Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

About: Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli is a education organization based out in Tiruchchirappalli, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Emerging markets & Information technology. The organization has 47 authors who have published 105 publications receiving 1694 citations. The organization is also known as: IIM Trichy.

A Synthesis of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management Literatures

Abstract: This paper synthesizes the literatures from the organizational learning and knowledge management fields Two distinct epistemological traditions are identified and the literature under each tradition is synthesized separately Epistemology of possession considers knowledge as an object that can be codified, stored, retrieved and applied to achieve organizational outcomes The practice-based-perspective of knowledge assumes knowledge as an integral part of doing and as something that cannot be distinct from the process of learning The major contribution of this paper is to present an integrated model of organizational learning synthesizing the frameworks of Kolb, Crossan et al and Nonaka

Identifying Drivers of Sustainability Initiatives in Manufacturing Organizations—An Exploratory Study from the Indian Cement Industry

Abstract: In the current business scenario, firms need to increasingly focus on environmental sustainability issues, as a result of stricter regulatory enforcements that lay emphasis on cleaner production, and also due to growing pressures from the stakeholders. This paper aims at understanding the organizational factors that contribute towards the successful implementation of sustainability initiatives in a process industry setup. A qualitative case study from a major cement manufacturing firm located in India helps us to identify the key drivers in the context of sustainability. The case findings reveal that organizational culture and practices followed lead to the emergence of innovative and economically viable solutions, which help in achieving the sustainability targets. These exploratory results obtained can be further analysed in the backdrop of other industries.

Indian Logistics Industry: Towards Creating a Sustainable Integrated Logistics Network

Abstract: The logistics sector in India is evolving rapidly and growth is dominated by changing tax structure and rising investments in infrastructure and technology. Whilst the majority market share in the logistics market is held by land (road and rail) transport, waterways and air cargo are also crucial for international trade. This chapter provides an overview of the logistics market in India and describes the factors that drive the growth and challenges faced by the industry. It provides a brief overview of road freight transport, rail freight transport, air cargo transport and ocean freight transport and the challenges faced in the Indian logistics market. The growth factors outlining the impact of policy decisions and the various future investment opportunities available are discussed. The chapter also presents key strategies to create a sustainable integrated logistics network.

Estimating order delivery times and fleet capacity in freight rail networks: part I - simulation modelling

Abstract: We consider an unscheduled rail network with stochastic demand for freight movement between stipulated origins and destinations. Freight orders arrive over time and each order is fulfilled as soon as a locomotive and a rake become available. After transporting an order to its destination, the locomotive and associated rake become available to move new shipments and the dispatcher must determine a suitable resource management policy at this juncture, i.e., whether to hold resources at the terminating junction, or deadhead them to be used at an alternate origin. The dispatcher must also determine if deadheading is to be undertaken reactively, after receiving a request from another station, or proactively, in order to pre-position rolling stock in anticipation of future demand. The amount of deadheading required also depends upon the system resource levels, e.g., rake and locomotive fleet capacities. The determination of the best fleet size and associated deadheading policy to guarantee a given service level (e.g., expected customer order flow time) is a complex operational problem. In this paper, we describe a simulation modelling approach to this problem. Our approach is illustrated using real data from the Indian Railway System, one of the largest freight carriers in the world.

Locating resistance to healthcare information technology: A Bourdieusian analysis of doctors' symbolic capital conservation

Abstract: This research examines the socially significant issue of doctors' resistance to healthcare information technology (HIT) from the radical power perspective. It adopts Bourdieu's social practice theory to examine the interaction of HIT with the reproduction of doctors' historically rooted social standing through the doctor‐patient‐interaction (D‐P‐I) practice. Findings from our ethnographic enquiry at a large corporate healthcare organisation in India link doctors' historically rooted social standing to the symbolic recognition of their embodied emotional capital existing in tandem with their habitus. The symbolic recognition of emotional capital provided a better valorisation of clinical capital and allowed the accumulation of other forms of capital—institutionalised capital, social capital and economic capital—that formed doctors' capital structure and contributed to their social status. Doctors produced emotional capital by putting their habitus into practice and, in the process, reproduced its symbolic status and their social status linked to it. HIT challenged doctors to put their habitus into practice, thereby creating a perception of threat to emotional capital. Doctors' HIT resistance was a conservation strategy to reproduce their historically rooted higher social status. Findings from this study contribute to the literature on Power and IT resistance.