Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Karna, Amit"
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Building capabilities for global service delivery: a study in the Indian software service sector
Karna, Amit (2009)Firm Capabilities have attracted research attention for several years. Capabilities have been seen from resource-based (Barney, 1991) and process-based (Helfat et al,2007) views. We take the latter and define capabilities ... -
Essays on internal markets of business groups
Sai, Chittaranjan Kalubandi (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)In three essays, I examine how access to internal markets of business groups impacts affiliate firms’ behavior. In the first essay, I examined the importance of business group affiliation, prior internationalization of ... -
Examining entrepreneurial orientation from the lens of CEO characteristics
Banerjee, Saikat (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The dissertation empirically examines the effects of the characteristics of Chief Executive Officers (CEO) on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of firms with the help of three essays. EO is the strategic posture of firms ... -
Examining the impact of discretionary human resource practices on workplace loneliness implication during home-based telework
Maheshwari, Sudhanshu (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"The advancement of information and communication technologies has revolutionized work– life balance in the 21st century by migrating work from traditional office spaces to remote locations. For many, employees, this ... -
Firm aspirations, resource orchestration and performance: a study of Indian firms
George, Nycil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)Resource orchestration is characterized by a series of firm-level strategic actions – from search and selection of assets (resource investment) to the bundling and leveraging of these assets (resource deployment) – and ... -
In the pursuit of international assignment success: role of cultural intelligence
Ray, Prantika (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)International assignments form the backbone of global human resource management. These assignments have been elemental for various business strategies, control, coordination, knowledge transfer, and the development of ... -
Internationalization of emerging market firms: A dynamic capability perspective
Purkayastha, Anish (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)The dissertation empirically explains how dynamic capabilities enable emerging market firms (EMFs) to expand into international markets and generate higher performance through international expansion. With the help of three ... -
Markets, home country ecosystem partners & value creation: a study of Indian pharmaceutical industry
Aggarwal, Mayank (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Recently scholars have started studying the locus of value creation outside the firm and how various ecosystem partners and stakeholders impact firms and markets. We expand this research agenda in the context of the ... -
Overcoming institutional voids in the agricultural product market: analysing the role of farmer organizations
John, Jannet (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"In this thesis, we analyse the ability of farmer organizations to overcome institutional voids in the agricultural product markets. We further look at the impact of membership to one such farmer organization i.e., farmer ... -
Three essays on diversity in multiple levels of strategic leadership
Edacherian, Saneesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)In three independent but related essays, we examine diversity (heterogeneity) in strategic leadership to explore the interdependency among multiple levels of strategic leadership and analyze the role that strategic leaders ... -
Unbundling innovation strategies: firms’ technological choices and complementarities-in-performance of innovation inputs and outputs across developing countries
Dwibedy, Punyashlok (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Innovation is considered a multi-level construct and it takes the form of (i) inputs and (ii) outputs. Based on this, the thesis considers three inter-related questions in the form of three essays: (1) What factors (firm, ... -
Understanding work engagement of start-up employees using a mixed method approach
Kaur, Ashneet (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"Over the last decade, the robust start-up ecosystem has significantly contributed towards global economic growth and employment generation. However, due to increased market competition and dynamicity, start-ups are ...