
Associate Professor
Management of Organizations (MORS), Berkeley-Haas
Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley (by courtesy)
Official Faculty Profile
arunar@berkeley.edu
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When the Tasks Line Up: How the Nature of Supplementary Tasks affects Worker Productivity
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Forthcoming
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Identification and Worker Responses to Workplace Change: Evidence from Four Cases in India
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2021
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Work-Family Programs and Non-Work Networks:Within-Group Inequality, Network Activation, and Labor Market Attachment
Organization Science, 2020 (with David Pedulla)
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Getting their Hands Dirty: How Female Managers Motivate Female Worker Productivity through Subordinate Scut Work
Management Science, 2020 (with Ranjitha Shivaram)
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A Numbers Game: Quantification of Work, Auto-Gamification and Worker Productivity
American Sociological Review, 2020 (with Alan Benson)
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The Production of Merit: How Managers Understand and Apply Merit in the Workplace
Organization Science, 2020 (with Emilio Castilla)
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Train Them to Retain Them: Work-Readiness and the Retention of First-Time Women Workers in India
Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018
(Editor's Summary, ASQ Blog Interview, Stanford GSB Insights, King Center coverage, Responsible Research in Management and Business Article) -
The Artisan and His Audience: Identification with Work and Price-Setting in a Handicraft Cluster in Southern India
Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018
(Editor's Summary, ASQ Blog Interview, Stanford GSB Insights, ASA Economic Sociology interview, ASA Work In Progress blog, VoxDev) -
Professionalization and Market Closure: The Case of Plumbing in India
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013 -
Globalization and Outsourcing: Confronting New Human Resource Challenges in India's BPO Industry
Industrial Relations Journal, 2010 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla) -
Economic Development Strategies and Macro and Micro Level Human Resource Policies: The Case of India's Outsourcing Industry
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla)
Working Papers -
In a Class of Their Own: Using Cultural Capital to Win Jurisdiction (with Joshua Hurwitz)
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Singing Your Own Praises: Digital Cultural Production and Gender Inequality (with Abhishek Nagaraj)
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Girl Uninterrupted: Asynchronous Teamwork and Gender Differences in Performance
(with Aayan Das)
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Remote Control: How Organizations Decide Whether to Adopt Remote Work
(with Rebecca Hinds)
Ongoing Projects -
Remote Work and Worker Voice
- Gender Inequality on the Pandora Music Platform
- Crowdwork among Qawwali Musicians in India
- Full-Cycle Research Methodology Book Chapter
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Highly Educated Workers Performing Low-Skill Work in a High Tech Environment: Employee Turnover and the Culture of Fun in the Business Process Outsourcing Industry in India
In Kociatkiewic & Jemielniak (eds.) Management Practices in High-Tech Environments, 2008 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla)
Teaching - HRMGT 286: Managing People in the Global Context
- OB 684: Full-Cycle Research Design Media
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Ethnography Atelier interview on using full-cycle research methods in your research
- Stanford GSB article profiling my academic journey
Publications
Last updated: August 3, 2022