Young Researcher Award

"A constant challenge for me is to reconcile what I find interesting and what is meaningful to others, especially to the person on the street."

• Innovation in the context of multi-business firms
• Role of institutional contexts in shaping business strategy

• His high impact research activities and membership in the editorial boards of leading journals have enhanced the global reputation of the University
• His research has contributed in the areas of innovation, business groups, firm dynamism, and national technological development

• His research has an inter-disciplinary focus which addresses issues that fall in the interface between economics and business strategy
• His research focuses on innovation from both micro (firms and industries) and macro (nations) perspectives
• Employs multiple tools in conducting well-conceptualised and well-executed research
• Produces high impact papers which appear in top and widely read journals

• Published eight papers in reputable international refereed journals and contributed two book chapters
• Six of his papers appeared in the Best Papers Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management
• Published in Academy of Management Review and Management Science, the top conceptual journal and empirical journal in the management field respectively – a rare feat given the diversity of research skills required to publish in both publications

• Sits on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, European Management Review and Journal of International Business Studies

• Finalist, Best Paper Award, International Management Division, Academy of Management (2005)
• Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award (2004)
• First runner-up (2004) and Winner (2001) of Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar, Academy of International Business