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Brief Profile
Dr N.Sivasankaran (Sivasankaran Narayanasamy) is presently serving as a Professor of Accounting and Finance at XLRI-Xavier School of Management,Jamshedpur,India. He has 26 years of teaching experience inluding 7 years at XLRI Jamshedpur,7 years at Indian Institute of Management Ranchi and 2 years at Indian Institute of Management Shillong. He presently teaches Management Accounting, Financial Management 2, Business Analysis and Valuation and Fundamental Analysis courses in PGDM (BM), PGDM (GM) and XOL Finance programs of XLRI. His reserach interests include working capital management, corporate governance and accounting education. He has published his teaching cases in Harvard Business Publishing and IVEY Publishing. He has published his research papers in several peer reviewed journals. He has conducted several incompany training and management development programs for professionals of many public sector and private sector companies. He is presently serving the editorial boards of IJPPM and IUP journal of Corporate Governance.
Work Experience26 yrs
Sept 2024 – Present
Professor
XLRI Jamshedpur
Sept 2019 – Aug 2024
Associate Professor
XLRI, Jamshedpur
Jul 2012 – Sept 2019
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi, Jharkhand ( on Leave for 1 year)
Jun 2010 – Jun 2012
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Management,Shillong,Meghalaya
Jul 2007 – May 2010
Assistant Professor
Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Trichirappalli, TN
May 2004 – Jun 2007
Faculty Member
ICFAI National College, ICFAI University Hyderabad
Jun 2000 – May 2004
Lecturer
GRDIM,Coimbatore
Achievements and Research Interest/Area of Research Interests
Academic Distinction (Awards and Scholarships)
- Sixth Rank Holder- University level-MBA-Bharathiar University, Coimbatore-1999
Other Achievements
Area of RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Working Capital Management
- Corporate Governance
- Accounting Education
Courses Taught
- Financial Reporting & Analysis
- Management Accounting 1
- Business Analysis and Valuation
- Corporate Finance-2
- Microfinance
- Financial Reporting and Cost Management / Management Accounting 2
- Fundamental Analysis
- Financial Analysis Planning & Control
In-Company Programs
Conducted ICP/MDPs on " Financial Statement Analysis" , " Financial Acumen for Non-Finance Professionals " for participants of the following organizations
- ITC
- JSW
- POWERGRID
- IOCL
- TITAN
- NLC
- LIC
- JSEB
- Industries Dept,GOJ
- SAIL
- Vizag Steel
- Various Hospitals
Intellectual Contributions (Publications)
Journal Articles-Refereed
- Sivasankaran Narayanasamy, Ankur Shukla, 2025. On Balance, Who`s the Better Manager?. Product #: 8794-HTM-ENG. In Harvard Business Publishing. 24 April 2025
- Gopal, N., N.A., S. N., Sawarni, K. S., & Shukla, A. (2026). Whether innovation focused companies invest more in working capital: evidence from India. In International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting (Vol. 1, Issue 1). Inderscience Publishers. 03 October 2024
- Sivasankaran Narayanasamy, 2024. Prescribing a Receivable Ratio for Sun Pharma, Product #: 8479-HTM-ENG. In Harvard Business Publishing. 15 November 2024
- Kumar, K., Sawarni, K. S., & Narayanasamy, S. (2024). Does Efficiency in Working Capital Management Impact the Overall Performance of Firms? Evidence from India. Global Business Review, 0(0). 5 February 2024
- Sawarni, K. S., Narayanasamy, S., & Padhan, P. C. (2023). Impact of Earnings Management on Working Capital Management Efficiency. In Finance Research Letters (p. 103778). Elsevier BV. 13 March 2023
- Kumar, K., Sivasankaran, N., Chakrabarti, P., Kanagaraj, A., & Ramachandran, G. (2022). How Does Efficient Working Capital Management Impact a Firm's Fundamentals? Evidence from India. In Global Business Review (p. 097215092211057). SAGE Publications. June 2022
- Sivasankaran, N., & Paul, S. (2022). Challenges in Teaching Finance in COVID era and the Remedies: Viewpoint from India. In International Journal of Electronic Finance (Vol. 11, Issue 1, p. 1). Inderscience Publishers. May 2022
- Prince Bhatia, Narayanasamy Sivasankaran, Aditya Banerjee and Subir Chattopadhyay (Forthcoming), "Does firm`s working capital efficiency matter in dividend payout; empirical evidence from India", Vision : The Journal of Business Perspective
- N. Sivasankaran; A. Kanagaraj; D. Israel; R. Prasad (2022), "The hungry energised allergic disease-ridden matrix for financial decision dilemmas of entrepreneurs", International Journal of Electronic Finance, Vol.11, No.2, pp.101-116
- Banerjee, A., Kundu, S., & Sivasankaran, N. (2021), "Asymmetric impact of working capital efficiency on market performance of Indian firms", Global Business Review, ahead of print doi/10.1177/0972150920988648
- Shukla, A., Sivasankaran, N., Singh, P., Kanagaraj, A., & Chakraborty, S. (2021), "Do women directors impact the risk and return of Indian banks?", IIM Kozikode Society and Management Review, Vol.10, No.1, pp.44-65
- Sawarni, K.S., Narayanasamy, S. and Ayyalusamy, K. (2021). "Working Capital Management, firm performance and nature of business: an empirical evidence from India", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol.70, No.1, pp.179-200
- Shukla, A., Narayanasamy, S., Ayyalusamy, K. and Pandya, S.K. (2020), "Influence of independent directors on the market risks of Indian banks", Journal of Asia Business Studies, Vol.15, No.1, pp.31-49
- Shukla, A., Narayanasamy, S. and Krishnakumar, R. (2020), "Impact of board size on the accounting returns and the asset quality of Indian banks", International Journal of Law and Management, Vol.62, No.4, pp.297-313
- Narayanasamy, S. (2020), "What makes accounting interesting for learners? Viewpoint of a teacher from India", Asian Journal of Accounting Research, Vol.5, No.1, pp.113-118
- Prasad, P., Sivasankaran, N. and Shukla, A. (2019), "Impact of deviation from target working capital on firm profitability: evidence from India", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 68 No. 8, pp. 1510-1527. (ABDC-B- Scopus Q1)
- Prasad, P., Sivasankaran, N., Paul, S., Chattopadhyay, S., & Saravanan, P. (2019). Review of literature on working capital management and future research agenda. Journal of Economic Surveys, 33(3), 827-861. (ABDC-A category)
- Prasad, P., Sivasankaran, N., Paul, S., & Kannadhasan, M. (2019). Measuring impact of working capital efficiency on financial performance of a firm: an alternative approach. Journal of Indian Business Research, 11(1), 75-94. (ABDC-C category)
- Prasad, P., Sivasankaran, N., Saravanan, P., & Kannadhasan, M. (2019). Does corporate governance influence the working capital management of firms: evidence from India. International Journal of Corporate Governance, 10(1), 42-80. (ABDC-B Category)
- Kannadhasan, M., Charan, P., Singh, P., & Sivasankaran, N. (2018). Relationships among social capital, self-efficacy and new venture creations. Management Decision, 56(1), 204-218. (ABDC-B Category)
- Saravanan, P., Sivasankaran, N., Srikanth, M., & Shaw, T. S. (2017). Enhancing shareholder value through efficient working capital management: an empirical evidence from India. Finance India, 31(3), 851-871. (ABDC-C Category)
Published Articles in Newspapers/Magazines
- Published artciles in Financial Express and Business Line
Cases Developed for Teaching Purpose
- HBSP
- IVEY Publishing
Other Professional Activities
Guide/Evaluator/ Examiner at Doctoral Research Level
- Three Research Themes on Working Capital - Punam Prasad- Ph.D.awarded-Sept 2019 ( IIM Ranchi)- Ph.D.Thesis Advisor
- Three Essays on the Impact of Corporate Governance on the Risks and Returns of Indian Banks- Ankur Shukla-June 2020 ( IIM Ranchi)- Ph.D Thesis advisor
- Examiner for Ph D thesis of peer institutes in India
Professional Services such as Member/Editor of Editorial Board/ Advisory Committee etc
- Member in the EAB of International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management (IJPPM)
- Memeber in the EAB of IUP Journal of Corporate Governance
Reviewer/Referee in Journals/ Conferences etc
Reviewed Papers for
- Finance Research Letters
- Management Decision
- International journal of Corporate Governance
- IIM-B-Management Review
- International Journal of Econometrics
- International journal of productivity and performance management
- Journal of Asia Business Studies
- Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
Visiting Faculty
- IIM Indore
- IIM Raipur
- IIM Bodhgaya