Sumit Majumdar

Ph.D. - Business Administration
University of Minnesota - 1990

M.M.S. - Finance
University of Bombay, India - 1977

B.Com - Accounting and Economics
University of Bombay, India - 1975

A Positive Sum Strategy: How Good Regulations Promote Diffusion of Technology and Economic Efficiency, forthcoming in Technology in Society (2009) with Ulku Yaylacicegi. 2009 - Publication

Foreign Ownership and Firm Scope in India, European Journal of Law and Economics (2009), 27,1 39-52, with Deepak Datta. 2009 - Publication

The Entrepreneurial Revolution and Productivity in Indian Industry, India Review, 8, 2, 1-36 (2009) 2009 - Publication

On General Purpose Technology Diffusion and Firm Performance: It Pays to Join the Digital Bandwagon! forthcoming in Technology in Society (2009) with Hsihui Chang. 2009 - Publication

Corporate Borrowing and Profitability in an Emerging Market Economy, forthcoming in Managerial and Decision Economics (2009) with Kunal Sen 2009 - Publication

Retentions, Relationships and Innovations: The Financing of R&D in India, forthcoming in Economics of Innovation and New Technology (2009) 2009 - Publication

Crowding Out! Evaluating the Role of State Companies on the Dynamics of Competitiveness in Indian Industry, in Industrial and Corporate Change (2009), 18, 1, 165-207 2009 - Publication

Financial Considerations and Technology Investment Patterns in a Network Industry, Technology in Society (2009), 31, 42-52, with Sujoy Chakravarty and Hsihui Chang. 2009 - Publication

Organizer and Chair, professional development symposium, Corporate Environmental Management and the Resource Based View

2005–2005 The Academy of Management annual meeting, Honolulu, 2005

The Displacement of Private Enterprise in India and its Consequences for Competitiveness

2006–2006 Presentation at the first International Conference on Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets on Crowding Out, at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, December 2006

Panelist on India's Economic Future and Globalization Trajectory

2006–2006 At the Academy of International Business, Beijing, China, June 2006

The Impact of Mergers on Technological Progress in the US Telecommunications Industry, 1988 to 2001

2007–2007 Presented at the annual conference on Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, Corfu, August 2007

On Corporate Governance and Globalization: The Structure of Ownership and the Balance of Trade in the Indian Corporation

2005–2005 Presented at the Academy of International Business, Quebec, 2005

Teaching

Doctoral Advisement

• University of Michigan
  • Gautam Ahuja, 1996
  • Huda Fadel, 1993
  • Anuradha Nagarajan, 1994
  • Kulwant Singh, 1994
  • Lynn Perry Wooten, 1994
• Imperial College, London
  • Kiran Aggarwal, 2003
• University of Texas at Dallas
  • Ulku Yaylacicegli, 2005
  • Heli Koski, 1998

Masters Advisement

• Adviser for 25 Master's degree theses at Imperial College in the period 1998 to 2002.

Classroom Teaching

• 2003 Spring MIS 6329 Sec 501 Legal and Regulatory Issues in Telecommunications
• 2003 Fall MIS 6329 sec 501 Contemporary Issues in Telecommunications
• 2003 Fall BA 4V95 Sec 501 Telecommunications Policy and Strategy
• 2004 Spring MIS 6329 Sec 501 Legal and Regulatory Issues in Telecommunications
• 2004 Fall BPS 6310 Sec 501 Strategic Management
• 2004 Fall BPS 6310 Sec 501 Strategic Management
• 2006 Spring BPS 6310 Sec 501 Strategic Management
• 2006 Spring BPS 6310 Sec 503 Strategic Management
• 2006 Spring MIS 6329 Sec 501 Legal and Regulatory Issues in Telecommunications
• 2007 Spring BPS 6310 Sec 001 Strategic Management
• 2007 Spring BPS 6310 Sec 501 Strategic Management
• 2007 Spring IMS 6360 Sec 501 International Strategic Management
• 2008 Spring BA 4305 Sec 001 Social and Political Environment of Business
• 2008 Spring BA 4305 Sec 501 Social and Political Environment of Business
• 2008 Spring BPS 6310 Sec 501 Strategic Management
• 2009 Spring BA 4305 Sec 001 Social and Political Environment of Business
• 2009 Spring BA 4305 Sec 501 Social and Political Environment of Business
• 2009 Spring BPS 6310 Sec 501 Strategic Management

Service

• Editor of Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volumes 1 (2002) and 2 (2005)
• Editor of Journal of International Business Studies (2005-2008)
• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Business Venturing (2003-2009)
• Editorial Board Member of Long Range Planning (1999-continuing)
• Chairman, Global Communications Strategy Forum 2003-2004
• Member, of the Academic Council of the Senate of the University of Texas at Dallas 2006-2007
• Member, of the Senate of the University of Texas at Dallas 2004-2007
• Member, University Advisory Committee on Research, University of Texas at Dallas 2003-2005
• Chairman, Library Committee, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas 2003-2007
• Member, of various faculty review and promotion committees

External Funding

University of Michigan

• Office of the Vice Provost for Academic and Multicultural Affairs, University of Michigan;
• The William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan;
• Center for International Business Education, University of Michigan;
• Consortium for Research on Telecommunications Policy, University of California, Berkeley;
• International Institute, University of Michigan;
• (All in the range of $5,000 to $10,000 for research on topics that have led to publications)

Imperial College, London

• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, London (In the range of £5,000 for research on topics that have led to publications)
• European Union, Brussels (Part of a European Technology Consortium for a Euro 2 million project for the development of interactive television)

Professional memberships

• Academy of Management

India Enterprise Forum to Explore Country’s Global Future

With 2,000 ethnic groups, 1,600 languages and dialects and a population of 1.2 billion – constituting the world’s largest democracy – India has become a land of allure and exploration for leaders and experts worldwide. 

Prominent leaders from international business, government, academia and law will gather on May 15 at the India Enterprise Forum, which will be held at the UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management. The group will explore what is required for India to continue its growth trajectory and to fuel the global economy.