Professor Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada

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About

Professor Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada leads the Responsible Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (RISE) research excellence hub at Kingston Business School with a vision to advance scholarship, integrate academic insight with business strategy, and inspire ethical leadership in business and society. 

He is a Research Fellow at the Jackstädt Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Germany, an Expert Fellow at the Southampton India Centre, a Steward at the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Society of Arts. Previously, he has worked at the University of Southampton, Aston Business School, Max Planck Institute of Economics, University of Goettingen, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and held visiting fellowships at Harvard Business School and Kellogg School of Management.

His interdisciplinary research interests are at the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategy, innovation, AI/digitalisation, and sustainability. He was awarded the Otto-Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society (Germany), the Inaugural DRUID Best Dissertation Award (Denmark), and the Kauffman Foundation Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management (USA). His research has been supported by grants from the Max Planck Society, British Academy, EPSRC Impact Acceleration, Bracknell Forest Council, and overseas research funding agencies. He has supervised and mentored 10 PhD candidates to completion and acted as an examiner at more than 15 PhD examinations in the UK and abroad.

Professor Pawan has taught a wide range of modules in entrepreneurship, strategy, innovation, and business growth at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and research methods for PhD students. His commitment to education and teaching excellence has consistently led to outstanding student evaluations of around 4.5/5 for more than a decade. He was nominated twice for Vice-Chancellor awards for teaching excellence at Southampton. At Aston, he was nominated for Economic Research Network's outstanding teacher award. 

Committed to making a positive impact, he co-founded iPowerz, a digital social enterprise platform aimed at fast-tracking microentrepreneurship and small business growth reflecting his passion for leveraging technology to drive positive change in communities and economies. He was included as a Steward at the Council for Inclusive Capitalism for this initiative. 

He has a PhD in Economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Göttingen, sponsored by a full scholarship of the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Germany. His doctoral advisors were Professors David Audretsch, Clarivate Citation laureate 2021, and the late Stephan Klasen, a former student of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. He is an alumnus of the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning and Narendrapur Rama Krishna Mission, two revered Indian institutions founded on the ancient Advaita philosophy. 

Beyond academia, Professor Pawan actively advises leading businesses and engages in nonprofit work as the founder/trustee of several charitable organisations, including Share-a-Meal, India Knowledge Consortium, and the Sri Sathya Sai Charitable Trust, UK.

Academic responsibilities

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Qualifications

  • Dr rer pol (Goettingen)
  • MSc (Mathematics)
  • BSc (Hons)
  • PG Certificate in Professional Practice

Teaching and learning

Professor Pawan's research-led teaching connects theories with the practicalities of the wider society and economy through interdisciplinary approaches. As a business economist, he has brought analytical reasoning to the design and delivery of the following entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy modules. 

  • Kingston: Development and Growth of SMEs (MBA), Build my Business (BSc).
  • Southampton: Global Strategies for Growth, Enterprise (MSc), Entrepreneurship, and New Business Venturing (MSc), Sustainable and Responsible Innovation (MSc), and Advanced Research Methods (PhD). 
  • Aston: Economics of Business Organizations (BSc), Economics of Entrepreneurship (BSc), Entrepreneurial Management (MSc), Entrepreneurial Strategy (BSc), Introduction to Management (BSc). 

Research

Professor Pawan has published in leading journals, including the Journal of Business Venturing, Regional Studies, Small Business Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, The Journal of Technology Transfer, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Technology in Society, Business & Society, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Review of Managerial Science, International Review of Entrepreneurship, World Development Perspectives, Journal of Management Spirituality and Religion, MethodX, and The Conversation. His books include "Microentrepreneurship in a Developing Country: Evidence for Public Policy" (Palgrave) and "Sustaining Entrepreneurship and economic growth: Lessons in Policy and industry innovations from Germany and India" (Springer). 

He serves as an Editor of Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, and is on the Editorial Board of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. He has guest-edited and peer-reviewed for several academic journals and acted as a referee for ESRC, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, Portugal Science Foundation, international funding bodies, and well-respected academic publishers.  

Areas of specialism

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Strategy
  • Innovation
  • Technology and Digitalisation
  • Sustainability

Research student supervision

Publications

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Number of items: 39.

Article

Tamvada, Pawan (2024) Most businesses won’t pay more national insurance. But the UK’s small employers still need support. The Conversation,

Alfawzan, Amal, Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan, Aldhehayan, Abdualaziz, Temouri, Yama and Pereira, Vijay (2024) The impact of Islamic religiosity on innovation propensity. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 207, p. 123598. ISSN (print) 0040-1625

Olarewaju, Tolu, Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan, McDowall-Emefiele, Sharin and Swaray, Raymond (2024) Perception of corruption as a business obstacle, generalized trust and relation centrism in low- and middle-income nations : the moderating influence of governance. Review of Managerial Science, ISSN (print) 1863-6683 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2024) Indian election : why Modi may now need to switch his economic ambitions to new businesses and small firms. The Conversation,

Audretsch, David B., Khurana, Indu, Dutta, Dev K. and Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2024) Creating effective university innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems : a commitment system perspective. The Journal of Technology Transfer, ISSN (print) 0892-9912 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Narula, Sanjiv, Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan, Kumar, Anil, Puppala, Harish and Gupta, Nakul (2023) Putting digital technologies at the forefront of Industry 5.0 for the implementation of a circular economy in manufacturing industries. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 71, pp. 3363-3374. ISSN (print) 0018-9391

Khurana, Indu, Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan and Audretsch, David B. (2023) The weaker sex? A tale of means and tails. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 20, e00407. ISSN (online) 2352-6734

Puppala, Harish, Ahuja, Jaya, Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan and Peddinti, Pranav R T (2023) New technology adoption in rural areas of emerging economies : the case of rainwater harvesting systems in India. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 196, p. 122832. ISSN (print) 0040-1625

Puppala, Harish, Peddinti, Pranav R.T., Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan, Ahuja, Jaya and Kim, Byungmin (2023) Barriers to the adoption of new technologies in rural areas : the case of unmanned aerial vehicles for precision agriculture in India. Technology in Society, 74, p. 102335. ISSN (print) 0160-791X

Olarewaju, Tolu and Tamvada, Pawan (2023) How ethnic minority SME owners in the UK can create value amid informal institutional voids. Journal of Creating Value, 9(1), pp. 107-123. ISSN (print) 2394-9643

Audretsch, David and Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2023) From entrepreneurship to leadership. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 48(2), pp. 814-820. ISSN (print) 0892-9912

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan and Chowdhury, Rashedur (2023) The irrationality of rationality in market economics : a paradox of incentives perspective. Business & Society, 62(3), pp. 482-487. ISSN (print) 0007-6503

Karim, Shamsul, Kwong, Caleb, Shrivastava, Mili and Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2023) My mother-in-law does not like it : resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy. Small Business Economics, 60(2), pp. 409-431. ISSN (print) 0921-898X

Meka, Kiran, Jacob, Chandni M., Modi, Neena, Bustreo, Flavia, Di Renzo, Gian Carlo, Malamitsi‐Puchner, Ariadne, Briana, Despina, Iaia, Domenico G., Fogstad, Helga, Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan, Moreno, Ivan Ochoa and Hanson, Mark (2023) Valuing maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health for societal progress – going beyond the economic orthodoxy of gross domestic product. Acta Paediatrica, 112(4), pp. 630-634. ISSN (print) 0803-5253

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan, Narula, Sanjiv, Audretsch, David, Puppala, Harish and Kumar, Anil (2022) Adopting new technology is a distant dream? the risks of implementing Industry 4.0 in emerging economy SMEs. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 185, p. 122088. ISSN (print) 0040-1625

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan and Chowdhury, Rashedur (2022) Corporations want to profit from the world’s problems – here’s how they can solve them instead. The Conversation,

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan, Shrivastava, Mili and Mishra, Tapas Kumar (2022) Education, social identity and self-employment over time : evidence from a developing country. Small Business Economics, 59(4), pp. 1449-1468. ISSN (print) 0921-898X

Olarewaju, Tolu and Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2020) Black and minority ethnic businesses need support to weather the pandemic. The Conversation,

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan and Shrivastava, Mili (2020) Going green dramatically benefits businesses – it should be central to their coronavirus recovery strategy. The Conversation,

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2019) Indian election : Modi win delivered thanks to faith in economic growth pledges. The Conversation,

Demirel, Pelin, Li, Qian Cher, Rentocchini, Francesco and Tamvada, J. Pawan (2019) Born to be green : new insights into the economics and management of green entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 52(4), pp. 759-771. ISSN (print) 0921-898X

Shrivastava, Mili and Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2019) Which green matters for whom? greening and firm performance across age and size distribution of firms. Small Business Economics, 52(4), pp. 951-968. ISSN (print) 0921-898X

Olarewaju, Tolu I.A., Mickiewicz, Tomasz and Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2019) The returns to occupations : the role of minimum wage and gender in Nigeria. World Development Perspectives, 13, pp. 75-86. ISSN (print) 2468-0532

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2015) The spatial distribution of self-employment in India : evidence from semiparametric geoadditive models. Regional Studies, 49(2), pp. 300-322. ISSN (print) 0034-3404

Audretsch, David B., Bönte, Werner and Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2013) Religion, social class, and entrepreneurial choice. Journal of Business Venturing, 28(6), pp. 774-789. ISSN (print) 0883-9026

Coad, Alex and Tamvada, Jaganaddha Pawan (2012) Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India. Small Business Economics, 39(2), pp. 383-400. ISSN (print) 0921-898X

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2010) Entrepreneurship and welfare. Small Business Economics, 34(1), pp. 65-79. ISSN (print) 0921-898X

Book

Tamvada, Pawan (2021) Microentrepreneurship in a developing country. Cham : Springer. ISBN 9783030686277

Keilbach, Max [Editor], Tamvada, Pawan [Editor] and Audretsch, David B. [Editor] (2008) Sustaining entrepreneurship and economic growth : lessons in policy and industry innovations from Germany and India. Cham : Springer. (International Studies in Entrepreneurship) ISBN 9780387786940

Book Section

Tamvada, Pawan (2019) Professor David Audretsch : my doktorvater. In: Lehmann, Erik E. and Keilbach, Max, (eds.) From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship : A Tribute to David B. Audretsch. Cham : Springer. pp. 465-466. ISBN 9783030252366

Tamvada, Pawan (2008) Comparing entrepreneurial climates of Germany and India : more similarities than differences? In: Keilbach, Max , Tamvada, Pawan and Audretsch, David B., (eds.) Sustaining Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth : Lessons in Policy and Industry Innovations from Germany and India. Cham : Springer. pp. 111-121. (International Studies in Entrepreneurship) ISBN 9780387786940

Audretsch, David B., Keilbach, Max and Tamvada, Pawan (2008) Introduction : entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany and India. In: Keilbach, Max , Tamvada, Pawan and Audretsch, David B., (eds.) Sustaining Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth : Lessons in Policy and Industry Innovations from Germany and India. Cham : Springer. pp. 3-6. ISBN 9780387786940

Tamvada, Pawan (2008) What determines self-employment choice in India? In: Keilbach, Max , Tamvada, Pawan and Audretsch, David B., (eds.) Sustaining Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth : Lessons in Policy and Industry Innovations from Germany and India. Cham : Springer. pp. 77-83. ISBN 9780387786940

Conference or Workshop Item

Khurana, Indu, Packard, Mark D., Tamvada, Jagannadha and Audretsch, David (2024) Navigating the knowledge breadth-depth paradox in entrepreneurship. In: 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024); 09-13 Aug 2024, Chicago, U.S..

Zhou, Zhebing, Do, Hang and Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2023) Exploring the impact of entrepreneurial orientation, network capability, and knowledge management on the alliance performance : insights into the case of hi-tech Chinese SMEs. In: British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference 2023: Towards Disruptive Sustainability: New Business Opportunities and Challenges; 01-06 Sept 2023, Brighton, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Khurana, Indu, Tamvada, Jagannadha and Lee, Daniel (2023) Escaping the penalty of marginalization through management education. In: 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2023); 04-08 Aug 2023, Boston, U.S..

Olarewaju, Tolu Ifedapo Adebayo, Tamvada, Jagannadha and McDowall-Emefiele, Sharin (2022) Generalised trust and relation centrism for corruption as perceived by firms. In: 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2022: Creating a Better World Together); 05-09 Aug 2022, Seattle, U.S..

Olarewaju, Tolu Ifedapo Adebayo and Tamvada, Jagannadha (2022) Perceived selective incivility and relational trust for BAME SMEs during the covid-19 pandemic. In: 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2022: Creating a Better World Together); 05-09 Aug 2022, Seattle, U.S..

Sound Recording

Giles, Gareth [Interviewer] and Tamvada, Jaganndha Pawan [Interviewee] (2021) Green Recovery. (Interview). (25 min 40 sec) (The Policy Pod)

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Business, knowledge transfer and international

Professor Pawan cofounded the digital social enterprise platform iPowerz to provide a virtual ecosystem to support grassroots entrepreneurs and innovators. iPowerz was the first researcher start-up and the first social enterprise launched by a faculty member at the University of Southampton Business School.

For this novel enterprise initiative, he was inducted as a Steward into the Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican (https://www.inclusivecapitalism.com/) in 2021. The Council, formed under the auspices of Pope, brings together the world's foremost leaders to meet the sustainable development goals through a concerted global effort to make the world a fairer, more inclusive and sustainable place. 

He has initiated several knowledge partnership and consulting projects with stakeholders from international governments, businesses, and nonprofits.

Leadership and management

Professor Pawan has more than two decades of international experience in academia having lived and worked in the UK, USA, Germany, and India, and has a track record of leadership and management at academic institutions. Currently, he leads the Responsible Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (RISE) research excellence hub at the Business School.

Previously, he has acted as the Deputy Director (Impact and Collaboration) at the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP) that oversaw more than 200 funded PhD students across the Universities of Southampton, Portsmouth and Brighton. As a member of its Senior Management Team, he was involved in the steering of the Partnership and the allocation of studentships across a range of social science disciplines at the three universities while holding the overall responsibility for impact and collaboration of the DTP. He was the Program Director of the MSc (Global Enterprise and Entrepreneurship) and MSc (Strategy and Innovation) at the Department of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Southampton Business School leading the administration, curriculum design and delivery of these post-graduate programs.

Currently, he acts as an external examiner at the University of Essex Business School, Aston Business School, and the Malta Higher Education Authority, and holds multiple trusteeships at charities and nonprofits based in England.

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