Quantitative and Mixed Methods Research for Management

Prof. RN Subudhi is presently a Senior Professor in the area of Quantitative Methods – Decision Sciences, with over 36 years of teaching experience at University level. He has served earlier at Berhampur University, VIT University, for their MBA programmes. He has done FDPM from IIM Ahmadabad. He had received Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) award of CSIR, Govt. of India, for his doctoral research.

He is an active member of many reputed international academic societies, like: American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM), ISA-RC (International Sociology Association ‘Research Methodology’ Section), IFORS, ORSI, ICA and ICAS (Int. Conv. of Asian Scholars). He has published/ edited 12 books and authored over 80 research papers. He is presently the editor of KIIT Management Research Journal – Parikalpana. He is a reviewer of many reputed international research journals. He has also published many articles in regional language and takes interest in Children’s literature.

Dr Sumita Mishra is an alumnus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, where she earned a master’s degree in social work. She is a Fellow from the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. Besides having worked for organizations like CAPART, UNICEF and Tata Refractories Limited, she also has 16 years of teaching experience. She has published several papers in referred journals such as Journal of Human Values, Management Research Review, Asian Case Research Journal, Management and Labour Studies, Decision, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, IIMB Management Review, International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, Emerging Market Case Studies etc. and has also presented papers in national and international conferences of repute. Her interests are in the area of social science research methods, qualitative research, organizational culture, group culture, training transfer, social psychology and organization theory. She co-edited a book with Prof. R.N. Subudhi on Methodological Advances in Management Research published by Emerald. She currently is the Dean, KIIT School of Management, KIITDU. 

Prof. Subudhi & Prof. Mishra together have been taking Research Methodology for PhD scholars of University since last 8 years and also edited two useful books, published by Springer and Emerald publications.