Satish Nambisan is the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. His research interests lie in the broad areas of innovation management, entrepreneurship, and digital globalization. His current work examines how digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), shape innovation, entrepreneuring, and value creation in a wide range of for-profit and non-profit contexts, including global business. Author of several books, he speaks to global audiences on these and related topics.

Recent books

Axiom 2023 Business Book Award (Gold Medalist)

Recent Research

Nambisan, S., George, G. Digital Approaches to Societal Grand Challenges: Toward a Broader Research Agenda on Managing Global-Local Design Tensions. Information Systems Research, 2024.

Coviello, N., Autio, E., Nambisan, S., Patzellt, Thomas. Organizational scaling, scalability, and scaleup: Definitional harmonization and a research agenda, Journal of Business Venturing, 2024.

Nambisan, S., & Luo, Y. Think Globally, Innovate Locally. MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring 2022.

Nambisan, S. Digital strategies for managing global operations in a geopolitically fragmented world. Management and Business Review, 2022.

Yao, W., Nambisan, S., Xiao, J. & Xie, K. Consumer resource integration and service innovation in social commerce: The role of social media influencers. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2022.

Nambisan, S., & Luo, Y. Managing risks in digital globalization. Management and Business Review, 2022.

Lévesque, M., Obschonka, M., & Nambisan, S. Pursuing impactful entrepreneurship research using artificial intelligence. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2022.

Nambisan, S., & Luo, Y. Toward a loose coupling view of digital globalization. Journal of International Business Studies, 2021, 52, 1646–1663.