Professor Arun Sukumar

Professor of Digital Business Innovation

Birmingham City Business School

Email:: arun.sukumar@bcu.ac.uk

Arun Sukumar is a Professor of Digital Business Innovation at Birmingham City University. His research interests are in technology based transformational entrepreneurship especially, in exploring societal transformation and sustainability achieved through the study of complex sociotechnical systems.

Prof Sukumar has published more than 70 articles in ranked journals and has secured and delivered projects that focus on entrepreneurial route to energise socio-economic development. He mainly works on the themes of transformational entrepreneurship, that focuses on the trifecta of economic growth, social cohesion, and environmental impact facilitated by digital transformation.

His previous funding has come Newton Fund, EU, British Council and Brazilian Government. He has worked with Coventry City council on projects identifying innovation strengths in the region and developed profiling tools to assesses businesses for their capacity to innovate.

He has developed and supervised PhD projects around transformational entrepreneurship and has been a consultant in advising SMEs and social enterprises to develop digital strategies and resilience. He is a known author, reviewer, and member of editorial boards.

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Selected Publications (2021-2023)

2023

Cyber Risk Assessment in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Multi-Level Decision Making Approach, Risk Analysis (ABS 4), (Accepted, in press with Mahadiraji, H and Jafari-Sadeghi., V)
Li, Z., Xu, Z., & Sukumar, A. (2023). Digital resilience and firm internationalization: a study of Chinese listed companies. Journal of Enterprise Information Management.

2022

Family dynamics and relationships in female entrepreneurship: an exploratory study, Journal of Family Business management, (ahead of print, with Dewitt, S., Nagaraju, R, and Li, F)
Entrepreneurial Mindset and Business Model Renewal: The role of promotion vs preventive mindsets, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ABS 2), ((Accepted, in press, with Sawang, S., Ng, P.Y., Jafari-Sadeghi, V.)
How does international entrepreneurial orientation influence firms' internationalization? An exploration with Indian software product top management teams. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, (ABS 3) (ahead-of-print, with Satyanarayana, K., Chandrashekar, D., and Jafari-Sadeghi, V.).
Guest editorial: Entrepreneurial practices in the agri-food industry: advancing the research agenda. British Food Journal 124, no. 7 (2022) (With Jafari-Sadeghi, V and Lockyer, J)
The source of SMEs competitive advantage in Covid 19: Matching big data analytic capability to business models and firm sustainability, Information Systems Frontiers, (ABS 3), May Vol. 19, pp: 1-21 (With, Song, J., Xia, S., Vrontis, D., and Liao, B and Li, Q)
Network cooperation and economic performance of SMEs: Direct and mediating impacts of innovation and internationalisation, Journal of Business Research, (ABS 3), Vol. 148, pp: 116-130 (with Singh, R., Chandrasekar, D., Hillemane, B.S., Jafari-Sadeghi, V.)
Guest editorial: International entrepreneurship from behavioural perspectives, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, (ABS 3), Vol. 28 No. 3, pp. 569- 576. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR -04 -2022 -998 (with Jafari-Sadeghi, V., Dana, L.P. and Anderson, R.B.)

2021

Carbon emissions in China's thermal electricity and heating industry: An input-output structural decomposition analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production, (ABS 2), 129608 (with Ling, Y., Xia, S., Cao, M., He, K., Lim, M. K., & Qian, X.)
What drives women towards domestic vs international business venturing? An empirical analysis in emerging markets, Journal of Business Research. (ABS 3), Vol. 134, p. 647-660 (Jafari-Sadeghi, V., Pagán-Castaño, E. & Dana, L. P.)
Barriers to entrepreneurial internationalisation for Ukrainian Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI), 19 Jun 2021, Empirical International Entrepreneurship: A Handbook of Methods, Approaches, and Applications. Jafari-Sadeghi, V., Dana, L-P. & Mahadiraji, H. (eds.). 1 ed. Springer, p. 217-230 (with Tomlins, R., Malynka, O. & Bartkiiv, N.)
The Triple Helix: A Case Study of Centurion University of Technology and Management Feb 2021, University and Entrepreneurship: Meeting the Educational and Social Challenges. Jones, P., Apostolopoulos, N., Kakouris, A., Moon, C., Ratten, V. & Walmsley, A. (eds.). Emerald, Vol. 11. p. (Inpress) (Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research; vol. 11, with Onjewu, A-K., Prakash, KV. & Haddoud, M. Y.)
Radical Innovation Process in Sustainable Development and Knowledge Management: Toyota Prius Case Study, 22 Jan 2021, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 1 ed. IOP Publishing, Vol. 628. 18 p. (IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, with Tomlins, R., Malynka, O., Rao, M. & Pandya, K.)
Analysis of Factors Impeding Access to Finance in Internet Enabled Crowdfunding: A Systematic Literature Review, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation (with Green, E., Sukumar, A. P. C., Jafari-Sadeghi, V., Pandya, K. & Khavarinezhad,S.)
The influences of social media on Chinese start-up stage entrepreneurship, In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development. 17, 5, p. 559-578 20 (with Jafari Sadeghi, V. & Xu, Z., 2021)