Sudhir Nair

Ph.D. Candidate in Strategic Management

Email: snair@som.umass.edu

Sudhir joined the Doctoral Program in Strategic Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Fall 2006.  He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from Wichita State University and subsequently earned his MBA from Case Western Reserve University in 1992.  He has had experience in the corporate world (Citibank) as well as in entrepreneurial entities that he founded.  Sudhir's research interests are in the areas of strategic management / international management.  His long term interests are in the area of service firms; on which he is working with his advisor, Professor Bruce Skaggs.  Sudhir's dissertation plans to examine the relationship between firms and the Professional Service Firms (PSFs) they hire.  It is not completely clear that we understand why firms hire PSFs; how PSFs co-create knowledge with their clients; and what value they add.  He proposes to study PSFs from a client perspective and examine their value to the firm.

Selected Presentations

Nair, S., & Skaggs, B. 2008. Longitudinal analysis of the performance implications of cross listing:  an institutional legitimacy approach. Paper presented at Strategic Management Society Special India Conference, Hyderabad, India.  (Winner of Best Paper Proposal Award)

Nair, S. 2008. Antecedents of cross listing and their performance implications. Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA.

Nair, S. 2008. Cross listing of shares: Transaction cost economics, resource dependence and institutional perspectives. Paper presented at Eastern Academy of Management Annual Conference, Washington DC.