Rate My Professor Samir Shrivastava

Dr. Samir Shrivastava is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, College of Business and Law at Adelaide University. Prior to his academic career, he served as a Major in the Indian Army. Shrivastava holds a Doctor of Philosophy and has progressed through senior lecturing roles, including at Swinburne University of Technology from 2004 to 2021 and the University of South Australia, before taking up his current position at Adelaide University. He is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students and currently acts as co-supervisor for a doctoral candidate researching competition, innovation, and business power in a post-deregulation principal-agent model.

Shrivastava's research primarily examines organisational learning and responses during accidents and disasters, anchored in systems thinking and situated at the intersection of strategy, organisational behaviour, and human resources. His secondary interests include diversity and organisational justice. His scholarly output includes numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Key publications feature 'Normal accident theory versus high reliability theory: A resolution and call for an open systems view of accidents' (Human Relations, 2009, with Sonpar and Pazzaglia), 'Organisational Justice: A Senian Perspective' (Journal of Business Ethics, 2016, with Jones, Selvarajah, and Van Gramberg), 'The role of nature of knowledge and knowledge creating processes in knowledge hiding: reframing knowledge hiding' (Journal of Business Research, 2021, with Pazzaglia and Sonpar), 'Effective communication during organizational change: a cross-cultural perspective' (Cross Cultural and Strategic Management, 2022, with Pazzaglia, Sonpar, and McLoughlin), 'Co-creating curricula with industry partners: a case study' (International Journal of Management Education, 2022, with Bardoel, Djurkovic, Rajendran, and Plueckhahn), ''Into the danger-zone': How intersubjective processes rooted in social identities shape responses to existential threats' (Human Relations, 2024, with Sonpar, Pazzaglia, and Garg), and 'When organizations act as bullies' (Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025, with Pazzaglia, Sonpar, and Djurkovic). Earlier works encompass 'Liberating HR through technology' (Human Resource Management, 2003, with Shaw) and a book chapter 'Lean production as a tool of global capitalism in Asia' (2015, with Jones, Selvarajah, and Van Gramberg). Conference contributions include 'Lean as mean: when values converge to produce depersonalized bullying' (Academy of Management, 2020).