Kandarp
Mehta

Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Negotiation Teaching Unit

• PhD in Management, IESE Business School, University of Navarra
• Visiting Scholar, DRRC, Kellogg School of Management
• Master of Business Administration, K.S. School of Business Management, Gujarat University

Kandarp Mehta is a PhD from IESE Business School, Barcelona. He has been with the Entrepreneurship Department at IESE since October 2009. His research has focused on creativity in organizations and negotiations. He frequently works as consultant with startups on issues related to Innovation and Creativity. His doctoral thesis was about the process of creativity in the context of motion picture industry. He has conducted several Negotiation and Creativity Workshops for corporate executives and management students in Europe, USA and India.

Before coming to Spain, he was at ICFAI Business School in India where he taught Corporate Finance. He is also actively involved with Creative Industries.

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

BURKERT, M., DÁVILA, A., MEHTA, K., OYON, D. (2014). Relating Alternative Forms of Contingency Fit to the Appropriate Methods to Test Them. Management Accounting Research, 25 (1), 6 - 29. doi:10.1016/j.mar.2013.07.008.

MEHTA, K. (2009). Creative Potential of Teams and Team Creativity. A Sensemaking Perspective. The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, 9 (8), 65 - 74.

MEHTA, K. (2007). Team Design and Creativity. A strategic Perspective. The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, 7 (5), 29 - 42.

KHANDWALLA, P. N., MEHTA, K. (2004). Design of corporate creativity. Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 29 (1), 13 - 28.

Working Papers

MEHTA, K. (2019). Multi-Sensory Creative Thinking: A Synesthetic Technique for Design (WP-1216-E).

Proceedings

GURSES K.,, GIONES, F., MEHTA, K. (2018). Global diffusion and deinstitutionalization of a controversial practice. Academy of Management Proceedings.

Articles in other publications

FITÉ NAVARRO, R. M., MEHTA, K., NUENO, P. (2021). Verbideas: un modelo nuevo para la innovación continua. Harvard Deusto Business Review, 317, pp. 68-77.

IESE INSIGHT, (2021). The Big Picture: Know this before negotiating your salary. IESE Business School Insight (160).

IESE INSIGHT, (2021). Cómo negociar un aumento de sueldo. IESE Business School Insight (160).

STEIN, G., MEHTA, K., BARRACHINA, A. (2020). Negociando con la inteligencia artificial. Harvard Deusto Business Review (297), pp. 28 - 35.

MEHTA, K., STEIN, G. (2019). A Lesson in Extreme Negotiation: Negotiating with Kidnappers. The European Business Review, pp. 105 - 112.

Books

MEHTA, K., STEIN, G. (2021). Negotiate good negotiate well. The power of ambidexterity (1st ed.). Aravaca: Mc.Graw-Hill Interamericana de España.

MEHTA, K. (2011). Conflict, Crisis and Creativity. A Study of Role Evolution in Creative Teams. Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing.

Book Chapters

MEHTA, K. (2022). Negotiation, women and family business. Challenges & strategies. In Trevinyo-Rodriguez, Rosa Nelly; Gallo, Miguel Ángel (Eds.), The Power of Inclusion in Family Business (pp. 77-91). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited.

KHANDWALLA, P. N., MEHTA, K. (2006). Organizational design for corporate creativity in the Indian setting. In Tony Dávila, Marc Epstein, Robert Shelton (Eds.), Execution (pp. 115 - 146). London: Praeger Publishers.

STEIN, G., GARCÍA DE SANTOS, T., MEHTA, K. (2023). Connor vs. CEO: negociando un despido. Responsable de Tax FS (Connor). Profesional. IESE, NEG-30.

STEIN, G., GARCÍA DE SANTOS, T., MEHTA, K. (2023). Connor vs. CEO: negociando un despido. Corporate director de la división sudoeste (CEO). Empresa. IESE, NEG-31.