Arunaditya Sahay- Doctor of Philosophy
- Head of Faculty at Fore School of Management
Arunaditya Sahay
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Head of Faculty at Fore School of Management
Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
Working in the Areas of Sustainability, CSR, Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
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Introduction
Arun Aditya Sahay currently works in Strategic Management (Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability & CSR) at FORE School of Management. He is a member of the Governing Council of the International Sustainable Development Research Society. His current project is a sustainability index for a coal-based thermal power plant, which is undergoing change as thermal power plants are not sustainable.
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October 2010 - November 2017
October 2010 - November 2017
October 2010 - July 2015
Position
- Professor of Strategy & Innovation and Dean (Resarch)
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Publications (221)
The Grand Societal Challenges are complex issues that have large scale impact on people, communities, countries and the planet as a whole. Recognizing the need for collaborative efforts between all stakeholders to achieve sustainability; the United Nations developed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015; of which SDG6 addresses the need t...
This article explores the shift towards environmentally sustainable innovation from a dynamic capabilities perspective, identifying key capabilities influencing sustainable enterprise development. Employing a multiple case study design, the study explores four sustainable enterprises. The findings reveal sensing capabilities driven by knowledge acq...
Higher education institutions dominate research productivity in many parts of the world. Nonetheless, many academics in developing countries—including Tanzania—perform poorly in research. This study aims to qualitatively explore the barriers to research productivity in Tanzanian public higher education institutions. Using semi-structured interviews...
It deals with various issues of present day cooking with firewood, animal dung etc. and transition to e-cooking.
Learning outcomes
The case study has been prepared for management students/business executives to understand electric vehicle (EV) business, business environment, industry competition and strategic planning and strategy implementation.
Case overview/synopsis
The size of the Indian passenger vehicle market was valued at US$32.70bn in 2021; it was p...
Why EV is nit panacea for controlling Global Warming?
Economy requires mobility; higher the economic development greater is the mobility requirement. Mobility activities are worth trillions of dollars every year. The UNEP's emissions gap report gives details of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into the atmosphere. It includes energy consumed in agriculture, waste, industrial processes, and transport...
There are low levels of research productivity among higher education institutions (HEIs) in Africa, which will likely compromise the continent's development agenda if not addressed. This study intends to develop a research framework to create a strategic roadmap that leverages leadership perspectives to foster a thriving research culture and contri...
The article is in the repository of the Case Centre, UK. It is a general management case related to the acquisition of Air India by the Tata group, a famous global conglomerate.
Link to the article: http://casecent.re/p/193490
Purpose
The extant literature emphasizes that the perspective of bricolage is significantly augmenting the core of entrepreneurship research, and, per se , it has made considerable contributions to understanding resource mobilization and organizational processes in entrepreneurial ventures. Entrepreneurial bricolage literature lacks a unified and h...
On ¹ 23 August 2019, the Finance Minister of India declared and cleared the way for the merger ² of 10 public sector banks into four large public sector banks (PSBs). In pursuance thereof, the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) merged into Punjab National Bank (PNB). OBC held a 23% stake in Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (CHOIC), whereas PNB...
Purpose : Climate change is adversely affecting the health of populations around the world, with the greatest impacts in low-income countries (Confalonieri et al., 2007; McMichael et al., 2003a; WHO, 2002, 2009). The direct effects of climate change include increased heat stress, floods, drought, and increased frequency of intense storms, that thre...
Purpose of the Study: Despite making up half of the world's population, women are un-derrepresented, overworked and underpaid. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 addresses gender equality and women empowerment, essential for societal and economic development. The study explores how social enterprises are working on mainstreaming gender, contribut...
Purpose of the Study India, at Paris COP21, agreed to reduce GHG emissions by limiting global warming to 1.5C by focusing emission intensity to 33-35 percent, 40 percent cumulative installed capacity (CIC) from non-fossil energy resources, and a sink of 2.5 in GTCO2e. In COP26, she propounded "Panchamrit" revising its NDC targets by reducing emissi...
Some social enterprises sailed through the pandemic demonstrating dynamic capabilities while others nosedived. Such social enterprises despite the struggle, have continued to fulfil their primary objective of creating social value demonstrating dynamic capability. It is yet unclear on how some social enterprises were able to survive the pandemic, a...
Emerging economies face scarcity of resources in achieving social innovation. Social Innovation by social enterprises create social value while addressing an existing social problem. There have been studies on social innovation in social enterprises but only a few studies have explored how social enterprises manage social innovation and technologic...
Technology is becoming pivotal for firms while interacting with customers. While extensive research exists on how deployment of firm resources, such as technology, leads to competitive advantage (CA), research on the interaction between technology-led firm capabilities deployed at firm customer interaction and CA is limited. We theorize regarding a...
Learning outcomes
The case study “PVR Limited at a Crossroads” has been designed with the requirements of strategic management. The learning objectives are as follows:
• Situational analysis – understand the global and Indian media and entertainment industry PESTEL.
• Strategic planning – internal and external environmental analysis – strength, wea...
Our study answers to the call for research on the role of leadership and governance in social enterprises and how they ensure sustainability of social enterprises. Social enterprises create social value. By balancing its social and economic objectives, a social enterprise ensures its sustainability and continues to generate positive social impact....
This research, done at the intersection of benevolent leadership style and for-profit social entrepreneurship, examines the research question: How does a benevolent leader, concerned for ecological sustainability, drive a for-profit social enterprise? Adopting a case approach, the phenomenon has been probed within the bounded context of SOS Organic...
Maintaining the optimal level of liquidity in the banking system has always been a challenge for banks globally. Liquidity deficit Indian Banks turned to liquidity surplus due to the demonetization of higher denomination currencies in November 2016. The liquidity deficit has the potential to trigger systemic risk whereas a surplus can weaken moneta...
Learning outcomes
The case study “Maruti Suzuki – toward cleaner mobility” has been written keeping in view the requirements in the field of strategic management. The key learning objectives are as follows:• Analysis of business environment.• Product development strategy – creating market segment to gain competitive advantage by leveraging availabl...
Shodh Gyaan Vol.3 Issue.1 is inviting for submissions in the following categories:
Research articles, which are based on rigorous theoretical or empirical research, contribute to the academic literature while illustrating the practical applicability and/or policy implications of the research undertaken | Management Case describes a real-life situa...
It is a review essay on managing innovation and technology
It's yesterday once more for Jet Airways! The Resolution Plan of Jet Airways indicated
that in the first quarter of the financial year 2022-23, it will resume flights after the
approval of creditors for the bid submitted by Murari Lal Jalan and Florian Fritsch
consortium. The NCLT (National Company Law Tribunal) had already approved the
resoluti...
Abstract
Social entrepreneurship (SE) has emerged as a strong force to bridge the gap between the demand and supply for fulfilment of socio-economic and environmental needs. SE emerged as a response to failure of market, state or both in meeting needs of society particularly at the bottom of the pyramid. SE has been rapidly growing in all the secto...
The objective of the study is to analyse and compare the pre- and post-acquisitions financial performance of 50 Indian acquirers. The selected acquirers are publicly listed companies. The study has used the secondary data obtained from the financial statements.
The M&A for acquiring firms become questionable if the financial performance of the acqu...
It is about the relationship between the doctoral student and the supervisor. The understanding will help the students select t right supervisor.
Achieving sustainable development remains a challenge for a startup social enterprises. It is often found that social enterprises face challenges in creating social value mainly due to lack of funds or duality of objectives that causes limitations in revenue generation. Sometimes, there is a problem of legitimacy or gaining trust of the stakeholder...
Social entrepreneurship as a prosocial phenomenon focuses on the upliftment of the vulnerable and marginalised through entrepreneurship. Social enterprises are mission-oriented often suffering from mission-related challenges that accompany duality in its form. This in turn raises concern over sustainability for social enterprises as they begin to f...
Like many women during her times, Anuradha Agarwal grew up with stereotypes around and was conditioned to lead a life of conformity. Through this life experience, she came to the realization that that there was an expectation mismatch. There was a tension between expectations from self and societal expectations that were gendered. Breaking the gend...
Shree Cement is a part of the S&P BSE Carbonex Index which tracks companies based on their commitment to mitigating
climate change risks. The cement manufacturing process produces Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and other gases during the
clinkering process that causes environmental pollution which, in turn, impacts people living in the vicinity of cement
pla...
McDonalds India Private Limited (MIPL) had formed a joint venture in 1995 with Vikram Bakshi, a real estate hospitality magnate, both the parties owning 50% of the share. The joint venture was named Connaught Plaza Restaurant Ltd (CPRL). In 2008, when CPRL was operating 70 McDonald's outlets, MIPL offered to acquire Bakshi’s share in the joint vent...
For a social enterprise, creating a social impact and ensuring financial viability are inseparable. It embraces this duality and towards that end, forever, there is a hanging sword by their neck. It is a challenge for a social enterprise to create social value while keeping the financials in place. There have been many studies that have talked abou...
Purpose
The paper contributes to the long-standing interest in studying the relationship of social capital and trust. It examines the relationship between social capital and trust in a producer company and the role of perceived benefits as a mediating variable.
Design/methodology/approach
A multistage sampling was done to collect data from 395 far...
Research question
With the help of an instrumental research case on a social enterprise in India that provides a solution to those with none or limited access to fresh drinking water, this study aims to explore how trust helps create social value.
Links to theory
At the theoretical level, the study draws upon ‘trust’ and ‘social value’ literature...
The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production. Now a Fourth Industrial Revolution is building on the Third, the digital revolution that has been occurring since the middle of th...
M. Damodaran, ¹ chairman IndiGo, has a lot on his plate, and the servings are not over yet. What happened on 26 April 2019, was just a precursor to what was eventually to follow. Aditya Ghosh, ² the longstanding director of InterGlobe ³ for 10 years, resigned from his position, making way for Greg Taylor ⁴ as president and chief executive officer (...
India’s non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs), broadly constituting the less-regulated shadow banking sector, have been plagued with scams, triggering a domino effect in the Indian money market. Major corporate governance issues were highlighted in NBFIs with the unfurling of the ILF&S fraud; it virtually created a sub-prime crisis. In such a...
Corporate governance in the Indian NBFC sector witnessed major violations and a digression in the past two financial years. This was eminent through a domino effect in the capital market as well as the money market. Regressing from the core business of lending to bundling and securitizing its loan port-folio, how will the debt burden of DHFL be eve...
Entrepreneurship has alternatively been addressing the global issue of unemployment to foster economy, growth, capacity building, and innovation. In the social sector, Social Entrepreneurship, a prosocial phenomenon with a dual mission, has become significant contributors to the development and upliftment of the marginalized and underprivileged. Ha...
Entrepreneurship has alternatively been addressing the global issue of unemployment to
foster economy, growth, capacity building, and innovation. In the social sector, Social
Entrepreneurship, a prosocial phenomenon with a dual mission, has become significant
contributors to the development and upliftment of the marginalized and underprivileged.
Ha...
For 33years, Dr. Parag Agarwal has travelled a long way from being a commercial entrepreneur to becoming a social entrepreneur. Based out of Pune, and executing big water management projects, he soon realized that these projects needed a long time to mature, something he was not comfortable with. Having a pulse of the sector, he found a long insuff...
On 30th January 2020 World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of novel corona virus. It asked all nations to review preparedness plans, identify gaps, and evaluate the resources needed to identify, isolate and care for cases, and prevent transmission of the virus.
On 23rd M...
For 33years, Dr. Parag Agarwal has travelled a long way from being a commercial entrepreneur to becoming a social entrepreneur. Based out of Pune, and executing big water management projects, he soon realized that these projects needed a long time to mature, something he was not comfortable with. Having a pulse of the sector, he found a long insuff...
‘Infodemic’, a term currently in use, has been studied in recent times revealing that misinformation causes harm to health, especially in times of an epidemic. University of East Anglia, UK, used simulation models to conducted a study on this subject. As an outcome, they observed that misinformation is the cause of bad advice from social media whic...
On 14th February, 2019, Jet Airways announced a State bank of India (SBI) led provisional resolution plan (BLPRP), to revive the struggling carrier. In pursuance of the plan, Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal had to step down from the board of the beleaguered carrier on the 26th March, 2019. This opened the door for new investors. Experiencing a dow...
Covid19 was first identified on December 31,2019 in Wuhan, China. It is a type of coronavirus that mainly causes respiratory problems apart from other health complications. Covid19 has spread all over the world, however, Antarctica is still free from this virus. There is no cure for this coronavirus though vaccines are being developed in many count...
Life has different meanings; it depends upon the lens you are using to look at life. One of the dictionaries defines life as "the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating intern...
One of my friends in Delhi had no symptoms of Covid19 but he tested positive. It was a case of asymptomatic Covid19. First, he was confused whether to go to a hospital or keep silent and self-quarantine. He finally decided to quarantine himself in his flat. He had got himself tested as he had to go to Ahmedabad; he did not want to be quarantined in...
Arun Sahay COVID-19's speed and scale has created great uncertainty and emotional disruption of an unprecedented scale. Worldwide, over 4 million people have been diagnosed Covid19 positive while around 340,000 have lost their life succumbing to the pandemic. In India, presently these figures are 130,000 and 3,800 respectively. The coronavirus has...
The paper examines how the market and social logics which are supposedly counter to each other, converge into one rather than being two distinctive sets of actions, in the actions of a renewable energy social enterprise in an emerging economy context. To provide a foundation, the research draws upon literature on renewable energy, social entreprene...
It was breezy summer morning of June, 2018. Dr Dushyant Kumar Singh, sitting in his clinic in Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, thoughtful over the future of his dentistry practice, was pondering over his next steps. During nine years of his being in the business of dental care, he had managed to grow from a single clinic to three. Singh...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a framework used in a program for working executives, designed to prepare them for the digital workplace environment of industry 4.0.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper adopts a case-based approach. It presents the current context about industry 4.0 and digitized workplaces. It then describes th...
Quinine is extracted from the bark of cinchona tree; the name 'cinchona' was given in honour of Spanish Countess of Chinchon, who, during her stay in Peru, had contracted a fever that was cured by the bark of this tree. The bark of the tree was mainly used for the treatment of malaria, an infection caused by the protozoan parasite Plasmodium, which...
In the current global scenario, the problems of the depletion of fossil reserves, increasing waste generation, climate change, and the need for energy security are matters of prime concern. All these issues are inevitable in any economy today due to the absolute reliance on fossil fuels for fulfilling energy requirements. A global movement toward c...
It was on May 7, 2018 when Moneycontrol.com reported that National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has formally identified Tata Steel’s bid as the “highest evaluated compliant resolution” for Bhushan Steel. Tata Steel, too, in an announcement to BSE said, “it has received a formal communication from the resolution professional of Bhushan Steel that it...
Purpose
A multispecialty hospital possesses sustainable competitive advantage if it continuously improves performance, repeatedly delivers quality service and unique value to the patients and the sources of competitive advantage are valuable, rare, inimitable, non-substitutable or causally ambiguous. The term sustainable competitive advantage is va...
The world is witnessing the rise of social enterprises today. These organisations are formed by social entrepreneurs who are equipped with the resourcefulness of a traditional entrepreneur and have a social mission. They are focused on generating social value, thereby creating an impact on society. There is no universally accepted definition for a...
North Eastern Region of India faces both natural and manmade challenges threatening livelihoods. Severe floods, soil erosion, landslides and sand deposition, causing loss of huge areas of valuable agricultural land, is threat to livelihood security. Increasing population due to rehabilitation of thousands of immigrants in last four decades, further...
On 14th February, 2019, Jet Airways announced a State bank of India (SBI) led provisional resolution plan (BLPRP), to revive the struggling carrier. In pursuance of the plan, Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal had to step down from the board of the beleaguered carrier on the 26th March, 2019. This opened the door for new investors. Experiencing a dow...
Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam (PVUN), a joint venture between Indian power conglomerate NTPC Limited and Jharkhand state of India, was set up for capacity addition of 4000 MW besides performance improvement of the erstwhile Patratu Thermal Power Station (PTPS). Capacity addition was planned in two phases; Phase-I of 2400 MW and Phase-II of 1600 MW....
Social Entrepreneurship (SE) is still evolving and researchers are progressing in trying to understand the phenomenon through various lenses and perspectives in order to offer a holistic view and lay a strong foundation. A Social Entrepreneur remains the driving force behind the social enterprise and the Social Entrepreneurship phenomenon. With "So...
The social entrepreneur (an individual with a social heart and a business mind), the social
enterprise organization (struggling to combine the market and social logics), and the social entrepreneurship phenomenon, have been widely researched in the past two decades, and have come up as a major development alternative. But despite this widely resear...
India's FMCG manufactory is enormous and extensive. In the year 2013, nearly 8.4 million outlets furnished to 1.26 billion customers and estimated 2405 billion INR in the sales. It is recorded that in the past 3 years, a stable and energetic correlation of consu mer's confidence in FMCG sales that has immersed. Nonetheless, notices to be revived, t...
Introduction
Patient engagement is engaging patients in their own medical care to heal them faster and take their valuable inputs to improve the health of population. Nurses contribute significantly in treatment, interact and spend most of their time with inpatients. Therefore, exploring the perspectives of nurses on patient engagement-communicatio...
THE EDUCATION AT doctoral level is quite different from the teaching-based schools and undergraduate level of education. It is highly individual in nature as doctoral candidates do not follow a predictable path, which is the case at previous levels where course in delivered in successive modules. Instead, they follow an idea or a hypothesis which l...
Cotton, one of the principal cash crops of India, contributes significantly to the country's economy and foreign exchange earnings. Approximately 60 million people depend on cotton production and related industries for their livelihoods. Although India has the largest cotton plantation area, in terms of yield, it is far behind. Even though cotton o...
This case discusses the issue of the sustainability of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Schneider Electric India Private Limited (SEIPL). Schneider Electric, the parent company, is a European multinational engaged in the business of energy management solutions. The case presents the diverse CSR initiatives and activities that have been unde...
In a world that increasingly invites private actors to address social needs, there has been a rise of social enterprises
in a variety of sectors, including new and renewable energy. As of yet, little research has focused on
how these enterprises interact with government policy in low- and middle-income countries. This research
specifically explores...
In a world that increasingly invites private actors to address social needs, there has been a rise of social enterprises in a variety of sectors, including new and renewable energy. As of yet, little research has focused on how these enterprises interact with government policy in low- and middle-income countries. This research specifically explores...
Completing mega projects within the scheduled time is most critical aspect of competitiveness, especially in power generation sector. A typical 2 x 800 MW power project has approximately 10000 drawings, 10000 items, 1000 site activities and 350 civil fronts which demands close co-ordination with several agencies, government authorities and function...
At a steel industry event in Paris in 2003, L.N. Mittal spoke about a world where a handful of players would account for 80-100 million tonnes (mt) of capacity each and have a footprint across all major continents. At that time, Mittal Steel itself produced less than 40 mt. Not many thought it feasible then. In less than three years, the dynamics h...
In a world that increasingly demands private actors to address social needs, there has been a rise of social enterprises in a variety of sectors, including new and renewable energy. As of yet, little research has focused on how these enterprises interact with government policy. In the context of emerging economies, this is inadequately explored, an...
The Telecom Industry in India is undergoing a metamorphosis. The rules of the game have undergone a sea change. With the disruptive turn of events that took place in the sector with Reliance Jio entering into the fray, the industry is still reeling under the Jio effect. The Vodafone Idea merger left only three major players in the market-Airtel, Ji...
Astha Sharma established Technomentis in 2015 to offer STEM based programs. Over a period of three years, they had offered STEM based programs in schools as well as at their own centre. The company offered innovative, educational solutions to foster innovation among young students. B2C was delivery model at their own centre while B2B was the model...
The humble jackfruit, which grew in weed-like abundance in India, gained sudden prominence in the United States in 2017, the humble jackfruit, which grew in weed-like abundance in India, gained sudden prominence in the United States. The underutilized jackfruit crop was also gaining recognition globally for its role in addressing food security issu...
It is said, the change is the only constant. We have got accustomed to the change but not the rate of change that has gone exponential. With this accelerating change, the twenty-first century has brought many complex problems as well as an array of opportunities. These include, to mention a few, development of new innovative products and processes,...
Hebon: Transforming Indian Jackfruit from Weed to Wonder Food
Artocarpus Foods Private Limited (brand name Hebon) has been in business for three years, and the journey to reach consistent revenue generation has been challenging. Industrial buyers have become interested in Hebon’s jackfruit pulp, pieces, and squash ingredients required in jackfruit...
In 2017, the humble jackfruit, which grew in weed-like abundance in India, gained sudden prominence in the United States. The underutilized jackfruit crop was also gaining recognition globally for its role in addressing food security issues. An entrepreneur who had pioneered methods of jackfruit processing at Artocarpus Foods Private Limited in his...
I have always found my doctoral students struggling with the first layer of the onion – philosophy, which in the case of a research mainly deals with ontology, epistemology, axiology and praxeology. I really struggle to make them understand these concepts. In my course on ‘Philosophy and Theory of Research,’ I start with these terminology but it pa...
With rapid pace of digitization, the behavior of businesses, the market place, employees and consumers have undergone rapid changes. Students in MBA courses are taught the principles of management by academicians and practitioners who have grown up in a different world. A course was designed called ‘digital workplaces’ that introduced the challenge...
The serpentine road to Patratu presented a picturesque view of the valley, Patratu dam and the erstwhile Patratu Thermal Power Station (PTPS) to Mr A K Sinha who was coming to join Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam (PVUN) Limited after retirement of its ex CEO Mr S K Patnaik. While descending the valley thoughts of his batch mates who put in their servi...
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Most universities and higher education institutions ask doctoral students to publish quality paper(s) before they become eligible to submit a Ph.D. thesis. One wonders how useful is this approach. Does the concentration on paper not distract the student away from the thesis? Should S(he) not concentrate on producing a quality thesis rather than paper(s) before the submission of the thesis?
