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Abhijeet K. VADERA is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU). He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and was previously affiliated with the Indian School of Business for five years where he taught courses on Negotiation Analysis and Responsible Leadership as well as several executive education programs.

Abhijeet’ s research focuses on constructive (creativity, innovation, etc.) and destructive (ethics, white-collar crime, etc.) deviance in the workplace. Specifically, he is interested in understanding why, how, and under what conditions, do people not follow the rules and norms of the organization to which they belong. He has published in leading periodicals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management and Harvard Business Review.

At SMU, he teaches Ethics and Corporate Responsibility to undergraduate students and Negotiations to students in the MBA, MHCL, and MiM programmes. He has received the MBA Most Outstanding Professor award in year 2018 and has been on the Dean’s Teaching Honour List every year since 2015.

Prior to joining academia, Abhijeet was a manager of Human Resources at his family’s construction firm. He received a Bachelors in Civil Engineering from VJTI under the University of Mumbai and his PGP (equivalent to MBA) from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.