Assistant Professor
Awards and Honors
Lockheed Martin Chair
Education
Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City
MPA, Public Administration, University of Missouri-Kansas City
B.S., University of Kansas
Sunny Sanwar is an engineer, entrepreneur and social scientist, unraveling the drivers and outcomes of innovation in energy markets, tracing the interplay among technology, institutions, public policy and market behavior. He combines finely grained empirical analysis of observational data and custom-designed data collection methods to build and test entirely new datasets and models about global energy technological changes.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Book Chapters
Sunny, S. (2024). Society's Relationship to Social Entrepreneurship: A study of clean technology ventures and the role of public policy. De Gruyter.
Sunny, S. (2024). Designing the Social Venture: A Design-Centered Approach to Managing Innovation within the Organization. De Gruyter.
Sunny, S. (2022). Beyond Goal Hybridity: How Multilevel Actor Networks Can Scale Climate Impact. World Scientific. 1. 119-155.
Nahar, K., & Sunny, S. (2021). Climate Change and State of Renewable Energy in Bangladesh: An Environmental Analysis. Springer. 25-45.
Sunny, S., & Coffman, C. D. (2020). Technologies enabling entrepreneurship in Africa. Routledge. 242.
Refereed Journal Articles
Coffman, C., & Sunny, S. (2021). Reconceptualizing necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship: A needs-based view of entrepreneurial motivation. Academy of Management Review.
Sydow, A., Sunny, S., & Coffman, C. (2020). Leveraging blockchain's potential - The paradox of centrally legitimate, decentralized solutions to institutional challenges in Kenya. Journal of Business Venturing Insights. 14.
Sunny, S. (2020). ''Nature cannot be fooled'' - A dual-equilibrium simulation of climate change. Organization & Environment.
Conference Proceedings
Ali, I., Sunny, S., Cottle, G., & Chowdhury, R. (2020). Moral or pragmatic legitimacy? Examining firm actions to reduce carbon emissions. Academy of Management Proceedings. 1.
Vedula, S., Sunny, S., & Brush, C. (2020). The Battle of the Sexes: An Empirical Investigation of Founder Gender Effects in Environmental Entrepreneurship. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC).
Sunny, Sanwar A, "STTR Phase I" Sponsored by U.S. Department of Defense, Federal, $50000. (2022 - 2023).
Forbes: Highlighted as a speaker for Forbes Magazine in regards to low-carbon technologies (2021).
"A friend in need - Alliance partners during industry dynamism" (Writing Results)
"Bridging the gap from underneath the bridge: Revisiting patent trolling business models within a two-sided market narrative" (Writing Results)
"Category hybridization and institutionalization through networks of intermediaries" (Writing Results)
"Climate change demands as special utility sources - A stakeholder synergy perspective of value creation" (Writing Results)
"Extending the normative theory of stakeholder salience: An empirical analysis of rm actions on climate change claims" (Writing Results)
"Imprinting multiple logics: Environmental entrepreneurs, venture performance and the role of heterogeneous teams" (Writing Results)
"It takes a village - The impact of firm competence, embeddedness and institutional heterogeneity in spearheading clean technology innovation" (Writing Results)
"Keep your friends close: Organizational dependence within clean energy firm networks" (Writing Results)
"The green inventors: Micro, meso, and macro- level antecedents of patenting behavior in renewable energy" (Writing Results)
"The influence of founding team characteristics on technology commercialization strategies for sustainable entrepreneurs" (Writing Results)
"Unintended social innovations driving growth entrepreneurship at the bottom-of-pyramid (BOP)" (Writing Results)