Chanchal Balachandran

I am a Lecturer in Strategic Management at the University of Liverpool Management School, United Kingdom. After obtaining a PhD in Organization Theory from USI Lugano in 2015, I held postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (Linköping University, Sweden), Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Utrecht University School of Economics (the Netherlands) and USI Lugano (Switzerland).

I research topics at the intersection of strategic human capital and entrepreneurship. Examples of my specific research topics include the antecedents and consequences of:

• inter-firm employee mobility in labour markets;
• employee mobility to entrepreneurship;
• organizational diversity and inequality;
• top management and board composition;
• human capital dynamics in corporate entrepreneurship and innovation

At a broader level, I am also interested in the human capital dynamics that give rise to new competitors, diffuse knowledge and innovation, and influence the trajectory of industry evolution. Empirically, most of my research focuses on the historical and contemporary labour markets in Sweden and the Netherlands.

I published my research in some of the leading outlets in the area of management and entrepreneurship such as Organization Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Advances in Strategic Management and Higher Education Policy.

Prior to commencing my academic career, I worked in the banking sector as a credit risk analyst.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Economics Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) (2009 — 2015)
• Master's degree Cochin University of Science and Technology (2005 — 2007)
• Bachelor's degree Mahatma Gandhi University (2001 — 2004)

Companies

• Lecturer (Assistant Professor) University of Liverpool Management School (2022)
• Scientific Collaborator USI Università della Svizzera italiana (2020 — 2022)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow Research theme Institutions for Open Societies (Utrecht University) (2019 — 2019)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow Institute for Analytical Sociology (2015 — 2019)
• Visiting Scholar Stockholm School of Economics (2014 — 2015)
• Research Assistant University of Lugano (2009 — 2014)

Selected Publications

• National culture diversity in new venture boards: The role of founders' relational demography (Journal article - 2019)
• Vertical and Horizontal Wage Dispersion and Mobility Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Microdata (Journal article - 2018)
• Mobility and Entrepreneurship: Evaluating the Scope of Knowledge-Based Theories of Entrepreneurship (Journal article - 2016)
• EMPLOYEE EXTERNAL AFFILIATION AND INTER-FIRM MOBILITY: EVIDENCE FROM SWEDISH MICRODATA (Chapter - 2020)