AUT - Sanjay Bhowmick

Sanjay Bhowmick

Senior Lecturer in Management

Phone: +64 9 9219999 ext. 5064

Email: sanjay.bhowmick@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

• Doctor of Philosophy (University of Auckland)
• Master of Business Administration (University of Delhi)
• Certified Associate of Banking (Institute of Bankers)
• Master of Science (Physics) (University of Delhi)
• Bachelor of Science (Honours) (University of Delhi)

Biography:

Sanjay came to New Zealand in 2003 with his wife and son. Pre-2003 he worked in finance, venture capital and in consulting for more than 2 decades. He has funded projects, advised on capital raising, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring including turnarounds, entrepreneurship development, and collaborated in projects internationally. The last non-academic position he held was in India as Country Director, Corporate Finance for Arthur Andersen.

Sanjay has received the Beta Gamma Sigma award 2008, Best Paper Award, 4th AGSE International Research Exchange, 2007 and an Enterprise Scholarship 2003-2006 (University of Auckland doctoral scholarship award).

Sanjay brings practical industry experience to his teaching, and has taught management and entrepreneurship related courses in the undergraduate, postgraduate and executive programmes. Examining the internationalisation of entrepreneurial technology firms in New Zealand, Sanjay did his PhD as an Enterprise Scholar, with the prestigious doctoral scholarship sponsored by Microsoft and the New Zealand government. His present research interests lie in the areas of strategy, internationalisation, entrepreneurship, uncertainty and human action, and social cause venturing.

Teaching Areas:

Expertise in Degree and Postgraduate Teaching

• Strategic Management
• Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Finance
• Innovation and Enterprise
• Entrepreneurship Development

Research areas:

Interests in Research Supervision

• Entrepreneurship
• Internationalisation
• Entrepreneurship and social cause
• Strategy and praxis
• Base-of-the-pyramid dynamics in business; comparative research NZ/OECD and India

Current Research Projects:

• Internationalisation: opportunity and psychic distance in firm internationalism
  
• Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneur level processes; enactment; effectuation
• Entrepreneurship and social cause venturing: theory building research
  
• Strategy and Open source business

Publications:

1. Bhowmick, S. (2011): “Social Venturing as a Distinct Domain” Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, vol 2,1, pp 99-111
2. Bhowmick, S. (2011): “Effectuation and the Dialectic of Control” Small Enterprise Research vol 18, 1 (in proof)
3. Bhowmick, S. (2007). 'Opportunity Creation as Structuration: Empirical Data from Three Technology Entrepreneurial Initiatives'. International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship, Vol 1 No 2, pp 129-145.
4. Bhowmick, S. (2008). 'No. 8 Wire in todays World', University of Auckland Business Review, Vol 10, No 1, p 13.
5. Bhowmick, S. (2009). 'Is Social Entrepreneurship an Oxymoron Term?' Proceedings of the 6th AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Adelaide, 3-6 February 2009. Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2009, pp 659-664.
6. Bhowmick, S. (2009). 'Nailing up the Psychic Distance Coffin: Opportunity Distance in Technology Entrepreneurial Firm Internationalisation'. Proceedings of the 22nd ANZAM Conference, Auckland, December 2008
7. Bhowmick, S. (20085). 'Comparing Weickian Enactment and Sarasvathian Effectuation in Entrepreneurial Opportunity Shaping: A Research Viewpoint'. Presented at the University of Auckland Business School Entrepreneurship Group Seminar, October 2008.
8. Bhowmick, S. (2008). 'Internationalisation of Entrepreneurial Firms: An Enactment-Effectuation Dance'. Proceedings of the 5th AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Melbourne,  Feb 2008, pp 785-794.
9. Bhowmick, S. (2007). 'Entrepreneurial Opportunity as Outcome of a Structuration Process: An Exploration'. Presented at the Academy of Management 2007 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia., ISSN 1543-864.
10. Bhowmick, S. (2004). 'Towards Understanding Small Firm Internationalisation - A Technology Based SME Focus', FeBR 2004, 758-770.
11. Bhowmick, S. (2005). 'Due Diligence: What Have We Learnt?'. Australian Venture Capital Journal, October 2005; Year 14 (146); pages 23-24.