Biography
Amit Nigam joined the Goizueta Business School faculty from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His research focuses on understanding the process and consequences of institutional change, or systemic changes in markets and industries. Current projects focus on understanding (1) how attention to and interpretation of disruptive events can shape institutional transformation, (2) whether and how the roles of professionals and managers are redefined in the wake of institutional transformation and (3) the impacts of institutional transformation on professional- or knowledge-intensive work within organizations. The empirical focus of his research is on understanding the causes and consequences of the shift towards managed care in the U.S. healthcare system.

Publications

• "Event Attention, Sensemaking, and Institutional Change: An Inductive Analysis of the Effects of Public Attention to Clinton's Health Care Reform Initiative" (with William Ocasio), R&R, Academy of Management Journal

Working Papers

• "Transformation of Professional Control: Redefining Quality in the Shift to Managed Care".
• "Disease Category Systems and the Social Organization of Healthcare: Insights from Cognitive and Organizational Sociology".
• Clinical Guidelines and the Delivery of Pharmaceutical Services in Nursing Homes: A Qualitative Study Assessing Perceptions, Professional Interaction and Prescribing Decisions" (with Denys Lau and Jane Banaszak-Holl).

Areas of Specialization

• Institutions and systemic change
• Professions and knowledge creation
• Economic sociology
• Inter-professional conflict/ collaboration in organizations

Achievements and Honors

• Fulbright Scholarship - Council for International Exchange of Scholars/ Philippine-American Educational Foundation - Manila, Philippines
• Northwestern University Graduate Fellowship, Kellogg School of Management, Management and Organizations Department
• Northwestern University Graduate Fellowship, The Graduate School, Northwestern University, Department of Sociology
• Yale University Fellowship for graduate studies in International Relations
• Yale Council on South East Asian Studies, Language Fellowship
• Yale Council on South East Asian Studies, Research Fellowship
• Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University

Academic Background
PhD, Managment & Organizationz and Sociology, Northwestern University, 2005
MA, International Relations, Yale University, 1997
BA, Wesleyan University, 1994