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University of Colorado Denver Business School, offering Bachelor, MBA, MS, and PhD degrees

Business School, University of Colorado Denver
 

Vinit Desai

Assistant Professor of Management
Vinit Desai

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
  • M.S., University of California at Berkeley
  • B.B.A., University of Texas at Austin

Courses taught:

  • BUSN 6710, Strategic Management
  • MGMT 4370, Organization Design

Areas of expertise:  

  • Organization Theory, Strategic Management, Organizational Learning, Decision Making, Organizational Failures

Selected publications:

  • Desai, V. (in press). Mass Media and Massive Failures: Determining Organizational Efforts to Defend the Field’s Legitimacy following Crises. Academy of Management Journal.
  • Desai, V. (in press). Rule Violations and Organizational Search: A Review and Extension. International Journal of Management Reviews.
  • Desai, V. (in press). Do Organizations Have to Change to Learn? Examining the Effects of Technological Change and Learning from Failures in the Natural Gas Distribution Industry. Industrial and Corporate Change.
  • Madsen, P. and Desai, V. (in press). Failing to Learn? The Effects of Failure and Success on Organizational Learning in the Global Orbital Launch Vehicle Industry.  Academy of Management Journal.
  • Desai, V. (2008). Constrained Growth: How Experience, Legitimacy, and Age influence Risk Taking in Organizations. Organization Science 19: 594-608.
  • Madsen, P., Desai, V., Roberts, K., and Wong, D. (2006). Mitigating Hazards through Continuing Design: The Birth and Evolution of a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Organization Science 17: 239-248.  
    • Selected as one of the fifty best articles published in 2006 in management by the Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence.