About me

Hello there, This is Lakshmi Balachandran Nair. Welcome to my personal website! I am a Senior Assistant Professor at Department of Business and Management, LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome, Italy).

Before joining LUISS, I was a tenured Senior Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, The Netherlands (2016-2020) and a PhD candidate at Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland (2012-2016). Click here for more details about my activities. My research interests include business/organizational ethics (gender, trust repair, power etc.) and qualitative methodology (rigor, transparency, ethics etc.).

My articles have been published in various journals (Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Business Ethics, Research Policy, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of International Management etc., to name a few). I have also published books, book chapters, and case studies with Cambridge University Press, Sage Publishing, Pearson Financial Times Press, Taylor & Francis, LUISS University Press etc. The complete list of my publications can be found here

For my work, I have won several awards and honors (Academy of Management Best Paper Award, British Academy of Management Best Paper Awards, Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy Legateship, ISS Emerging Scholar Award, ECRM Teaching Research Methodology Excellence Awards and so on). Click here for more details. On this website, I share more about my research, writing, and other academic activities. You can also find me on linkedin and twitter.