The last couple of decades of technological progress has seen a massive disruption in our way of life. The fusion of digital, physical, and biological is blurring the boundaries between what was earlier separate domains. The exponential pace of growth of technological adoption requires that the entire edifice of traditional systems of production, management, and governance must be revamped to meet the demands of the new reality. This requires a breed of research scholars who bring fresh ideas and create efficient systems to manage the new state of affairs. The PhD program in Management shall be unique for the interdisciplinary and contemporary focus it brings to research in management disciplines. The program seeks to train productive research scholars who can make an impact in an increasingly competitive and challenging business world. The interdisciplinary approach is strengthened by it being situated in a pioneering liberal education university enabling collaboration cutting across disciplines outside of the conventional streams of management to provide different perspectives and a wider breadth of research opportunities. Research in management is supported by an accomplished set of faculties with wide-ranging industry and academic experience with an ecosystem Opportunities exist for research scholars to learn and employ cutting edge tools and techniques, including data science/analytics, in their research work.
Broad areas of research: Marketing including Digital, Finance, Operations/Business Analytics, Human Resource Management.
PhD guides and Research Interests
Prof. Amarpreet Singh Ghura
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow | IIM Calcutta
Research Interests: Corporate Entrepreneurship, Family managed business, Strategy
Prof. Dinesh Shenoy
Ph.D. - Industrial Engineering | IIT - Kharagpur
Research Interests: Project Management, Library Operations, Lean Manufacturing
Prof. Gitesh Chavan
Ph.D. - Marketing | NITIE - Mumbai
Research Interests: B2B Marketing, Consumer Buying Behavior, Branding, Marketing Strategy, Industrial Buying Behavior
Prof. Jaslene Bawa
FPM - Finance & Accounting | IIM - Raipur
Research Interests: Banking, EMH, ESG, Equity Stock market, Mutual Funds, NBFCs, Fin Tech
Prof. Smita Chaudhry
FPM - Organizational Behavior | IIM – Calcutta
Research Interests: Employee Engagement/Experience, Personality, Generation Z, Positive Psychology, Diversity, Equity And Inclusion
Prof. Preetha Menon
Ph.D. – Management | IIT- Madras
Research Interests: Health behaviours, Consumer and Technology, Sonic Branding
Prof. Frederick Jacobus Herbst
Ph.D. - Marketing Management | University of Pretoria, South Africa
Research Interests: Marketing strategy, Services Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Wine Business
Prof. Devendra Jain
PhD - Finance | The University of the South Pacific - Suva, Fiji
Research Interests: Financial Markets, Macro-financial risks, Climate Risk Financing, Ethical Strategies in Finance, Sustainable Finance
Prof. Neha Yadav
Fellow - Marketing | NITIE - Mumbai
Research Interests: Conversational AI Systems, Travel and Tourism, Sustainable Consumption, Technology Adoption
Prof. Khyati Jagani
FPM – Marketing | MICA – Ahmedabad
Research Interests: Social Media Influencers, Virtual Influencers, Underdog Branding, Digital Marketing, Post-Pandemic Residual Emotions, Personality, Ad Avoidance, Dark Side of Virtual Influencers, Metaverse - Digital Twin, NFT
Prof. Aakash Kamble
PhD - Marketing Management | Savitribai Phule Pune University
Research Interests: Consumer Interactions with Technology, Customer Experiences and Engagement, Consumer Research, Emerging Markets
Prof. Hoshiar Mal
PhD - Marketing Management | Savitribai Phule Pune University
Research Interests: Corporate Sustainability Performance, Performance Measurement, Sales Performance, Sustainable Development, Corporate Governance, Green Purchase, and Marketing Strategy