Paruchuri, Srikanth B. Marie Oth Professor of Business Administration

Dr. Paruchuri is B. Marie Oth Professor of Business Administration at Texas A&M's Mays Business School. His work focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, and organizational misconduct scandals. The stream focused on innovation investigates evolution of organizational capabilities (specifically R&D capabilities), technologies, and technological industries from diverse theoretical perspectives including social networks (of individual scientists and of firms). The stream on entrepreneurship examines drivers of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship-related outcomes. Examples include changes in levels of county-level entrepreneurship after World Trade Center attack and changes in levels and types of Zip code-level entrepreneurship surrounding entry of Walmart. Research on organizational misconduct investigates positive and negative consequences to perpetrators and innocent bystander firms and strategies adopted by them to benefit from or overcome those consequences.