 | XIMB Fellow Programme in Management (Doctoral Level) |
| FPM Scholars [none] | Organizational Studies Guide: Amar K. J. R. Nayak Research Scholarship is available under NABARD Chair Unit, XIMB as per UGC norms upto two students. Understanding asymmetries and process of asymmetry perpetuation in a typical industrial organization and the strategies to optimize these asymmetries for the overall socio-cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability are prime issues of enquiry in this area of organizational studies. The key issues of research in this area include size, scope, ownership, technology, and management from the sustainability perspective. The traditional firms, especially the multinational corporations have been understood to have been the engines of the growth of the twentieth century. By effectively controlling the firm design variables such as size, scope, ownership, technology and management and by strategically controlling the external environment, these industrial organizations have remained efficient, profitable and grown in size. However, the rising inequity under rapid industrialization and globalization has been posing serious questions on the design and structure of industrial organizations and its applicability across industries and sectors in different socio-cultural-economic-ecological settings. The notion of efficiency that is central to firm existence will also be a subject for analysis in this area of study. Gaining competitive advantage through the strategy of asymmetry perpetuation has been well understood and practiced. However, the strategy to optimize asymmetries for sustainability has not been explored fully. This area of research provides opportunity to explore, and determine the optimal positions of the design variables of size, scope, ownership, technology, and management from the sustainability perspective. The above area will also provide opportunity to engage in live action research to understand, explain and determine the optimal positions and the simultaneity of optimal positions for sustainability in a given context of industry, sector, or community settings. While researching on this subject is exciting and is of great significance in the 21st century, the studies in this area is highly interdisciplinary and will require the doctoral participants to familiarize with the basic works in the field of Organizational Strategy, Systems Theories, and Sustainability. For respective enquiry, the doctoral participants could adopt any one of the approaches viz., theoretical research, empirical research or action research. Some References: 1. Henry Mintzberg, Mintzberg on Management, Inside our strange world of organizations, The Free Press 2. Bain, J.S. 1959. Industrial Organization, Wiley, New York 3. Penrose, Edith. 1995. The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, Third Edition, Oxford University Press, New York. 4. Robinson, J. 1969. The Economics of Imperfect Competition, Second Edition. Macmillan St. Martin’s Press. 5. Williamson, O.E. 1983. Markets, Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications. A study in the Economics of internal Organization. The Free Press 6. Williamson, O.E., 1985. The Economic Institutions of Capitalism, The Free Press, New York 7. Teece, David J. and Pisano, Gary and Shuen, Amy. 1997. ‘Dynamic capabilities and strategic management’, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 8. Rumelt, Richard P. 2003. ‘What in the world is Competitive Advantage?’ Policy Working Paper 2003-105 9. Sethi, J.D. 1986. ‘Trusteeship and the Crisis in Economic Theory’, in Trusteeship: The Gandhian Alternative, Gandhi Peace Foundation. 10. Krugman, Paul. 1980. 'Scale economies, product differentiation, and the pattern of trade'. American Economic Review 70, pp. 950-59. 11. Kohn, Alfie. 1992. ‘No Contest: The Case Against Competition’, Houghton Miffin Company, New York 12. Schumacher E. F. 1975. ‘Small is Beautiful’, Sphere Books Limited, London. 13. Nayak, Amar KJR. 2008. Multinationals in India: FDI & Complementation Strategy in a Developing Country, Palgrave Macmillan, UK & USA 14. Nayak, Amar KJR. 2010. Logic & Dynamics of Explosive Firm Growth in a Developing Country Context, Strategic Management Society Conference, IIM Bangalore. 15. Nayak, Amar KJR. 2009, Optimizing Asymmetries for Sustainability, Working Paper, Research Seminar Series, XIM Bhubaneswar, Osaka University, Japan and Kobe University, Japan. Expected Profile: Candidates with a Master’s level education in one of the subjects such as management or economics and related subjects with good academic credentials will be preferred. However, students with a Master’s level education from other disciples with excellent work on the subject can also apply. Deep commitment to pursue research and academics and high proficiency in academic writing in English are important prerequisites. |
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