Shambhavi Agrawal

Shambhavi Agrawal

Assistant Professor

Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Research in Management and Law (CARML)

Research Associate and Volunteer, Solidarities, IDEAS

B.Tech. (CSE)

PhD (Strategy and Entrepreneurship), IIM Kozhikode

Shambhavi is a software engineer turned social scientist. She brings with her 2 years of work experience in the software industry and more than 3 years of teaching experience. She has experience working with social ecosystem players, including organizations, communities, and enablers. Her research experience of more than 7 years guides her current involvement in consulting assignments and advisory roles.

Shambhavi is a qualitative researcher at heart with an interdisciplinary approach. Her motivation to promote social impact led her to deeply explore the phenomenon of social innovation during her Ph.D. journey. She has since expanded into exploring legal advocacy and policy regulations for social impact ventures. Her research and teaching interests include strategy, sustainability, knowledge management, change management, entrepreneurship, design thinking, and innovation.

She has presented a lot of her work at national and international conferences. She also has a few publications to her credit. She was invited as the Leader of Tomorrow for the 47th St. Gallen symposium in Switzerland in 2017. She has been actively conducting workshops and talks on social and rural entrepreneurship, innovation, and design thinking.

She has been a Yoga practitioner and has recently started conducting sessions on Yoga and Meditation for beginners. She thrives in nature and enjoys painting and writing poetry and sonnets. She is an accomplished theatre artist and performer. She lives life on the edge. Mysteries of the cosmos, life beyond, and the secrets of life and death intrigue her.

  • Robin Nunkoo, Boopen Seetanah, Shambhavi Agrawal, (2019) “”Guest editorial””, Tourism Review, Vol. 74 Issue: 2, pp.129-137 (Accessible at: https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-04-2019-209) – ABDC ‘B’ and Scopus ‘Q1’
  • Agrawal S., Sinha A., Padhi S. (2022) An Exploration of Constitutive Elements and Dimensions of Social Innovation: A Systematic Literature, Accepted for publication in Social Business (2022, 12 (4))
  • (IIMK/WPS/398/SM/2020/14) (Accessible at: https://iimk.ac.in/research/publications.php?id=8) – ABDC ‘B’
  • Software engineer at TCS, Assistant professor at NMIMS, Hyderabad and KL University Hyderabad, More than ten international conferences in India and abroad, Training sessions and guest talks on design thinking, qualitative research, and social entrepreneurship, Consulting on knowledge management and business growth and strategy

Social innovation and entrepreneurship, knowledge management, climate change policy and strategy, education and innovative pedagogy, circular economy, E.S.G., AI, spirituality and psychology, qualitative research methodology, structuration and institutional theory, and other sociological theories

  • Strategic management
  • Organizational behavior
  • strategic marketing
  • design thinking
  • business environment
  • principles of management
  • neuroscience, Indian psychology, and law