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Dr. Ibrahim A. Shaikh
Associate Professor of Management
Bio
Dr. Ibrahim (Abe’s) Shaikh's research focuses on how strategic leaders can use technological innovation to establish a more inclusive, fair, and sustainable form of capitalism. Before joining Marist College, he was an Associate Professor of Management at UNB-Fredericton in New Brunswick, Canada. Dr. Shaikh uses open social innovation and experiential education to teach strategic management and entrepreneurship at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He encourages his students to apply the theories they learn to tackle real-world societal challenges, such as climate change, affordable housing, and Indigenous rights, by collaborating with societal stakeholders and developing region-specific business models that benefit the local ecosystem. He has been published in several high-impact journals in innovation management, including Technovation, Industrial and Corporate Change, and the Journal of Business Research. He strongly believes in integrating his research with hands-on teaching opportunities for students, positively benefiting the local community
Education
PhD, Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2010-2015
MA, Economics, California State University Fullerton, 2006-2007
BA, Economics, Summa Cum Laude, University of California Riverside, 2003-2005
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Open social innovation, stakeholder theory, digital ecosystems, national innovation systems, big tech.
Selected Publications
Shaikh, I.A, Wang, Z. & Drira, M (2023). Do inside directors differ in their motivations to invest in R&D: An extension of agency-theory applied to the high-tech sectors – Journal of High-Technology Management Research, 34(2). 100479 (ABDC-journal).
Chowdhury, B., Gajurel, D., & Shaikh, I. (2023). The strategic value of retaining a young entrepreneurial IPO firms original insiders: Applying resource-based view in the Australian IPO context. Corporate Ownership & Control, 20(3), 32–52 (ABDC-B journal). ***Equal contribution.
Shaikh, I.A & Randhawa, K. (2022). Industrial R&D and national innovation policy: An Institutional reappraisal of the US National Innovation System. Co-Author: Randhawa, K. WOIC-2019-Best emerging research scholar paper award-finalist. Industrial & Corporate Change. Volume 31, Issue 5, October 2022, Pages 1152–1176 (ABDC A-listed journal).
Shaikh, I.A & Randhawa, K. (2022). Managing the risks and motivations of technology managers in open innovation: bringing corporate governance into focus through a stakeholder approach. Technovation, 114, 102437. (ABDC A-listed journal).
Shaikh, I.A. & O’Connor, G.C. (2020). Understanding the motivations of technology managers in radical innovation decisions in the mature R&D firm context: An Agency theory perspective. Journal of Engineering & Technology Management, 55, 101553. (ABDC listed B journal)
Shaikh, I. A., Drira, M., & Hassine, S.B. (2019). What motivates independent directors to take long-term risks? Economic incentives vs. Fiduciary Duty. Journal of Business Research, 101, 218-228 (ABDC listed A journal)
Shaikh, I.A., O'Brien, J. P., & Peters, L. (2018). Inside directors and the underinvestment of financial slack towards R&D-intensity in high-technology firms. Journal of Business Research, 82, 192-201. (ABDC listed A journal)
Shaikh, I. A., & Peters, L. (2018). The value of board monitoring in promoting R&D: a test of agency theory in the US context. Journal of Management and Governance, 22(2), 339-363. (ABDC listed C journal)
Chari, M. D., & Shaikh, I.A. (2017). Defying Distance? Cross‐Border Acquisitions by Emerging‐Economy Firms. Thunderbird International Business Review, 59(2), 173-186. (ABDC listed B journal)
Peters, L.S, O’Connor, G.C & Shaikh, I.A. (2018). An Examination of Organizational Systems used to Sustain Breakthrough Innovation. In Basu Sharma and Martin Wielemaker (Eds.) Aspects of Entrepreneurship: Practice and Passion. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 89-129.
Shaikh, I., & Peters, L. S. & J.P. O’Brien (2015). Importance of Inside Directors in Managing Financial Slack in R&D-intensive Firms. In Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (Vol. 2015, No. 1, p. 18214). ---AOM-Best Paper Proceedings-2015.
Project-based experiential teaching
Strategy courses:
- Instructor Strategic Management- capstone BA course in UNB-F 2015-2021
- Instructor Strategic Management-capstone MBA course in UNB-F 2017-2021
Entrepreneurship and innovation courses:
- Instructor Entrepreneurship & Business planning- first year BA course in UNB-F 2019-2021
- Instructor Technology commercialization & Entrepreneurship- fourth year BA course in UNB-F 2024
Selected Presentations
PDMA/JPIM 2024 conference presentation 'Breakthrough innovation during good and bad times: capacity and capability' Co-authors: Robeson, Dan, & O'Connor Gina.
AOM 2020: 'The Double-edged sword of retaining Inside directors on the Board for a firm’s R&D-intensity.'
WOIC 2019/Garwood Center Hass School of Business-Berkeley: "A National Innovation Systems approach to managing the risks of open innovation: a critical examination of the United States ecosystem" – (I am sole author).
Awards and Honors
World Open Innovation Conference-2019: Emerging Research Scholar Paper Award-Finalist. Awarded by Henry Chesbrough.
World Open Innovation Conference-2020: Emerging Research Scholar Paper Award-shortlisted. Haas Business School/Garwood Innovation center.
Top 6 out of 120 Dissertations for the ISPIM Innovation Management Dissertation Award 2016
Faculty Development Fund (FDF) award 2017-UNBF $2,500
Faculty Development Fund (FDF) award 2018-UNBF $2,500
UNBF early research reward—$7,000
Recipient of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Graduate Fellowship 2010-2011
Recipient of Michael T Reagan Graduate Fellowship at California State University Fullerton 2006-2007.
