
Sumit Saxena
Assistant Professor
sumit.saxena@mahindrauniversity.edu.in
Prof. Sumit Saxena has over eight years of work experience including teaching and Industry. He was associated with reputed B-schools like NMIMS Mumbai, ICFAI Business School, Dehradun and MNCs like Johnson & Johnson, and McW Healthcare. His current research interests span the broader area of Services Marketing, Transformative Service Research, and Technology in Marketing. He is actively engaged in Consumer behavior research within healthcare domain. He also works in the areas like Human-Computer Interaction and Consumer Wellbeing. He is proficient in mixed-method research techniques (Netnography & Experiments) and versed in modern bibliometric reviews. His subject areas of interest include Services Marketing, Consumer Behavior, International Marketing, Product Management, and Digital Marketing. He has published his papers in ABDC and Scopus-indexed journals, along with some flagship marketing conferences like SERVSIG, AMA, ACR, IRSSM, and Academy of Marketing. He shall be happy to advise the Business students who want to work in the areas like value co-creation, brand management, service experiences, tourism co-creation, Human-Computer interactions, Psycho-social wellbeing of consumer, and Online consumers on social media.
During his spare time, he loves to write poetry, sing songs, and travel to various places. He believes that his hobbies align with the subjects he taught as there is service marketing element in every place be it local shops and markets or a big shopping mall or a cafe near house or be it an online community for social interactions.
You may reach out to prof. Sumit at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-sumit-s-a7a8a322/
2018 - December 2023
- Ph.D. Regular (Marketing), Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, 2018 – December 2023 Under Dr. Amritesh (Associate Prof – IIT Ropar)
Ph.D. Topic: Understanding C2C Value Co-creation in Healthcare Services
2006-2008
- MBA, Jiwaji University (State Govt. 1964 established), Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, 2006-2008
2003-2006
- Honors Graduation (Industrial Microbiology), Shrimant Madhav Rao Scindia College of Science, Affiliated to Jiwaji University Gwalior, M.P, 2003-2006
July 2021 – Dec 2021
- Summer Research School on Advanced Research Techniques & R for statistics, IIM Kozhikhode, July 2021 – Dec 2021
Dec 2013
- Winter Research School on Advanced Data Analysis for research, IIT- Roorkee (DOMS), Dec 2013
2025
- Assistant Professor, School of Management, Mahindra University (present)
20th Feb 2024 – 30th Jan 2025
- Assistant Professor, NMIMS – School of Branding and Advertising, Mumbai (20th Feb 2024 – 30th Jan 2025).
3rd May 2018 – 18th July 2018
- Assistant Professor, ICFAI Business School, ICFAI University, Dehradun, (3rd May 2018 – 18th July 2018).
10th July 2012 – 18th Dec 2017
- Assistant Professor, SRMS Trust (Dept. of Management studies), Bareilly, U.P (10th July 2012 – 18th Dec 2017).
11th Nov 2009 – 31st May 2011
- Product Executive (Brand Management), McW Healthcare Pvt. ltd. (Anti-Malarial Pharmaceutical firm), Indore, M.P (11th Nov 2009 – 31st May 2011).
24th Aug 2008 – 10th Oct 2009
- Professional Marketing Executive, Johnson & Johnson -consumer division, Indore, M.P (24th Aug 2008 – 10th Oct 2009).
Publications: RESEARCH PAPERS
2024
- Saxena, S., Zhu, X., Kataria, S. (2024). C2C Value Co-creation Practices in Social-Media Health Communities. Journal of Service Theory and Practice (under review) ABDC (A) INDEXED
2023
- Saxena, S., Amritesh., & Mukerji, B. (2023). A Multi-Method Bibliometric Review of Value Co-Creation Research: Emerging Directions and Research Agenda. The Management Research Reviews ABDC (C), Scopus (Q1) INDEXED
2021
- Saxena, S., Amritesh, & Misra, S. C. (2021). Consumer Value Preferences in Healthcare: Insights for Value-centered Management. Journal of Creating Value, 7(2), 219-231. ABS (1), Scopus (Q3) INDEXED
BOOK CHAPTERS
2023
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (2023). Social Resources and Resilient Workforce: A Qualitative Exploration in Healthcare During Crisis. In Managing and Strategizing Global Business in Crisis Resolve, Resilience, Return, Re-imagination & Reforms (5 R''s). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Pub.
2022
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (2022). Evolving uncertainty in healthcare service interactions during COVID-19: Artificial Intelligence-a threat or support to value cocreation? In Cyber-Physical Systems (pp. 93-116). Academic Press, Elsevier.
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (2022). Customer-Centered Antecedents of a Value Co-Creation Ecosystem: Integrating Psychological, Social, and Cultural Processes. In Emerging Ecosystem-Centric Business Models for Sustainable Value Creation (pp. 22-52). IGI Global.
2020
- Saxena, S. (2020). Direct to Consumer Advertising for Prescription drugs & Urgent call for consumer protection: A critical Review. In Multi-Disciplinary Approach towards Sustainable Development, (pp. 346-357). BOOKWELL Publishers, India.
CONFERENCES (Abroad)
2024
- Shaphali Gupta, Sumit Saxena, Sonia Kataria. (Aug 2024). The Dual Impact of AI Companionship on Psychological Outcome: Promoting Well-being or Ill-being?' In AMA Summer Academic Conference “ Reconnecting With Humanity: Marketing’s Role in Promoting Responsible Technology While Serving People”, Boston, USA. Proceedings (ISBN: 978-0-87757-021-9).
2023
- Saxena, S., Ahmed. A., Amritesh. (June 2023). Resource Mis-integration Practices in Third places: Study of Diabetic Patients in India. In International Research Symposium in Service Management: The role of service in the sustainability and wellbeing of the society (IRSSM), Poland 2023. (This paper is appreciated with Merit Award at IRSSM 2023 by University of Economics Katowice)
2022
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (June 2022). Companion-Consumer Resource Integration in 'Healthcare Value Co-creation': A Qualitative Study in Context to Metabolic Bone Diseases. In 12th SERVSIG - Reconnect, Rejuvenate, Reshape Conference, USA 2022.
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (June 2022). Value Co-creation by Healthcare consumers: Understanding Resource Dynamics in Special Context of Bottom of pyramid. In 12th SERVSIG - Reconnect, Rejuvenate, Reshape Conference 2022.
2021
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (2021). Consumer Vulnerability to Resilience: Resource Integration by Covid19 survivors in India. [Working paper Abstract]. In Annual meeting of Association of Consumer Research, ACR Seattle, 2021. (Proceedings: In press)
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (2021). Resource misintegration: A multi-level perspective in healthcare service ecosystem (pp. 90). In A. M. Doherty, F. Kerrigan & L.O' Malley (Eds.), Proceedings of Academy of Marketing 2021 Annual Conference: Reframing Marketing Priorities. ISBN: 978-1-9196473-0-2.
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (2021, March 18-19). What Imbibes Trust in Chatbot Users? A Multidimensional View in Context to Healthcare Services during Pandemic [Conference poster]. 5th Qualitative Health Research Network Conference: Negotiating trust: exploring power, belief, truth and knowledge in health and care, University College London, England.
2020
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (2020, June 10-11). Conceptualizing Value Co Creation in Medical Tourism and Proposing Antecedents using Psycho social Perspective. [Conference abstract]. THE INC conference: Revisiting Value Co-creation and Co-destruction in Tourism, Hospitality & Events, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
CONFERENCES (India)
2024
- Saxena, S., Kataria, S., Chetan, K., Mahadevan, D., (2024, Aug 6-7). Can too Much Humanness Leads to Value co-destruction? Exploring the Dark Side of High Anthropomorphism in AI-Chatbots Interactions. [Conference abstract]. International research Symposium in Service Management - IRSSM 2024, organized by IRSSM and TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal, India.
2021
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (2021, Dec 7-9). Exploring the Antecedents of Value Co-Creation through a Systematic Review: Proposed Framework and Future Research Directions. [Conference abstract]. 4th International Conference on Marketing, Technology and Society, IIM Kozhikode, India.
2020
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (2020, March 6-7). Revisiting the Intellectual core of Value co-creation: A Bibliometric approach. [Conference abstract]. International conference on Business interventions for effective management of Technology and Innovation, IIM Sirmaur, India. (Proceedings: In print)
2019
- Saxena, S., Amritesh. (2019, 12-14 Dec). Exploring Value Co-creation Research Using Co-citation analysis: Review of Last 15 years [Conference poster]. 7th Pan IIM World conference: Public policy and management: Emerging issues, IIM Rohtak & MHRD, United service institution of India- New Delhi, India.
RESEARCH INTEREST
- Value co-creation & co-destruction
- Customer Dominant Logic (CDL)
- Consumer Wellbeing
- Online Social Capital
- Online Healthcare Communities
- Human-Chatbot Co-creative Interaction
- Sustainable Value co-creation