Network cooperation and economic performance of SMEs: Direct and mediating impacts of innovation and internationalisation
Rashmeet Singh is currently working as a Research Associate at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. He holds a PhD in Industrial Economics from IISc, Bengaluru. His research interests are in the areas of network cooperation, internationalization and innovation management of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) particularly in the emerging economies. He has published his research outputs in refreed international journals and obtained feedback on his research through participation in various national and international conferences.
Deepak Chandrashekar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Area at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He holds a PhD in Industrial Economics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a PGDM from SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore, and a BE from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore. His research interests are in the areas such as Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Competitiveness and Intellectual Property Rights. He has several research papers to his credit published in reputed refereed international journals. He also serves on the editorial review board of several journals.
M. H. Bala Subrahmanya is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has more than 30 years of professional experience, including about 25 years in IISc. During his professional career he received Commonwealth Fellowship (1999–2000); Japan Foundation Fellowship (2004/2005); and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship (2009/2010). He has worked as a Visiting Research Fellow at University of Durham, UK (February–July 2000); National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) Tokyo, Japan (March 2005–February 2006); and at University of California, Davis, USA (September 2009– April 2010). His field of specialization is Industrial Economics.
Arun Sukumar is an Associate Professor at the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University. He is an active researcher and his principal research interests are in the field of social enterprise and in technology management in an international context. Arun has worked extensively with international partners in Vietnam, Thailand, India, Malaysia and Africa to develop start-up ecosystems and in development of transnational education programs aimed at undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. He co-ordinates the internationalisation efforts of the centre for transformational entrepreneurship and has been involved in the approval, design and delivery of trans-national doctoral degree programs currently delivered in Malaysia, Ghana and Vietnam. He has delivered workshops, seminars and knowledge exchange programs on internationalisation of entrepreneurship education and in development and delivery of blended teaching programs to an international audience.
Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi is a Lecturer in International Business and is the Programme Director of BSc International Business and Management at Aston Business School. Before joining Aston University, Vahid was a senior lecturer in International Entrepreneurship at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, and lecturer in Business Strategy at the School of Strategy and Leadership at Coventry University. He is an active researcher in the field of international entrepreneurship, particularly in the area of SME internationalisation. Vahid has published papers in leading international journals such as International Business Review, Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, etc. Dr Jafari-Sadeghi is an associate editor at the EuroMed Journal of Business, and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, International Journal of Business and Globalisation, and British Food Journal. He has served as the lead guest editor for the special issues at the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, and British Food Journal. Vahid has edited various books in Springer and Routledge and performed as track chair and presenter for several international conferences.