Education

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford CA 94305

2014. Ph.D. in Business Administration

Dissertation: “Natural Disasters and Social Entrepreneurship: Three Essays”

Committee: William P. Barnett, Huggy Rao (Advisor), Sarah A. Soule.

External Orals Committee: Stephen Barley (Chair), David Larcker.

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India

2008. Postgraduate Diploma in Management (Strategy and Finance)

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

2006. B. Tech (Hons) and M. Tech in Chemical Engineering

Research Summary: See linked pdf here

Service Summary,  Teaching Summary

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

In Carlson School's 'A' journals    

Dutta, S. & Forbes, D. P. (2024). Fostering Entrepreneurship in Nonmetro Areas: Ecosystem Architects as Conduits of Knowledge Spillovers. Academy of Management Journal. In Press [Paper Link]

Dutta, S., & Vasudeva, G. (2024). How Demand Shocks “Jumpstart” Technological Ecosystems and Commercialization: Evidence from the Global Electric Vehicle Industry. Strategy Science. In Press [Paper link]

• * AOM Best Paper Proceedings 2019 (STR)

Dutta, S., Armanios, D. E., & Desai, J. D. (2022). Beyond Spatial Proximity: The Impact of Enhanced Spatial Connectedness from New Bridges on Entrepreneurship. Organization Science [Paper Link]

• *AOM OMT Division Best Paper in Environmental & Social Practices, AOM 2019

Dutta, S. (2019). Seeing parochially and acting locally: Social exposure, problem identification and social entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing [Paper Link]

Dutta, S. (2017). Creating in the crucibles of nature’s fury: Associational diversity and local social entrepreneurship after natural disasters in California, 1991–2010. Administrative Science Quarterly, 62(3), 443-483. [Paper Link]

• * ASQ “Behind the Scenes” Blog Interview: Link ; Blog post by Henrich Greve.

Rao, H., & Dutta, S. (2017). Why great strategies spring from identity movements. Strategy Science, 3(1), 313-322. [Paper Link] (Invited and Peer Reviewed)

• * Invited (https://www.informs.org/News-Room/INFORMS-Releases/News-Releases/Special-INFORMS-journal-collection-explores-the-origins-of-strategy-science)

Dutta, S., & Rao, H. (2015). Infectious diseases, contamination rumors and ethnic violence: Regimental mutinies in the Bengal Native Army in 1857 India. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 129, 36-47. [Paper Link]

Rao, H., & Dutta, S. (2012). Free spaces as organizational weapons of the weak: Religious festivals and regimental mutinies in the 1857 Bengal Native Army. Administrative Science Quarterly, 57(4), 625-668. [Paper Link]

• * ASQ ‘Editor’s Choice Collection’; ASQ “Behind the Scenes” Blog Interview: Link

Other Outlets

Dutta, S., Rao, H., & Vasi, I. B. (2018). Plug Power. Social Movements and Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in California, 1995–2012. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 56, 21-52. [Paper Link]

Papers under 2nd Round Revise and Resubmit

Dutta, S. Nahm, P. and Rios, L. A. “Capability From Calamity.” 2nd Round Revise & Resubmit at Org Sci. [Paper Link]

Papers under review

Armanios, D. A., Dutta, S. and Roche, M. “Infrastructure and Heterogeneity in Entrepreneurial Ventures.” [paper link]

Dutta, S. and Zhang, C. “Entrepreneurship and Scaling Movements.” [paper link]

• First Runner-up, AOM OMT Best Paper in Entrepreneurship, 2025

Dutta, S. and Legrand, M. “Legacies of Rugged Individualism and Social Entrepreneurship in Response to Heterogeneous Environmental Crises. [paper link]

Honors and Recognition

2025 “Outstanding Reviewer Award” at the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

2025 First Runner-up for Best Paper in Entrepreneurship, OMT Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting

2024 Invited Keynote speaker at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, hosted at KNAW, Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam) on “Strategic and Incidental Bricolage, and the Built Environment”

2022 Research Committee Service Award, AOM OMT Division

2022 One of two Runners-up for ‘Best Proposal Award for Creativity in Research’, CSIG, Strategic Management Society

2019 Best Paper in Environmental and Social Practices, OMT Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting

2018 Lead paper presenter for OMT Best Symposium Proposal, Academy of Management Annual Meeting

2017 Best Paper in Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Midwest Strategy Meeting 2017

2014 Paper inducted into ‘Editor’s Choice Collection’ at Administrative Science Quarterly, under the topic of Social Movements and Institutions

2012-2014 Harold J. Leavitt Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

2009-2012 Stanford GSB Fellowships (Various)

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