Faculty and ResearchExpert Guide

Education

• PhD, Management
  Leonard N. Stern School of Business| New York University, New York, NY
• Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Areas of Expertise

• Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Emerging economies

Professional Activities

Dr. Arun Kumaraswamy’s research spans the fields of Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and International Business. Specifically, he studies the management of innovation and growth, and technology catchup by firms in emerging economies.

Arun has co-authored articles in reputable Management/Strategy, IB and MIS journals, and has co-edited the book Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks and Organizations. He was a guest editor of the Journal of World Business Special Issue on Institutions, entrepreneurship and co-evolution in International Business, and the Journal of Management Studies Special Issue on Managing in the age of disruptions (to be published in November 2018). He serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management and Journal of World Business.

Before joining FIU in Fall 2016, Arun had taught at Rutgers University (Camden), Singapore Management University, Temple University, and West Chester University of PA.

Courses Taught

• Doctoral Research in Business Administration
• International Business Environment
• International Business Policy
• Managing Innovation
• Ph.D. Dissertation
• Strategic Management
• Theories of Organization

Refereed Journal Articles

Kumaraswamy, A., Garud, R. & Ansari, S. (2018). (in press) Perspectives on disruptive innovations.  Journal of Management Studies.

McGaughey, S., Kumaraswamy, A. & Liesch, P. (2016). Institutions, entrepreneurship and co-evolution in international business. Journal of World Business. 51 (6), 871-881.

Ansari, S., Garud, R. & Kumaraswamy, A. (2016). The disruptor's dilemma: TiVo and the U.S. television ecosystem. Strategic Management Journal. 37, 1829-1853.

Tuertscher, P., Garud, R. & Kumaraswamy, A. (2014). Justification and interlaced knowledge at ATLAS, CERN. Organization Science. 25 (6), 1579-1608.

Kumaraswamy, A., Mudambi, R., Saranga, H. & Tripathy, A. (2012). Catch-up strategies in the Indian auto components industry: Domestic firms' responses to market liberalization. Journal of International Business Studies. 43 (4), 368-395.

Garud, R., Gehman, J. & Kumaraswamy, A. (2011). Complexity arrangements for sustained innovation: Lessons from 3M Corporation. Organization Studies. 32 (6), 737-767.

Garud, R., Kumaraswamy, A. & Karnoe, P. (2010). Path dependence or path creation?. Journal of Management Studies. 47 (4), 760-774.