PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
Bhatia, N., Cai, W., & Srivastava, S. B. (2026). Throwing curveballs: A language‐based model of curveball questions in quarterly earnings calls uncovers their consequences and antecedents. Strategic Management Journal. [Link to Paper] [Link to Replication Library].
Keum, D. D., & Bhatia, N. (2026). When do nice guys finish last? Prosociality and the psychological model of CEO ‐firm matching. Strategic Management Journal, 47(5), 1272–1300. [Link to Paper] [Link to Replication Library].
Bhatia, N., & Meier, S. (2025). What Drives Employee Strategic Salience in Shareholder Communications? A Machine Learning Approach. Strategy Science. [Link to Paper] [Code and Data].
Keum, D. D., Wang, S., & Bhatia, N. (2026). Do Machines Make Firms Meaner? Automation and the Erosion of Firm-Employee Relations. Working Paper (Revisions Requested - Management Science) [Link to Paper].
Basuthakur, Y., Paruchuri, S., & Bhatia, N. (2026). Distracted peers and the unraveling of collaborative governance: reactions of co-institutional investors to organizational misconduct. Working Paper (Under Review - Strategic Management Journal)
WORKING PAPERS AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
1. Information Environments, Stakeholder Contentions, and Firm Adaptation. (Job Market Paper)
Paper Summary: Why do some firms reconfigure their workforce more quickly than others? I argue that local media acts as an information intermediary that reduces stakeholder monitoring costs and increases accountability for labor-displacing decisions. When local journalists cover events such as layoffs and plant closures, they render firm actions legible to workers, community members, and political actors, lowering observation, interpretation, and mobilization efforts for these actors. Firms that anticipate such scrutiny face higher expected costs of visible workforce displacement. As a result, firms in high-media regions reconfigure their workforce more slowly, undertake fewer layoffs, and shift plant closures toward regions with lower media intensity.
2. Vertical Integration and Information Environments. (Solo-authored - Dissertation Chapter)
3. Institutional Investors, Networks, and Shared Sensemaking under Uncertainty. (with Yashodhara Basuthakur & Srikanth Paruchuri)
Grant Awarded - Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics, Columbia Business School (5,000$)