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Professor Eric Abrahamson is the Hughie E. Mills Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. He holds degrees from New York University (Ph.D. and M.Ph. Beta Gamma Sigma). After teaching at New York University, professor Abrahamson joined the Columbia Business School faculty in 1989. He has taught at the London Business School in the UK, and was also a visiting Professor at INSEAD in France.
Professor Abrahamson is internationally recognized for his research on the innovation diffusion of business techniques, bandwagons, interorganizational culture, and disorganized systems.
His work has won some of the most prestigious awards in the management. His coauthored work has won the Award for the Best Article published in the Academy of Management Journal (1995, twice the Best Paper Awards of the Academy of Management Organization and Management Theory Division (1990; 1997), and the OMT Division Best Symposium Proposal Award for the Academy Management Meeting (2008).
He is a past consulting editor for the Academy of Management Review and past program chair of the Organizational and Management Theory division of the Academy of Management. He has been on the editorial boards of the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Strategic Organization, the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, and the Strategic HRM Journal . He has published numerous articles and book chapters that have appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Administrative Science Quarterly, Advances in Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, the Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Scandinavian Journal of Management, The Journal of Management Inquiry, and Organization Science.
Professor Abrahamson is internationally recognized for his research and teaching on innovative techniques for leading organizations and organizational change. Professor Abrahamson is the author of the book Change Without Pain published by the Harvard Business School Press. The Book was awarded the top business books of the year ranking by Strategy and Business, and was ranked by them as the best book for 2004 on the topic of Change Management. Professor Abrahamson’s most recent book A Perfect Mess, 2007, has been widely publicized and translated in twenty-two language.
Professor Abrahamson’s work has been featured in managerially oriented publications, most recently in Fast Company, Fortune, the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Sloan Management Review, among others.
Professor Abrahamson is an active consultant and instructor in corporate executive education programs around the world. His clients include, Aviva, Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb, ConEd, Deutsche Telekom, Deloitte Touch & Tomatsu, Ericsson, Financial Times, GKN plc, Novartis, Roche Pharmaceutical, Philip Morris, SONY, Sun Microsystems, Telefonica, Thompson Publishing, and the US Custom Services. He has developed five distance-learning courses for Unext.Com. At Columbia business school, he teaches courses on leadership, managing organizations, and on the use of power and influence in organizations to achieve wide scale, successful, and lasting organizational change.
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