Publications

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters by Arvind Karunakaran.

Full list below, newest first. “Equal Contribution” denotes equal authorship. DOI links resolve to the publisher of record; a PDF button appears where a copy is hosted here.

2026

Benjamin-Pollak, N.A., Karunakaran, A. (2026). “Expert Authority and the Public Sphere: Media Intermediaries, Professional Norm Violation, and the Market for Expertise.” Expertise in and Around Organizations (Research in the Sociology of Organizations), 97, 249–269. DOI

2025

Garud, R., Turunen, M., Karunakaran, A. (2025). “Revisiting Exploration and Exploitation: Temporal Structuring for Innovation at Work.” Organization Theory, 6(1). Equal Contribution DOI

Karunakaran, A., Lebovitz, S., Narayanan, D., Rahman, H. (2025). “Artificial Intelligence at Work: An Integrative Review on the Impact of AI on Workplace Inequality.” Academy of Management Annals, 19(2). Equal Contribution DOI

2024

Karunakaran, A. (2024). “Frontline Professionals in the Wake of Social Media Scrutiny: Examining the Processes of Obscured Accountability.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 69(3), 747–790. DOI PDF

Monteiro, P., Nicolini, D., Erickson, I., Cohen, L.E., Dokko, G., Corporaal, G.F., Karunakaran, A., Bechky, B.A., O'Mahony, S. (2024). “Beyond the Buzz: Scholarly Approaches to the Study of Work.” Journal of Management Inquiry. DOI

Rahman, H., Karunakaran, A., Cameron, L. (2024). “Taming Platform Power: Taking Accountability into Account in the Management of Platforms.” Academy of Management Annals, 18(2), 251–294. Equal Contribution DOI

2023

Van Angeren, J., Karunakaran, A. (2023). “Anchored Inferential Learning: Platform-specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on Complementors.” Organization Science. Equal Contribution DOI

Rahman, H., Weiss, T., Karunakaran, A. (2023). “The Experimental Hand: Examining How Platform-based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy.” Academy of Management Journal. Equal Contribution DOI

2022

Karunakaran, A. (2022). “In Cloud We Trust? Co-opting Occupational Gatekeepers to Produce Normalized Trust in Platform-mediated Interorganizational Relationships.” Organization Science, 33(3), 1188–1211. DOI

Karunakaran, A. (2022). “Status-Authority Asymmetry between Professions: The Case of 911 Dispatchers and Police Officers.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 67(2), 423–468. DOI

Karunakaran, A., Orlikowski, W.J., Scott, S.V. (2022). “Crowd-based Accountability: Examining how Social Media Commentary Reconfigures Organizational Accountability.” Organization Science, 33(1), 170–193. DOI

2018

Garud, R., Karunakaran, A. (2018). “Process-based Ideology of Participative Experimentation to Foster Identity-challenging Innovations: The Case of Gmail and AdSense.” Strategic Organization, 16(3), 273–303. DOI

2014

Garud, R., Gehman, J., Karunakaran, A. (2014). “Boundaries, Breaches, and Bridges: The Case of Climategate.” Research Policy, 43(1), 60–73. DOI

2013

Karunakaran, A., Reddy, M.C., Spence, P.R. (2013). “Toward a Model of Collaborative Information Behavior in Organizations.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(12), 2437–2451. DOI