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A Second-Order Observation of Organizational Deviance
No full textIn this chapter, Andrea Fried and Arvind Singhal highlight which novel research questions break ground when taking a second-order perspective on organizational deviance. The concept of the ‘second-order observer’ for researchers leaves the assessment of organizational deviance explicitly to the empirical field, and brings organizations and their members as describers, as assessors, and as sanctioners of organizational deviance into the discussion. The chapter strengthens social agency in deviations from standards to counteract the view that deviants are a ‘passive non-entity’. Fried and Singhal describe how organizational deviance has three dimensions and can analytically be distinguished as a descriptive, a normative, and a sanctioning aspect. The chapter concludes with six assignments for developing a concept of organizational deviance.</p
Emerging market chrises : an asset markets perspective
No full textAdditional author listed in caption title on p. 1: Arvind KrishnamurthyOctober, 1998--t.p. -- This draft: Novebmer 5, 1998--P.
Organizing for Social Change: A Dialectic Journey of Theory and Praxis
No full textPapa, M. J., Singhal, A., & Papa, W. H. (2006). Organizing for social change : a dialectic journey of theory and praxis. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2006
Cultural Assumptions that Influence the Implementation of Communication Technologies’, Paper presented at IAMCR
No full textThe authors describe the role that cultural assumptions play in the transfer of new communication technologies between the West and third world countries. They contrast Great Britain, West Germany, and India on five value orientations along which cultures vary: regard for human nature, relationship of man to nature, time orientation, orientation towards activity, and types of relations between people. Pointing out the widely differing assumptions in implementation research in the West and the third world, the authors argue that successful transfer of communication technologies depends upon a match between the cultural values of the third world country implementing the technology and the assumptions inherent in the technology itself and the implementation process for that technology. Noshir S Contractor and Arvind Singhal are doctoral students and Peter R Monge and Janet Fulk are Professor and Associate Professor respectively at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California, Los AngeJes, California. The authors wish to thank Ms. Vicki Leong for providing some of the resource material used in this paper. A substantial body of research in the West studies the implementation of new information technologies in organizations. As with other aspects of organizational behaviour, many of the theories and models developed were primarily for organizations in western cultures. Crossnational studies of management and organization have provided evidence that much of the research conducted in the West is not generalizable across different forms of economic and cultural systems. In this paper we argue that the cultural determinants of the implementation process are particularly important when studying organizations in the third world
Stakeholder Value Map for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Prioritization
No full text<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>The Birla cellulose is global fashion giant under the fortune 500 Aditya Birla Group founded in 1857, Arvind limited is also a global fashion giant founded as Arvind mills in 1897. Both the companies are not only global leaders in their respective domain but are the best exemplars for stakeholder value creation and incorporating sustainability across the value chain activities. The sustainability initiative and sustainable development goals prioritization mapped for both the companies as per stakeholder prioritization. The existing literature used for developing the strong foundation to built-up the integration among stakeholder value map and SDGs prioritization. Further the managerial implications and way forward suggested in the preview and action of Birla cellulose and Arvind limited.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Sustainability, SDGs, Stakeholder value map, SDG Prioritization, Strategic Inferences, Value Creation</p>
Cultural Spectrum in Arvind Adiga’s Selection Days
No full textCultural Studies have played a pivotal role in understanding and evaluating the power dynamics of the social, political, economic and ethical world order by empirically engaging and focusing on the present-day culture, tracing its historical roots and explicating its attributes with reference to a particular literary text and its reception in a society. Arvind Adiga, the Man-Booker Prize winning Indo-Australian author, in Selection Day, has adroitly detailed how cricket as an individual entity impacts the cultural phenomena of a society by confronting its inherent myriad issues. The narrative delves deep into the lives of two siblings - Radha and Manju, witnesses the dramatic turnaround of events and tries to capture the themes of unfulfilled desires and preordained destinies. The novel also explores how the sport holds different meanings and significance for different characters, each of whom view the game in the light of their own ideology. The author foresees and sensitizes the theme of homosexuality, which is still a taboo and been unheard of, within the sports fraternity. Adiga’s critique of the parental felony, embodied in Mohan Kumar, and its repercussions is the most compelling theme at the heart of this work of fiction. Selection Day powerfully binds together the societal phenomena of class construction, unquenchable thirst for money, sexual orientations and ideologies with a single thread and studies how culture, in itself, is an ever-evolving phenomenon
Identification and Amplification of Tacit Knowledge: The Positive Deviance Approach as Knowledge Management Praxis
No full textOften the answer to solving complex social problems already exists in the community as some type of tacit knowledge, but it is hidden from plain view. By demonstrating how tacit indigenous knowledge can be identified and amplified through a problem-solving approach known as Positive Deviance (Singhal et al., 2014), this article contributes to the understanding of the knowledge externalization process (Nonaka, 1994). The Positive Deviance (PD) approach is premised on the belief that in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviours and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than their peers, while having access to the same resources. We propose five stages for the identification and amplification of the tacit knowledge in the PD approach. The first stage concerns awareness and breakout of the community “mental prisons.” The second stage refers to identifying the positive deviants—the carriers of the authentic experience and valuable tacit knowledge. The third stage suggests creation of particular conditions to facilitate the “paradigm shift”. The fourth stage indicates self-discovery as the mechanism of knowledge transfer. Finally, the fifth stage highlights the importance of social proof as the justification mechanism for the adoption of self-discovered knowledge as community members embrace the new practice. Through an analysis of two highly effective PD implementations in Vietnam and Argentina, we show how unearthing of tacit knowledge is fundamental to the PD approach, and represents a source of creativity and inspiration for finding efficacious solutions.publishedVersio
Antecedents and Enablers of Green Supply Chain Practices
No full textThe thesis titled antecedents and enablers of green supply chain practices focuses on one of the most contemporary issues in supply chain management. The literature review explores the existing literature and research work on green supply chain practices and develops a framework for the research. The research is qualitative in nature and data was collected from the three automobile component-manufacturing companies in India. Semi structured interviews were conducted over a period of 18 months.
There were three objectives for this thesis:
1. Describing the current state of green supply chain practices?
2. What are the antecedents and enablers for green supply chain practices?
3. What are the underlying mechanisms, if any?
The research work concludes by answering all the above three questions and also gives the future direction for research. The research work started by finding a gap for the empirical research in the context of green supply chain practices. The objective of the research was to focus on antecedents and enablers of green supply chain practices. Some contextual factors, inhibitors and consequences are also emerged during the pilot case study.
The research work is rigor and to ensure the rigor of the research design, five-stage process was used to structure the methodology. As a final check author assessed his research against the four basic tests commonly used in empirical research; construct validity, internal validity, external validity and reliability. The research study has contributed both to the development and testing of theory relating to the antecedents and enablers of green supply chain practices. The review of literature provided a synthesis of the underpinning bodies of literature that has not previously been conducted in this way. This resulted in the identification of ten core green supply chain practices for the development of antecedents and enablers that created the foundation for author’s empirical investigation. It was found that previous studies have been largely theoretical. The empirical studies that do exist have focused on one particular dyadic relationship with in green supply chain practices.
A double contribution has been made to testing the theory of green supply chain practices from a process and output perspective. As process perspective, a contribution has been made to methodology by developing a robust approach for conducting supply chain research beyond the dyad. From output perspective, the author has the empirical results from the three individual case studies and their cross-case comparison for dissemination to an academic audience.
Specific contribution of this research to theory development include:
1. Development of macro model of green supply chain practices with the inputs from literature.
2. The synthesis of ten core green supply chain practices with antecedents and enablers from existing body of literature enriched through empirical testing
3. Empirical derivation of three contextual factors.
Although the research work is new and contribute to the theory and practices, there are still some limitations of this research. Two minor limitations have been identified:
1. Generalizability of result to practice to practice: Due to the limited size of the case study approach, the results can only be generalized to theory and not to practice.
2. Variation in quality of information: The scope of data collection for all three case studies was same still the quality of information gathered was different. As good quality cross-case analysis was still possible but the relative strengths of the three cases varied.
Overall the research work is original, rigor, and contributes to the existing theory and also paves the path for future research work in the area of green supply chain practices
Amplification of tacit knowledge through the positive deviance approach
No full textOften the answer to solving complex social problems already exists in the community as some type of tacit knowledge, but it is hidden from plain view. By identifying this tacit knowledge, and then making it useful and available for a wider group of potential users, problem-solvers can greatly expand the solution space. In this paper, we demonstrate how tacit knowledge can be identified and amplified through a problem-solving approach known as Positive Deviance (Singhal et al. 2014). The Positive Deviance (PD) approach is premised on the belief that in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviors and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than their peers, while having access to the same resources. This paper contributes to the understanding of the knowledge externalization process (Nonaka 1994). We identify the four stages for the identification and amplification of the tacit knowledge in the PD approach. The first stage concerns awareness and breakout of the community “mental prisons.” The second stage refers to identifying the positive deviants—the carriers of the authentic experience and valuable tacit knowledge. The third phase suggests creation of particular conditions to facilitate the “paradigm shift”. Finally, the fourth phase occurs as community members embrace the new practice, spurred by the self-discovery and the social proof. Through an analysis of a highly effective nationwide PD implementation in Vietnam, we show how unearthing of tacit knowledge is fundamental to the PD approach, and represents a source of creativity and inspiration for finding efficacious solutions
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