Research Publications   📖

• “New Venture Governance: An Integrative, Multi-disciplinary Review” (2024). Academy of Management Annals, Vol. 18 No. 2, pp. 831-861. [ABS -4*; ABDC – A*]

o  Impact Factor: 21.2 | 5-Year IF: 28.6 | Article Influence Score: 14.18 | #1 of 227 in category of “Management”| #1 of 155 in category of “Business”

o  Co-authors:  Palash Deb (North Carolina A&T State University, US), Prothit Sen (ISB Hyderabad), Augustine Duru (American University, US), & David Brannon (Towson University, US)

o  Summary of the paper using AI [Notebook LM]: https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/68d3e5d9-bf90-4633-a566-7cdd3bdf6b67/audio

• “India’s Start-up Explosion: More Pitfalls than Promise?” (2022). LSE Business Review.

o  Co-authors:  Priya Rachel David (IIM Calcutta) & Palash Deb (North Carolina A&T State University, US)

• “Crowdfunding and Governance: A Review and Research Roadmap.” (2022). Global Journal of Accounting and Finance, Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 1-21. 

o  Co-authors:  David Brannon (Towson University, US) & Palash Deb (North Carolina A&T State University, US)

• “Book Review: Globalization and The Economic Consequences of Terrorism, Brenda J. Lutz and James M. Lutz”. (2022). International Journal of Development and Conflict, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 104–108. 

o  Co-authors: Akshay Narayanan (Masters’ Union)

• “The Threat of Bankruptcy and Financing Strategy in Learning-intensive Industries.” (2021). Journal of Strategy and Management, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 635-650.  

o  Co-authors:  Palash Deb (North Carolina A&T State University, US)

• “Book Review: The Difficult Task of Peace: Crisis, Fragility, and Conflict in an Uncertain World, Rojas-Aravena, Francisco (Ed.)”. (2020). International Journal of Development and Conflict, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 284–288. 

o  Co-authors: Akshay Narayanan (Masters’ Union)

Media Coverage   📜

• “India's Private Equity Frenzy: Smart Money Or A Bubble in the Making?"(2025). ABP Live

o  Co-authors:  Utkarsh Sinha (Acuity Knowledge Partner) 

• “Can startups harness AI to transform the Indian healthcare landscape?” (2024). Economic Times

o  Co-authors:  Smit Bhavsar (Tata 1mg)

Grants & Awards   🏆

• Masters' Union Director Award for Research Innovation (2024)

• ACR-AMA Research Grant Award of $ 1,000 (2022) 

• Bala and Vasantha Balachandran Research Grant Award (₹ 1,00,000), Great Lakes Institute of Management (2019)

• Finalist for the “That’s Interesting!” Doctoral Workshop Award at the Strategic Management Society (SMS) India Special Conference (2018)

Working Papers   📑

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• Fostering and Realizing Value from R&D Investments: The Governance Role of Corporate Transparency

  o  With:  Parthiban David (American University, US), Palash Deb (North Carolina A&T State University, US), Akshay Narayanan (Masters’ Union), & Augustine Duru (American University, US) 

• Shaping Corporate Social Performance: The Governance Role of Corporate Transparency 

o   Co-authors:  Parthiban David (American University, US), Palash Deb (North Carolina A&T State University, US), & Augustine Duru (American University, US)

• Does Excess Cash Encourage R&D? A Cross-Country Examination

o   Co-authors:  Santanu Bhadra (IIM Raipur) & Shailendra Kumar (IIM Bangalore)

• Servicification of Indian Manufacturing firms

  o  With:  Garima Chaklader (Masters’ Union) & Rupa Chanda (UNESCAP) 

• Corporate Transparency & Managerial Ability

o  With: Palash Deb (North Carolina A&T State University, US), Parthiban David (American University, US), & Augustine Duru (American University, US)

•  Sustainability! Over My Dead Body? - Enabling Institutional Logic Change by Bridging Complementary Institutional Voids

o  With: Bhupesh Manoharan (Audencia Business School, France), Akshay Narayanan (Masters’ Union), & Krishanu Rakshit (ICN Business School, France)

• “I Can’t Forgive You!”: Conceptualising Brand Infidelity and Consumer Reconciliation with Brand Misdemeanours

o  With: Bhupesh Manoharan (Audencia Business School, France), Akshay Narayanan (Masters’ Union), & Manu Prasad (Masters’ Union)

Select International Conferences  📖

• Rethinking Lateral Exchange Markets: Multihoming, Disintermediation & Gamification, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) Conference, Tasmania, Australia, December 2024

• Servicification of Indian Manufacturing firms, Academy of International Business (AIB) - MENA, University of Birmingham Dubai, UAE, December 2024

• Fostering and Realizing Value from R&D Investments: The Governance Role of Transparency, Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, August 2024;  https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.15066abstract

• FDI and GVC Participation of Firms: An Empirical Investigation of Indian Manufacturing Sector, Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, August 2024;  https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.20627abstract

• Corporate Information Environment and CSP: Transparency, Stakeholder Value, and Shareholder Value, Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2023;  https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.10189abstract

• Does Excess Cash Encourage R&D? A Cross-Country Examination, Academy of Management Annual (AOM) Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2023; https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.18715abstract

• “I Can’t Forgive You!”: Conceptualising Brand Infidelity and Consumer Reconciliation with Brand Misdemeanours, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 2023

• Does Excess Cash Encourage R&D? A Cross-Country Examination, Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference, London, September 2022

• Attainment Discrepancy and R&D Search: The Role of Country-level Entrepreneurial Opportunity and Corporate Governance, Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference, London, September 2022

• Crowdfunding and Governance: A Review and Research Roadmap, Institute for Global Business Research Conference, Virtual Conference, 2021

• Sustainability! Over My Dead Body? - Enabling Institutional Logic Change by Bridging Complementary Institutional Voids, Academy of Management (AOM) Specialized Conference: Responsible Leadership in Rising Economies, Bled, Slovenia, October 2019; https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amgblproc.slovenia.2019.0280.abs

• Emergence of Institutional Logic due to Changing Consumption Practices: The Real Story of Fake News, Academy of Management (AOM) Specialized Conference: Responsible Leadership in Rising Economies, Bled, Slovenia, October 2019; https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amgblproc.slovenia.2019.0433.abs

• Financing Choices in Learning-intensive Industries: Implications for Firm Survival, Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2019; https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2019.14851abstract

• The Influence of Corporate Governance on Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Moderating Role of Corporate Opacity, Strategic Management Society (SMS) India Special Conference, Hyderabad, December 2018

Note: Some titles have been changed to preserve the anonymity of the manuscripts in the peer-review process