Professor Jatinder S. Sidhu

Profile

Dr. Jatinder Sidhu joined the Management Department of LUBS in June 2019. He started his academic career at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University, Netherlands, to which he was affiliated first as Assistant Professor and then as Associate Professor of Strategic Management. He earned his Ph.D. degree at the Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Netherlands. He has rich and varied experience as academic administrator, instructor and researcher. He was for many years the Academic Director of the M.Sc. Strategic Management program at RSM, and over the course of his career he has developed and taught a range of undergraduate and graduate courses centering on strategy, organization and innovation. His research has appeared in a variety of prestigious journals including, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Research Policy. He serves on the Scientific Council of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and as Editor for European Management Review, EURAM's peer-reviewed journal.

Responsibilities

• Subject Group Leader (2019 - 2024) - Strategy & Organization
• Co-Director (2020 - to date) - Centre for Technology Innovation and Engagement (C-TIE)

Research interests

Jatinder has a keen interest in developing better understanding of how companies manage and balance the demands and expectations of their shareholders and stakeholders, and with what consequences. In this regard, much of his current research centers on the influence CEOs, top management teams, and boards of directors have on the financial performance of firms and firms’ commitment to sustainability and other social goals. He is particularly drawn to studying the impact of corporate leaders’ gender, personalities and values on strategy and innovation in organizations. At a more micro level, his research examines how identity and identification shape organizational decisions, routines and outcomes. His areas of expertise include behavioral strategy, strategic leadership & governance, organizational learning, organizational identity, and innovation.

Recent Books

The profit of purpose:

MediaWerf (2022)

Strategic Management: From Confrontation to Transformation:

Sage (2024) 

International Academic Activity

12^th Annual Workshop on Top Management Teams, EIASM: 

Hosted and chaired the 12^th EIASM workshop on TMTs, April 27 – 28, 2023. Keynote speakers: Prof. Henk Volberda, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Prof. Joanna Campbell, University of Cincinnati, USA.

Paper Development Workshop – CEO Activism:

Hosted and chaired a PDW on CEO Activism, June 3 – 4, 2024. Keynote speaker and participants: Prof. Vilmos Misangyi, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, Prof. Steve Brammer, University of Bath, UK, Prof. Patrick Reinmoeller, IMD Business School, Switzerland, and Drs. Jan Stolker, Director Leadership & Governance, EURAC, Erasmus School of Economics, Netherlands.

Special Issues – Calls for Papers

Corporate Purpose Revisited: Re-imagining The Economic And Social Value of Strategy

Chief Executive Officers With A Cause? CEO Activism And Firms’ Governance, Strategy, And Performance

Research Blogs:

Gender Diversity, Corporate Boards, and Strategic Change

On Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Narcissism

Corporate Leaders and Climate Action

Engagement with Management Practice

Project on Corporate Purpose:

For a project proposal to examine and identify factors and practices that enable companies to become purpose driven to create long-term value, my co-investigators at the University of Amsterdam (Prof. H. Volberda, Dr. P. Vishwanathan, and Dr. K. Heij) and I won the 2020 competitive tender of Euro 70.000,00 announced by SMS (Stichting Management Studies / Foundation of Management Studies). SMS is affiliated to the largest employer-association in the Netherlands, VNO-NCW, and serves as a bridge between management practice and science. On behalf of its VNO-NCW members and its donors, among other activities, SMS awards grants for practice-oriented research centering on themes viewed to be important by the management board of SMS. Members of the SMS board include senior executives of a wide range of companies including, Ahold, Air France–KLM, Deloitte, KPMG, Philips, and Shell, among others (https://managementstudies.nl/de-organisatie/). The SMS board selected our proposal as the winner of the 2020 theme, Maatschappelijk Bewustzijn van Ondernemingen (Corporate Social Awareness).

Project on Climate Action:

There is currently an expectation that for-profit companies need to do more to address the climate crisis we face. In this regard, while some companies have embraced Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices, others are said to be engaging in greenwashing and some are even facing environmental lawsuits. To arrive at actionable findings for strengthening practice and policy vis-à-vis corporate commitment to tackling climate change, my co-investigators (Prof. Tine Buyl and Dr Joris Berns at the University of Tilburg, and Dr Yunke Wu and Dr Nawon Oh at LUBS) and I have been awarded a grant by the Climate Change and Environmental Research Fund at LUBS. For more on this project, see https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-projects/2311/corporate-leaders-and-climate-action. 

Student education

Current doctoral students:

• Lance Cosaert, Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Graduated 3^rd July, 2023)
• Agnieszka Genc, Rotterdam School of Management (Graduated 21^st March, 2024), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Lisanne Veter, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 
• Peiwen Wang, Leeds University Business School, UK

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for Technology Innovation and Engagement

Current postgraduate researchers

• Peiwen Wang (Dana)