Seemantini Pathak, Ph.D.

Seemantini Pathak is an Associate Professor of Management at the College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Her research interests include corporate governance in the context of strategic change and entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, organizational learning, and strategic human capital. Seemantini Pathak’s research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, The Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of Business Venturing, and Business & Society, among other journals. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. Seemantini Pathak teaches international management, corporate governance, and managerial decision analysis.

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Education

Ph.D. (Business Administration), Arizona State University, 2007
Ph.D. Dissertation: Compensation risk borne by CEOs after refocusing: The impact of divestment intensity, R&D intensity, and board composition.

Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India, 1996

Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering), Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India 1994

Courses

MGMT 3680/INTL BUS 3680 - International Management

MGMT 5695 – Corporate Governance

BUS AD 5198 – Managerial Decision Analysis

Research

Chiu, S., Pathak, S., & Sabz, A. 2022. The Impact of Advisor Status on Corporate Divestitures and Market Reactions. (Accepted at Journal of Business Research).

Evans, K., Salaiz, A., Pathak, S., & Vera, D. 2022. Boards and corporate social performance: The role of community influentials and interlocks. Business & Society, 61(1): 225-263. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650320965154.

Salaiz, A.H., Evans, K., Jones, C.D., & Pathak, S. 2022. CEO-COB Prestige Distance and Change in Diversification: Exploring a Curvilinear Relationship. Leadership Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101544.

Chiu, S., Pathak, S., Hoskisson, R., & Johnson, R. 2022. Managerial Commitment to the Status Quo and Corporate Divestiture: Can Power Motivate Openness to Change? Leadership Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2020.101459.

Uzuegbunam, I., Pathak, S., Taylor-Bianco, A., & Ofem, B. 2021. How Cultural Tightness Interacts with Gender in Founding Teams: Insights from the Commercialization of Social Ventures. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2021.106127.