Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Karna, Amit"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
New environmental stimuli, challenges of entrepreneurial firms and growth leaps: evidences from multisector case studies
Dixit, Mukund R.; Sharma, Sunil; Karna, Amit (2010-09-07)This paper conceptualises and delineates five challenges – faced by entrepreneurial firms in responding to the stimuli for growth provided by the new environment of globalisation, deregulation and liberalisation. It ... -
A new playbook for diversified companies
Karna, Amit; Pidun, Ulrich; Richter, Ansgar; Schommer, Monika (MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 2018)A wave of corporate breakups has rippled through industry after industry over the past several years. This has happened in consumer goods, for instance, with Kraft Foods' spin-off of its North American grocery business; ... -
Performance implications of outsourcing: A meta-analysis
Karna, Amit; Lahiri, Somnath; Chittaranjan Kalubandi, Sai; Edacherian, Saneesh (Elsevier, 2021-11-04)Although outsourcing remains a dominant strategic choice for managers, the understanding of its implications on the firm remains inconclusive. In this paper we focus on empirical evidence around contingencies that determine ... -
Policy uncertainty and behavior of foreign firms in emerging economies
Karna, Amit; Mondal, Shamim S.; Pingali, Viswanath (Emerald, 2022-06-14)Purpose – This study aims to examine how foreign and domestic firms react to policy uncertainty in an emerging economy. In addition, the study investigates if older foreign firms better adapt to policy uncertainty than ... -
Revisiting the role of the environment in the capabilities financial performance relationship: a meta-analysis
Karna, Amit; Richter, A.; Riesenkampff, E. (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2016)Within the capabilities-based view of the firm, there is debate about the relative importance of ordinary and dynamic capabilities for firm performance and about the extent to which their performance effects are contingent ... -
Strategic breakthroughs as flagpoles of innovation process
Dixit, Mukund R.; Sharma, Sunil; Karna, Amit (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2016)This paper empirically investigates the innovation process, from ideation to market leadership. The focus is on the nature of innovation process, action-outcome linkage, and learning from the environment. Our conceptualisation ... -
Theoretical foundations of antecedents of internationalization and moderators in multinationality-performance relationship: what is missing?
Purkayastha, Anish; Sharma, Sunil; Karna, Amit (Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, 2020-03-09)Theoretical foundations of antecedents of internationalization and moderators in multinationality–performance relationship: What is missing?Purpose In this paper, the authors undertake a systematic analysis of ... -
What drives emerging multinationals? early stage internationalization and performance drivers of Indian IT firms
Dhandapani, K.; Upadhyayula, R.; Karna, Amit (Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013)Although emerging market multinational corporations (EMNCs) are growing at a rapid rate, little is known about their internationalization process and the impact it has on the firm performance. We adopt an institutional ...