Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

About: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta is a education organization based out in Kolkata, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Supply chain & Context (language use). The organization has 415 authors who have published 1354 publications receiving 21725 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMC & IIM Calcutta.

Studying Bureaucracy in Post-Colonial India: The Normative and the Quotidian:

Abstract: This article presents a critical assessment of the new wave of anthropological scholarship on bureaucracy and its relevance in India. Dealing primarily with everyday bureaucratic practices, and the...

Time delay in rectification of faults in software projects

Abstract: Software reliability models, such as the Basic (i.e., Exponential) Model and the Logarithmic Poisson Model, make the idealizing assumption that when a failure occurs during a program run, the corresponding fault in the program code is corrected without any loss of time. In practice, it takes time to rectify a fault. This is perhaps one reason why, when the cumulative number of faults is computed using such a model and plotted against time, the fit with observed failure data is often not very close. In this paper, we show how the average delay to rectify a fault can be incorporated as a parameter in the Basic Model, changing the defining differential equation to a differentialdifference equation. When this is solved, the time delay for which the fit with observed data is closest can be found. The delay need not be constant during the course of testing, but can change slowly with time, giving a yet closer fit. The pattern of variation during testing of the delay with time can be related both to the learning acquired by the testing team and to the difficulty level of the faults that remain to be discovered in the package. This is likely to prove useful to managers of software projects in the deployment of staff.

Social Movements in the Age of Social Media: A Structural and Content-based Analysis

Abstract: A wave of protest movements in recent years leveraging the potential of social media reveals the evolution in the process of collective identity in social networks, including the radical shift in the content and semantics of protest identity. The interplay of social media with social movements needs to be studied not only by illuminating the structural notion of networks in digital activism but also the actual content that flows through the medium such as the discourses and the iconographies pertaining to the social movement. With an aim to achieve this understanding, we propose a generic framework for the study of social media movements focusing on structure and content of social networks specifically characteristics such as homophily, structural capital and media richness along with the process of resource mobilization. We suggest a mixed-method approach to help answer the proposed research questions and validate the framework. The paper also discusses possible implications for research and practice.

Labour Beyond the Labour Market: Interrogating Marginality

Abstract: In the twentieth century, social security systems were largely tied to labour market outcomes. In current times, radical proposals like “universal basic income” are premised on a new understanding of labour beyond the labour market—i.e. in a context where wage-employment is no longer the “normal” condition of labour. Radical restructuring of capital–labour relations throughout the world since the last quarter of the twentieth century have resulted in forced self-employment in developing economies and precarious employment in developed economies. The new locations of labour are a product of processes which have rendered large segments of the labour force redundant or substitutable, rendering labourers’ access to social wealth a matter of moral claims rather than legitimate economic rights. The chapter argues that this transformation requires us to rethink the notion of marginality of labour in the contemporary context.

Gender, Work and Organizational Culture: A Southeast Asian Experience

Abstract: Organizations operate in the social milieu and therefore the socio-cultural factors greatly influence the organizational culture. The Asian societies are patriarchal in nature that gives superior position to a man as compared to a woman. This social role perception (sex role stereotype) seemed to have a bearing on the structural role of men and women in organizations. The present study aimed at examining the impact of social role on organizational culture and managerial work behaviour. The study was conducted in Southeast Asian countries. Hundred twenty-nine male and seventy-six female managers from India, Bangla Desh, Nepal, SriLanka and Korea participated in the study. The overall findings indicated the spill over of socio-cultural values into organizational situations. The managerial behaviour seemed to be culturally influenced. Interestingly, the respondents did not perceive women managers as less competent. Therefore, the results hinted a need for corporate wide mindset change for breaking the glass ceiling at the perceptual and attitudinal level first so that things are different and bright at the functional level