Research
Interest
Guided by the premise that a company’s strategy is a human construction and organizations become reflections of their top managers, I have studied how top executives have an impact on firm-level strategy and performance. My current research explores the following questions:
How can small organizations address grand challenges?
How do challengers and incumbents use disruptive tactics in strategic action fields?
How inequality within and outside firms is addressed through institutional mechanisms and social movements?
Do attributes of political leaders explain the divergent social and economic indicators in their constituencies?
Publications in Journals
Chatterjee, A., Ghosh, A. & Leca, B. 2023. Double Weaving: A Bottom-up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges. Academy of Management Journal. 66 (3): 797-828
Chatterjee, A. & T. G. Pollock. 2017. Master of Puppets: How Narcissistic CEOs Construct Their Professional Worlds. Academy of Management Review, 42(4): 703-725.
Chatterjee, A. & D. C. Hambrick. 2011. CEO Personality, Capability Cues, and Risk-taking: How Narcissists React to Their Successes and Stumbles. Administrative Science Quarterly, 56(2): 202-237.
Chatterjee, A. & D. C. Hambrick. 2007. It’s all about me: Narcissistic Chief Executive Officers and their effects on company strategy and performance. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52: 351-386
Book
Bouthinon-Dumas, H., Chatterjee, A. and Leca, B. [Eds] (2024). Navigating the Ecological Transition: A Business School Perspective. 1st ed. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge
Conference presentations (Refereed)
Chatterjee, A., Ghosh, A. & Hein, P. (2024). Extremity-Normalcy Oscillations in Navigating Climate Hazards: The Vanishing Island of Ghoramara. In: Strategic Management Society Annual Conference.
Chatterjee, A., Ghosh, A. & Hein, P. (2024). Oscillating Between Alternate Realities: The Vanishing Island of Ghoramara. In: Academy of Management. Chicago.
Chatterjee, A., Ghosh, A. & Hein, P. (2024). Reimagining Spaces: Navigating Natural Disasters at Ghoramara Island, India. In: 40th EGOS Colloquium at University of Milano-Bicocca.
Chatterjee, A., Dutta, S. (2020). Inversion as a Form of Collective Action: Boss-Napping and its Diffusion. Paper selected for presentation at the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Refereed Roundtable at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. (Conference was canceled).
Chatterjee, A. & Vashevko, A. (2019). Regional Variation: Do Leaders Matter? Presented in a joint Strategy/OMT/SIM Showcase Symposium entitled “Political Ideology and Organizations around the World” at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston
Chatterjee, A., Dutta, S. & Rao, H. (2018). Putting Strategy into Strategic Action Fields: Political Parties and the Use of Gherao in Bengal. Paper presented at the meetings of the Strategic Management Society, Paris
Chatterjee, A., Dutta, S. & Rao, H. (2018). Fields of Contention: Challengers, Incumbents, and the Use of Boss-napping in Bengal. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois.
Chatterjee, A., Dutta, S. & Rao, H. (2018). Putting Strategy into Strategic Action Fields: Political Parties and the Use of Gherao in Bengal. Paper presented at the Annual Strategy and the Business Environment Conference, Wharton School & Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania.
Chatterjee, A. & Ghosh, A. (2017). Scaling up Good Ideas: Institutional Work from the Margins. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Georgia.
Chatterjee, A. & Ghosh, A. (2017). Creative Disruption: How the Child In Need Institute Created and Disseminated New Practices. Paper presented at the meetings of the Strategic Management Society, Houston
Chatterjee, A. (2014). The Pursuit of Social Esteem: How Narcissistic Executives Create Their Context. Paper presented at the meetings of the Strategic Management Society, Madrid.
Chatterjee, A. (2014). The Pursuit of Social Esteem: How Narcissistic Executives Create Their Context. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Chatterjee, A. (2012). Paths to Social Change: Mobilization, Institution Building, and Entrepreneurship in Colonial India. Paper presented at the EGOS Colloquium in Helsinki, Finland.
Chatterjee, A. (2012). Paths to Social Change: Mobilization, Institution Building, and Entrepreneurship in Colonial India. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts.
Chatterjee, A. & Hambrick, D.C. (2010). CEO Personality, Capability Cues, and Risk-taking: How Narcissists React to Their Successes and Stumbles. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada.
Chatterjee, A. (2010). Entrepreneurship as Protest: The Case of Bengal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Works in Colonial India. Paper presented at the meetings of the Strategic Management Society, Rome.
Chatterjee, A. (2009). The Effects of Narcissism on CEOs’ Glory-Hoarding and Blame-Deflecting Behavior. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, California.
Chatterjee, A. (2008). Narcissism in CEOs: The Psychology of Positive Self-Regard and Implications for Executive Behavior. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, California.
Chatterjee, A. (2007). Emotions and Economics. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Chatterjee, A. & Hambrick, D.C. (2007). Measuring Narcissism in CEOs: Validation of an Unobtrusive Index of Executive Personality. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Chatterjee, A. & Hambrick, D.C. (2006). The Narcissistic CEO: An Exploratory Study of Indicators and Strategic Consequences. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Georgia.
Chatterjee, A. (2005). Flow in Teams. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Chatterjee, A. (2005). The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Conferences (Invited)
Chatterjee, A. (2023). Mitigating Grand Challenges: Exploring the Role of Inter-organizational Relations Across Scales. In: Center for Sustainable Business. Pittsburgh.
Chatterjee, A. (2021). Firm Leadership and Power Presented in a Professional Development Workshop titled “Bridging Leadership Research on Boards of Directors and Top Management Teams” at the 81st Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Chatterjee, A. (2018). Asking Questions, Providing Answers: Epistemology and Methodology in the Social Sciences. Keynote at the CERE Conference, Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Chatterjee, A. (2014). Inferring agency when words are not available. Presented in a joint AAT/ MOC/BPS Showcase Symposium titled “The Reflective Power of Words—Capturing Upper Echelons’ Cognition through Their Verbal Communication” at the 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
2014. Chair of Session on “Understanding Actors and Institutions: New Directions in Research on Institutional Work” at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
2014. Panelist in a session on “Strategic Leadership and Governance” at the meetings of the Strategic Management Society, Madrid
Chatterjee, A., König, A., Hiller, N. & Nadkarni, S. (2014). The Influence of Hambrick and Mason on Theory and Research on CEO Personality, Motivation, and Cognition. Presented in a Conference titled “A Celebration of Hambrick and Mason: Thirty Years of Upper Echelons Research” at Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Chatterjee, A. (2014). Panelist in a session titled “Gender Diversity in the Workplace: A Bottom-Up Approach” in a meeting organized by the Singapore Committee for UN Women
Chatterjee, A. (2010). Entrepreneurship as Protest: Evidences from Colonial India. Paper presented at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Chatterjee, A. (2009). Unobtrusive Measures in Social Science Research. Presented in a joint RM / BPS / MOC / OB Professional Development Workshop titled “Content Analysis in Organizational Research: Techniques and Applications” at the 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago
Chatterjee, A. & Hambrick, D.C. (2008). Where does CEO Hubris come from? The Interacting Effects of Narcissism and Confidence-Influencing Cues. Presented in a joint BPS, OB, and OMT Division Symposium titled “Opening the Black Box: Burgeoning Research on Social, Political, and Psychological Processes inside Boards and TMTs” at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, California.
Talks (Invited)
Singapore Global Network, Singapore Economic Development Board
European Chamber of Commerce, Singapore
French Chamber of Commerce, Singapore
Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad
Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur
Indian Institute of Management at Calcutta
T. A. Pai Management Institute at Manipal
Harvard Business School at Boston
National University of Singapore
Singapore Management University
Arizona State University at Tempe
Grants Received
Soutien à l'excellence Scientifique et à la Formation Doctorale from Initiative d'excellence Paris-Seine for project on Regional Variation: Do Leaders Matter?
Professional Activities
Reviewer
Academy of Management Journal
Academy of Management Review
Administrative Science Quarterly
Organization Science
Management Science
Strategic Management Journal
Journal of Management Studies
Academy of Management’s BPS and OMT divisions
Strategic Management Society Conference
Association Membership
Academy of Management
Strategic Management Society