Associate Professor
PhD (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York)
Singer Hall 346
Fredericton
Dr. Ibrahim Shaikh joined the Faculty of Business Administration in 2015. He teaches courses in strategic management. Before coming to the University of New Brunswick he completed a PhD in Technology Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
His training is in the Organizational-economics tradition and his research interests are in the areas of: Agency-theory, Radical technological innovation, cash holdings, corporate governance, boards, financial strategy, & corporate entrepreneurship. His dissertation draws on Agency-theory to investigate R&D governance in the corporate entrepreneurship context. He has presented his work in over a dozen conferences, and his job market paper was recently published in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. Dr. Shaikh uses experiential teaching methodologies to teach strategic management, technology strategy, & entrepreneurship at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Previously Dr. Shaikh worked for the FDIC, a major US bank-regulatory agency, and he has interned with the US Department of Commerce. He firmly believes a good research scholar excels in conducting practical and relevant research, experiential teaching, and compassionate service to the profession and community.
Shaikh A.I., and Randhawa K. (2022). Industrial R&D and national innovation policy: an institutional reappraisal of the US national innovation system. Industrial and Corporate Change. 1-24.
Shaikh, Ibrahim; Randhawa, Krithika (2022). Managing the risks and motivations of technology managers in open innovation: Bringing stakeholder-centric corporate governance into focus. Technovation 114, 102437. (ABDC listed A journal)
Shaikh, I.A. & O’Connor, G.C. (2020). Understanding the motivations of technology managers in radical innovation decisions in the mature R&D firm context: An Agency theory perspective. Journal of Engineering & Technology Management, 55, 101553. (ABDC listed B journal)
Shaikh, I. A., Drira, M., & Hassine, S.B. (2019). What motivates independent directors to take long-term risks? Economic incentives vs. Fiduciary Duty. Journal of Business Research, 101, 218-228 (ABDC listed A journal)
Shaikh, I.A., O'Brien, J. P., & Peters, L. (2018). Inside directors and the underinvestment of financial slack towards R&D-intensity in high-technology firms. Journal of Business Research, 82, 192-201. (ABDC listed A journal)
Shaikh, I. A., & Peters, L. (2018). The value of board monitoring in promoting R&D: a test of agency-theory in the US context. Journal of Management and Governance, 22(2), 339-363. (ABDC listed C journal)
Chari, M. D., & Shaikh, I.A. (2017). Defying Distance? Cross‐Border Acquisitions by Emerging‐Economy Firms. Thunderbird International Business Review, 59(2), 173-186. (ABDC listed B journal)
Peters, L.S, O’Connor, G.C & Shaikh, I.A. (2018). An Examination of Organizational Systems used to Sustain Breakthrough Innovation. In Basu Sharma and Martin Wielemaker (Eds.) Aspects of Entrepreneurship: Practice and Passion. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 89-129.
Shaikh, I., & Peters, L. S. & J.P. O’Brien (2015). Importance of Inside Directors in Managing Financial Slack in R&D-intensive Firms. In Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (Vol. 2015, No. 1, p. 18214). ---AOM-Best Paper Proceedings-2015.
AOM 2020: ‘The Double-edged sword of retaining Inside directors on the Board for a firm’s R&D-intensity.
WOIC 2019/Garwood Center Hass School of Business-Berkeley: “A National Innovation Systems approach to managing the risks of open innovation: a critical examination of the United States ecosystem” – (I am sole author). Emerging Research Scholar Paper Award-Finalist. Awarded by Henry Chesbrough.
AOM 2018: “Motivating Radical Innovation: An Agency theory Exploration.”
SMS 2017: ‘The Governance of Radical Technological Innovation’.