Research Bio

Sameer Srivastava is a sociologist and organizational scholar whose research explores culture, networks, and organizational behavior. He is best known for developing computational and network-based methods to measure organizational culture and its effects on performance, mobility, and inequality. Srivastava’s work integrates sociology, computational social science, and management studies to analyze how culture is produced, transmitted, and transformed within organizations and to understand how it shapes individual careers and organizational performance.

Srivastava is Ewald T. Grether Professor of Business Administration at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Chair of the Management of Organizations group at Berkeley Haas, Co-Founder and Co-Faculty Director of the Computational Culture Lab, and Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation. His research has been published in American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Management Science. Several of Srivastava's papers on culture and organizations have received awards. At Berkeley, he teaches courses of organizational behavior, power and influence, and computational social science. 

Research Expertise and Interest

culture, cognition, social networks, social capital, organizational sociology, formal organizations, social influence