Faculty Profile

Rekha Krishnan

Assistant Professor
PhD in Business (Center Graduate School, Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

Burnaby Phone: 778-782-3047
Burnaby Office: WMC 4311

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Biography

Rekha Krishnan joined the Beedie School of Business in September 2005 from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, where she recently submitted her PhD thesis. Her dissertation, which examined trust and alliance performance, won a 2001 Best Dissertation Proposal award from the European International Business Academy.

A tenure track faculty member in international business, Rekha focuses on international alliance performance and is particularly interested in the softer, relational issues which can affect alliance performance.

Originally from India, Rekha finds Vancouver’s beautiful landscape an inspiration for her poetry, which has been published in Indian English language newspapers. She also writes business cases for a non-academic business magazine in India.

Specialization and Research Interests

Dark side of trust, Inter-organizational performance, Trust repair, Technology transfer, Research Methods (Meta-analysis).