Browsing Working Papers by Author "Sharma, Sunil"

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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 ...

    • Decoding Response Uncertainty 

      Sharma, Sunil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Response uncertainty defined as not knowing how to respond to a known event has been identified as the major uncertainty faced by decision makers, especially where organizational action is unavoidable. However, a granular ...

    • Innovation in business group firms: influence of network diversity 

      Kerai, Anita; Sharma, Sunil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Extant research on influence of ownership structure on innovation suggests a positive relationship between business group affiliation and innovation. While it is true that firms affiliated to business groups seem to benefit ...

    • Internationalization of firms from emerging economies: an organizational learning framework 

      Sharma, Sunil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Increasing globalization of economy has provided fresh impetus to internationalization efforts of firms from both developed and emerging economies. Extant research in this area has been carried out with the perspective of ...

    • 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 ...

    • Organization design for knowledge transfer in alliances 

      Sharma, Sunil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      With increasing globalization, competitive landscape has undergone tremendous change. To cope up with turbulent environmental demands, firms are entering into alliances to bridge capability gap. However, movement from skill ...

    • 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 ...

    • Relevance of resource based view themes for capability evolution 

      Sharma, Sunil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      RBV implicitly assumes omnipotent nature for certain firms. These are the firms that can create rent generating capabilities anytime and therefore forever. While theoretically, it seems plausible, empirically it may remain ...

    • Strategic Judgment under Pervasive Uncertainty 

      Sharma, Sunil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Strategic decision making under uncertainty has been typified as an uncertainty mitigation activity. However, this hypothesis breaks down under conditions of very high uncertainty as it demands judgment on the part of ...

    • Strategic Responses to Deregulation: An Institutional Theory Perspective 

      Sharma, Sunil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Firms adopt distinct strategic orientation in response to change in environment. Deregulation is a drastic change in firm’s environment. This paper attempts to explain strategic orientation exhibited by firms in response ...

    • 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 ...