Arvind Karunakaran

AWARDS

• Recipient, William H. Newman Best Dissertation Paper Award (All-academy award given to best annual paper based on a dissertation across all divisions of AOM; Nominated for three different papers by OMT, MOC, and OCIS divisions), Academy of Management, 2019
• Recipient, Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award, OMT Division, Academy of Management, 2019
• Recipient, Gerardine DeSanctis Dissertation Award, OCIS Division, Academy of Management, 2019
• Recipient, Best Conference Paper, OCIS Division, Academy of Management, 2019
• Recipient, Emerging Scholar in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award, Industry Studies Association, 2019
• Recipient, Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, AIS/ACM SIGMIS, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2018
• Recipient, Best Graduate Student Paper, ASA Communications, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section, American Sociological Association, 2017
• Finalist, That's Interesting Award (for a paper that "cross intellectual boundaries, challenge taken-for-granted assumptions... and make an original argument,") EGOS 2019
• Honorable Mention, Junior Theorist Award, ASA Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2019
• Honorable Mention, Shils-Coleman Memorial Award, ASA Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2018
• Runner-up, Best Working Paper Award, Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship Section, INFORMS, 2019
• Runner-up, Giarratani Rising Star Award, Industry Studies Association, 2019
• LERA Competitive Papers, Labor and Employment Relations Association Annual meeting, 2019
• Best Paper Session, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations/Labor and Employment Relations Association, 2019
• Finalist, Best Submission with Practical Implications Award, Behavioral Science and Policy Association/ MOC Division, Academy of Management, 2019
• Finalist, Best Paper Award, SMS Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group, 2017
• Recipient, Best Paper (Macro Track), East Coast Doctoral Conference, Jointly Organized by Columbia University and New York University’s Management Department, 2017
• Recipient, Donald R. Cressey Award for the Most Outstanding Dissertation Project, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, 2016
• Recipient, Above and Beyond Call of Duty Award (top 2% of reviewers), AOM Organizational and Management Theory (OMT) Division, 2013

FELLOWSHIP and HONOURS

• Invited Participant, Changing Nature of Work Conference, Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, August 2018
• Invited Participant, Psychology of Technology Conference, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, October 2018
• Invited Participant, Technology, Law and Society Summer Institute, University of California Irvine, 2018
• Ethnography Fellow, Department of Sociology, Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago (selected as 1 of the 6 ethnography fellows out of 92 applicants across the social sciences), 2017-2018
• Dissertation Fellow, Strategy Research Foundation [SRF], 2015-2017
• Showcase Symposium on Occupational Reactions in the Wake of Technological Shifts (Co-organizer and Presenter), OMT Division, Academy of Management Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2017
• Showcase Symposium on Platforms and Ecosystems: Collective Insights from Field Research (Co-organizer and Presenter), TIM Division, Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2014
• Invited Participant, Conference on Data and Civil Rights: A New Era of Policing and Justice, Washington, DC, 2015
• Fellow, Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies, NY, 2015

GRANTS

• Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy ($7,500), 2016
• Strategy Research Foundation Doctoral Research Grant ($10,000), 2015
• Research Grant from Roberts, Hammond & Krasner Fund, MIT ($18,300), 2013
• MIT Energy Fellow, 2012-2013