SDSU College of Business Administration

Chamu

Office Location: SSE 3409
Phone: (619) 594-4845
Fax: (619) 594-3272
Email: csundara@mail.sdsu.edu

Chamu Sundaramurthy, Ph.D.
Professor, Management

Chamu Sundaramurthy is a professor of management at SDSU, specializing in corporate governance and strategic management. She is an active member of the Academy of Management and in 2004, 2003, 2002 and 2000 received the Academy’s Business Policy and Strategy Division’s Outstanding Reviewer Award. She was also elected to serve on the Division’s Research Committee (2002-2004). Before entering academic life Chamu Sundaramurthy practiced corporate and taxation law in India. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and served on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati and University of Kentucky before joining SDSU in 2003.

Her teaching interests are in the area of strategic management and international business. She has supervised a number of student field cases and one such project was awarded the Graduate Comprehensive Case of the Year Award in 1999-2000 by the Small Business Institute Directors’ Association.

Dr. Sundaramurthy’s current research focuses on the interface between governance and learning/innovation, on the governance of family businesses and post-IPO firms. Her prior work in corporate governance examined the interrelationships between governance mechanisms (such as the corporate board of directors), governance and strategic decisions of firms (adopting antitakeover provisions; investing in R&D), shareholder actions (repealing antitakeover provisions) and firm performance. Dr. Sundaramurthy’s research has been published in outlets such as Strategic Management Journal, The Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Managerial Issues, Managerial and Decision Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, Business and Society and The Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings.

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