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Being professional: organizational control in Indian call centres
(2006-10-29)
The relationship between technocratic and socioideological control in organizations is contested
among scholars. In an attempt to understand this complex interlinkage, the present study
examined organizational control ...
A necessary evil: the experiences of managers implementing downsizing programmes
(2006-10-27)
This paper presents the findings of a phenomenological study, which describes the experiences of human
resource (HR) managers implementing a downsizing programme in a steel manufacturing organisation in
India. Data were ...
The interface between technology and customer cyberbullying: evidence from India
(Elsevier, 2014)
Drawing on a phenomenological inquiry of the subjective work experiences of Indian call agents employed in international-facing call centres, this paper highlights the interface between information and communication ...
From boom to where?: the impact of crisis on work and employment in Indian BPO
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014)
This article locates Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) within the global supply chains of business services delivery and an international division of service labour. It acknowledges the BPO market's essential ...
Ambivalence: employee responses to depersonalized bullying at work
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015)
The present article furthers our understanding of the nascent concept of depersonalized bullying by exploring employee responses to the phenomenon. Through a qualitative enquiry of international-facing call centre agents ...
Navigating the extended reach: target experiences of cyber bullying at work
(Elsevier Ltd, 2013)
With research on workplace bullying having so far focused on face-to-face interactions via proximate physical presence, cyberbullying remains to be understood. Through a hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry of target ...
Indian call centres and business process outsourcing: a study in union formation
(2009-04-15)
In this exploratory study of union formation in the Indian call
centre/business process outsourcing sector, the authors draw
upon evidence from the first detailed survey of members of the
recently formed UNITES, and ...
Doing dignity work: Indian security guards interface with precariousness
(Springer, 2018-08-22)
Increasing global competition has intensified the use of informal sector workforce worldwide. This phenomenon is true with
regard to India, where 92% of the workers hold precarious jobs. Our study examines the dynamics ...
Navigating embeddedness: Experiences of Indian IT suppliers and employees in the Netherlands
(Springer, 2018)
In this article, we shift the usual analytical attention of the GPN framework from lead firms to suppliers in the network and from production to IT services. Our focus is on how Indian IT suppliers embed in the Netherlands ...
The experience of work in India’s domestic call centre industry
(International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2013)
Research on Indian call centres has focused almost exclusively on international-facing operations, at the expense of its domestic sub-sector, which is driven by different economic dynamics, namely the expanding Indian ‘new ...