• PhD in Strategy & International Business (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Master of Technology (IIT, Bombay)
• Bachelor of Technology (NIT, Calicut)

• Associate Professor, Rajagiri School of Management (October 2019 to present)
• Associate Professor (August 2019-September 2019) & Assistant Professor (Jan 2017 – August 2019), Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, UK
• Assistant Professor/Lecturer (Jan 2014-December 2016), Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield, UK
• Software Engineer/Consultant (1998-2009)

• Organizational Innovation & Social Innovation
• Knowledge Transfers in Organizations & Strategic Agility
• Emerging markets firms
• Inter-organizational collaborations & networks

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Nair, S. R., Demirbag, M. and Mellahi, K. (2015), “Reverse Knowledge Transfer from Overseas Acquisitions: A Survey of Indian MNEs”, Management International Review, 55(2), p. 277-301. (ABDC A/ABS 3)
• Nair, S. R., Demirbag, M. and Mellahi, K (2016), “Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Emerging Market Multinationals: The Indian Context”, International Business Review, 25(1), p. 152-164. (ABDC A/ABS 3)
• Pillai, K. G., Hodgkinson, G. P., Kalyanaram, G. and Nair, S. R. (2017), “The negative effects of social capital in organizations: A review and extension”, International Journal of Management Reviews, 19(1), p. 97–124. (ABDC A/ABS 3)
• Nair, S. R., Demirbag, M., Mellahi, K. & Pillai, K. G. (2018), “Do Parent Units Benefit from Reverse Knowledge Transfer?” British Journal of Management. 29(3), p. 428-444. (ABDC A/ABS 4)
• Kingshott, R. P. J., Sharma, P. & Nair, S. R. (2020), "Social and technical chains-of-effects in business-to-business (B2B) service relationships", European Journal of Marketing, 54(6), p. 1225-1246. (ABDC A*/ABS 3)
• Nair, S. R., Pillai, K. G. & Demirbag, M. (2020), “Reaping benefits from knowledge transfer – the role of confidence in knowledge”, Journal of Knowledge Management (forthcoming). (ABDC A/ABS 2)

Book Chapters

• Nair, S. R. and Demirbag, M, (2016), “Indian Multinationals: Location Choices of overseas mergers and acquisitions”, Handbook of Emerging Market MNCs ed. Demirbag, M. and Yaprak, A. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Nair, S. R., Pillai, K. G., Hirekhan, M. and Budhwar, P. (2016), “Organisational Innovation in Indian Firms – Catalysts & Deterrents”. Human Resource Management, Innovation and Performance: Looking across Levels ed. Shipton, H., Budhwar, P., Sparrow, P and Bimrose, J. Palgrave Macmillan.

• Pillai, K. G. and Nair, S. R. (2012), “Metaknowledge in Organizations”, British Academy of Management Conference, September 2012.
• Nair, S. R., Demirbag, M. and Mellahi, K. (2013), “Knowledge Acquisitions by Indian Multinationals”, Conference of the Academy of International Business (AIB) - UK Chapter, March 2013, Aston Business School, UK.
• Nair, S. R., Demirbag, M. and Mellahi, K. (2013), “Reverse Knowledge Transfer: A Survey of Acquisitions by Indian MNEs”, Conference of the Academy of International Business (AIB), July 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Nair, S. R., Demirbag, M. and Mellahi, K. (2013), “Reverse Knowledge Transfer from Overseas Acquisitions”, Annual Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference, Atlanta, September 2013.
• Nair, S. R. and Demirbag, M (2014), “Overseas Acquisitions by Indian Multinationals – What Influences their Location Choices?”, AIB-UK, York, April 2014
• Nair, S. R., Budhwar, P. and Pillai, K. G., (2014), Organisational Innovation in Indian firms – A Multi-Level Perspective”, AIB 2014, Vancouver, June 2014
• Nair, S. R., Demirbag, M. and Mellahi, K., (2014), “Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Study of Indian Multinationals”, AIB 2014, Vancouver, June 2014.
• Nair, S. R., (2015), “Knowledge Integration & the Effects of Combinative Capabilities in Firms”, BAM 2015 (September) conference, Portsmouth.
• Nair, S. R., Demirbag, M., Mellahi, K. and Pillai, K. G. (2016), “Benefits from Reverse Knowledge Flow – The Role of Tacitness and Collaboration”, AIB-UK 2016, London, April 2016.
• Nair, S. R. and Pillai, K. G. (2017), “Innovation among IT Managers”, AIB 2017, Dubai, July 2017. – funded by British Academy Grant
• Nair, S. R. and Pillai, K. G. (2017), “Innovation among IT Managers – Interaction Effects”, PDMA 2017, Chicago, November 2017.
• Plenary talk on “Knowledge Transfer in Multinationals – Themes & Perspectives” in February (2018) at the BSSS International Conference, Bhopal, India on Canvas of International Business: Opportunities and Challenges.
• Overcoming Managerial Constraints through TM: The Influence of Networks” – Glaister, A. J. et al. – presented at AIB 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Awarded British Academy funded project for £9970, “Organisational Innovation in IT firms – An individual level perspective”
• Received NBS academic support excellence award 2018 at University of East Anglia, UK
• On the editorial board of Journal of Knowledge Management
• Invited plenary speech (titled “Knowledge Transfer & Multinationals – Themes & Perspectives”) at CIBOC, a two-day international conference on International Business organized by BSSS, Bhopal in February 2018.
• External examiner for Department of Economics & International Business, Anglia Ruskin University, UK since 2017.
• Reviewer for journals like British Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, International Business Review etc.