About Me: Professor Eric Abrahamson is a tenured full professor of management 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, UK, and was also a visiting Professor at INSEAD, France. Professor Abrahamson is a native French speaker.
Professor Abrahamson is internationally recognized for his research on innovation diffusion generally, and fads and fashions in business techniques, more particularly. His work has won two of the most prestigious awards in the management area, the Award for the Best Article published in the Academy of Management Journal (1995) and two Best Paper Awards of the Academy of Management Organization and Management Theory Division (1990; 1997). 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 and the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research. He has published two books, Change Without Pain, and A Perfect Mess, as well as 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.