Ajnesh Prasad

Dr. Prasad’s research encompasses the areas of entrepreneurship, gender and diversity in organizations and interpretive methods, topics which he addresses from diverse theoretical-critical perspectives. His publications have taken poststructural, postmodern, feminist, postcolonial, neomarxist and psychoanalytical approaches. He is currently co-Chair of the Critical Management Studies division at the Academy of Management.

He has published over 50 articles and chapters, which include at least 20 contributions to scientific journals such as Q1, including Academy of Management Learning and Education, Advances in Consumer Research, Business & Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Gender, Work and Organization, Human Relations, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, as well as the Journal of Business Ethics and Critical Perspectives on International Business, for which he has also co-edited special issues. He is also a member of the editorial committees of Human Relations and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research. His first book was published by Emerald.

To date, Dr. Prasad has been the beneficiary of $15,000,000 USD in research funding, including grants and awards from national financial institutions, such as the British Academy (United Kingdom), The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) and Conacyt (Mexico). At the age of 31, he was admitted as the youngest member of the SNI Conacyt program level II.

Dr. Prasad wrote much of his doctoral thesis as a graduate researcher at Yale University. His doctoral research was funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and several other awards. He has taught courses in MBA and doctoral programs, and has supervised research students at master and doctorate level. Before arriving at the EGADE Business School, Dr. Prasad was head teacher at the UNSW Business School (incorporated to the AGSM). He has also held research positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Rutgers University.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Administration, with a concentration in Organizational Studies
  • Schulich School of Business, York University
• M.A. in Political Studies
  • Queen’s University, Kingston

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Segarra, P., Prasad, A. (2019) "Colonization, migration, and right-wing extremism: The constitution of embodied life of a dispossessed undocumented immigrant woman". Organization, Published online
• Thexton, T., Prasad, A., Mills, A.J. (2019) "Learning empathy through literature". Culture and Organization, 25 (2)
• Alvi, F.; Prasad, A.; Segarra, P. (2019) "The Political Embeddedness of Entrepreneurship in Extreme Contexts: The Case of the West Bank". Journal of Business Ethics, 157 (1) 279–292
• Rauf, A.; Prasad, A.; Ahmed, A. (2019) "How does religion discipline the consumer subject? Negotiating the paradoxical tension between consumer desire and the social order". Journal of Marketing Management, 35
• Prasad, A. (2019) "BOOK REVIEW Women soldiers and citizenship in Israel: Gendered encounters with the state". Gender and Society, 33 (2)
• Prasad, A. (2018) "When is economic inequality justified?". Business Horizons, 61 (6) 855-862
• Li, E.; Prasad, A. (2018) "From Wall 1.0 to Wall 2.0: Graffiti, Social Media, and Ideological Acts of Resistance and Recognition Among Palestinian Refugees". American Behavioral Scientist, 62 (4) 493-511
• Prasad, A., Segarra, P., & Villanueva, C. E. (2018) "Academic life under institutional pressures for AACSB accreditation: Insights from faculty members in Mexican business schools". Studies in Higher Education, 44 (9) 1-14
• Rauf, A. A. & Prasad, A (2018) "Temporal spaces of egalitarianism: The negation of economic inequality in ephemeral religious organization. ". Journal of Business Ethics, Published online
• Dulini F.; Ajnesh P. (2018) "Sex-based harassment and organizational silencing: How women are led to reluctant acquiescence in academia". Human relations, 72 (10) 1565-1594
• Prasad, A. (2019) Autoethnography and Organization Research Reflections from Fieldwork in Palestine. Palgrave.
• Prasad, A., Segarra, P. & Villanueva, C. E. (2019) Situating knowledges through feminist objectivity in organization studies: Donna Haraway and the partial perspective. In R. McMurray & A. Pullen (Eds.), Routledge focus on women writers in organization studies: Rethinking culture, organization and management. New York: Routledge.
• Khoury, T. A., & Prasad, A. (2016). Entrepreneurship amid concurrent institutional constraints in less developed countries. Business and Society, 55(7), 934-969.
• Fotaki, M., & Prasad, A. (2015). Questioning neoliberal capitalism and economic inequality in business schools. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 14(4), 556-575.
• Prasad, A. (2014). You can’t go home again: And other psychoanalytic lessons from crossing a neo-colonial border. Human Relations, 67(2), 233-257.
• Prasad, A. (2013). Playing the game and trying not to lose myself: A doctoral student’s perspective on the institutional pressures for research output. Organization, 20(6), 936-948.
• Prasad, A. (2012). Beyond analytical dichotomies. Human Relations, 65(5), 567-595.