Sumita Sindhi
About
- Current Position
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty Category
- Full-Time Faculty
- Academic Area
- General Management, Public Policy, and Economics ↗
Academic Profile
Sumita is an Assistant Professor at IIM Sambalpur. She has a decade of academic experience. Prior to the academics, she has worked in development sector. She has interdisciplinary interests and works on cross boundary topics of sustainability, ethics, natural resource management, public policy, and Corporate social and environmental responsibility. She has qualitative research skills and experience in Case Research Methodology and Ethnography.
She is an FPM (Fellow Programme in Management) from Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB). Her doctoral thesis is titled ‘Stakeholder Influence and Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Mining Companies in Odisha, India’. She holds bachelors and master’s degree in forestry from a premier university in India.
She has conducted and been part of research projects, consultancies, and training programmes. She has publications in tiered journals and book chapters.
She has attended international short courses and conferences related to her work.
Teaching
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Business Ethics
- CSR
- Sustainability & Corporate Governance
- Nonmarket strategies
- Reinventing Organizational & Business Understanding from Trade route Endeavours (ROUTE)
Ph.D
- Seminar Course in Public Policy
- Seminar Course in Sustainability Research
Research
Research
Chhabra, S. Sindhi, S. Nandy, M. (2022). Factors affecting the adoption of slow fashion — An Exploratory Study of multiple stakeholders. Journal of Macromarketing, Vol. 42(4) 1-18, DOI: 10.1177/02761467221116294.
Choudhury, P. R. Sindhi, S. & Ghosh, R. (2022). Land Tenure Informalities and the Pandemic. Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. LVII, No. 20.
Nandi, S. Nandi, M. Sindhi, S. (2022). Does the concept of creating shared value makes sense for multinational firms? Society and Business Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp 664-690. DOI 10.1108/SBR-02-2022-0049.
Tripathi, A. & Sindhi, S. (2020). Drought, Heat Waves and Agricultural Adaptations: An Historical Account from India. Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. LV, No. 26 & 27, pp 5–12 (B in ). (ABDC)
Palvia, S. Aeron, P. Gupta, P. Mahapatra, D. Parida, R. Rosner, R. Sindhi, S. (2018). Online Education: Worldwide Status, Challenges, Trends, and Implications. Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 21:4, 233-241. DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2018.1542262 (B in ). (ABDC)
Sindhi, S. Choudhury, PR. (2018). Spring Health’s Tryst: Selling Safe Drinking Water. Asian Case Research Journal, Vol. 22(2) (C in ) DOI: 10.1142/S0218927518500098. (ABDC)
Choudhury, P R. & Sindhi, S. (2017). Improving the Drought Resilience of the Small Farmer Agroecosystem. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 52(32), pp 41-46 (B ranked journal in ). (ABDC)
Majumdar, A. Sindhi, S. Naik, A.K. Mishra, S.N. (2017). Sustainable Agriculture Income: A restorative factor to arrest migration from rural to urban centers. Workshop Proceedings titled Envisioning Sustainability for New Age Businesses at ASTHA School of Management, Bhubaneswar. ISBN 978-93-5281-513-5.
Sindhi, S. Kumar, N. (2012). Corporate environmental responsibility - transitional and evolving. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Vol. 23(6), pp. 640–657 (C in ). (ABDC)
Sindhi, S. (2009). Research and Technology for Development: Mapping the Context of Agriculture Policy of Orissa (2008). Research World - Innovations in Management Related Research, Vol. 6.
Sindhi, S. & Choudhury, P. R. (2003). Transforming lives and landscapes: Agroforestry Practices in the tribal uplands of the Eastern Ghats. Wasteland News. XVIII(3) 24-33. New Delhi, India. ISSN: 0970 9762.
Sindhi, S. & Choudhury, P. R. (2003). NTFP certification: Possibilities Galore. Community Forestry 3(1) 24-28, Bhubaneswar, India.
Sindhi, S. Chauhan N S, Choudhury P R. (2003). Ethnobotanical studies in villages around Dr. Y S Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Solan, Himachal Pradesh. Journal of NTFP, 10(1/2):90-96, Dehradun, India.
Book Chapters
Mahapatra, D. Sindhi, S. & Tripathy, A. (2020). India’s Renewables Commitments: A Political Risk Assessment. In Nandakumar Janardhanan and Vaibhav Chaturvedi, eds. Renewable Energy in Asia: Governance, Policies, and Politics; Palgrave MacMillan.
Sindhi, S. Padhy, M. & Maurya, U. (2018). Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Image Resurrection: Cases of Mining Firms in Odisha. In Adhikari, A. (Ed.) Strategic Marketing Issues in Emerging Markets. Springer, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-10-6505-7.
Sindhi, S. (2018). Culture as a tool to foster behaviour for sustainable development. In B.L. Mawlong & C.R. Lyngdoh (Ed.) Culture and Sustainability: A Value-based Approach to Development. Synergy Books India, New Delhi. ISBN 978-93-82059.
Sindhi, S. Maurya, U. K & Shukla, M.K. (2014). Analyzing Capacity Development Approaches in CSR Implementation and their Societal Impact. In S. Ray, and Siva Raju, S. (Ed.) Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility: An Indian Perspective. Springer, New Delhi. ISBN 978-81-322-1652-0.
Working Papers
Choudhury, P. R. Ghosh, R. & Sindhi, S. (2020). Covid-19, Crisis, Pandemic Resilience and Linkages to Land: An Exposition. Working Paper No. 2020-05-01 (May 2020), IIM Ahmedabad. https://web.iima.ac.in/assets/snippets/workingpaperpdf/12226725392020-05-01.pdf.
Opinion Pieces
Business practices, CSR, & Pandemic: Acceptance & Adaptation (https://indiacsr.in/business-practices-csr-and-pandemic-acceptance-and-adaptation/)
CSR – Post Covid 19 (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/csr-post-covid-19-sumita-sindhi/)
Training & Consultancy
Consultancy Projects :
• Evaluation partner for ‘Skill Development for Golden Grass Artisans’ under Ministry of Handloom & Handicraft, Government of Odisha. Project funded by World Bank.
• Baseline evaluation for the project on ‘Control of Sickle Cell and Thalassemia in Odisha’. Sponsored by CMC Vellore.
• Conducting Baseline and Need Assessment Study for Sustainable Intervention towards improvement of Sambalpuri Handloom Weavers Community (Oct 2020 – December 2020). An Intervention project for MCL, Burla under CSR.
• ICSSR Research Project on ‘Culture and Environmental Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Culture in Sustainability in Meghalaya and Odisha (Oct 2017 – May 2019).
• World Bank Research Project on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (Sept 2014 – Sept 2015)
• Best Practices documentation for Orissa Forestry Sector Development Project (September 2014 – March 2015)
• World Bank study on Land Governance Assessment Framework (Sept 2013 – Mar 2014)
• Evaluation of Community Development works in OFSDP Project in 14 Divisions in Odisha (Sept 2013 – Dec 2013)
• Feasibility study on ‘Establishment of mango hub at Dhenkanal’ in Odisha (Oct 2012 – Feb2013)
Contact
| sumitas@iimsambalpur.ac.in | |
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