Mathew J Manimala (MBA-Cochin, MBSc-Manchester, Fellow-IIMA) has served as Director, XIME, Bangalore, and as Professor and Chairperson of OB-HRM Area at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), where he has also served as the Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship and as the Chairperson of N S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL). His earlier academic positions were as Senior Faculty and Chairperson-HR Area at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad, and as Lecturer at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kochi. He is a recipient of a few prestigious research fellowships and academic awards including the Heizer Award of the Academy of Management, for “Outstanding Research in the Field of New Enterprise Development”, and has published several research papers and books in the areas of Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behaviour. He is the Editor of South Asian Journal of Management.