Browsing Faculty Publications (Bibliographic) by Author "Kandathil, George"
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Acting for change: a circuit of power analysis of a denotified nomadic tribe and Budhan Theater's struggle for change
Shah, P.; Kandathil, George; Kapoor, A. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)This book studies accounts of alternative organisations in India and provides critical insights on if and why alternative organisations matter to management theory and practice, how management theory can be applied to the ... -
Actions in phygital space: work solidarity and collective action among app-based cab drivers in India
Kandathil, George; Parth, Shalini; Bathini, Dharma Raju (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 ... -
The ban on working from home makes sense for Yahoo: It needs the innovation and speed of delivery that come from office-based employees
Pathak, Atul Arun; Bathini, Dharma Raju; Kandathil, George (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 ... -
Beyond the technology-centric and citizen-centric binary: ontological politics of organizing in translation of the smart city discourse in India
Mittal, Harsh; Kandathil, George; Mathur, Navdeep (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 ... -
Bother me only if the client complains: control and resistance in home-based telework in India
Bathini, Dharma Raju; Kandathil, George (Employee Relations: The International Journal, 2020)The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between operations of organization control and workers’ response to them in case of telework, a technology-embedded new way of working. -
"A Brief Note on Technological Determinism." (Teaching Note)
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Contradictions of Employee Involvement in Organizational Change: The Transformation Efforts in NCJM, an Indian Industrial Cooperative
Kandathil, George (Lexington, 2015) -
Contradictions of Employee Participation in Worker Cooperatives
Kandathil, George (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This study will explore employee involvement (EI) and its variations in creating a worker cooperative (and sustaining it) from a family business that went bankrupt and hence deserted by the owners. Using an in-depth ... -
Defining the social responsibility of businesses
Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Kandathil, George (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 ... -
(Dis)empowering the feminine? Spatializing the interlace of gender-class-neoliberal managerialism in a women-only café in India
Chennangodu, Rajeshwari; Kandathil, George (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 ... -
(Dis)empowering the feminine? Spatializing the interlace of gender-class-neoliberal managerialism in a women-only café in India
Chennangodu, Rajeshwari; Kandathil, George (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 ... -
Electronic records of obstetrics and gynecology encounter: beyond professional logics of health care
Tandon, Ayushi; Kandathil, George; Deodhar, Swanand J.; Mathur, Navdeep (IndiaHCI '19: Proceedings of the 10th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2019)This paper examines how use of electronic medical record (EMR) within professional understanding of medical model have bearings upon the health-care provisions for women. Through a qualitative, empirical study in four ... -
From Behavioural Compliance to Value Internalization
Kandathil, George (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This study will explore whether an individual’s sustained behavioural compliance at workplace could lead to internalization of the value(s) underpinning the behaviour. It will also identify the boundary conditions and ... -
Narrative methodologies in information systems literature: illuminating interconnectivity and change over time
Kandathil, George; Wagner, E.L. (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 ... -
Negotiating absent practices and dormant features: discourse as a means of shaping the implementation of a global enterprise system to meet local work culture
Kandathil, George; Wagner, Erica L. (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
Kandathil, George; Joseph, Jerome (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 ... -
An orchestrated negotiated exchange: trading home-based telework for intensified work
Kandathil, George; Bathini, Dharma Raju (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 ... -
Strategizing in small informal retailers in India: home delivery as a strategic practice
Pathak, Atul Arun; Kandathil, George (Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2020)Small informally organized family-owned grocery retailers—kiranas—are ubiquitous in India and have retained market dominance while facing increasing competition from large formally organized retailers (FORs). Yet, strategy ... -
Technology non-affordances: The political interactions in the designer-user- technology trio in a developing country
Kandathil, George; Wagner, Erica L. (ACM Digital Library, 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 ... -
A Women-Inclusive Emancipatory Alternative to Corporate Capitalism? The Case of Kerala’s State-Instituted Kudumbashree Programme
Kandathil, George; Varma, Poornima; Turaga, Rama Mohana R. (Cambridge University Press, 2022)With the ongoing advancement of capitalism, corporate capitalism – a specific variety of capitalism that is grounded in neoliberal ideology (Harvey, 2007) – has been engulfing economic and social relations worldwide ...