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Priyanka Dwivedi

Assistant Professor

Education

PhD
MBA
MA

Research Interest

Strategic Leadership, Women CEOs and leaders, CEO successions, Gender and diversity in the upper echelons

Courses Taught

MGMT 466 - Strategic Management (Undergraduate)
MGMT 680 - Strategic Management (Masters')

Biography

Priyanka Dwivedi is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Mays Business School. Her research focuses on strategic leadership 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 leaders. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Applied Psychology. 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 currently serves on the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal and reviews for several other top management journals, including the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, and the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Dwivedi teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Strategic Management. She received her Ph.D. in Management and Organization from the Pennsylvania State University. Before pursuing her doctorate, she earned 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 Leadership

Research Publications

Dwivedi, P., Paolella, L. & Nadkarni, S. Tick-off gender box: The effect of women’s representation in senior management. In press at Academy of Management Journal.

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.