Sarath Balachandran

Sarath Balachandran is an Assistant Professor at London Business School. His research examines how collaborative relationships between firms enable (or indeed constrain) innovation. He studies how the implications of these partnerships for firms are shaped by factors at two levels of analysis. In one stream of work, he adopts a “micro” perspective to examine how the structures of the partnering organisations and the composition of its employees may shape the formation and evolution of these relationships as well as the exchanges that occur between the firms. In another stream of work, he takes a more “macro” view to examine how institutions – both formal institutions like laws or regulations and informal ones like social or cultural norms – influence the formation of these relationships and the outcomes they lead to.

At London Business School, Sarath teaches the elective on Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances.

Prior to his academic career, Sarath worked for Unilever, first in logistics at a factory in Atlanta and subsequently in post-merger integration at the company's headquarters in London.