Dr Sujay Sinha
MBA Director and Senior lecturer
Business Strategy
Department of Strategy and Leadership , Royal Docks School Of Business And Law
Sujay Sinha is a senior lecturer of Business Strategy and Director (MBA), at the Department of Innovation & Management. He is responsible for leading the MBA programme, both operationally and strategically.
Qualifications
- PhD (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)
- MBA (University of Liverpool)
- MA (Delhi University)
- BA (St. Stephens College, Delhi University)
Areas Of Interest
Dr. Sinha’s academic interests include business education, international partnerships and the functioning of platform ecosystems. Additionally, researching emerging markets, particularly India is a dominating context of work. Dr Sinha had a professional career spanning 15 years with organisations with Reliance Industries Ltd and General Electric.
OVERVIEW
Sujay’s professional career over twenty-seven years can be divided into two distinct categories: with the industry and followed by an academic in higher education. Incidentally, in both the categories I have spent considerable time in the emerging markets to develop a reasonable understanding of this phenomenon.
External roles
- Sujay is visiting faculty at G. D. Goenka University and B. M. Munjal University in India.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Research and Impact
Sujay's research has contributed to the process of legitimisation of private business schools in India from a resource-based and institutional theory perspective. BAM 2023, Sujay's paper won the best developmental paper award. He is coordinating to host the ‘Aston India Conference’ at the University of East London.
PUBLICATIONS
Authored books
- ‘The Legitimisation of Private Business Schools In India’ To be published in January 2025.
Journals
- Patnaik, S., Munjal, S., Varma, A. and Sinha, S., 2022. Extending the resource-based view through the lens of the institution-based view: A longitudinal case study of an Indian higher educational institution. Journal of Business Research, 147, pp.124-141
- Paper accepted on “Does embeddedness in home-country institutions influence inter-partner dynamics in international strategic alliances: evidence from a longitudinal case of Indian higher education institutions with UK University” at INDAM, Mumbai, January, 2023.
- Paper presented on “Impact of institutional changes on Indian Higher Educational Institutions” at Academy of Management, August, 2021.
- Paper presented on “Capacity building Through Social Audit” at Ministry of Small and Medium Size Enterprises in collaboration with Grand Thornton Plc UK, Delhi, India, April, 2013.
- Paper presented on “Structured Literature Review – The way forward” at GD Goenka World Institute (Lancaster University) Delhi, India, February, 2013.
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