Research
I am a management and organisational scholar working at the intersection of strategy, entrepreneurship and organisation studies. My research examines how individuals and organisations navigate strategic contradictions and how framing, stakeholder relationships, identity and learning influence whether competing demands produce innovation, inclusion and social value or lead to exclusion, disengagement and symbolic responses.
This agenda connects three areas: organisational ambidexterity and sustainability transitions; entrepreneurship, value, impact and marginality; and learning, identity and agency in educational and organisational settings. Current projects examine alternative community institutions, environmental impression management, newcomer socialisation, neurodiversity-informed entrepreneurship education and contemporary experiences of work. I use quantitative, qualitative and computational methods to produce theoretically rigorous and practically relevant research.
Strategic contradictions and organisational responses
This theme examines how organisations navigate simultaneous strategic, stakeholder and societal demands. My article, “Hello From the Other Side: External Stakeholder Paradoxes Matter for Organizational Ambidexterity”, published in Business & Society (2025), shows how external stakeholders generate interconnected paradoxes that shape organisations’ pursuit of exploration and exploitation. My current research extends this work into sustainability transitions by examining how regulatory pressures influence SMEs’ environmental responses and how organisations manage tensions between substantive environmental action and projected public images.Hello From the Other Side: External Stakeholder Paradoxes Matter for Organizational Ambidexterity published in Business & Society (2025)
Entrepreneurship, value and marginality
This research considers how entrepreneurs create and communicate value under conditions of institutional constraint and unequal stakeholder power. “A Case for Distinct Business Model Value and Impact Framing Understandings from a Study on Indian Sanitation Entrepreneurs”, published in the Journal of Management Inquiry (2026), distinguishes commercial value framing from wider societal-impact framing and examines how both can reproduce or challenge the othering of beneficiaries. Current projects investigate Panam Payattu as an alternative community-financing institution and explore newcomer entrepreneuring, socialisation and marginalised-stakeholder relationships.A Case for Distinct Business Model Value and Impact Framing Understandings from a Study on Indian Sanitation Entrepreneurs published in the Journal of Management Inquiry (2026)
Learning, identity and agency
This theme examines how people construct knowledge, identity, belonging and agency within educational and organisational environments. “Demystifying the Relationship Between Learning Decisions and Student Intentions in Entrepreneurship Education Programs”, published in the Journal of Business Research (2025), examines how students’ learning choices shape entrepreneurial intentions. “Reimagining Leadership Development for BME Leaders”, published in Management Learning (2026), shows how peer learning helps marginalised leaders reconstruct knowledge, belonging and agency. Current projects include NeuroBridge Enterprise, which develops neurodiversity-informed guidance for entrepreneurship educators, and research on newcomer socialisation, organisational othering, quiet quitting and changing experiences of work.Demystifying the Relationship Between Learning Decisions and Student Intentions in Entrepreneurship Education Programs published in the Journal of Business Research (2025)Reimagining Leadership Development for BME Leaders published in Management Learning (2026),