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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
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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 & Emerging markets. The organization has 415 authors who have published 1354 publications receiving 21725 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMC & IIM Calcutta.
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TL;DR: This study builds on reinforcement theory to propose a positive role of first-time recognition as a social reinforcer of contribution behavior, while repeated recognition is hypothesized to suffer from reinforcer satiation.
Abstract: A reason for online communities to confer recognition (e.g., badges) on members is to acknowledge and encourage contributions. Yet, it is unclear whether such recognition or lack of it changes memb...
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TL;DR: A parsimonious bi-dimensional characterization of CMS use, consisting of scale and sophistication of use is developed, allowing us to draw prescriptive lessons to enhance usage in CMS environments and potentially derive more value from this type of technology.
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TL;DR: This paper considers the service system MX/G/∞ characterized by an infinite number of servers and a general service time distribution, which is a random variable, the time between group arrivals being exponentially distributed.
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TL;DR: The Bower‐Burgelman process model is used in combination with Bourdieu's praxis theory to explain the emergence of competing managerial initiatives and associated contests in the company's internal ecology of strategy‐making in terms of socially acquired dispositions.
Abstract: Research Summary: This article examines the adaptation process of a large manufacturer in the Indian steel industry faced with radical sociopolitical shifts in the external ecosystem. It uses the Bower‐Burgelman process model in combination with Bourdieu's praxis theory to explain the emergence of competing managerial initiatives and associated contests in the company's internal ecology of strategy‐making in terms of socially acquired dispositions. It illuminates process–practice pathways through which top management's resource allocation supported changes in the efficacy of the different forms of capital of the contesting managerial classes, thereby legitimizing the daily “doings” of the rising class and institutionalizing a (re)defined adaptive rule structure. Managerial Summary: How do managers’ early influences, including family upbringing and schooling, bear upon organization's renewal strategy? Our study finds that during discontinuities imposed by socioeconomic upheavals, when organizational performance flounders, managerial initiatives are driven by deepest dispositions derived from early age socialization. Competing managerial fractions jostle to impose practices favorable to their longstanding preferences by putting their weight behind preferred product‐market choices and seeking appropriate changes in the ineffective internal rule structure. Administration's challenge lies in leveraging internal contests to iteratively allocate resources in search of winning dispositions and configurations aligned with evolving social relations in the external environment. Internal availability of managerial groups from diverse social origins is crucial for the administration to reclaim organizational advantage by arbitrating between contesting practices and practitioner fortunes.
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TL;DR: As the world is confronted with the enormous challenge of combating an unprecedented never-before-in-history crisis of Covid19, ethical and social implications arising from the use of information technology devices, applications and platforms continue to occupy center stage in contemporary debates surrounding technology.
Abstract: As we write this guest editorial for this special issue, the world is confronted with the enormous challenge of combating an unprecedented never-before-in-history crisis of Covid19, the magnitude of its impact far from known. Yet, optimists as most of us are, we believe the world will tide over it in due course despite the damage that it may cause to the socioeconomic aspects of our everyday life. What we do know is that we have retreated more and more into the digitized world. As information systems academics taking bird’s eye view, taking a step back to observe the world in its response to the crisis, two aspects seem to be stark in their undisputed role. First, the manner in which the world has drawn upon the “cumulative culture” to meander through potential, albeit temporary solutions, rejecting some, experimenting with some others and readily adopting few others; second, the sudden spike in our already growing dependence on information technology to aid undisturbed continuance, to the extent possible, in our everyday living. Both these, in many ways are related to the theme of the special issue “Being (more) human in a digitized world” – “cumulative culture” being a core distinguishing feature of humanness and the increasing dependence on information technology and its many avatars symbolizing the digitized world. In the context of an increasingly digitized world, the human species’ cumulative cultural evolution embodies the quintessential spirit (Shakespeare’s ‘dust’) of humanness reflected in the accumulated toolkit of practices, socially learned behaviors, sophisticated technologies and complex institutions (Boyd and Richerson 1996; Shipton and Nielsen 2015; Tomasello 1999). The very process of social cognition that required humans to understand each other as “intentional agents like the self” coupled with the process of social-cultural learning (Tomasello 1999) has catalyzed the evolution of a cumulative culture. The social cognition is also reflected in our emotional connect and our creative pursuits. The intensely digital social environments of the day reinforce the cumulative culture through their affordances for cultural learning, social referencing as well as for conformist transmission (Henrich 2015), behaviors that have traditionally been observed in anthropological studies. The innate characteristics of information technology especially in strengthening the two dimensions of human intelligence – working memory and cognitive capabilities, have merely facilitated this reinforcement. While business benefits from information technology and systems are no longer a matter of dispute in information systems research, ethical and social implications arising from the use of information technology devices, applications and platforms continue to occupy center stage in contemporary debates surrounding technology. Contemporary digital technologies have allowed significant changes to the way social interactions are effected both as individuals in organizational boundaries but also as individuals in larger social contexts. Our use of these digital technologies has enabled a culture whose uniqueness arises from the transformation in how we seek, perceive and consume information itself. This * Priya Seetharaman priyas@iimcal.ac.in
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Russell W. Belk | 76 | 351 | 39909 |
Vishal Gupta | 47 | 387 | 9974 |
Sankaran Venkataraman | 32 | 75 | 19911 |
Subrata Mitra | 32 | 219 | 3332 |
Eiji Oki | 32 | 588 | 5995 |
Indranil Bose | 30 | 97 | 3629 |
Pradip K. Srimani | 30 | 268 | 2889 |
Rahul Mukerjee | 30 | 206 | 3507 |
Ruby Roy Dholakia | 29 | 102 | 5158 |
Per Skålén | 25 | 57 | 2763 |
Somprakash Bandyopadhyay | 23 | 111 | 1764 |
Debashis Saha | 22 | 181 | 2615 |
Haritha Saranga | 19 | 42 | 1523 |
Janat Shah | 19 | 52 | 1767 |
Rohit Varman | 18 | 46 | 1387 |