Browsing by Author "Sharma, Sunil"
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Seeds of demand-side legitimacy: when do existing companies procure from B2B startups?
Batra, Safal; Gupta, Vishal K.; Sharma, Sunil; Yadav, Rahul (Emerald, 2022-01-27)The purpose of this study is to investigate potential lenders of legitimacy for business-to-business (B2B) startups as reflected in the willingness of potential customers to do business with startup firms. This study ... -
Strategic breakthroughs as flagpoles of innovation process
Dixit, Mukund R.; Sharma, Sunil; Karna, Amit (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2016)This paper empirically investigates the innovation process, from ideation to market leadership. The focus is on the nature of innovation process, action-outcome linkage, and learning from the environment. Our conceptualisation ... -
Strategic Judgment under Pervasive Uncertainty
Sharma, Sunil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Strategic decision making under uncertainty has been typified as an uncertainty mitigation activity. However, this hypothesis breaks down under conditions of very high uncertainty as it demands judgment on the part of ... -
Strategic orientations and innovation in resource-constrained SMEs of an emerging economy
Batra, Safal; Sharma, Sunil; Dixit, Mukund R.; Vohra, Neharika (SAGE Publications, 2015)While previous research has explored the linkages of strategic orientations and innovation for large businesses of developed economies, relatively little is known about these linkages for SMEs of emerging economies. To ... -
Strategic Responses to Deregulation: An Institutional Theory Perspective
Sharma, Sunil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Firms adopt distinct strategic orientation in response to change in environment. Deregulation is a drastic change in firm’s environment. This paper attempts to explain strategic orientation exhibited by firms in response ... -
A Study of Value Creation and Value Appropriation In Inter-Firm Alliances of Simultaneous Cooperation and Competition
Rai, Rajnish (2013)Relatively little is known about how value is created and appropriated in inter-firm alliances of simultaneous cooperation and competition. In this dissertation, I address this gap from both theoretical and methodological ... -
Survival strategies for independent music labels in India
Hnamte, Lalfakzuala; Chhabra, Palak; Vaish, Milind (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)There has been significant growth and change across the Indian music industry in recent years. One of the most interesting and exciting ones being the rise and continued growth of an extremely vibrant, musically rich and ... -
Theoretical foundations of antecedents of internationalization and moderators in multinationality-performance relationship: what is missing?
Purkayastha, Anish; Sharma, Sunil; Karna, Amit (Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, 2020-03-09)Theoretical foundations of antecedents of internationalization and moderators in multinationality–performance relationship: What is missing?Purpose In this paper, the authors undertake a systematic analysis of ... -
Three essays on diversity in multiple levels of strategic leadership
Edacherian, Saneesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)In three independent but related essays, we examine diversity (heterogeneity) in strategic leadership to explore the interdependency among multiple levels of strategic leadership and analyze the role that strategic leaders ... -
Transforming and creating businesses and public systems using Blockchain
Nukalapati, Abhiram; Nandi, Trishita; Gupta, Sanyam (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)A blockchain is a public, distributed ledger in digital form of transactions of any asset of value. Blockchain involves a series of blocks that carry data about the transactions and are linked to each other using cryptographic ... -
Uncertainty and risk management of climate change impacts on infrastructure assets
Naswa, Prakriti (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Infrastructure assets are a constrained resource in India and face stress from population growth, increased urbanization, resource variability and use, and economic growth. Climate change is an additional stress which has ... -
Understanding the aggregator model for B2B SMEs in manufacturing sector
Gupta, Madhur; Gupta, Shaurya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector has been one of one of the strongest pillar of the Indian economy since over last 5 decades. Not only does it contribute to the culture of entrepreneurship, but also ... -
Understanding the strategy formulation process in a dynamic and turbulent environment: Indian context
Garg, Rohit; Moondhara, Shubham (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2012-09-08) -
A Unified Theory of Capability Building: Need and Response
Dixit, Mukund R.; Karna, Amit; Sharma, Sunil (2009-08-07)Strategy literature is replete with isolated contributions to the jigsaw puzzle of building capabilities by firms. The isolation is primarily caused by the way resource-based view and capability literature has developed ... -
Women at multiple levels of strategic leadership: evidence of gender spillovers
Edacherian, Saneesh; Karna, Amit; Uhlenbruck, Klaus; Sharma, Sunil (Wiley, 2024-04-10)Manuscript Type: Empirical. Research Question/Issue. We examine how the combined presence of women in multiple levels of strategic leadership, including gender-diverse boards, affects firm accounting performance. Research ...