Abhishek Gupte is an Assistant Professor in the Organisational Behaviour Area at the Indian School of Business (ISB). His research interests include occupations, knowledge work & expertise, and technological change. He is broadly interested in exploring how professionals and expert workers think about the changing nature of work they do and the tools they use. He is specifically interested in studying how occupational members attempt to reorganise around technologies such as artificial intelligence and what that means for their skill and expertise. He studies this in a relational context to understand how experts’ relationships with clients and other organisational members influence their choices around innovation in work practices and tools. His research draws on the sociology of occupations and expertise, behavioral strategy, and organizational theory in order to build new theory that advances our understanding of knowledge work in an era of rapid technological change. As a field researcher, he collects unique datasets through interviews, ethnographic observations, and archival documents and has studied a variety of occupational contexts such as the legal profession, equity research and professional illustration.

Abhishek received his PhD in Management and Organisations from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He holds a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and an undergraduate degree in Engineering. Prior to joining academia, he worked with the International Finance Corporation (the private sector arm of the World Bank) in various emerging and developed markets such as India, US, Singapore and Myanmar (Burma). He also briefly worked in Credit Suisse’s investment team in India.