Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

About: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is a education organization based out in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Emerging markets & Corporate governance. The organization has 491 authors who have published 1254 publications receiving 23853 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMB.

The process of building GSO relationships: the experience of a multinational vendor with Indian contractors

Abstract: Global software outsourcing (GSO) market refers to the offshore development of software by personnel outside the client’s home country. The GSO market was estimated at US$50 billion in 1994, with an expected growth rate of 15% (Kumar and Willcocks 1996). This paper reports an ongoing case analysis of a North American telecommunications MNC (“Global”) and their GSO arrangements with two leading and two startup software houses. The processes of initiation and evolution of these GSOs over the past five to seven years is described and some underlying challenges presented.

Green Supply Chain Initiatives of Manufacturing Firms:Complementary Versus Trade-Off

Abstract: Organizations throughout the world are persistently striving hard to develop new and innovative ways to enhance their performance and competitiveness. Effective green supply chain management (GSCM) has become a potentially valuable means to secure competitive advantage and improve performance of the firm in the global market place. GSCM also helps to sustain natural ecosystems and human populations with a high standard of living. This research conceptualizes and tests the dimensions of green SCM practice, competitive advantage, and performance dimensions. Data for the study were collected from 62 manufacturing organizations and the relationships proposed in the framework were tested using Partial Least Square (PLS)-Structural Equation Modeling and moderating effects through Sobel Test. The results indicate that green SCM practices have a positive impact on competitive advantage and performance of the manufacturing enterprises.

Doctor-patient interaction in telemedicine: linking the structurational aspects to institutionalization

Abstract: This paper focuses on telemedicine implementation and use, which can be used to extend modern medical knowledge to remote areas in developing countries. By examining doctor patient interactions in two different contexts of telemedicine programs in India, we posit how the actors interacting over virtual media reinforce and shape the structures, which in turn, are determined by the institutional logics of the context. This process determines the adaption and evolution of a new technology. The paper draws on the tenets of structuration theory and institutional logics to extend the theoretical understanding of the process of evolution of a new technology and emphasizes the essential role of considering the existing institutional logics in the design and implementation process.

On the Equilibrium Behavior of a Supply Chain Market for Capacity

Abstract: Acapacity market is a business-to-business exchange in which equally capable suppliers compete with one another to satisfy generic orders from diverse buyers. The market is asymmetric because the buyers can carry inventory of the products ordered but the suppliers cannot store their capacity. In such a market, we might expect to see something like a price for capacity emerge to equilibrate demand and supply. The financial risk of participating in such a market will be driven by the volatility of the capacity price. In this paper we develop a model to explore the behavior of such a market and demonstrate, for example, that volatility of the price for capacity increases, to a point, when inflexibility of the capacity increases. We can also make statements about how the resolution of price uncertainty in the capacity market is related to the resolution of demand uncertainty faced by the buyers. Another contribution of the paper is to explain the role of market characteristics in how the market acts to minimize shortages caused by consumer demand uncertainty. We use continuous time stochastic optimal control techniques and numerical experiments to demonstrate these insights.