College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Business Administration, University of California at Berkeley, 2002
P.G.D.M. (Masters Degree), Business Administration, Indian Institute of Management at Calcutta, 1992
B. Tech. (Bachelor's Degree), Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay, 1990

Somaya, D., Williamson, I. 2008. Rethinking the “War for Talent.”. Sloan Management Review, 49: 29-34

Somaya, D., Williamson, I., Lorinkova, N. 2008. Gone but not lost: The different performance impacts of employee mobility between cooperators versus competitors.. Academy of Management Journal, 51: 936-953

Somaya, D., Williamson, I., Zhang, X. 2007. Combining Patent Law Expertise with R&D for Patenting Performance.. Organization Science, 18: 922-937

Shane, S., Somaya, D. 2007. The Effects of Patent Litigation on University Licensing Efforts.. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 63: 739-755

Somaya, D., Teece, D. 2007. Patents, Licensing, and Entrepreneurship: Effectuating Innovation in Multi-Invention Contexts. In E. Sheshinski, E. Strom and W. Baumol (Ed.), Entrepreneurship, Innovation and the Growth Mechanism of Free-Market Economies. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.

Best Convention Paper Award, Academy of Management (HR Division), 2007
McKinsey Best Paper Prize (Honorable Mention), Strategic Management Society, 2007
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management (BPS Division), 2005

Business Policy and Strategy, Technology Strategy, International Business, Managerial Economics

In my research, I seek to understand how companies strategize about and derive competitive advantage from their knowledge assets, particularly their knowledge workers and intellectual property. As the knowledge economy becomes a reality in the 21st Century, these strategies for mobilizing and leveraging knowledge assets are likely to emerge as critical determinants of business success.