Soumya Kanta Mishra
About
- Current Position
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Category
- Full-Time Faculty
- Academic Area
- General Management, Public Policy, and Economics ↗
Academic Profile
Dr. Soumya Kanta Mishra holds a Fellowship in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur, and an MBA from IIT Madras. Dr. Mishra has over 12 years of valuable industry experience, having worked with organizations such as Mastek, OPTCL, Sutherland, and HGS which allow him to bring diverse perspectives to his teaching in management education. He has also qualified for the UGC-NET in Management. His research interest is interdisciplinary which includes the economics of platform businesses, industrial organization, and applied game theory. He has attended top international and national conferences like PlatStrat, SASCA, BSIM, INDAM. He has won Best Paper award at BSIM-2023 conference, IIM Ahmedabad. He is a reviewer of research papers for reputed journals like EJOR , MIP, and others. Before joining IIM Sambalpur, he was associated with KIIT School of Management, Bhubaneswar as a full-time faculty in the area of Economics.
Research
Publications
Mishra, S. K. & Sarkar, S. (2026). Vertizontal Price Competition Between Social Media Platforms. American Business Review, 29(1), 4. doi: 10.37625/abr.29.1.56-88.
Kanta Mishra, S. Sarkar, S. & Guha, A. (2025). Should Both Platforms Be Kept Operational After a Merger of Two Social Media Businesses? Managerial and Decision Economics, 46(5), 2911-2928. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.4508.
Mishra, S. K. & Sarkar, S. (2023). Can social media platforms charge their users? Economics Letters, 233 (Dec 2023) 111415 (AJG-3). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111415. (ABDC: A; ABS)
User homing & merger of social media platforms: Should both platforms be kept operational post-merger?, presented at PlatStrat-2023, Questrom School of Business, Boston University. (2023)
Pricing vertically differentiated services under competition between horizontally differentiated social media platforms, presented at SASCA2023, University of Sassari, Italy. (2023).
Experimental Investigation of Manipulation & Moral Disengagement: The Game of Cheating, presented at Behavioural Science in Management (BSIM)-2023, IIM Ahmedabad. (Received the best paper award)
Platform Monopolization: Post-merger Strategic Behavior & Consumer Welfare presented at POMS India International Conference 2025, IIM Sambalpur.
Training & Consultancy
1. Conducted residential training program on "Strategic Leadership for Senior Executives of OPTCL", as program director.
2. Conducted leadership development programme for principals and vice principals of OAVS, as program director.
3. Working on an ongoing consulting project "Developing Strategic Vision 2036 and Integrated Human Resource Planning for OHPC" as project coordinator.
Contact
| soumyakm@iimsambalpur.ac.in | |
| External Academic Profile | Open Profile ↗ |