalore
Beyond intuition: Rethinking HRM in entrepreneurial ventures through tech integration (with Pawan Budhwar)
2025
AOM · Copenhagen
The lonely road of injustice: How perceived unfairness influences knowledge hiding and well-being
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025(1), 17250 · 1 citation
2024
AOM · Chicago
Navigating informal rivalry: Strategic innovation time allocation amidst labor flexibility and SEZs
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1), 14899
AOM · Chicago
Decoding the impact of artificial intelligence on employee privacy: A systematic literature review
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1), 15486
2023
AOM · Boston
Employee agility in new ventures: Examining the role of trust in founder in cross-cultural context
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023(1), 17020
AOM · Boston
When creativity suffers due to abusive supervision: Moderated-mediation on workplace loneliness
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023(1), 17425 · 1 citation
EURAM · Dublin
Artificial intelligence and employee privacy in the workplace: An ethical perspective
2022
AOM · Seattle
Discursive paradoxical tension: Understanding and managing competing discursive logics
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1), 12015
AOM · Seattle
AI, privacy breaches and ethical transgressions: An integrative theoretical framework
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1), 12024 · 3 citations
AOM · Seattle
Daily effects of perceived leader’s overqualification on subordinates’ work behaviors
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1), 12744
EGOS Colloquium
Discursive tensions: Managing paradoxical communication to augment organizational sustainability
2021
AOM · Virtual
Green HRM system and green culture: A conceptual model towards green competing values framework
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), 11560 · 4 citations
AOM · Virtual
The dark knight rises, but where? A meta-analysis of executive personality and firm performance
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), 13179 · 1 citation
Standing in the field
Trusted to judge other people’s work.
Peer review is unpaid and invisible. Being asked to do it by nine journals, including an FT-50 title, is the field’s own verdict.
Best Paper Award · Academy of Management, HR Division · Boston 2023
Best Reviewer Award · Academy of Management, HR Division · Boston 2023
Early Career Review Board · Employee Relations: The International Journal [ABDC A]
Editorial Board · International Journal of Organizational Analysis [ABDC B]
Peer reviewer · Human Resource Management [FT-50] and 8 further journals
Member · Academy of Management · Indian Academy of Management
SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP), 2024
Research network
Ashneet Kaur · Indian School of Business
Arup Varma · Loyola University Chicago
Douglas W. S. Renwick · Nottingham Business School
Pawan Budhwar · Aston Business School
Promila Agarwal and Amit Karna · IIM Ahmedabad
Amol S. Dhaigude · SPJIMR Mumbai
Indranil Bose · NEOMA Business School
Where it lands
Research that leaves the journal.
None of this is worth much if it stays in a PDF. It reaches organizations as keynotes, masterclasses and programme content.
How AI Can Impact the Future of Talent Acquisition?
Delivered at the Radisson Noida on 21 March 2025, at an international conference on Future-Ready HR: Leveraging AI, Blockchain & Digital Transformation.
Findings that enter the classroom.
The fairness, well-being and AI work goes straight into leadership and management development cohorts.
Questions examined properly.
Co-authored studies with organizations willing to examine a real business question instead of guessing at it.
Verify independently
Every claim on this page is checkable.
Work together
Bring the evidence in-house.
A research collaboration, a diagnostic on a question your organization keeps hitting, or a programme built on findings rather than opinion.