Venkat Subramanian is an Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Strategy at Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business. Previously, he had faculty appointments at the University of Hong Kong and Vlerick Business School in Belgium. He was also a research fellow in Strategy and International Management at Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, a Research Associate in Strategy and Finance at INSEAD, France, and completed a PhD in Management at the Solvay Business School, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He has published in academic and practitioner journals, and in the business press, on topics of strategy and international business, and on competition in emerging markets. He has also advised start-ups in Europe and Asia.

Recent Academic Publications

1. Yergabulova, Aigerim, Alpysbayeva, Dinara and Subramanian, V. (2023). ‘Wage dispersion and firm performance: evidence from Kazakhstan’, International Journal of Manpower,
2. Konings, J., Sagyndykova, G., Subramanian, V., Volckaert, A. (2023). ‘The Granular Nature of Emerging Market Economies: The Case of Kazakhstan’, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change,
3. Akemu, O. and V. Subramanian (2022). International Business research in Central Asia: Nonmarket strategies in a contested region’, in Merchant, H. (ed.), The New Frontiers in International Business, Springer, Forthcoming.
4. Subramanian and A. Abilova (2019). ‘Emerging Market Multinationals: The Case of Kazakhstan’, in Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Park, S. and Newbury, W. (eds). Cambridge University Press.
5. N. Celly and V. Subramanian. ‘Overview of Indian Multinational Firms’, in M.F. Guillen, E.G. Garcia-Canal, R. Garcia-Garcia (eds.) (2016). Indian Multinationals, Oxford University Press
6. N. Celly, J. Prabhu and V. Subramanian (2013). ‘Innovations Patterns in Indian Firms’, in P. Williamson, R. Ramamurti (ed.). ‘Re-assessing Emerging Market Multinationals’, Cambridge University Press.

Business Strategy
Business Models
Emerging Markets
MNC Strategy & Structure

Foundations of Strategy
Emerging Markets Strategy