Professor Madhuri Saripalle is a Professor of Economics at IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University. She received her doctorate in Agricultural Economics from the University of Connecticut, US. Her research interests include industry studies, technology and productivity; agri-supply chains and economic development. She has published in various peer-reviewed journals and has worked on several projects with organisations such as CII, Ford Foundation and Murugappa Chettiar Research Center. The projects include topics related to employment in the manufacturing sector, environmentally friendly farming practices and industrial policies; and the impact of Covid-19 on production and agri-supply chain.

Research Interests:

• Industrial Organization
• Technology & Productivity
• Agri-Business and Supply Chain

1. Market choices and production decision during the pandemic: a case study of small farmers in south India, 2023; with Vijaya. C. Subramanian, (under review with Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies).


2. “Mango Value Chain in India”. With Elumalai Kannan. In Transforming Agriculture in South Asia: The Role of Value Chains, edited by Ashok Mishra, A. Kumar and P.K. Joshi, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, U.K (2020), pp: 211-230.


3. “Organization of Work in E-Supply Chains”. In State Capital Nexus: Implications for Labour, Broadsheet on Contemporary Politics. With Vijaya C. Subramanian (2020). Anweshi Research Center for Women Studies, Hyderabad, India.


4. “Market awareness and profitability: case study of Mango production in Karnataka”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. LIV (4) (2019), p.52-59, Sameeksha Trust, Mumbai.


5. “Determinants of Profitability in the Indian Logistics Industry”. Saripalle, Madhuri. International Journal of Logistics, Economics and Globalization (2018), Vol.7 (1), (2018) pp.13-27, Inderscience.


6. “Jasmine Cultivation in Tamil Nadu: Market Structure and Pricing”. Saripalle, Madhuri. World Development Perspectives, 1 (2016), pp. 12-14, Elsevier.


7. “The Determinants of Firm’s Growth in the Telecommunication Services Industry: Empirical Evidence from India”, with Surabhi Somya, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer; The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), vol. 21(1), pages 193-211.


8. “Tamil Nadu’s Electronics Industry: Lessons for Make in India.” Saripalle Madhuri. Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 1, Numbers 26&27 (2015).


9. “Determinants of Employment in the Indian Automobile Industry”. In R. Nagaraj (Ed.), Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India: Lessons from Small Firm Clusters and Beyond (2021), p. 72-99): Cambridge University Press.


10. “Integration into global automotive value chains: co-evolution of firm and market capabilities.” In, International Trade and Industrial Development in India: Emerging Trends, Patterns and Issues, C. Veeramani and R. Nagaraj(eds), Orient Blackswan (2016), New Delhi, India, pp:202-229.


11. “Learning across policy regimes: Case study of the Indian automobile Industry”. Saripalle Madhuri. International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, 12(2) (2012), pp. 197-217, Inderscience.


12. “The Indian Auto component Industry: competing through costs or capabilities (2008)”, IIMB Review Journal, Vol.20 (4), Elsevier.


13. “R&D spillovers across the supply chain: Evidence from the Indian automobile industry”, 2016; In Globalization of Indian Industries: productivity, exports and investments by Filip De Beule and K.Narayanan (Eds.), India Studies in Business and Economics, Springer, pp:43-70.  http://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811000829

Consultancy projects

• Design and Implementation of Needs assessment analysis across two Village clusters in Tamil Nadu, funded by Sri A.M.M. Murugappa Chettiar Research Center, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
• Manufacturing matters—a research project on employment-oriented Industrialisation, project funded by Ford foundation, in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR), November 2017-19
• “Impact analysis of Technology solutions and scope for micro-entrepreneur development of Core Support Program related initiatives – Third Party validation”, funded by Sri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Center (MCRC)
• “Fiscal Instruments for Climate Friendly Industrial Development in Tamil Nadu”, with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Madras School of Economics

• Managerial Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Games Theory
• Foundations in Development Economics
• Global Economy and Business
• Introductory Macro Economics