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Kevin Nanakdewa

Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour

Kevin  Nanakdewa

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Expertise

  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Judgment & Decision-making
  • Culture & Identity
  • Negotiations

Dr. Kevin Nanakdewa is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Ivey Business School. Prior to joining Ivey, he was an Assistant Professor of Management at Peking University. His research areas include choice, bias in hiring, workplace gossip, diversity in organizations, judgment and decision making, and culture.

Dr. Nanakdewa’s research has been published in influential academic and practitioner journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Harvard Business Review.

He teaches Negotiations in the HBA and MBA program at Ivey.

Before pursuing an academic career, Dr. Nanakdewa was a Marketing Consultant at Nielsen in Toronto working with clients including Coca-Cola, SC Johnson, and Energizer.

Teaching

  • HBA Interpersonal Negotiations
  • MBA Negotiations

Programs Taught

  • HBA
  • MBA

Education

  • Ph.D. in Management, Nanyang Technological University
  • M.B.A. in Management, Peking University
  • B.B.A. in Business Administration, Wilfrid Laurier University

Recent Refereed Articles

  • Salvador, C. E.; Idrovo Carlier, S.; Ishii, K.; Torres Castillo, C.; Nanakdewa, K.; San Martin, A.; Savani, K.; Kitayama, S., 2024, "Emotionally expressive interdependence in Latin America: Triangulating through a comparison of three cultural zones.", Emotion, October 24(3): 820 - 835.
  • Kitayama, S.; Salvador, C. E.; Nanakdewa, K.; Rossmaier, A.; San Martin, A.; Savani, K., 2022, "Varieties of interdependence and the emergence of the Modern West: Toward the globalizing of psychology.", American Psychologist, December 77(9): 991 - 1006.
  • Madan, S.; Nanakdewa, K.; Savani, K.; Markus, H. R., 2021, "Research: What Makes Employees Feel Empowered to Speak Up?", Harvard Business Review
  • Nanakdewa, K.; Madan, S.; Savani, K.; Markus, H. R., 2021, "The salience of choice fuels independence: Implications for self-perception, cognition, and behavior", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 118(30)
  • Madan, S.; Nanakdewa, K.; Savani, K.; Markus, H. R., 2020, "The Paradoxical Consequences of Choice: Often Good for the Individual, Perhaps Less So for Society?", Current Directions in Psychological Science, February 29(1): 80 - 85.

For more publications please see our Research Database

Honours & Awards

  • Nanakdewa, K. (2024 - 2027). $125,023 USD. Shenzhen Peacock Grant. US$125,023. "Choice, Gender, and Decision Making in China: Extending Behavioral Theories of Management Beyond Western Contexts."

Experience

  • Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Western University (2021 – Present)
  • Assistant Professor of Management, Peking University (2023 – 2024)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (2021 - 2023)

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