Department of Business Administration
Dr. Anu Ann Alexander
Designation : Assistant Professor
Qualification : Ph.D
Email-ID : anualexander@rajagiri.edu
Anu Ann Alexander holds a PhD in Management from IIT Bombay and a PG Diploma in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand. Her thesis is on Social Entrepreneurship for Social Change: Understanding the Entrepreneurial Processes and Change Outcomes. Her research interests are in social entrepreneurship, social change, institutional work, institutional logics approach, inclusive innovation, framing and sustainable development goals. Her research has been presented at various reputed international and national conferences such as AOM and INDAM. She has research articles published and under review in ABDC-listed journals. She is also a reviewer for the journal International Journal of Rural Management (Sage Publication). She has a cumulative experience of 3 years working in social sector organisations.
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,Mumbai, India Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Management
- Institute of Rural Management Anand, Anand, India Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management(PGDPRM)
- Women’s Christian College, Chennai, India Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Corporate Economics
- Eklavya Foundation Jan 2014 - Jul 2015
- AKRSP(I) Sep 2012 - Oct 2013
- Intellecap May 2012- Aug 2012
- Reviewer for International Journal of Rural Management
- Reviewer AOM (Social Issues in Management, 2018)
- Alexander, A. A., Jha, S., & Pandey, A. 2019.Understanding how hybrid organisations tackle social challenges: An institutional logics approach. South Asian Journal of Business Studies.9(2).193-213.(ABDC:C).
- Sarma, S.& Alexander, A.A. “Social Entrepreneurship in creating instititional infrastructure for Indian dairy cooperatives. Accepted and paper presented at the Paper Development Workshop (PDW) for a special issue on Exploring the complex historical foundations of social entrepreneurship by Business History (ABDC: A), November 9, 2023.
- Alexander, A. A. & Sarma, S. “Identification with logics and logics as resource: The role of actor and context in entrepreneurship for poverty”. Accepted and paper presented at the Paper Development Workshop (PDW) for a special issue on
- Entrepreneurship and Poverty, organised by Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (ABDC:A) in Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden, May 30, 2023.
- Alexander, A.A. “A typology of SE based on institutional orientation”. Paper has been accepted for presentation at the 7th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, Sheffield, UK, June 24-27, 2019.
- Alexander, A. A. & Pandey, A. “How business organizations pursue alternative goals in a market economy: Explaining through institutional logics approach using cases from India”. Presented at the Social Issues in Management Research DevelopmentWorkshop, Academy of Management AOM in Atlanta,USA, August 4-8, 2017.
- Alexander, A.A.& Jha, S. “Towards elucidating the social from business in social business: Explaining through Grameen and SEWA”. Presented at the Social Business Academia Conference (SBAC), Paris, France, November 8, 2017.
- Alexander, A.A., Jha, S.& Sarma, S. “Understanding varied forms of social entrepreneurship through an institutional logics perspective”. Presented at the 6th Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management organised by IIM Trichy, January 2-4, 2020.
- Joshi, Niraj, Alexander, A.A & Acharya, S. (2014), “Dejure and Defacto Status of the Commons: The Case of Two Marginalised Tribal Villages in Madhya Pradesh.” Presented in the International Seminar on Development, Resources and Livelihoods organised by the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, February 12-13, 2015.
- IIMA Doctoral Summer School 2017 Qualitative Track conducted at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, June 1-4, 2017.
- Strategic Leadership Workshop on Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community Systems: Design and Systems Perspectives conducted at the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar, December 7-9, 2017.
- Teaching Assistantship (TA) Scholarship by MHRD, Government of India (PhD. level), 2015 – 2020