Dr Sanjay Bhowmick

Senior Lecturer

Department: Newcastle Business School

Sanjay joined Newcastle Business School in 2012. A Fellow of Higher Education UK, he has been teaching courses in strategy, international business, entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as finance/entrepreneurial finance at NBS and earlier at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Sanjay is an achievement motivation trainer and has used those techniques in conducting several entrepreneurship development programmes with existing and aspiring entrepreneurs. He has raised funds of £100,000 p. a. for student start-up businesses. He is a visiting professor at the Foundation for Liberal and Management Education in India.

Before joining academia Sanjay has held senior management positions in bankng, venture capital and consulting, last as County Director for corporate finance in Arthur Andersen in India. Sanjay has also worked on assignments in the US, the UK, and in South East Asia. His experience enables him to bring real life case discussions into the classroom. He has an MSc and an MBA from University of Delhi and a PhD from the triple crown Business School of The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

His research interests lie in firm internationalisation, entrepreneurship, social cause venturing, management of the commons, and strategy. Sanjay has published in and reviewed for international journals and has been a member of international research bodies including the Entrepreneurship Division International Committee of the Academy of Management. He has been a core committee member of the Australian Centre of Entrepreneurship Research Exchange annual conference series for six years and a founding member of Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division International Committee.

Sanjay is happy to take students for a doctoral programme in entrepreneurship, social cause venturing, management of the commons and firm internationalisation.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Firm internationalisation, entrepreneurship, social cause venturing, management of the commons, strategy

Key Publications

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The anti-money laundering risk assessment: A probabilistic approach, Ogbeide, H., Thomson, M., Gonul, M., Castairs Pollock, A., Bhowmick, S., Bello, A. 1 Jul 2023, In: Journal of Business Research
How Psychic Distance and Opportunity Perceptions Affect Entrepreneurial Firm Internationalization, Bhowmick, S. 1 Mar 2019, In: Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences
Co-creation of value at the bottom of the pyramid: analysing Bangladeshi farmers' use of mobile telephony, Dey, B., Pandit, A., Saren, M., Bhowmick, S., Woodruffe-Burton, H. Mar 2016, In: Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
Structurational explication of technology adoption in ICT4D: A throwback to giddens, Bhowmick, S. 1 Jan 2016, ICTs in Developing Countries, London, UK, Palgrave Macmillan
Structurational explication of technology adoption In ICT4D: a throwback to Giddens, Bhowmick, S. 31 Oct 2015, ICTs in Developing Countries: Research, Practices and Policy Implications, Basingstoke, Macmillan
They look while they leap: Generative co-occurrence of enactment and effectuation in entrepreneurial action, Bhowmick, S. Jul 2015, In: Journal of Management and Organization
Beyond Entrepreneurship in Social Venturing: Institutions for Societal Wellbeing, Bhowmick, S. Jun 2014, International Network of Business and Management Journals (INBAM) conference
Comparing Social Venturing and Commercial Entrepreneurship: Two Illustrative Cases, Bhowmick, S. 2014, International Network of Business and Management Journals (INBAM) conference
Lack of HR Practices in Entrepreneurial Firms: Reasons and Implications, Bhowmick, S., Patel, C., Nair, P. Feb 2014, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange
Whale Watch Kaikoura – New Zealand, Spiller, C., Bhowmick, S. 24 Nov 2014, Global Entrepreneurship: Case Studies of Entrepreneurial Firms Operating Around the World, London, Taylor & Francis

Professional Activity

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Other: Development of Credit Scoring Model for Micro Credit Quality Enhancement 2019
Other: £100,000 p. a. for 3-5 years extendable external funding obtained for student business start-ups 2018
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Address of Tees Valley Combined Authority Mayor Ben Houchen 2017

PGR Supervision

Tena Patten The Creative Industries Entrepreneur: a study of opportunity formation Start Date: 07/10/2013 End Date: 24/08/2017
Michael Burden Start Date: 01/10/2017 End Date: 30/10/2019
Tena Patten The Creative Industries Entrepreneur: a study of opportunity formation Start Date: 07/10/2013 End Date: 24/08/2017
Rajagopalan Poyapakkam Role of External Parties in Stimulating and Enhancing Innovation in SMEs in the North of England Start Date: 23/06/2016

Qualifications

PhD January 01 2009
MSc
MBA
Achievement Motivation Trainer, Entrepreneurship
Chartered Associate, Institute of Bankers
Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK

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