Browsing by Author "Sharma, Sunil"
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ABC’s Search for the Pied Piper of Consultants
Sharma, Sunil; Srinivasa, Addepalli (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The case provides rich description of an actual decision making situation related to selection of a consulting company. An Indian company that has recently acquired a US-based manufacturer of widgets, intends to capture ... -
Africa: The new frontier for social impact consulting firms of India
Subramanian, Hariharan; Rathore, Rusheen (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-03-21)Corporates required assistance in the right usage of their CSR budgets, integrating sustainability with their business strategy, and reporting the social impact for ESG investors. Philanthropists required advice on the ... -
Aspirations, Enterprise Strategy and Sustenance of a Start-up in a Competitive Environment: A Study of Developments in Air Deccan
Dixit, Mukund R.; Sharma, Sunil; Karna, Amit (2009-08-03)This paper studies the developments in Air Deccan, a start up in the Indian aviation industry and discusses the linkages among the aspirations of the entrepreneur, enterprise strategy and its sustenance in a competitive ... -
Bajaj auto at an unfamiliar crossroads
Jain, Anirudh; Jain, Avni; Makkar, Shivanshu (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016) -
Board's human capital resource and internationalization of emerging market firms: toward an integrated agency–resource dependence perspective
Purkayastha, Anish; Karna, Amit; Sharma, Sunil; Bhadra, Dhiman (Elsevier, 2021-07-03)To improve our understanding of the strategic role of the board in emerging market firms (EMFs), we investigate the role of the board’s human capital resource in a firm’s internationalization. Integrating the monitoring ... -
Community Influences On Strategy-As-Practice In Family Businesses
Singh, Samar (2016)The strategy-as-practice perspective concerns ways of doing that fall into specific routines and works patterns, which may vary from firm to firm in an industry, and between different types of firms, while at the same time ... -
Comparative analysis and completeness measurement of strategy planning process of select Indian firms
Sharma, Ankit; Goyal, Dhirendra (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2012-09-05) -
Decoding Response Uncertainty
Sharma, Sunil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Response uncertainty defined as not knowing how to respond to a known event has been identified as the major uncertainty faced by decision makers, especially where organizational action is unavoidable. However, a granular ... -
Design leaps: business model adaptation in emerging economies
Sharma, Sunil; Dixit, Mukund R.; Karna, Amit (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2016)PurposeFirms take design leaps when they imitate an established business model developed either by another firm or in another market to create business opportunities. While recent research has suggested the use of contextual ... -
Determinants of success of joint ventures in India
Sahu, Asutosh; sinha, Ashutosh; Khanna, Varun (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2012-10-10)Joint ventures provide an attractive market entry strategy for a foreign company because they can leverage the local market knowledge, distribution channels, capacity and talent of the local companies. Further, the local ... -
Dhruva advisors: culture as northstar of growth
Sharma, Sunil; Gupta, Parvinder (2019-11-21)The case describes the first four years of Dhruva, a tax advisory firm set up by Dinesh Kanabar, ex-Deputy CEO of KPMG. Dinesh and other founding partners had worked with the Big-4 firms and were familiar with some of the ... -
Dhruva advisors: culture as northStar of growth: a teaching note
Sharma, Sunil; Gupta, Parvinder (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-11-21) -
Diversification strategies of broadcasting firms
Yerrapragada, Ravikiran; Sethi, Abhisek (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)What are the methods in which a media broadcasting company diversifies? Does it open its new channel in house? Or does it acquire a new set of channels? Does it make sense for a broadcasting company, whose core competency ... -
Does Strategic Planning Determine Innovation in Organizations? A Study of Indian SME Sector
Batra, Safal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Innovation is considered to be a source of competitive advantage. Not surprisingly, innovation has been a matter of scholarly interest for several decades now. However, despite its critical importance to the strategy ... -
Does strategic planning determine innovation in organizations? A study of Indian SME sector
Batra, Safal; Sharma, Sunil; Dixit, Mukund R.; Vohra, Neharika (Sage, 2018)While some researchers argue that strategic planning assists new product development and can be viewed as a framework for innovation, others believe that it restricts creativity and innovation. Despite a literary appreciation ... -
Drivers, Facilitators and Consequences: Exploring & Examining Job Crafting among Management Consultants
Singh, Vijay Lakshmi (2016)The job crafting perspective considers the ways in which employees proactively alter their tasks, relationships and perceptions at work in order to achieve a personalized fit to their work environment. Studies confirm that ... -
Entrepreneurial growth action and their financial consequences in a start-up: insight from a low-cost airline venture in a competitive environment
Dixit, Mukund R.; Karna, Amit; Sharma, Sunil (2009-09-07)This paper investigates the financial consequences of entrepreneurial growth actions in a start-up. It argues that the growth actions in a start-up create an imbalance in the demand for and supply of money for the start-up. ... -
Examining entrepreneurial orientation from the lens of CEO characteristics
Banerjee, Saikat (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The dissertation empirically examines the effects of the characteristics of Chief Executive Officers (CEO) on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of firms with the help of three essays. EO is the strategic posture of firms ... -
Firm aspirations, resource orchestration and performance: a study of Indian firms
George, Nycil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)Resource orchestration is characterized by a series of firm-level strategic actions – from search and selection of assets (resource investment) to the bundling and leveraging of these assets (resource deployment) – and ... -
Gaining competitive advantage through the right business model: analysis based on case studies
Purkayastha, Anish; Sharma, Sunil (Journal of Strategy and Management, 2016-03)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on an inductive research that analyzes the unique decisions of three firms that shape their business model and, consequently, provide a competitive advantage. Design/met ...