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.

Emerging Technologies and Emergent Workplaces: Findings from an Ethnographic Study at an Indian IT Organization

Abstract: Over the past four decades, Indian Information Technology (IT) industry has been delivering traditional software and BPM (Business Process Management) services to its clients across the globe. Providing cost-optimized, yet high-quality services following standard process methodologies has made it an attractive destination to clients across industry verticals. Today, the challenge before this industry is to provide emerging technology solutions to clients in their digital transformation drive. Situated at this pivotal juncture in its journey, the ‘work from home’ (WFH) norm during to the recent COVID-19 pandemic posits challenges of a new kind for this sector. We explore these challenges based on our four-month ethnographic study (Jan-May, 2020) in a service-based IT organization situated in Bengaluru, which over the past five years has been developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solutions to its clients.

Subjective Interestingness in Association Rule Mining: A Theoretical Analysis

Abstract: The main aim of “Knowledge Discovery in Databases” is to extract and interpret interesting patterns present in real-world datasets. Measures to identify interesting patterns (called Interestingness Measures) may be categorized on the basis of statistical significance (Objective Measures), or on the basis of data and subjectivity of the user (Subjective Measures) which includes user’s domain knowledge. Three major steps in dealing with subjective measures are (1) knowledge acquisition from the user in terms of his beliefs, (2) the matching methodology for comparing generated association rules and user’s belief, and (3) generation of interesting rules that may be unexpected, novel or actionable. We propose and construct a theoretical framework for studying subjective interestingness in association rule mining, which takes care of these steps. We attempt to fit prior work done on subjective interestingness into this framework, thus identifying relevant research gaps. The notion of subjective interestingness confines to knowledge discovery by managers in a supermarket focusing on their expectations based on the data available. Perceptions behind customer purchases are not explicitly considered. We pose a major research question in subjective interestingness: What is the nature of subjective interestingness among associations of items, in terms of manager’s expectations and customers’ purchase patterns?

Labour Market and Recruitment: Education and Employability – Learning from the Indian IT / ITES Industry

Abstract: Lack of technical and interpersonal skills in Indian engineering graduates remains one of the major reasons for low employability of young technical graduates and hence it has become a constraint to the growth of the Indian economy. 60% of the country’s population will be in the working age group by 2020 and India has a very good opportunity to take advantage of its demographic dividend. But without a clear educational and competency building road map, it could also turn against it leading to large levels of unemployment amongst the fresh graduates. The Government’s target to skill and employ 500 million people by 2022 shows the urgency of the situation, but it will require a well-defined strategy and effective execution by collaboration between industry, academia, professional institutions and government to achieve the vision of employment for everyone.

Women Power in Corporate India

Abstract: Data on Women Directors on the Board of Directors of 166 Indian companies have been collected and analysed for the period 1995 to 2007. Women Directorships on Corporate Boards show an increasing trend in numbers as well as in percentage terms from 29 or 1.66% of all Directorships in 1995 to 67 or 3.63 % of all Directorships in 2007. These percentages are much lower than those for many of the industrially advanced countries for which such data is available.

Linking child labour with international trade: Recent developments and their implications

Abstract: In recent years, child labour has become increasingly linked to important global economic forces such as international trade In the context of unilateral, regional, and multilateral trade policies, there have been discussions about subjecting products made with child labour to trade penalties and sanctions These proposals have generated much controversy and concern This paper aims at providing a comprehensive understanding of recent developments in the trade and child labour linkage within the broader framework of the labour standards and trade debate It also assesses the validity and effectiveness of using trade-related measures to address the problem of child labour by presenting the arguments for and against this linkage and by analyzing the available evidence in this regard