Browsing Faculty Publications (Bibliographic) by Author "Karna, Amit"
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AuthBridge Research Services Pvt. Ltd
Agarwal, Promila; Karna, Amit (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-03-22)AuthBridge is a leading Background Screening & Risk Assessment Company. Founded in 2005, its mission is to be among the top and dominant in every line of business it undertakes with its creative, continually improving ... -
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 ... -
Business model adaptation for emerging markets: a case study of a German automobile manufacturer in India
Karna, Amit; Landau, C.; Sailer, M. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)Emerging markets offer a wide range of opportunities for firms from developed markets, especially in terms of high growth potential. However, business models that enable firms to achieve competitive advantage in their home ... -
Connecting the right knots: The impact of board committee interlocks on the performance of Indian firms
Edacherian, Saneesh; Richter, Ansgar; Karna, Amit; Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal (2023-03-21)Research Question/Issue Information processing, agency, and resource dependence perspectives provide diverging predictions regarding the relationship between board interlocks and firm performance, which are rooted in ... -
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 ... -
Disentangling reciprocal relationships between R&D intensity, profitability and capital market performance: a panel VAR analysis
Karna, Amit; Mavis, Christos; Richter, Ansgar (Elsevier, 2022-08-11)Research and development (R&D) investments are strategic choices that firms make to create and sustain competitive advantage. Extant literature proposes that firms’ R&D investments and their profitability and capital market ... -
Does the diversification–firm performance relationship change over time? a meta‐analytical review
Karna, Amit; Schommer, Monika; Richter, Ansgar (John Wiley & Sons, 2018-07-16)We study the relationship between diversification and firm performance in the context of the decline in levels of diversification over time. We argue that the pressure to reduce diversification may have more strongly ... -
Doing social good on a sustainable basis: competitive advantage of social businesses
Karna, Amit; Roy, Kaushik (Management Decision, 2015)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the capabilities of social entrepreneurship (SE) firms and how they achieve competitive advantage while engaging in social value creation. The authors employ a business ... -
Drivers420.com: Organising Transporters
Ghura, Amarpreet Singh; Karna, Amit (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-10-26)This case describes a situation in which Malkit Singh Bal (Bal) partner of Bal Roadlines shares with Mr. Ghura, who was about to be hired as consultant for Bal Roadlines, about the rise in issue of fraud and crime done by ... -
Drivers420.com: Organising Transporters: A Teaching Note
Karna, Amit; Ghura, Amarpreet Singh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-10-26) -
The East India Company in Reverse: Indian MNCs on a Buying Spree
Karna, Amit; Singh, V. (2010-07-09) -
Economic geography and emerging market clusters: a co-evolutionary study of local and non-local networks in Bangalore
Karna, Amit; Taube, Florian A.; Sonderegger, Petra (Elsevier, 2018-04-03)The presence of network ties within location plays a significant role in organization and evolution of clusters. This has proven to be particularly true for clusters specializing in knowledge intensive industries, where ... -
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. ... -
Entrepreneurship through the lens of dynamic managerial capabilities: a review of the literature
George, Nycil; Karna, Amit; Sud, Mukesh (Cambridge University Press, 2022-05-02)In a Schumpeterian economic model, dynamic capabilities (DC) help entrepreneurial firms create competitive advantages. However, advancing the construct of DC in entrepreneurship is hampered by the incompatibility of some ... -
ePuja: Seek, Discover, Get Blessed
Patel, Malay R.; Karna, Amit (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-07-12)The case is about an online venture that enables believers to pursue their faith in the several Hindu gods and goddesses in India. The beliefs of the around 1.2 billion population of India in the divine, serve as a lucrative ... -
ePuja: Seek, Discover, Get Blessed: A Teaching Note
Karna, Amit; Patel, Malay (2017-07-12) -
Evolution of innovation networks across geographical and organizational boundaries : a study of R&D subsidiaries in the Bangalore IT cluster
Karna, Amit; Taube, Florian; Sonderegger, Petra (European management review, 2013)In this paper, we investigate the evolution of multinational corporation (MNC) research and development (R&D) subsidiaries through evolution of innovation networks. Their evolution within and outside MNC R&D subsidiaries has ... -
Imprinting effects of exposure to the Indian independence movement on export intensity of firms
Karna, Amit; Banerjee, Saikat; Sharma, Sunil (Elsevier, 2022-05-31)Extending the concept of historical imprinting and organizational learning, we propose that the prior exposure to the Indian independence movement negatively influences the export intensity of firms. Firm-specific ... -
Institutional leverage capability: creating and using institutional advantages for internationalization
Karna, Amit; Landau, C.; Richter, A.; Uhlenbruck, K. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)Plain language summary: Home country institutions, for instance chambers of commerce and educational systems, can support firms' efforts to expand into foreign markets. However, only some firms utilize this support and ... -
The internationalization of hidden champions: setting the context for advancing research on emerging market strategies for German Mittelstand firms
Landau, Christian; Karna, Amit; Taube, Florian (Elgar, 2016)