Kandarp
Mehta

Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Negotiation Teaching Unit

• Ph.D. 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 Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Department and the Negotiation Teaching Unit. He holds a Ph.D. from IESE Business School, University of Navarra. He has been with the Entrepreneurship Department 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.

Areas of interest.

• Creativity
• Negotiation
• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation
• Interpretation
• Performing Arts and its application to business management

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

GURSES, K., GIONES, F., YAKIS-DOUGLAS, B., MEHTA, K. (2024). Foul play? The Rise and fall of third-party ownership as a controversial practice in football. Academy of Management Discoveries, 10 (2), 224-249. doi:10.5465/amd.2022.0176. 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.

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.

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.

Edited books

FITÉ, R. M., NUENO, P., MEHTA, K., VILÀ, J. (2024). Primero las personas. Pensamiento emprendedor para resolver problemas empresariales. Barcelona: Gestión 2000.

Book Chapters

FITÉ, R. M., NUENO, P., MEHTA, K., VILÀ, J. (2024). Persona artífice. Una nueva perspectiva de la acción emprendedora. En Fité, R. M. ; Nueno, P. ; Mehta, K. and Vilà, J. (Eds.), Primero las personas: pensamiento emprendedor para resolver problemas empresariales (pp. 27-34). Barcelona: Gestión 2000. MEHTA, K. (2024). Personas. El factor clave para desbloquear la innovación. En Fité, R.M.; Nueno, P.; Mehta, K. and Vilà, J. (Eds.), Primero las personas: pensamiento emprendedor para resolver problemas empresariales (pp. 55-60). Barcelona: Gestión 2000. FITÉ, R. M., NUENO, P., MEHTA, K., VILÀ, J. (2024). Por una creatividad colaborativa. En Fité, R.M.; Nueno, P.; Mehta, K. and Vilà, J. (Eds.), Primero las personas: pensamiento emprendedor para resolver problemas empresariales (pp. 147-154). Barcelona: Gestión 2000.

Non-refereed articles

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).

Cases

MEHTA, K., STEIN, G. (2024). MBI vs Epsilon. Role of Epsilon. IESE, NEG-49-E. MEHTA, K., STEIN, G. (2024). MBI vs Epsilon. El papel de Epsilon. IESE, NEG-49. MEHTA, K., STEIN, G. (2024). MBI vs. Epsilon. El papel de MBI. IESE, NEG-50.

Technical Notes

FITÉ NAVARRO, R. M., MEHTA, K. (2020). Leonardo da Vinci y Verbideas. IESE, EN-21. FITÉ NAVARRO, R. M., MEHTA, K. (2020). Movimientos dinamizador e integrador en Verbideas. IESE, EN-22. MEHTA, K., FITE, R. (2020). Creatividad colaborativa en Verbideas. IESE, EN-25.

Outputs in other media

MEHTA, K. (2020). Negotiating in a crisis. Forbes India. MEHTA, K. (2019). A Better Way To Manage Conflicts In The Workplace. Forbes. MEHTA, K. (2015). Incentivando a criatividade da equipe: Lições do cinema. Administradores, Brazil.