Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Sharma, Sunil"
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Community Influences On Strategy-As-Practice In Family Businesses
Singh, Samar (2016)The strategy-as-practice perspective concerns ways of doing that fall into specific routines and works patterns, which may vary from firm to firm in an industry, and between different types of firms, while at the same time ... -
Does Strategic Planning Determine Innovation in Organizations? A Study of Indian SME Sector
Batra, Safal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Innovation is considered to be a source of competitive advantage. Not surprisingly, innovation has been a matter of scholarly interest for several decades now. However, despite its critical importance to the strategy ... -
Drivers, Facilitators and Consequences: Exploring & Examining Job Crafting among Management Consultants
Singh, Vijay Lakshmi (2016)The job crafting perspective considers the ways in which employees proactively alter their tasks, relationships and perceptions at work in order to achieve a personalized fit to their work environment. Studies confirm that ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Identification and building of capabilities for knowledge intensive, highly risky and uncertain activities: a study in the oil and gas sector
Sharma, Sunil (2009)Upstream petroleum firms acquire blocks to explore oil and gas, These decisions are strategic choices for the firm exercised under conditions of high uncertainty and risk. Firms, therefore, continuously strive to improve ... -
An Integrative Delineation of the Determinants of Dynamic Capabilities: A Study in the Information Technology Industry.
Pathak, Atul Arun (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Dynamic capabilities are the capabilities of an organization to systematically change its resources base by sensing opportunities and making appropriate and timely decisions (Barreto, 2010; Teece, Pisano, & Shuen, 1997; ... -
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 ... -
A Study of Value Creation and Value Appropriation In Inter-Firm Alliances of Simultaneous Cooperation and Competition
Rai, Rajnish (2013)Relatively little is known about how value is created and appropriated in inter-firm alliances of simultaneous cooperation and competition. In this dissertation, I address this gap from both theoretical and methodological ... -
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 ... -
Uncertainty and risk management of climate change impacts on infrastructure assets
Naswa, Prakriti (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Infrastructure assets are a constrained resource in India and face stress from population growth, increased urbanization, resource variability and use, and economic growth. Climate change is an additional stress which has ...