Abinash Panda

Management Development Institute Gurgaon | MDI gurgaon · Department of Organizational Behavior

Purpose Globally, the oil and gas (OG) industries are under pressure from numerous stakeholders for their sustainable operations against the backdrop of climate change, ecological damage and social challenges. Drawing on the twin theoretical frameworks of the institutional theory and dynamic capability perspective, this study aims to examine the im...

In the current post pandemic context, small and medium size enterprises, while recovering from covid-19 induced productivity dips, have been under pressure to make their operations and processes environmentally sustainable, guided by circular economic principles. Given that, drawing upon the institutional, resource-based view, upper echelon theory...

Quality of mobile services is a major concern among various stakeholders, including customers and service providers. The customers who have had a poor quality of service often feel helpless, frustrated, angry, and react in ways detrimental to the business. The service providers fail to capture the insights of customers’ coping mechanisms by using t...

This chapter reviews organizational leadership studies to set research agenda for leadership research in India. Corporate India during post-independence was dominated by entrepreneurs from business families. During that phase, leadership studies were focused on patriarchs heading business families and were carried out by business historians and soc...

This chapter presents Indian business ecosystem using business system framework. It also discusses how Indian business system has evolved over time. India presents a unique challenge, given that the state institutions have not evolved organically from traditional social institutions. State institutions, which were imposed during colonial period (an...

Purpose Guided by social exchange, broaden and build and conservation of resources theoretical perspectives, this study explores the moderated mediating role of supervisory support (SS) on the relationship between job meaningfulness (JM) on job performance (JP) through employee engagement (EE). Design/methodology/approach Field data were collected...

This paper investigates why the Indian civil aviation sector, liberalized back in the 1990s, could not adequately promote regional air connectivity. It has identified various regulatory gaps and measures needed to attain the civil aviation policy goal “take flying to masses.” An exploratory case study approach has been adopted since the study deals...

Purpose The detrimental influence of perceived work–family conflict (WFC) on employees' job-related attitudes has been examined in individualistic cultures. However, this relationship needs to be studied in collectivist societies, where the “family” is a salient social institution with family-centric work ethics. This study empirically investigates...

This paper investigates why the Indian civil aviation sector, liberalized back in the 1990s, could not adequately promote regional air connectivity. It has identified various regulatory gaps and measures needed to attain the civil aviation policy goal “take flying to masses.” An exploratory case study approach has been adopted since the study deals...

The pressures to make business operations sustainable have been pushing organizations to adopt circular economy (CE) principles. With depleting fossil resources, the oil and gas (O&G) sector is pushed towards recycling limited resources available with it by leveraging CE principles. However, not many studies have been taken up how institutional pre...

Dr Anil K. Khandelwal, former Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of Baroda (BoB) is credited with transforming the bank, one of the largest public sector banks, from a declining brand into a prime brand in the banking sector of India within just 3 years. Such a rapid and radical transformation using people processes by a human resource (HR) pro...

Anil K. Khandelwal, CEO: Chess Master or Gardener? How Game-changing HR Reforms Created a New Future of Bank of Baroda, 2018, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 358 + xxvi pp., ₹750. ISBN: 978-0-19-948564-2.

Despite the access to significant insights and understanding on leadership and leadership development in the world of scholarships and availability of resources for grooming leaders, organisations in India still experience the brunt of leadership deficit (Panda, 2017; Hou, 2010; Shyamsunder et al., 2011). Why do leadership development efforts of or...

Personality characteristics are found to have significant influence on the extent of smartphone usage among the Indian youth. Compulsive usage of smartphones, however, affects the users' emotional and physical health. The objective of this study is to examine how personality characteristics are related to compulsive smartphone usage and if compulsi...

Mintzberg (2004) in his book Managers not MBAs has noted that an MBA course tends to focus on analytical skills, and hence, prepares students for nothing. Ghosal (2005) has noted that bad management theories were destroying good management practices. Bennis and O'Toole (2005) have attributed the failure to produce relevant research to business scho...

I have shared my learning from my professional stints with both academic world and the world of practice. My stint with the corporate world has significantly shaped my thinking, behaviour and attitude to a significant extent. I developed empathy for both the communities and appreciated the viewpoints and perspectives of both an academic scholar and...

This research note presents the current challenges for the learning leaders in India, and what they should do to ensure that learning function is treated as a strategic function by the business leaders. The need is to align learning function with the business, assessing the current level of organizational capabilities vis-à-vis what is needed now a...

Academic research in the domain of management scholarship, though steeped in scientific and methodological rigour, is generally found to be of little relevance to practice. The authors of this paper have revisited the rigour-relevance debate in light of recent developments and with special reference to the management research scenario in India. The...

It is high time we need to make an attempt to decipher and understand the impact of culture on the success of any merger and acquisition. While appreciating the concerns of the practitioners, this paper offers ways of understanding cultural issues in mergers and acquisitions and dealing with this effectively within the managerial constraints. The p...

The primary purpose of this paper is to share the lessons the first author learnt as a novice researcher while carrying out a comparative culture study focused on exploring differences in organizational culture in units located in two societies in two distinct culture zones, using mixed methods approach, as a part of his doctoral research program....

Indians are perceived to be highly contradictory and inconsistent in their manifested behavioural patterns. Findings of various research studies have indicated that at the core of perceived ‘contradictions’ in the manifested behavioural patterns of the Indians lies in the fact that Indian behaviour is determined more by the situation or the context...

The study of organisational culture in India has been dominated by positivistic framework of research enquiry by exploring the existence or absence of a pre-defined set of cultural attributes. There has not been significant effort on the part of research scholars to explore, understand and articulate the evolution of the organisational culture from...

Bargaining and maintaining ‘entry’ in sites (organisations) of academic research studies has always been a challenge for academic scholars. Each of the scholars adopts different approaches to get around these problems of gaining entry. However, they rarely document their experiences on the field, with some exceptions in the discipline of sociology...

The study is part of the ongoing efforts to identify the dimensions of societal and organisational cultures, the impact of the former on the latter, and their combined influence on managers' work related thoughts and feelings. A sample of 674 middle level managers at seven locations in India responded to a questionnaire that was developed from the...

This paper is based on a case study of an Indo-American joint venture in the satellite- based communication services. The objective of the study is to explore why an organization fails to elicit emotional commitment for its espoused mission statements which are viewed as critical to the long-term interests and survival of the organization. It is a...

The article focuses on the evolving nature of self of professionally qualified technocrats in India. It contributes to the growing literature on the nature of evolving self as a result of the process of West-led modernisation and the spread of free market capitalism across the globe. It reports the findings of a study of organisational culture in a...

The influence of organizational leaders on the evolution and maintenance of organizational culture has been accepted as a fact in organizational life. The roles and challenges of organizational leaders are contingent upon the way organizational culture is conceived. In the traditional rational perspective, organizational culture is treated as an "i...