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An orchestrated negotiated exchange: trading home-based telework for intensified work
(Springer International Publishing, 2017-02)
In this paper, we explore a popular flexible work arrangement (FWA), home-based telework, in the Indian IT industry. We show how IT managers used the dominant meanings of telework to portray telework as an employee benefit ...
Negotiating absent practices and dormant features: discourse as a means of shaping the implementation of a global enterprise system to meet local work culture
(Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – Proceedings, May 2017, 2017)
The introduction of a new enterprise system to an organization often necessitates the accommodation of standardized practices, which may be in conflict with local users’ practices and their work culture. We explore such a ...
Normative underpinnings of direct employee participation studies and implications for developing ethical reflexivity: a multidisciplinary review
(Springer International, 2017-09-21)
This paper seeks to join studies which have drawn attention to the ethical reflexivity of research and the research enterprise in the organisational studies’ field. Towards this end, we review OB, HRM, and IR studies on ...
The ban on working from home makes sense for Yahoo: It needs the innovation and speed of delivery that come from office-based employees
(emeraldinsight.com, 2015)
Purpose
– Discusses the suitability of work-from-home policies, especially in information technology companies. Cautions against a one-size-fits-all approach and states that each company needs to make a decision based ...
Work from home: a boon or a bane? the missing piece of employee cost
(Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015-04)
This paper examines the discourse on work from home in global and Indian contexts. It shows a long-held excessive focus on employee benefits which deflected the attention away from employee costs. Even though there was ...
Narrative methodologies in information systems literature: illuminating interconnectivity and change over time
(Association for Information Systems, 2016)
This tutorial presents an action net-based narrative research methodology that is particularly useful for describing, undertaking, and understanding process-oriented field research related to IT-enabled change. We use work ...
Defining the social responsibility of businesses
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2014)
Whose Business is it?
If the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has to be implemented meaningfully by
companies, then the stakeholders impacted by their business should also have a say in defining
what ...
Actions in phygital space: work solidarity and collective action among app-based cab drivers in India
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-11-16)
This study delineates the microprocesses of solidarity development and the subsequent collective actions of gig workers in India amidst multiple structural constraints. Using netnography, semi-structured interviews and ...
Beyond the technology-centric and citizen-centric binary: ontological politics of organizing in translation of the smart city discourse in India
(SAGE Publications, 2023-02-02)
Smart city (SC) experts in India often center-stage citizens as an alternative to a technology-led transformation. A substantial body of literature on smart cities sustains this resultant binary between techno-centrism and ...
(Dis)empowering the feminine? Spatializing the interlace of gender-class-neoliberal managerialism in a women-only café in India
(Wiley, 2023-04-26)
Using the Lefebvrian triad, we explore spatial organizing of classed-gendered work and working bodies in a cafe space that emerges from urbanized claims of empowering “rural poor women” to become entrepreneurs by employing ...