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Rishikesha T. Krishnan

Bio: Rishikesha T. Krishnan is an academic researcher from Indian Institute of Management Indore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emerging markets & Multinational corporation. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 37 publications receiving 525 citations. Previous affiliations of Rishikesha T. Krishnan include Indian Institute of Management Bangalore & Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate subsidiary initiative and strategic choice in the context of Indian software subsidiaries of multinational corporations and find that high levels of subsidiary initiative are associated with subsidiaries that have low levels of integration and high level of autonomy, while some multinational parents are allowing subsidiaries to chart their own destiny in return for a dilution of a part (or whole) of their stake in the subsidiary.
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate subsidiary initiative and strategic choice in the context of Indian software subsidiaries of multinational corporations. Contrary to earlier research, we find that high levels of subsidiary initiative are associated with subsidiaries that have low levels of integration and high levels of autonomy. We also find a new trend in the organizational arrangements of software subsidiaries within multinationals in that some multinational parents are allowing subsidiaries to chart their own destiny in return for a dilution of a part ( or whole) of their stake in the subsidiary.
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TL;DR: This paper found that IIMB students are more business-oriented, self-oriented and performance-oriented compared to other management students, and they are more willing to do whatever it takes to make a business successful and less questioning of the ethicality of issues.
Abstract: The objective of this study is to understand where MBA (PGP) students stand on ethical issues. The study was driven by a need to understand the students better so as to be able to design courses on business ethics and human values more effectively. In the context of an increasingly competitive environment for admission to top business schools like the IIMs, being able to keep track of the changing ethical values and beliefs of our students will also be of use in other aspects of programme design.A questionnaire to measure "Perceptions and Attitudes about Business and Society" consisting of 37 items and 17 items on "Religious and Spiritual Beliefs" was developed for this study. The questionnaire was administered to 175 first-years students and 146 second-year students of HM Bangalore. It was also administered to 51 students of a private management institution affiliated to Bangalore University.The students on the whole appear to be idealistic when confronted with general statements but put in a bind when required to make trade-offs between potentially conflicting factors. They are caught between ideals ami the world as it is. They come out as somewhat self-centered and individualistic but not in a vicious sort of way. They are clearly performance-driven and have imbibed much of the ethic of modern capitalism. IIMB students are found to fall in three clusters - one cluster willing to do "anything for performance", another "ethical but practical" and a third "aggressive moralists".Compared to other management students, IIMB students are more business-oriented, self-orientedand performance-oriented. They are also much more willing to do whatever it takes to make a business successful and less questioning of the ethicality of issues. At the same time they are more idealistic as far as bribery or ethical conduct are concerned.By the end of the first year of the MBA programme and summer training at IIMB, the students have less belief in the social responsibility of business (or just a greater faith in unbridled capitalism). They are more willing to do whatever it takes to make a business succeed, whether it be sifting through a competitor's garbage or breaking apart a competitor's product to study its working. At the same time, they see a slightly larger space for personal conscience and values than before.Women are more sensitive than men to human issues. They are less tolerant of unethical behaviour. They see a higher role for conscience and individual values. They are more particular about what is acceptable, whether it is in the realm of advertising or business intelligence. While believers in God are less willing to accept the primacy of maximising shareholder wealth over all other goals, they are at the same time less hesitant to bribe.Implications are drawn for the teaching of business ethics and further research.

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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
Abstract: What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative—leading to this outcome. We then specify hypotheses about the impact of resource centralization and dependency, goal ambiguity and technical uncertainty, and professionalization and structuration on isomorphic change. Finally, we suggest implications for theories of organizations and social change.

2,134 citations

17 Jun 2009
TL;DR: This article explored the influence of different mechanisms in lowering barriers related to the orientation of universities and to the transactions involved in working with university partners, and explored the effects of collaboration experience, breadth of interaction, and inter-organizational trust on lowering different types of barriers.
Abstract: Although the literature on university–industry links has begun to uncover the reasons for, and types of, collaboration between universities and businesses, it offers relatively little explanation of ways to reduce the barriers in these collaborations. This paper seeks to unpack the nature of the obstacles to collaborations between universities and industry, exploring influence of different mechanisms in lowering barriers related to the orientation of universities and to the transactions involved in working with university partners. Drawing on a large-scale survey and public records, this paper explores the effects of collaboration experience, breadth of interaction, and inter-organizational trust on lowering different types of barriers. The analysis shows that prior experience of collaborative research lowers orientation-related barriers and that greater levels of trust reduce both types of barriers studied. It also indicates that breadth of interaction diminishes the orientation-related, but increases transaction-related barriers. The paper explores the implications of these findings for policies aimed at facilitating university–industry collaboration.

858 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework that aims to explain why successive changes in industry leadership (called also the catch-up cycle) occur over time in a sector and identify windows of opportunity that may emerge during the long-run evolution of an industry.

341 citations

Posted Content
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reconceptualize the firm-level construct absorptive capacity as a learning dyad-level measure, relative absorptive capacities, and test the model using a sample of pharmaceutical-biotechnology R&D alliances.
Abstract: Much of the prior research on interorganizational learning has focused on the role of absorptive capacity, a firm's ability to value, assimilate, and utilize new external knowledge. However, this definition of the construct suggests that a firm has an equal capacity to learn from all other organizations. We reconceptualize the firm-level construct absorptive capacity as a learning dyad-level construct, relative absorptive capacity. One firm's ability to learn from another firm is argued to depend on the similarity of both firms' (1) knowledge bases, (2) organizational structures and compensation policies, and (3) dominant logics. We then test the model using a sample of pharmaceutical–biotechnology R&D alliances. As predicted, the similarity of the partners' basic knowledge, lower management formalization, research centralization, compensation practices, and research communities were positively related to interorganizational learning. The relative absorptive capacity measures are also shown to have greater explanatory power than the established measure of absorptive capacity, R&D spending. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

335 citations

Book
16 Dec 2013
TL;DR: Lee et al. as discussed by the authors used patent analysis to demonstrate that the secret lies in innovative systems at the firm, sector and country levels which promote investment in what the author calls "short-cycle" technologies and thereby create a new path different from that of forerunning countries.
Abstract: One of the puzzles about why some countries have stronger economic growth than others revolves around the so-called 'middle-income trap', the situation in which a country that has grown strongly gets stuck at a certain level. In this book, Keun Lee explores the reasons why examples of successful catching-up are limited and in particular, why the Asian economies, including China, have managed to move, or are moving, beyond middle-income status but economic growth has stalled in some Latin American countries. This is one of the first studies to demonstrate using patent analysis that the secret lies in innovative systems at the firm, sector and country levels which promote investment in what the author calls 'short-cycle' technologies and thereby create a new path different from that of forerunning countries. With its comprehensive policy framework for development as well as useful quantitative methods, this is essential reading for academic researchers and practitioners.

304 citations