JANDHYALA Srividya

Srividya Jandhyala is an Associate Professor at ESSEC Business School. She was previously an Assistant Professor at George Washington University in Washington DC, and a fellow and visiting scholar at Princeton University.

Srividya studies the relationship between firms and governments, with a particular focus on conflicts between the two. Her inter-disciplinary research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals including Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and World Development.

She holds a Ph.D. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a B.Tech. from the University of Madras. At ESSEC, she teach courses on strategy and international business in the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral programs. 

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Full-time academic appointments

• 2016 - Present : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School, Singapore)
• 2013 - 2016 : Assistant Professor (ESSEC Business School, Singapore)

• WANG, D., WEINER, R.J., LI, Q. and JANDHYALA, S. (2021). Leviathan as foreign investor: Geopolitics and sovereign wealth funds. Journal of International Business Studies, 52(7), pp. 1238-1255.
• JANDHYALA, S. and OLIVEIRA, F. (2021). The role of international anti-corruption regulations in promoting socially responsible practices. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 190, pp. 15-32.
• BLAKE, D. and JANDHYALA, S. (2019). Managing Policy Reversals: Consequences for Firm Performance. Strategy Science, 4(2), pp. 61-174.
• GERTZ, G., JANDHYALA, S. and SKOVGAARD POULSEN, L.N. (2018). Legalization, Diplomacy, and Development: Do Investment Treaties De-politicize Investment Disputes? World Development, (107), pp. 239-252.
• JANDHYALA, S. (2015). International and Domestic Dynamics of Intellectual Property Protection. Journal of World Business, 50(2), pp. 284-293.
• JANDHYALA, S. and PHENE, A. (2015). The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in Cross-border Knowledge Transfer and Innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 60(4), pp. 712-743.
• JANDHYALA, S. and WEINER, R. (2014). Institutions sans Frontières: International Agreements and Foreign Investment. Journal of International Business Studies, 45(6), pp. 649-669.

• JANDHYALA, S. (2020). The Politics of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: How Strategic Firms Evaluate Investment Arbitration. In: Chaisse, Julien, Choukroune, Leïla, Jusoh, Sufian eds. Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy. 1st ed. Springer.

• JANDHYALA, S. and WEINER, R.J. (2014). Do International Investment Agreements Protect Investment? Micro-Level Evidence. In: Best Paper Proceedings: 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Academy of Management.

• BLAKE, D. and JANDHYALA, S. (2021). Corporate Political Influence around the World. In: 2021 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• JANDHYALA, S. (2020). How Do You Frame Research in a New Context? In: 2019 Globalizing Organization Theory: Conference and Paper Development Workshop.
• CHENG, S. and JANDHYALA, S. (2020). Strategic Determinants of Investor-State Dispute Settlement. In: 2020 Strategic Management Society Annual Conference.
• JANDHYALA, S. and BHATT, H. (2020). Political Risk Reversal: Strategic Holdup of Firms by Government. In: 2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• JANDHYALA, S. and BLAKE, D. (2019). Managing Policy Reversals: Consequences for Firm Performance. In: 2019 Strategy Science Conference.
• JANDHYALA, S. (2018). Corporate Actors and Developmental Outcomes. In: 78th Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• JANDHYALA, S. and BHATT, H. (2018). How “Developmental” Are Developmental Banks? Multilateral Development Banks as Intermediaries in Electricity Generation Projects in India. In: 38th Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference.
• JANDHYALA, S. (2018). Managing Political Risk – a Role for Multilateral Development Banks in Private Infrastructure Projects. In: Global Order and International Society Workshop, Global Order and International Society Workshop, Fung Global Fellows Program.
• JANDHYALA, S. (2018). Managing the Public-Private Interface – a Role for International Organizations. In: International Conference on Blended Development Finance and the New Industrial Policy.
• JANDHYALA, S., GERTZ, G. and POULSEN, L. (2018). Opening the Black Box of Commercial Diplomacy: Home Country Influence in Foreign Investment Disputes. In: 2018 Frontiers in International Business Symposium.
• BLAKE, D., JANDHYALA, S., WERNER, T. and BARBER, B. (2018). Political Institutions and Firm Strategy. In: 38th Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference.
• JANDHYALA, S. and BHATT, H. (2018). Strategic Political Risk: The Case of Aggressive Bidding in Infrastructure Projects. In: 2018 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Hyderabad Special Conference.
• JANDHYALA, S. (2017). International Organizations and Political Risk – the Case of Multilateral Development Banks in Infrastructure Projects. In: 58th International Studies Association Annual Convention 2017.
• JANDHYALA, S. (2017). Managing Political Risk: Multilateral Development Banks in Infrastructure Projects. In: 2017 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• JANDHYALA, S. (2017). Political Shock and Firm Performance: Evidence from Telecommunications License Cancellations in India. In: 2017 Industry Studies Conference.
• JANDHYALA, S. (2017). Political Shock and Firm Performance: Evidence from Telecommunications License Cancellations in India. In: 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics.
• JANDHYALA, S. (2015). Global Governance and Firm Strategy. In: 2015 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
• JANDHYALA, S., GERTZ, G. and POULSEN, L. (2015). Legalization and Diplomacy: Evidence from the Investment Regime. In: 2015 Academy of International Business Annual Meeting.
• JANDHYALA, S. and OLIVEIRA, F. (2015). Unethical Behavior under Strategic Interaction: Analysis of the Bribing Game between Domestic and Multinational Firms. In: 12th Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference.
• JANDHYALA, S. and POULSEN, L. (2014). Finished Business? Investor-State Relations and Arbitration. In: 2014 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting.
• PHENE, A. and JANDHYALA, S. (2014). Global R&D and Firm Innovation: Configuration and Collaborative Capability. In: Academy of International Business (AIB) 2014 Annual Meeting.
• JANDHYALA, S. and OLIVEIRA, F. (2014). Investing in Bribes. In: 2014 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Special Conference: Strategic Management in the Asian Century. Dealing with Dynamism, Diversity and Development.
• JANDHYALA, S. (2013). Effectiveness of International Anti-Corruption Regulations: A Simulation Model. In: 2013 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• WEINER, R.J. and JANDHYALA, S. (2013). Institutions sans Frontières: International Agreements and Foreign Investment. In: American Political Science Association 2013 Annual Meeting.

• JANDHYALA, S. (2015). Bringing the State Back In: India's 2015 Model BIT. Columbia FDI Perspectives.