Volume 4, Issue 2 of the Sri Lanka Journal of Management Studies (SLJMS) has been released. SLJMS started its journey in 2019 and within a short timeframe, the journal evolved into a domain of research that brings to attention a wide range of critical issues in Business.
SLJMS provides a seamless opportunity for scholars in business and economics to engage in the development of the fast-growing field of management and get published in a business journal that has an excellent reach and prospects of substantial impact.
The new issue of Sri Lanka Journal of Management Studies is dedicated to Professor K.S. Chandrasekar. Currently he is serving as Campus Director at the Institute of Management in Kerala, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state, India.
Professor Chandrasekar can be considered a rare intellectual with competencies in scholarly contribution and leadership. His teaching areas are Marketing Management and Entrepreneurship which prompted him to write 12 leading textbooks through nationally renowned publishers. He was also instrumental in getting two national patents are used in the industry.
Professor Chandrasekar is an author and reviewer for many internationally reputed journals and won four best paper awards for papers presented at international conferences. More importantly, Professor Chandrasekar won the Gold Medal for the model of “Chandrasekar Action Attitude Model (CAA)” from the Indian Commerce Association.
Professor K.S. Chandrasekar has so far supervised 63 scholars to complete their PhD in Management; many of the scholars belonged to Afghanistan, Kenya, Iran and Ethiopia. He has been on the research committees of many South Indian universities and offered his research expertise.
Professor Chandrasekar has offered his research and academic expertise to many international and Indian universities. For nearly eight years, he held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Management Studies and was instrumental in launching many innovative management programmes in Food Processing Management, Travel and Tourism, Logistics Management and Tourism and Hospitality. Through external funding to the University of Kerala, he was able to obtain about Rs. 1,570 million for research and infrastructural development.
He was the first to bring in the novel concept of Chair Professorship at University of Kerala. In his quest for developing entrepreneurship in the state of Kerala, he was able to work closely with the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. On the administrative front, Professor Chandrasekar held the posts of Acting Vice Chancellor, Registrar in charge, Director of the School of Business Management and Legal Studies and Head of the Department for more than a decade.
He is also on the national council of the All India Management Association, and the Indian Society for Training and Development. He got fellowships from many reputed institutes and was honoured for his research output by many international and national agencies. Professor Chandrasekar is also considered one of the Top 10 Thinkers 2023 by MTC Global and won Asia’s Best Professor in Marketing award by CMO, Singapore. He was instrumental in launching the Executive MBA, Distance MBA, Evening MBA, Energy management, etc., through various universities. A proud alumnus of prestigious BITS, Pilani, BSMED, Bharathiar University, and Alagappa University, he continues to contribute to management education and research on a global scale.
