Sumit K. Majumdar

I am a Professor in the  Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Previously, I was a Professor at Imperial College, University of London, and before that I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

I have spent several years in London, having qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and was engaged primarily in insurance sector work. I also qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant while in London.

I attended the Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, receiving a B.Com from the University of Bombay, as well as the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, also of the University of Bombay and receiving the M.M.S.; I also received a Ph.D from the University of Minnesota, where I had attended the Carlson School of Management.

My interests are in: (A) competition policy; (B) digital strategy; (C) industrial policy; (D) law and economics; (E) regulation; and (F) broadly, India’s economy.

I have published numerous items in the academic and popular presses, and have edited the two-volume Handbook of Telecommunications Economics.

I am intimately familiar with Indian industry, and the Indian economy, having observed India’s transformation, from a closed backward economy to one rapidly becoming one of the world’s economic and political major powers, and have a historical as well as a contemporary perspective, having in my early career worked at the grass-roots and shop floor levels in Indian firms and in their factories in some of the largest cities of India.

I maintain deep ties and regularly visit India to engage in interactions with entrepreneurs and policymakers from all of India’s industrial sectors. I have been active in India-related research now for over two decades, and remain deeply committed to the study of the economic, industrial and institutional evolution of India.

In 2012 Cambridge University Press published my book on Indian industry, titled “India’s Late, Late Industrial Revolution: Democratizing Entrepreneurship.” 

In 2018 I have completed another book on Indian industry, titled “Lost Glory: India’s Capitalism Story” released by Oxford University Press.

I am in the process of completing a book on digital convergence, titled “Convergence, Collaborations and Innovation,” to be brought out by Cambridge University Press .