Education
PhDMBA
MA
Research Interest
Strategic Leadership, Women CEOs and leaders, CEO successions, Gender and diversity in the upper echelonsCourses Taught
MGMT 466 - Strategic Management (Undergraduate)MGMT 680 - Strategic Management (Masters')
Biography
Dr. Priyanka Dwivedi earned her Ph.D. in Management and Organization from Pennsylvania State University in 2017 and joined the Department of Management at Texas A&M University as an assistant professor the same year. Dr. Dwivedi teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Strategic Management. Her research focuses on strategic leadership, TMT, and corporate governance issues in organizations. She is especially interested in examining the social, psychological, and organizational factors that contribute to the behavior and outcomes of strategic leaders, with a special focus on women executives and leaders. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Management, and Research Policy. Her research received the Strategic Management Society’s 2021 Sucheta Nadkarni Award for Outstanding Publication on Women Executive Leadership. She has also won the Best Conference Paper Award at the Strategic Management Society Conference (India, 2018) and a nomination for the Best Conference Paper Award at the Strategic Management Society Conference (Paris, 2018). She serves on the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Management and reviews extensively for other prestigious journals. She also holds an MBA from the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University and a Master’s in Psychology from the University of Delhi, India.
Awards and Honors
Received the Strategic Management Society’s 2021 Sucheta Nadkarni Award for Outstanding Publication on Women Executive LeadershipResearch Publications
Dwivedi, P., Basuthakur, Y.*, Polineni, S.*, Paruchuri, S., & Joshi, A. A Stakeholder Perspective on Diversity Within Organizations. Journal of Management (Review issue). Forthcoming.
Howard, M., Dwivedi, P., D’Oria, L., Lyles, M., & Nahm, P*. How Media Portrayal of CEO Overconfidence Impacts Radical Innovation. Research Policy (Special Issue on Strategic Leadership and New Pathways for Radical Innovation). 2024.
Dwivedi, P. & Paolella, L. (with Sucheta Nadkarni). Tick-off gender box: The effect of women’s representation in senior management. Academy of Management Journal. 2023.
Dwivedi, P, Gee, I.H.*, Withers, M. & Boivie, S. No Reason to Leave: The Effects of CEO Diversity-valuing Behavior on Psychological Safety and Turnover for Female Executives. Journal of Applied Psychology. 2022.
Dwivedi, P., Misangyi, V. & Joshi, A. Burnt by the Spotlight: Examining How Leadership Endorsements in The Succession Announcement Impacts Women CEOs’ Tenure. Journal of Applied Psychology. 2021.
Dwivedi, P., Joshi, A., & Misangyi, V. Gender-Inclusive Gatekeeping: How (Mostly Male) Predecessors Influence the Success of Female CEOs. Academy of Management Journal. 2018.
* student authors at the time of publication