Punit Arora

Currently on sabbatical

Main Affiliation

Economics and Business

Additional Departments/Affiliated Programs

Areas of Expertise/Research

  • New Business-Society Compact
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Corporate Governance
  • International Business
  • Institutional Economics
  • Startups

Building

North Academic Center

Office

5/141A

Phone

212-650-5403

Fax

212-650-8502

Punit Arora

Profile

On sabbatical  

Current Academic Leadership

Co-Editor-in-Chief, Business & Society

Program Chair, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management, Philadelphia, 2025-2026. 

Select Publications

  • Arora, P., Nagaraj, P., Bengoa M., & Mukherjee, D. (2025). Immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States: Intersectionality as a blessing and a curse. Journal of Business Venturing, 40(4): 106501.
  • Arora, P., Clark, C., Gabaldon, P., & P. Nagaraj. (2025). Legitimacy at a Premium: When do Firms Hire Better (Or Lesser) Qualified Female Directors? Corporate Governance- An International Review.
  • Arora, P., Jain, T., & A. Gaur. (2025). Communalizing Private Costs: Ownership Concentration, Institutions and Corporate Environmental Performance. Global Strategy Journal, 15(3): 417-446.
  • Arora, P., Bapuji, H., Higgins, C., Louche, C., & Panwar, R. (2025). Desk Rejection: When the Musical Notes Just Don’t Come Together. Business & Society.
  • Clark, C., Arora, P., Gabaldon, P. & T. Jain. (2025). Global Social Movements and Governance of the Firm: Past, Present, and Future. Corporate Governance- An International Review, 33(4): 782-795.
  • Popli, M., Raithatha, M., & P. Arora. (2025). Institutional Imprints and Corporate Misconduct: Unravelling the Interplay of Economic History and Firm Choices on Earnings Manipulation in an Emerging Economy. Business & Society, 64(7): 1426-1471.
  • Arora, P., & S. Stephan. (2023). In Defense of Capitalism: Modern Slavery Would be Much Worse without it. Business & Society, 62(3), 475-481.
  • Arora, P., & A. Gaur. (2022). Peer directors’ effort, firm efficiency and performance of diversified firms: An efficacy-based view of governance.  Journal of Business Research, 151: 593-608.
  • Clark, C., Arora, P., & P. Gabaldon. (2022). Female Representation on Corporate Boards in Europe: The Interplay of Organizational Social Consciousness and Institutions. Journal of Business Ethics, 180: 165-186.
  • Arora, P., & P. De. (2020). Environmental Sustainability Practices (ESP), Institutional Obstacles and Exports: Evidence on the interplay of strategy and institutions in Latin America. Journal of World Business, 55(4): 1-13.
  • Arora, P. (2018). Financially Linked Independent (FLI) Directors and Bankruptcy Reemergence: Role of Director Effort.  Journal of Management, 44 (7): 2665-2689. (
  • Arora, P., Haynie, J., & G. Laurence. (2013) From what may have been to what may yet be: A Contingency Model of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 37(2): 359-385. (
  • Arora, P. & R. Dharwadkar. (2011) Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: Does Satisfaction with Firm Performance Moderate the Relationship? Corporate Governance- An International Review, 19 (2), 136-152. 
  • For more/ current information, visit my Google Scholar page.

 

Education

PhD, Syracuse University