Dr Babita Bhatt

My research examines the role of social enterprises and place-based community organizing in addressing societal challenges. Particularly, I am interested in understanding how social change initiatives navigate power asymmetries and ethical complexity in resource constraints and marginalized social contexts.   

My research has been published in leading outlets, including the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, and Organization Science. I am currently serving as a co-guest editor at the Information System Journal and Business & Society on special issues related to polarization and the sharing economy at the base of the pyramid.  I am also Associate Editor at Academy of Managment Perspectives (AMP).

In education, I follow student centred learning that is rooted in rigours research. My teaching is also informed by my experiences of teaching and working in Canada, HongKong, India, Spain and now in Australia.

I am currently teaching courses related to Social enterprise (MGMT2008) and Business Ethics (MGMT3016). 

PhD, Carleton University, Canada

• Hybrid Business models: Social enterprises, social business, Farmer Producer companies
• Sharing Economy, Platform Economy, and emerging business models
• Community resilience, social cohesion, and intersectionality

RESEARCH GRANT & RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Lead member in “Social Cohesion, Diversity and Inclusion”, Mini grand challenge project (from 2019 to 2023)
• Primary investigator in “Agricultural Knowledge Transfer at the Base of the Pyramid: A Sociological Perspective” SPARC - Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (India) (from 2019 to 2021)
• Co-investigator in “The Dynamics of Polarization and Formation of Echo Chambers: Insights on Cultural Products in India and Australia” SPARC - Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (India) (from 2019 to 2021
• Co-investigator in “Who Bridges Across Social Divides?” SPARC - Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (India) ( from 2019 to 2021)
• Co-investigator in “Microentrepreneur and the missing middle”, World Vision from (2019 to 2021)
• Co-Investigator in “Social Outcomes of Social Enterprise: A Social Capital Framework”. RGC, General Research Fund, Hong Kong.  (2011-2014)