Browsing Working Papers by Author "Karna, Amit"
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Aspirations, Enterprise Strategy and Sustenance of a Start-up in a Competitive Environment: A Study of Developments in Air Deccan
Dixit, Mukund R.; Sharma, Sunil; Karna, Amit (2009-08-03)This paper studies the developments in Air Deccan, a start up in the Indian aviation industry and discusses the linkages among the aspirations of the entrepreneur, enterprise strategy and its sustenance in a competitive ... -
Economic geography and networks: role of local and non-local ties in cluster evolution
Karna, Amit; Florian A, Taeube; Petra Sonderegger (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)The organization of geographic clusters plays an increasingly significant role due to the presence of network ties that exist within the location and beyond. This has proven to be particularly true for knowledge-intensive ... -
Metamorphosis of Entrepreneurial Ventures: A Holistic Paradigm from Two Tales
Dixit, Mukund R.; Karna, Amit; Sharma, Sunil (2009-08-07)Some entrepreneurial ventures grow into large organizations within a relatively short duration. These startups rapidly increase their scale and scope to turn into matured organizations. Though the literature is replete ... -
Overcoming Managerial Challenges to Realize Growth Spurts: Insights from Cases of Three Enterprises
Dixit, Mukund R.; Sharma, Sunil; Karna, Amit (2009-08-07)Organizations face several managerial challenges during their growth period. Growth spurts are realized when organizations overcome these challenges. Though the literature is full of studies on the enterprise growth, the ... -
Role of clusters and certification in the internationalization of offshoring service providers from emerging markets: a study of Indian IT firms
Upadhyayula, Rajesh; Karthik, D.; Karna, Amit (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)We adopt a resource-based view to investigate the drivers of internationalization of emerging market offshoring service providers (OSPs). Using data from Indian IT firms between 1992 and 2002, we investigate the effect of ... -
A Unified Theory of Capability Building: Need and Response
Dixit, Mukund R.; Karna, Amit; Sharma, Sunil (2009-08-07)Strategy literature is replete with isolated contributions to the jigsaw puzzle of building capabilities by firms. The isolation is primarily caused by the way resource-based view and capability literature has developed ...