By Prof. Anindita Paul A lot has been going on in the Information Age and researchers have gone berserk trying to understand what is changing and what needs to be researched. It has been a joyful ride with its ups and down that probably can be compared to surfing the raging waves of the Pacific. It was the computer first, …Read more »
What could drive the adoption of sustainable business practices pull or push? The modern idea of sustainability may be attributed to The Brundtland Commission Report, which defined sustainable development as `development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ way back in 1987.However, global warming became a part …Read more »
We had five research seminars in Campus during the last two months. Seminar videos available are linked to the seminar topics below. Name of the Speakers Affiliation Seminar Topic Date Prof. Richard Lynch Emeritus Professor, Strategic Management, Middlesex University, London, England. The relationship between consumer ethnocentrism, cosmopolitanism and product country image among younger generation consumers: The moderating role of country …Read more »
By Prof. Keyoor Purani In my academic career over decade and a half, not surprisingly, I probably would have spent more hours in meetings than in classes. Having been part of various academic systems and decision making processes actively, I believe that I have fair exposure of different processes followed especially in academic institutions that range on a continuum from …Read more »
Like the proverbial phoenix, the topic of transformational change rises every so often in the practitioner literature. In a recent article in McKinsey Quarterly (October 2014), Hamel and Zanini argue that ‘continuous improvement requires the creation of change platforms rather than change programs ordained and implemented from the top’ (italics added). Noting that transformational change programs have had a ‘dismal track …Read more »
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