Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Kandathil, George"
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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 ... -
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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Work from home: a boon or a bane? the missing piece of employee cost
Bathini, Dharma Raju; Kandathil, George (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 ...