Prof Naresh R. Pandit

Job title: Professor of Management
Director of Learning and Teaching

Contact: N.Pandit@uea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2886

Location: Thomas Paine Study Centre 2.25

Personal
Research
Publications

Naresh joined Norwich Business School in 2006. He was previously at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester where he obtained his PhD in 1995 and then took up appointments as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Economics. His research focuses on the link between business clustering and economic performance and on corporate insolvency and turnaround and has been funded by grants from the British Academy, Corporation of London, DTI, ESRC, European Union, Institute of Chartered Accountants, and the North West Regional Development Agency.

He teaches economics, international business, strategy, and business research methods at postgraduate and executive education levels and was the recipient of the 2002-3 Manchester Business School/AT Kearney lecturer of the year award. Naresh has directed executive courses for Barclays Bank, Barclays Solutions and KPMG. He has also worked as a consultant for a number of companies including Asda/Wal-Mart, Cambridge Econometrics and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising doctoral work in the areas of:

(1) The Location Decisions of Multinational Enterprises.

(2) Business Clustering: Benefits, Costs, Processes, and Patterns.

(3) Corporate Insolvency (Bankruptcy) and Rehabilitation (Turnaround).

Prizes/Esteem Indicators

Full ESRC Scholarship to pursue MSc.

Full Manchester Business School Scholarship to pursue PhD.

Awarded Best Paper prize at the IBM Business Innovation in the Knowledge Economy Conference, 12 June 2002, IBM Warwick, UK.

2002-3 AT Kearney/Manchester Business School MBA Lecturer of the Year.

Awarded prize for Best Paper in the International Business Track of the British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Said Business School, University of Oxford, 13-15 September 2005.

Appointed as an External Reviewer of the 2005 National Strategic Plan by the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

Awarded $1,000 Best Conference Paper prize at the 9th Uddevalla Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Development – Local Processes and Global Patterns, 15-17 June 2006, George Mason University, School of Public Policy, Fairfax, VA, USA.

External Examiner, Institute of Business, University of West Indies, 2003 - present.

External Examiner, University College London, 2004 - 2007.

External Examiner, Durham University Business School, 2005 - 2008.

External Examiner, Nottingham University Business School, 2008 - present.

Member of the Research Steering Committee of the Association of Business Schools, 2006 - present.

Conference paper (Pandit, N. R., Cook, G. A. S., Beaverstock, J. V. and Ghauri, P. N. Locating in the City of London financial services cluster: A comparison between MNEs and non MNEs) awarded an “outstanding paper” prize at the 2nd International Conference on Services Management. June 1-2, 2007, New Delhi, India.

Appointed External Consultant on Clustering and Regional Development to a World Bank commissioned study led by Hewitt Associates investigating the development of IT and IT enabled service industries in the South Asia Region (SAR). Contract value: $US 120,000. Start-end dates: 04/08 – 08/08.

Key Research Interests

Research Grants

Co-grant holder, The British Academy grant SG090739: The Influence of Clustering on MNE Location and Performance. Total grant value: £2,730. Start – end dates: 02/10 – 07/11.

Appointed External Consultant on Clustering and Regional Development to a World Bank commissioned study led by Hewitt Associates investigating the development of IT and IT enabled service industries in the South Asia Region (SAR). Contract value: $US 120,000. Start-end dates: 04/08 – 08/08.

Co-grant holder, Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA): The Development of Financial and Professional Service Sector within the ClusterDevelopment Programme. With Cook G. A. S., Gleaves, R. and Kitshoff, J. Total grant value: £56,838. Start – end dates: 04/05 – 08/05.

Co-grant holder, The British Academy grant SG-36816: The Clustering of Broadcasting Firms and its Significance in London. With Cook, G. A. S. Totalgrant value: £4,172. Start – end dates: 09/03 – 07/04.

Co-grant holder, Joint ESRC and Corporation of London grant: The City of London and Research into Business Clusters. With Beaverstock, J. V., Cook, G. A. S. and Taylor, P. J. Total grant value: £79,124. Start – end dates: 11/01 – 10/02.

Principal grant holder, ESRC grant R000223258: A Comparative Study of the Dynamics of Industrial Clustering. With Cook, G. A. S. and Swann, G. M. P. Total grant value: £19,512. Start - end dates: 11/00 - 10/02.

Co-grant holder, Institute of Chartered Accountant in England and Wales (ICAEW) grant 5-403: Small Firm Rescue: A Multi-Method Empirical Study of Company Voluntary Arrangements. With Cook, G. A. S., Griffiths, A. and Milman D. Total grant value: £15,203. Start – end dates: 01/2001 - 01/2002.

Co-grant holder, Department of Trade and Industry, Information Society Initiative Programme for Business: The Business Payoff from Virtual Reality Applications: Pilot Case Studies in Space Planning and Training. With Swann, G. M. P. and Watts, T. Total grant value: £11,000. Start - end dates: 08/96 - 03/97.

Associate researcher, ESRC grant L132251003: Virtual Reality and the Innovation Potential of the Organisation (part of the ESRC Virtual Society? Programme). With Butler, J., Pearson, A., Swann, G. M. P. and Watts, T. Total grant value: £133,279. Start - end dates: 10/97 - 03/2000.

Associate researcher, EU/TSER (targeted socio-economic research programme) grant: INLOCO: Clusters. With Beaudry, C., Cook, G. A. S. and Swann, G. M. P. Total grant value: £66,154. Start - end dates: 11/97 - 10/99.