
Overview
Background
Sunil's research focuses on issues in international business for small and large firms.
Sunil Venaik's teaching and research interests include international business management, doing business in Asia, global marketing, marketing management, and market research. He is one of the top one percent of international business researchers worldwide in the last 50 years, based on his research publications in the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), and for which he was awarded a silver medal by JIBS. Sunil graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and the Australian Graduate School of Management in the University of New South Wales. He is ex-faculty of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and was awarded Visiting Fellowships by the National University of Singapore, INSEAD Fontainebleau France, Stockholm Business School in Sweden, the Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur, and the Australian National University. Sunil has extensive experience in case based teaching and learning and has taught courses in the Undergraduate, MBA, Doctoral and Executive Development programs at universities in Australia, India and Singapore. Sunil has broad managerial experience in industry including as the CEO of a medium size enterprise and consulted with national and multinational firms. Sunil has presented papers at reputed international conferences and published widely in The Conversation and in scholarly journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Organization Science, Organization Studies, European Journal of Marketing, Management International Review, Journal of Business Research, International Business Review, International Marketing Reveiw, Cross Cultural Management, Management Learning, Australian Journal of Management, Australasian Marketing Journal, Australian Economic Papers, and Economic and Political Weekly.
Availability
- Associate Professor Sunil Venaik is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technolgy, Delhi
- Masters (Coursework) of Business Administration, Ahmedabad University
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Research interests
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MNC strategy and organization
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National culture
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FDI in emerging markets
Research impacts
Sunil's research has been cited over 3,050 times in scholarly journals that have wide-ranging academic, practice and policy impacts. One of his top research papers has had a large-scale global impact with over 1,060 citations, 43,000 plus downloads across 2,442 institutions in 160 countries, in academia, business and government, and in diverse disciplines ranging from agriculture and astronomy, to computing, engineering and economics, to health and medicine.
Works
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2003
Conference Publication
Firms as seminaries: Environmental and organizational influences on learning, innovation and performance
Venaik, S., Midgley, D. F. and Devinney, T.M. (2003). Firms as seminaries: Environmental and organizational influences on learning, innovation and performance. European International Business Academy Conference 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11-13 December, 2003. Copenhagen, Denmark: Copenhagen Business School.
2003
Conference Publication
Virtual transnational corporations: Redefining the economic geography of international partnerships in the new world economic order
Venaik, S. and Ray, P. (2003). Virtual transnational corporations: Redefining the economic geography of international partnerships in the new world economic order. European International Business Academy Conference 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11-13 December, 2003. Copenhagen, Denmark: Copenhagen Business School.
2003
Book Chapter
Managerial beliefs, market contestability and dominant strategic orientation in the eclectic paradigm
Devinney, T. M., Midgley, D. F. and Venaik, S. (2003). Managerial beliefs, market contestability and dominant strategic orientation in the eclectic paradigm. International Business and the Eclectic Paradigm: Developing the OLI Framework. (pp. 152-173) edited by J. Cantwell and R. Narula. UK: Routledge.
2001
Journal Article
Foreign Firms and Local Linkages: Multinational affiliates and local enterprises in India - a comparative study
Ray, Pradeep Kanta and Venaik, Sunil (2001). Foreign Firms and Local Linkages: Multinational affiliates and local enterprises in India - a comparative study. Economic and Political Weekly, 36 (46-47), 4385-4391.
2000
Journal Article
The organizational imperative and the optimal performance of the global firm: Formalising and extending the integration-responsiveness framework
Devinney, Timothy M., Midfgley, David F. and Venaik, Sunil (2000). The organizational imperative and the optimal performance of the global firm: Formalising and extending the integration-responsiveness framework. Organization Science, 11 (6), 674-695.
1998
Book Chapter
Equity joint ventures by firms seeking technology from MNCs
Venaik, Sunil (1998). Equity joint ventures by firms seeking technology from MNCs. Globalization, privatization and the free market economy. (pp. 150-165) edited by C. P. Rao. London: Quorum.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
International Channel Choice of Industrial Exporting Firms
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Peter Liesch
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Internationalization, Innovation and State Ownership in Emerging Market Enterprises
Joint Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Yunxia Zhu
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
The International Corporate Political Activities of Multinational Enterprises: Relationship with Strategy, Structure and Performance
Joint Principal Advisor
Media
Enquiries
Contact Associate Professor Sunil Venaik directly for media enquiries about:
- Australian marketing strategy
- Business - Asia
- Business - India
- Business - international
- Cross cultural management
- Global marketing
- India - business
- International business management
- International business strategy
- International marketing
- Management - international business
- Market research
- Market research - quantitative
- Marketing
- Partial Least Squares (PLS)
- Social entrepreneurship
- Structural equation modeling (SEM)
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