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Lee Kong Chian School of Business

Faculty Profile

Lee Kong Chian School of Business LKCSB

VADERA, Abhijeet K.

Full-time Faculty
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources; Course Coordinator, Ethics

Education

2010 Ph.D., Business Administration (Organizational Behavior)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
2003 Post-Graduate Programme in Management
Indian School of Business (ISB)
2001 Bachelors of Engineering (Civil)
VJTI, University of Mumbai

Current Appointment(s)

2019 - Now Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2015 - 2019 Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2010 - 2015 Assistant Professor in Business
Indian School of Business

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 2 Academic Research Fund (AcRF), 2020-2023
  • Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 Academic Research Fund (AcRF), 2019-2021
  • Elected Officer, Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management, 2017-2021
  • Nominee for SMU undergraduate teaching award (category: Excellent Teacher), 2019-2020
  • Dean's Teaching Honour List (Postgraduate Programs), SMU, 2018

Research Interests

  • Constructive deviance (whistle-blowing, voice, creativity, etc.)
  • Destructive deviance (unethical behaviors, white-collar crime, organizational corruption, etc.)

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

  • Lim, G. J. H., Pitesa M., & Vadera, A. K. (2023). Cheating constraint decisions and discrimination against workers with lower financial standing. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 174: 104211.
  • Chen, F. X., Graso, M, Aquino, K., Lin, L., Cheng, J, DeCelles, K & Vadera, A. K. (2022). The vigilante identity in organizations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 170: 104136.
  • Taiyi Yan, T., Tangirala, S., Vadera, A. K., & & Ekkirala, S. (2022). How employees learn to speak up from their leaders: Gender congruity effects in the development of voice self-efficacy. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(4): 650-667.
  • Vadera, A.K., & Rao, C. P. (2021). Competition and cheating: Investigating the role of moral awareness, moral identity, and moral elevation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(8): 1060-1081.
  • Taylor, S. G., Griffith, M. D., Vadera, A. K., Folger, R., & Letwin, C. R. (2019). Breaking the cycle of abusive supervision: How disidentification and moral identity help the trickle-down change course. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104 (1): 164-182.
  • Zhu, L., Aquino, K., & Vadera, A.K. (2016). What makes professors credible: The effect of demographic characteristics and ideological beliefs. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(6): 862-880.
  • Vadera, A.K., & Aguilera, R.V. (2015).The evolution of vocabularies and its relation to investigation of white-collar crimes: An institutional work perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 128(1), 21-38.
  • Baer, M., Vadera, A.K., Leenders, R., & Oldham, G. (2014). Intergroup competition as a doubleedged sword: How sex composition regulates the effects of competition on group creativity. Organization Science, 25(3), 892-908.
  • Vadera, A.K, Pratt, M.G., & Mishra, P. (2013). Constructive deviance in organizations: Integrating and moving forward. Journal of Management, 39(5), 1221-1276.
  • Vadera, A.K., & Pratt, M.G. (2013). Love, hate, ambivalence, or indifference? A conceptual examination of workplace crimes and organizational identification. Organization Science, 24(1), 172-188.
  • Baer, M., Leenders, R., Oldham, G., & Vadera, A.K. (2010). Win or lose the battle for creativity: The power and perils of intergroup competition. Academy of Management Journal, 53(4), 827-845.
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