About
Dr Nayak is Professor of Strategic Management at the Southampton Business School. His research interests revolve around strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship in changing environments. Dr Nayak’s current research focuses on how firms innovate and develop new capabilities, achieve digital transformation, and how CEOs achieve sustainability transitions. Dr Nayak welcomes PhD applications in any of these areas.
Current Research Projects
Responsible Leadership for Sustainability Transitions
Collaborators: UK Green Building Council (UKGBC)
This project focuses on leadership development for the building industry. Drawing on primary data from participants on the UKGBC leadership programmes, this project aims to understand how leadership development programmes can achieve meaningful impact.
This project has received funding from the ESRC IAA (to fund Dr Nayak’s secondment with the UKGBC in 2022), and Research England (New Things Fund).
Strategic transformation: Building new consultancy capabilities
Collaborators: Griffon Hoverwork Limited (GHL)
The vision for this project is to achieve strategic transformation at GHL from a product-based engineering company to a market-leading marine technology consultancy, leveraging its specialised engineering and design skills and world-leading reputation. To align the transformation with skills, market opportunities and global net zero challenge the project will develop a Zero Carbon Marine System Integration consultancy service by championing world-leading engineering skills base in the UK.
This project is funded by an mKTP grant from Innovate UK.
Ethnic Minority Business Data in the UK (EMBD-UK)
EMBD-UK is an interdisciplinary project aimed at developing a visualization map of ethnic minority businesses in the UK. The main goal of this project is to create a data-based dashboard to visualise ethnic minority businesses in the UK over time. This project has found a novel and interdisciplinary approach to answering questions about EMBs at the granular level (e.g. geographical regions, sectors) and over time. By bringing together techniques from data science to answer business-related research questions, this project aims to make a unique contribution to academic knowledge and achieve wider societal impact.