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Associate Professor Sunil Venaik
Associate Professor

Sunil Venaik

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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

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

  • MNC strategy and organization

  • National culture

  • 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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64 works between 1998 and 2024

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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.

Virtual transnational corporations: Redefining the economic geography of international partnerships in the new world economic order

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.

Foreign Firms and Local Linkages: Multinational affiliates and local enterprises in India - a comparative study

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.

The organizational imperative and the optimal performance of the global firm: Formalising and extending the integration-responsiveness framework

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.

Equity joint ventures by firms seeking technology from MNCs

Funding

Past funding

  • 2006 - 2008
    Transnational SME Networks: A New Model for SME Internationalization
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2005
    A Comparative Study Of International Marketing Practices Of MNCs In Developed And Developing Countries
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Associate Professor Sunil Venaik is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Business Strategy and Policy Making: A Comparative Study of Business Models

    Principal Advisor

Completed supervision

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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