Linda Argote
Linda Argote is an American academic specializing in industrial and organizational psychology. She is David M. Kirr and Barbara A. Kirr Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, where she directs the Center of Organizational Learning, Innovation and Knowledge.Education and career
Argote graduated in 1975 with magna cum laude honors from Tulane University, majoring in psychology. She completed her Ph.D. in organizational psychology at the University of Michigan in 1979, and in the same year joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty.
Argote is the author of the book Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring Knowledge.
She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Organization Science from 2004 to 2010.Recognition
Argote became David M. Kirr and Barbara A. Kirr Professor in 1997.
She is a Fellow of
the Association for Psychological Science,
the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences,
and the Academy of Management.
In 2018 the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research gave her their Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups.
