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.

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 (Kluwer, 1999; 2nd ed., Springer, 2013). She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Organization Science from 2004 to 2010.

Argote became David M. Kirr and Barbara A. Kirr Professor in 1997.

She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (elected 2006), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (2008 class), and the Academy of Management (elected 2013).

In 2018 the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research gave her their Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups.