Anand Swaminathan

Anand Swaminathan joined Goizueta Business School in the fall of 2007. Prior to joining Goizueta he taught organizational theory and strategy at the University of California at Davis and before that he taught corporate strategy at the University of Michigan Business School.

His research touches a wide range of organizational issues, including industry evolution, strategies for niche/specialist firms, and applications of social network theory. His current research explores the structure and history of the American brewing and wine industries, the structure of open source software development communities, as well as career mobility among winery managers and NFL coaching staff.

Areas Of Expertise

• Organizational theory and strategy
• Industry evolution
• Small-firm strategies
• Organizational change and its consequences
• Strategic choices as a diffusion process
• Interorganizational and social networks

Education

• University of California at Berkeley: Ph.D., Business Administration 1993
• Indian Institute of Management , Calcutta: Master''s PDGM, Marketing and Organizational Behavior 1984
• National Institute of Technology , Warangal, India: Bachelor''s BTech, Mechanical Engineering 1982

Publication

• Racial Disparity in Leadership: Performance-Reward Bias in Promotions of National Football League Coaches Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research 2016
• Why the Microbrewery Movement? Organizational Dynamics of Resource Partitioning in the U.S. Brewing Industry American Journal of Sociology 2000-11-01
• Cosmetic, Speculative, and Adaptive Organizational Change in the Wine Industry: A Longitudinal Study Sage Publications, Inc. 1991-12-01