Balaji Subramanian

Assistant Professor

Area of Expertise: Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

Balaji Subramanian is an Assistant Professor of OBHRM area at Great Lakes Institute of Management. Prior to joining Great Lakes, Balaji was an assistant professor at IIM Visakhapatnam. He holds a PhD from IIM Kozhikode and a MBA (PGDM) from IIM Lucknow. His research interests are in the fields of alternative organizations, workplace democracy and teaching-learning processes. In addition to teaching MBA courses, he has conducted number of executive training programs for both public and private sector organizations. Prior to joining academics, he worked with companies such as Infosys and Virtusa Consulting. He holds a B.E. from Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University.

Research Interests

• Alternative Organizations, Workplace Democracy and Teaching-Learning Processes

Journal Publications

• Debabrata Chatterjee, Merin Jacob & Balaji Subramanian (2023), Third stream activities of universities: Balancing global and national institutional conformity in India, SN Social Sciences, 3, 14
• Boby Chaitanya Villari, Balaji Subramanian, Piyush Kumar and Pradeep Kumar Hota (2021), Do firm growth models work in service industries in developing economies?: An investigation of relationship between firms’ growth, size and age. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 33 (2) (ABDC – C)
• Pradeep Kumar Hota, Balaji Subramanian,  Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy (2020), Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Citation/Co-citation Analysis. Journal of Business Ethics, 166, 89–114 (FT 50 Journal)
• Debabrata Chatterjee, Balaji Subramanian, Pradeep Kumar Hota (2020), Professionalisation and Hybridization Dynamics of Social Enterprises. Voluntas, 31, 457-471 (ABDC – B, Scopus Q1)
• Pradeep Kumar Hota, Boby Chaitanya Villari, and Balaji Subramanian (2018) Developing Platform Ecosystem for Resource Mobilization: The Case of Social Enterprises in India. Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, 20 (2), 71-85 (ABDC - C)

Book Chapter

• Benchmarking educational objectives of private schools: An empirical examination of vision and mission statements.  In Chatterjee, D., Pati, S.P., Rajeev, P.N., & Dhal, M. (Eds), Let’s Learn (pp. 88-107). India: Bloomsbury (2014).

Conferences

• Balaji Subramanian, Debabrata Chatterjee, (2020) Fighting for legitimacy: The case of alternative schools in India. Indian Academy of Management (INDAM) Annual Conference, IIM Trichy, India (Won the best paper of the track award)
• Balaji Subramanian, Debabrata Chatterjee, Merin Jacob, Institutional Complexity and Alternative Organizations: An Exploratory Study. British Academy of Management (BAM) Annual Conference, 2017, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
• Balaji Subramanian, Debabrata Chatterjee, Survival of alternative organizations in mature fields: The case of an alternative school in India. 29th Society for the advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference, 2017, Université Claude Bernard, France
• Balaji Subramanian, Debabrata Chatterjee, Power and Institutional Fields. 10th Global Studies Conference, 2017, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
• Balaji Subramanian, Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy, Benchmarking educational objectives of private schools: An empirical examination of vision and mission statements. IIMK HR Summit, 2014, IIM K, India.
  (Won the best paper of the conference award)
• Participated in ISB-IIMB Doctoral Consortium on Teaching, 2017, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India

MDP Conducted

Designed and offered several Management Development Programs for executive participants and organizations as listed below.

• Strategic Human Resource Management - Online program for working HR Professionals. Duration - 6 months. Conducted for 3 Batches.
• General Management Program for middle managers of Hindustan Shipyard Limited. Duration - 1 week.  Conducted for 4 batches.
• Professional Program in HRM for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited. Duration – 5 months.
• Strategic Leadership Program for Public Sector Enterprises. Duration – 1 week
• Management Development Program for Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. Duration – 1 week
• Leadership Development Program for senior managers of Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. Duration – 1 week
• Management Development Program for Indian Naval Officers. Duration – 1 week
• Management Development Program for senior managers of Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Ltd. Duration – 2 weeks.
• Young Managers Program for Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Ltd. Duration – 2 weeks. Conducted for 3 batches.
• Executive Development Program for Hi-Tech Arai Ltd. Duration – 3 months.

In addition, as a resource person, taken sessions in several executive programs conducted for organizations such as L&T, Canara Bank, DRDO, NTPC and IOCL.

Invited Talks / Guest Lectures

• Delivered a talk on ‘Leadership and Emotional Intelligence’ for the vigilance officers of UCO Bank, Aug 2023
• Delivered talks on ‘Groups and Teams’ and ‘Emotional Intelligence’ for the executives of Hindustan Shipyard Ltd, Feb 2023
• Delivered a session on ‘Conducting Bibliometric Analysis’ for the faculty of GITAM University, Jan 2022

Academic & Administrative Services

• Area Chairperson, OBHRM Area, IIM Visakhapatnam, Apr 2021 – Jan 2024
• Co-chairperson, Management Development Programs, Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai, Aug 2018 – Feb 2021
• Reviewer, Management and Labour Studies Journal, XLRI
• Reviewer, IIM Bangalore Case Center
• Reviewer, SN Social Sciences Journal