Reddi KOTHA
| EDUCATION | 
| 2007 | Ph.D in Entrepreneurship | 
| 2002 | Master of Business Administration | 
 
| CURRENT POSITION(S) HELD | 
| Jan 2023 - Now | Professor of Strategic Management | 
| August 2025 - Now | Associate Editor, Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) | 
| July 2022 - June 2025 | Associate Editor, Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) | 
| July 2015 - Dec 2023 | Associate Professor of Strategic Management | 
| 2007 - June 2015 | Assistant Professor of Strategic Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University | 
| AWARDS, RECOGNITION AND HONORS | 
|  | Babson Doctoral Consortium, 2005 | 
|  | SMS Doctoral Consortium, 2004 | 
|  | Best Paper in Family Business Award, Entrepreneurship, Academy of Management , 2006 | 
|  | Best contribution by a young Scholar. Journal of Management Studies, 2008 - 2009 | 
| RESEARCH INTERESTS | 
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| RESEARCH GRANTS | 
| 2018 | $ 696,000 (Start-up Scaling from SSRC) | 
| 2016 | $ 132,570 (Start-up Scaling Pilot Project) | 
| 2015 | $ 33,999 (Innovation in Chinese Firms) | 
| 2012 | $ 9,700 (IP Project Evaluation) | 
| 2008 | $ 20,920 (Venture Capital Research) | 
| 2007 | $ 13,530 (Technology Licensing) | 
| SELECTED ARTICLES | 
|  | "Multinational family firms’ internationalization depth and breadth following the global financial crisis.” Fourné, S. P., Zschoche, M., Schwens, C., & Kotha, R. (2023). 58(3), 101428, Journal of World Business. | 
|  | "Do Ambitious Entrepreneurs Benefit More from Training?” by Kotha, R., Vissa, B., Lin, Y., Corboz, A.V. (2023), 44 (2), 549-575, Strategic Management Journal. | 
|  | "A Foot in the Door: Field-experiments on Entrepreneurs’ Network Activation Strategies for Investor Referrals.” by Nai, J., Lin, Y., Kotha, R., & Vissa, B. (2021), forthcoming, Strategic Management Journal. | 
|  | "Kin ties and the performance of new firms: A Structural Approach." by Ertug, G., Kotha, R., & Hedstrom, P. (2020), 63 (6), 1893-1922, Academy of Management Journal. | 
|  | "Transparency and Fairness in Organizational Decisions: An Experimental Investigation using the Paired Ultimatum Game." by Nai, J., Kotha, R., Narayanan, J., & Puranam, P. (2020), 5 (1), 55-70, Strategy Science. | 
|  | “Taking Leaps of Faith: Evaluation Criteria and Resource Commitments for Early-stage Inventions.” by Kim, P., Kotha, R., Fourne, S. & Coussement, K. (2019), 48 (6), 1429-1444, Research Policy. | 
|  | "Many Hands: The Effect of the Prior Inventor-Intermediaries Relationship on Academic Licensing." by Kim, Y., Rhee, M., & Kotha, R. (2019) 48 (3), 813-829, Research Policy. | 
|  | “Experience and Signaling Value in Technology Licensing Contract Payment Structures” by Kotha, R., Crama, P, & Kim, P. (2018), 61(4), 1307-1342, Academy of Management Journal | 
|  | "Social structure, reasonable gain and entrepreneurship in Africa” by George, G., Kotha, R., Parikh, P,Alnuaimi, T, & Bahaj, A. (2016), 37, 1118–1131, Strategic Management Journal | 
|  | "Turn your science into a business" by Kotha, R., Kim, P., & Alexy, O., (2014), 92, 11, p106-114, Harvard Business Review. | 
|  | “Bridging the mutual knowledge gap: coordination and the commercialization of university science,” by Kotha, R., George, G., & Srikanth, K., (2013), 56, 2, p498-524, Academy of Management Journal. | 
|  | "Friends, family, or fools: Entrepreneur experience and its implications for equity distribution and resource mobilization" by Kotha, R. & George, G., (2012), 27, 5, p525-543, Journal of Business Venturing. | 
|  | "Entry into new niches: the effects of firm age and the expansion of technological capabilities on innovation output and impact" by Kotha, R., Zheng, Y. & George, G., (2011), 32, p1011- 1024, Strategic Management Journal. | 
|  | "Entry into Insular Domains: A Longtitudinal Study of Knowledge Structuration and Innovation in Biotechnology Firms" by George, G., Kotha, R. & Zheng, Y., (2008), 45, 8, p1448 - 1474, Journal of Management Studies. | 
You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=447937 .
