Associate Professor of Management
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Phone: 574-631-9997
Email: vbartkus@nd.edu

Viva Bartkus received her Masters and Bachelors degrees in economics from Yale University in 1989. She completed her doctorate in 1993 in International Relations at Oxford University while on a Rhodes Scholarship. Her doctoral dissertation proposed a theoretical framework to understand secession. Her book, The Dynamic of Secession, published by Cambridge University Press, offers a general explanation of the occurrence of secession, arising from the comparative study of numerous historical examples of secession and separatist activity. In 1993, she joined the global management consultancy McKinsey & Company. During the next ten years, she served leaders of the healthcare, industrial and technology industries on strategic, operational, and organizational challenges, the last four years as a partner of the firm. In 2004, she joined the management faculty of the University of Notre Dame business school. Her current research agenda focuses on the ways in which communities, organizations and societies build the networks, norms, and trust required to create the social capital necessary for collective action.

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