Sanjana Prabhu
Ph.D. Student
Academic Department:
Area of Specialization: Strategic Management
Education
- PGDRM, Institute of Rural Management (2017)
- BA, Christ University (2015)
Research Interests
- My research can broadly be broken into two areas of focus. The first area of focus lies at the intersection of political science, law, and business. I focus on (1) when, why, and how firms “do good” and (2) the role of organizations in politics. My dissertation, which falls within this area of research, explores a relatively understudied stakeholder engagement tactic: stakeholder suppression. Specifically, I explore how the use of tactics like the threat of litigation to suppress potential dissent and avoid accountability is a viable tactic for firms. The first chapter focuses on (1) how the introduction of constraints on a firm’s power to suppress stakeholders incentivizes firms to change how they generate waste and (2) how firms move this waste to continue using such tactics. My second chapter focuses on how the prior use of such tactics can defend the firm from shifts in regulatory scrutiny. My third and last chapter focuses on the potential environmental justice implications of the use of these tactics.
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- My second area of focus is the economic outcomes of entrepreneurship. Specifically, I am interested in how entrepreneurship acts as a vehicle for economic change, how policy influences how and where entrepreneurship manifests, and how changes and movements within the labor market influence outcomes like funding sources.
