Browsing Working Papers by Author "Ramnarayan, S."
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How firms make technological improvements: observations from a field study
Ramnarayan, S. (2010-04-17)The paper presents observational data impressionistic accounts emerging from a study aimed at understanding the determinants of technological dynamism, and the role that publicly funded technology institutions play in ... -
How managers kindle learning processes
Ramnarayan, S.; Nair, K. Unnikrishnan (2010-04-05)Organizational learning occurs when the insights and learnings of individual organization members are transferred to the larger organizational system. This paper examines how senior managers create processes which enable ... -
Middle management motivation: a state of choked potential
Ramnarayan, S. (2010-03-27)Middle managers are expected to play a critical role in translating organisational policies and strategies into practice and action. They have an important role in providing information/input to strategy formulation, and ... -
Trappings of expertise and the pursuit of failure
Ramnarayan, S. (2010-03-26)This paper describes a computer simulation of a business organization used with 20 groups of participants. Each group had three members and was expected to manage 24 months of the organization in 3 hours of simulation time. ...