Dr. Karthikeyan Balakumar
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Dr. Karthikeyan Balakumar
Assistant Professor
Marketing Management
Phone:1704-277363
Email:karthikeyan[at]iimsirmaur[dot]ac[dot]in
Academic Qualification: PGDM (IIM Tiruchirappalli), Ph.D. (IIM Calcutta)
Dr. Karthikeyan Balakumar is a Ph.D. in Marketing from IIM Calcutta. He has a PGDM from IIM Trichy and has also secured the Gold Medal for Academic proficiency in Marketing from there. His research interests are:
- Retailing
- Channel Management
- Sales and Distribution
- Digital Marketing
He has also worked in channel sales for the TTK Prestige and had set up a tertiary eye care hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- “Redesigning after-sales service: Impact on incumbent product distribution channels” Dr. Ritu Mehta and Karthikeyan Balakumar- Volume 58, January 2021, 102279 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2020.102279.
- Coauthored a case titled “Repositioning for success: The Lloyd’s acquisition by Havells India” with Dr. Prashant Mishra, Dr. Madhupa Bakshi, and Dr. Kumar Shreshtha. Case was published by IIMC CRC.
- Authored short stories on Padma Shri. Arunachalam Muruganantham (Padman) and Mrs. Rani Mularidharan to the book “Small Big Bang – Stories of 30 Die Hard Entrepreneurs” - An anthology of short stories on Indian Entrepreneurs edited by Ratan Mani Lal, Published by Grey Parrot Publishers in 2014.
- Awarded the Gold Medal for Academic Proficiency in Marketing by the Indian Institute of Management, Trichy in 2014.
- Was part of the team of four that received the prestigious Association for Consumer Research (ACR) Grant of USD 2000 for the group project titled “The Outcaste becomes the Guru- A Unique Case of Indignation Entrepreneurship” to conduct Transformative Consumer Research (TCR).
- Sales and Distribution Management, Retailing, Marketing Research.
- Karthikeyan Balakumar, Prafulla Agnihotri, Ritu Mehta, & Debabrata Ghosh. Adding clicks to clicks:
Exploring the impact of encroachment on online incumbents. 2021 AMA Summer Academic Conference,13-15 August 2021. - Karthikeyan Balakumar, Prafulla Agnihotri, Ritu Mehta, & Debabrata Ghosh. Adding bricks to bricks:
Understanding revenue impact of physical manufacturer encroachment on entrenched brick and mortar retailers. 2021 AMA Winter Academic Conference, 17-19 February 2021. - Karthikeyan Balakumar & Ritika Sharma. “The Country of Destination Effect: An Umbra?”. 2018 Australia New Zealand Marketing Conference. (Paper was selected to conference. But not presented).
- Karthikeyan Balakumar & Suganya Balakumar “Ananalysis of the indebtedness of rural labour households”.
PAN IIM Conference. - Bhupesh Manoharan, Akshay Narayanan and Karthikeyan Balakumar “Cyber Combat: An Exploratory Investigation into the Fake News Ecosystem and its Implications for Marketing”.