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Harnessing multiple mental models and creating opportunities for learning about human resource issues among district health officers
(2010-01-18)
This paper describes and evaluates the experience of using soft systems methodology (SSM), a problem structuring method of soft operations research (OR), to create learning opportunities about people issues among District ...
Understanding the experiences of ‘not knowing’
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
‘Knowing’ is respected, recognized, and rewarded. Amidst the emphasis on ‘knowing’, there is hardly any space for ‘not knowing’. Especially those occupying leadership roles are demanded and expected to be ‘knowing’. This ...
The role of traits, values and self-efficacy beliefs in volunteering
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
Recent literature on prosocial behavior has emphasized on the joint role of traits, values and self-efficacy beliefs in prosocial behavior. Even though some attention has been paid to studying the role of traits and values ...
Do Family Firms Learn? A Relational View
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
Though theoretical contributions have enriched organizational learning literature for over five decades, it is surprising to find that organizational learning has rarely been studied for family firms. When two out of every ...
Communities-of-Practice: Powerful or Powerless?
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
The extant literature provides evidence that control measures employed in Communities-of-Practice (CoP) have undergone significant changes with the evolution of the concept. When it started as a self-organized group, its ...
Three Debates in Organizational Learning
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
Organizational learning is seen as a distinguishing characteristic that can establish competitive advantage for a firm. Though theoretical contributions have enriched organizational learning literature for over five decades, ...
Network Measures for Organizational Learning Subprocesses: Case of a Consultancy Firm
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
A new scholarship has emerged that proposes the use of social network analysis as a tool for measuring organizational learning. O’Reilly’s (1991) remark that organizations are fundamentally relational entities clearly ...
Attitudes of the Youth towards Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of India and China
(2009-08-13)
This study argues that social support is an important enabler in entrepreneurial activity in a country or a region. One untested assumption in policy making on entrepreneurship development has been that all regions are ...
The Case of OD in an NGO in India
(2009-08-22)
This organizational development exercise was carried out in a prominent NGO that works in the area of rights and advocacy in the state of Jharkand in India. The OD exercise was part of the Applied Behavioral Science course ...
Bringing about Changes at a Large Engineering College:Lessons for Designers and Implementers of Large Scale Change Efforts
(2009-08-22)
This paper outlines a change management program undertaken at Maritime Engineering Institute in India. The intervention came in the form of a focused three month effort where the first author, a professor of OB at a leading ...