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Dr Rama Kummitha

Senior Lecturer
EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)
Dr Rama Kummitha

Profile

Biography

Rama Kummitha is a senior lecturer of Entrepreneurship at ÌÇÐÄVlog Business School. Previously he has held positions at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, University of Liege, Belgium, United Nations University, Japan, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. He was also a visiting scholar at Cornell University, USA (2015) and Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Japan (2013-2015). His research interest lies in entrepreneurship and organisational change. He studies entrepreneurship in several research settings including but not limited to social entrepreneurship, smart cities, and hybrid organisations. His research has appeared in journals such as California Management Review, Government Information Quarterly, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, R&D Management, Information Technology & People, Creativity and Innovation Management and Cities. He is the author of two monographs: social entrepreneurship and social inclusion (Sage: 2016), and social entrepreneurship: processes, practices and prospects (Palgrave: 2017). Rama is open to supervise Ph.D., dissertations in any area of his interest.

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Hyderabad, (2011)

Appointments

Other academic

  • Assistant Professor, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (1/11/2012 - 15/10/2013)

  • Programme Manager, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (15/11/2011 - 17/10/2012)

  • JSPS UNU Postdoctoral Fellow, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (15/10/2013 - 15/10/2015)

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Liège (1/11/2015 - 31/8/2016)

  • Lecturer, School of Management, Politecnico di Milano (1/9/2016 - 31/8/2019)

  • Vice Chancellor Senior Fellow, Northumbria University (1/9/2019 - 31/5/2023)

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Professional and Academic Development (BE905)

  • Research Methods (BE955)

  • Comprehensive Business Plan (BE956)

  • International Marketing Plan (BE957)

  • International Business Plan (BE958)

  • Dissertation (BE984)

  • Dissertation (BE987)

Publications

Journal articles (19)

Kummitha, RKR., (2025). . Regional Studies. 59 (1), 1-15

Kummitha, RKR., Honig, B. and Urbano, D., (2025). Social Entrepreneurship: A Well-Being Based Approach. Journal of Business Ethics

Arakpogun, EO., Whalley, J., Wanjiru, R., Elsahn, Z. and Kummitha, RKR., (2023). . Information Technology and People. 36 (8), 126-154

Kummitha, RKR., (2023). . R and D Management. 54 (4), 775-790

Kummitha, RKR., (2022). . California Management Review. 65 (1), 147-170

Mora, L., Kummitha, RKR. and Esposito, G., (2021). . Government Information Quarterly. 38 (4), 101599-101599

Sharifi, A., Khavarian-Garmsir, AR. and Kummitha, RKR., (2021). . Sustainability. 13 (14), 8018-8018

Kummitha, HR. and Kummitha, RKR., (2021). . The International Journal of Management Education. 19 (1), 100449-100449

Kummitha, RKR., (2020). Smart technologies for fighting pandemics: The techno- and human- driven approaches in controlling the virus transmission. Government Information Quarterly. 37 (3), 101481-101481

Kummitha, RKR., (2020). Why distance matters: The relatedness between technology development and its appropriation in smart cities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 157, 120087-120087

Kummitha, RKR., (2019). Design thinking in social organizations: Understanding the role of user engagement. Creativity and Innovation Management. 28 (1), 101-112

Kummitha, RKR. and Crutzen, N., (2019). Smart cities and the citizen-driven internet of things: A qualitative inquiry into an emerging smart city. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 140, 44-53

Kummitha, RKR., (2019). Smart cities and entrepreneurship: An agenda for future research. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 149, 119763-119763

Kummitha, RKR., (2018). Entrepreneurial urbanism and technological panacea: Why Smart City planning needs to go beyond corporate visioning?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 137, 330-339

Kummitha, RKR., (2018). Institutionalising design thinking in social entrepreneurship. Social Enterprise Journal. 14 (1), 92-107

Kummitha, RKR. and Crutzen, N., (2017). How do we understand smart cities? An evolutionary perspective. Cities. 67, 43-52

Kummitha, RKR., (2016). Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Remedy Social Exclusion. South Asia Research. 36 (1), 61-79

Kummitha, RKR. and Majumdar, S., (2015). Dynamic curriculum development on social entrepreneurship – A case study of TISS. The International Journal of Management Education. 13 (3), 260-267

Kummitha, RKR., (2015). Social Exclusion: The European Concept for Indian Social Reality. Social Change. 45 (1), 1-23

Books (2)

Kummitha, RKR., (2017). Social Entrepreneurship and Social Inclusion. Springer Singapore. 9789811016141

Kummitha, RKR., (2016). Social Entrepreneurship Working towards Greater Inclusiveness. SAGE Publishing India. 9351508838. 9789351508830

Book chapters (2)

Alsharah, H., Olan, F. and Kummitha, R., (2024). Entrepreneurship and Ethics: A Critical Discussion. In: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. Springer Nature Switzerland. 245- 250. 9783031652028

Kummitha, RKR., (2018). Social Entrepreneurship, Energy and Urban Innovations. In: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia. Springer Singapore. 265- 283. 9789811058158

Contact

rama.kummitha@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1702 328544

Location:

GB.4.72, Southend Campus

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