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Faculty Profile

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Sushanta Kumar Sarma

Primary Areagroup(s):

OB-HR

Designation:

Associate Professor

Secondary Areagroup(s):

Strategic Management

sushanta@irma.ac.in

(O) 221965

Courses

  • Manager`s Guide to Career Management
  • Organizational Structure and Design
  • Values and Ethics in Management
  • Human Resources Management
  • Hybrid and Dual Purpose Organizations
  • Dual Purpose Organizations and Social Enterprises
  • Organisation Behaviour

Journal(Article)

  • Sarma, S.K., Kumar, K.K. and Mishra, S.K. (2022), "Strategic response to COVID-19: how do social enterprises navigate crisis situations?", Social Enterprise Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-07-2021-0052

Journal(Notes)

  • Sarma S.K., Lalai D., Agrawal I. (2021), "The liminal impact of lockdown on the Baheliya community", Development in Practice

Journal(Article)

  • Sushanta K. Sarma (2019), "Retaining the social goal: role of path creation in for-profit social enterprises", Journal of Management History, DOI: 10.1108/JMH-08-2018-0039
  • Sushanta K. Sarma (2019), "Composition of Indian Microfinance: A Case for Competing Logics", International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 27(5), pp:1298-1316
  • Mukul Kumar and Sushanta Kumar Sarma (2016), "Searching for the Middle Path in Microfinance Delivery, Social Change 46 (4), pp. 512-525; December. DOI: 10.117/0049085716666596
  • Sarma S K and Mehta M (2014) "The Best Model for Micro-Lending: Self-Help Group or Joint Liability Group?", Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 33 No. (3) pp. 247-260

Article in reputed national newspaper and EPW

  • Indranil De & Sushanta Kumar Sarma (2020), The flaws of feedback, The Pioneer, September 21, 2020
  • Sushanta Kumar Sarma (2020), The Gram Panchayat in Bihar take the battle against Covid head on, (co-authored), The Hindu Business Line, August 3, 2020
  • Sushanta Kumar Sarma and Madhavi Mehta (2020), Leading through the Covid-19 Crisis: A Dairy Producer company`s response to the pandemic (co-authored), Financial Express, July 6, 2020

Chapters in Edited Books

  • Sushanta K. Sarma (2020), "Investigating failed social entrepreneurship: A process research perspective", Majumdar and S and Reji, EM (Ed.); Methodological Issues in Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge and Practice, Springer Publications

Conference

National
  • Sushanta Kumar Sarma Presented paper on Addressing the Politicians` Dilemma: Insights from Social Enterprises at the 6th Biennial Indian Academy of Management, IIM Trichy; January 2-4, 2020.
  • Sushanta Kumar Sarma Presented paper (with Anu Ann Alexander and Shishir Kumar Jha) on Understanding varied forms of social entrepreneurship through an institutional logics perspective at the 6th Biennial Indian Academy of Management, IIM Trichy; January 2-4, 2020.

MDP-Coordinated

  • Ethics and Co-operative Values for the Field Supervisors of Milk Procurement Division, Amul Dairy, (March 4 - 4, 2023)
  • Ethics and Co-operative Values for the Field Supervisors of Milk Procurement Division, Amul Dairy, (March 3 - 3, 2023)
  • Ethics and Co-operative Values for the Field Supervisors of Milk Procurement Division, Amul Dairy, (March 2 - 2, 2023)
  • Enhancing Accountability and Ownership through Behavioural Changes for Amul Dairy, (May 20 - 20, 2022)
  • Enhancing Accountability and Ownership through Behavioural Changes for Amul Dairy, (May 19 - 19, 2022)
  • Engaging for Successful Performance for the Staff of Finance and Accounting Function at GCMMF and its Member Unions, (March 15 - 16, 2022)
  • Enhancing Accountability and Ownership through Behavioural Changes for Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers& Union Limited, (March 12 - 12, 2022)
  • Enhancing Accountability and Ownership through Behavioural Changes for Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers& Union Limited, (March 11 - 11, 2022)
  • Engaging for Successful Performance for the Staff of Finance and Accounting Function at GCMMF and its Member Unions, (November 16 - 17, 2021)
  • Certificate Course on Effective Leadership through Delegation and Coaching, (August 27 - September 25, 2021)
  • Staying Motivated and Motivating Others for Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers& Union Limited, (August 26 - 26, 2021)
  • Human Capital Management in Development Organizations, (January 9 - 10, 2020)
  • Entrepreneurship Development Programme for SC/ST Entrepreneurs, (December 17 - 22, 2019)
  • Building a People Centric Organization, (December 16 - 17, 2019)

MDP-Instructed

  • Leadership for Organizational Excellence for National Fertilizers Limited, (March 21 - 25, 2022)
  • Training for Area Managers of Tata Trusts (Campus Connect-1), (December 1 - 12, 2021)
  • Collective Immersion Programme for ALC India, (November 9 - 13, 2021)
  • Madhyama-1 Programme for IndianOil Institute of Petroleum Management, (September 23 - 30, 2021)
  • Senior Management Programme for TransUnion CIBIL Limited, (March 9 - 10, 2021)
  • Training and Skill Development Programme for Uttarakhand State Rural Livelihoods Mission, (February 23 - 26, 2021)
  • Leadership and Communication, (February 15 - 19, 2021)
  • Training and Facilitation Programme for Agribusiness Entrepreneurs for Uttarakhand Decentralized Watershed Development Project, (December 9 - 24, 2020)
  • Entrepreneurship Development Programme for SC/ST Entrepreneurs (Batch-2), (March 2 - 7, 2020)
  • Entrepreneurship Development Programme for SC/ST Entrepreneurs (Batch-1), (March 2 - 7, 2020)
  • Developing Leadership for NDDB Officers, (February 5 - 7, 2020)
  • Entrepreneurship Development Programme for SC/ST Entrepreneurs, (December 9 - 14, 2019)
  • Handholding of Farmer Producer Organizations for NCDEX, (December 2 - 5, 2019)
  • Managerial Effectiveness for Superior Performance, (October 3 - 5, 2019)
  • Essentials of Finance and Agribusiness for Farmer Producer Organizations, (September 23 - 24, 2019)
  • Handholding of Farmer Producer Organizations for NCDEX, (August 27 - 30, 2019)
  • Strategic Leadership and Change Management for National Dairy Development Board, (August 19 - 23, 2019)
  • Training of Trainers to Enhance their Effectivity in Training Others, (August 5 - 7, 2019)

Research and Consulting

Completed
  • Evalution Study of District Rural Development Authority(DRDA) Scheme (Member)
On going
  • Consulting, training, and handholding for Dehaat jointly with Niiti Consulting (Member)
  • Impact Assessment of SST&s Initiatives in the State of Tamil Nadu (Member)