Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1177/02560909241254147
Shameem Shagirbasha
My competitive spirit was well—I felt the adrenaline course through my veins and all of a sudden I had a new purpose in life. I knew that I could do this. The decision was made. I had seized the bull by its horns. However, as luck would have it before I could convert my plans to reality, I had to overcome an unexpected obstacle.—Professor Bala V. BalachandranAn edupreneur (educational entrepreneur) is defined as ‘a person who has served as an educator prior to organizing a business related to education and has invested time, energy, and capital to create, develop, and market a programme, product, service, or technology to enhance learning’ ( Hess, 2006 ). Edupreneurs can, therefore, be former employees in any educational system, in any position with a constant urge to innovate the education system. They generally think out of the box and do things in an unusual way to accomplish goals. Their vision is to do things better so that society can benefit. This makes them adopt a design-thinking approach.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1177/02560909241254998
Vinay Reddy Venumuddala, Rajalaxmi Kamath
The Indian information technology (IT) sector is traditionally known for delivering IT and business process management (BPM) services to clients across the globe. To ensure the longevity of this client and service provider relationship, Indian IT organizations have made significant client-specific investments and actively engaged them in offshore development activities. One of the outcomes from such investments can be seen in terms of the very high maturity standards that Indian IT organizations currently exhibit in the context of IT–BPM service delivery. In recent times, these organizations are also undertaking offshore projects around emerging technologies. Such projects, especially those related to artificial intelligence (AI), are largely centred around the automation of client-focused BPM services. Given their relative nascency, such projects are primarily led by the AI research units that are rapidly diffusing across Indian IT organizations. In this study, we rely on a four-month-long ethnography to explore a client and vendor (or service-provider) relationship as manifested through one such AI research unit of an Indian IT organization situated in Bengaluru, India. Our objective from this study is to understand how these new offshore AI projects affect the longevity of the relationship between clients and the Indian IT service providers. Given the nature of emerging technology workflows, our findings indicate a tilt more towards meeting client-side expectations than that of vendors in these projects. We portend that this can potentially disrupt the longevity of the client–vendor relationship in the Indian IT services sector, and, therefore, both the clients and vendors must attend to the peculiarities of offshore emerging technology projects to mitigate such disruptions.
印度信息技术（IT）部门历来以向全球客户提供 IT 和业务流程管理（BPM）服务而闻名。为确保这种客户与服务提供商之间的关系长盛不衰，印度信息技术组织针对客户进行了大量投资，并积极开展离岸开发活动。这些投资的成果之一，就是印度 IT 组织目前在 IT-BPM 服务交付方面表现出的极高成熟度标准。最近，这些组织还围绕新兴技术开展离岸项目。这些项目，尤其是与人工智能（AI）相关的项目，主要围绕以客户为中心的业务流程管理服务自动化展开。鉴于这些项目相对较新，它们主要由人工智能研究部门领导，而这些部门正在印度 IT 企业中迅速普及。在本研究中，我们通过为期四个月的人种学研究，探讨了位于印度班加罗尔的一家印度 IT 企业的人工智能研究部门所体现的客户与供应商（或服务提供商）之间的关系。我们的研究目标是了解这些新的离岸人工智能项目如何影响客户与印度 IT 服务提供商之间的长期关系。鉴于新兴技术工作流程的性质，我们的研究结果表明，在这些项目中，我们更倾向于满足客户方的期望，而不是供应商的期望。我们预言，这可能会破坏印度 IT 服务行业客户与供应商之间的长期关系，因此，客户和供应商都必须关注离岸新兴技术项目的特殊性，以减少这种破坏。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1177/02560909241234226
Shalini Shukla, Rakesh Kumar
India, the most populated country, faces the challenges of providing jobs to eligible candidates. Therefore, the promotion of entrepreneurship and the development of an ecosystem of start-ups are highly required. For any country, start-ups and new business ventures are important pillars of economic development. Therefore, college students must be encouraged and trained to become job-givers rather than job-seekers by venturing into a new business. Keeping the present scenario of India as a pivotal point, the study aims to examine the entrepreneurial intention (EI) of college students towards venturing into new businesses. The current study utilizes Ajzen’s (1991) theory of planned behaviour (TPB model), which is a widely used theoretical framework in entrepreneurship research. The study mainly investigates the role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and risk-taking propensity in developing EIs among college students. A quantitative research design was used to achieve the stated objective of the study. An extensive literature review has been conducted to formulate the questionnaire. All variables were measured using the five-point Likert scale. Moreover, age, gender and exposure to family business were taken as control variables. Three hundred seventy-four responses were collected and analysed using structural equation modelling with Amos 22.0. The results demonstrated that all three variables concerning the TPB model, i.e., attitude, subjective norms and perceived feasibility, positively influence EIs. In addition, entrepreneurial self-efficacy affects EIs both directly and indirectly through perceived feasibility, while the effect of risk-taking propensity is fully mediated by attitude. The study produced meaningful theoretical and practical implications. Theoretically, the study contributes to entrepreneurial literature by signifying the role of self-efficacy and risk-taking propensity in forming EIs. The study also provides insights that may benefit policymakers and governments in formulating appropriate plans to boost EIs among students.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1177/02560909241234200
Abhisek Verma, Prashant Das
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/02560909231216186
Anjala Kalsie, Neha Singh
The article aims to estimate the relationship between synergy gains and deal size of mergers & acquisitions for Indian firms by examining deals that took place between 2005 and 2015. The paper employs principal component analysis to create a composite variable representing operating and financial synergy, followed by instrument variable 2SLS regression to estimate the relationship. The results suggest that small dealsize transactions do considerably better than large deals. The magnitude of financial synergy increases with deal size . However, large companies suffer substantial operating synergistic erosion.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/02560909231221682
Sumod S D
The case talks about an initiative by Agarwal Packers and Movers Limited (APML), a family business enterprise operating in the highly competitive household relocation segment of the Indian logistics industry. The company created driver service kendras (DSKs) to provide Nidradaan: the Gift of Sleep to the truck drivers who ply the length and breadth of the country carrying cargo to the remotest places. The DSKs were the brainchild of Mr Ramesh Agarwal, mentor of APML. With years of experience in the industry, Mr Agarwal was aware of the appalling conditions under which truck drivers in India operate. Many studies have shown that Indian truck drivers face acute sleep deprivation, leading to physical, psychological and performance complications. APML’s own survey found that out of the 139,000 people who die every year in road accidents, 26,678 die of drowsy driving. Additionally, risky working conditions, meagre wages, unrealistic delivery schedules
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/02560909231218083
Parameswaran Iyer, N. Ravichandran, Abhishikt P. Chauhan
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/02560909231214923
Prageetha G. Raju, Rajanikanth M.
Has anyone heard of organizations giving its employees a gift of sleep? This is given to truck drivers in India who drive miles in all weathers without proper sleep to ensure that the goods consigned reach in specified time. Lack of proper sleep leads to deadly road accidents. Out of 139,000 deaths due to road accidents, around 26,678 drivers die due to lack of sleep (NCRB). The present case based entirely on published sources portrays a CSI initiative of APML which is first of its kind working for improving the condition of drivers thereby curtailing the shortage since 2012.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1177/02560909231208545
Shagufta Tariq Khan, Mohd Abass Bhat, Wizra Saeed
The global lockdowns owing to the Covid-19 pandemic have sparked attention in the relationship between financial strain, anxiety and suicidal thoughts among wage workers in India, the worst hit. This study was inspired by the lack of data on wage labourers’ financial strain, Covid-19 anxiety and suicidal ideation during the pandemic. This study is supported by the General Strain Theory, which states that economic or financial stress causes dissatisfaction, sadness and anxiety, which can lead to suicide ideation ( Agnew, 1992 ). Wage labourers from Jammu and Kashmir (India) in the informal sector were studied. However, the sample frame was unavailable. Thus, the researchers used convenience sampling to choose respondents from all Kashmir valley districts. Questionnaire item count determined sample size. According to Hair et al. (1998) , the sample size should be 10 times the questionnaire items. A sample of 395 wage workers was selected. Path analysis showed that financial strain causes suicidal ideation and anxiety (Covid-19), while wage workers’ worry leads to suicidal ideation. Financial stress and suicidal ideation are partially mediated by anxiety (Covid-19). These findings imply wage workers take specific steps to improve themselves and prepare for future crises like Covid-19. The survey found wage employees were hardest harmed by the pandemic. This experience shows that government, non-government organizations and religious communities are necessary and supportive. The government should provide food security and health insurance to wage earners in emergencies. For schemes, compensation and other benefits, the government should help workers to register with labour and employment organizations. Future studies would seek to identify other pandemic-related factors that drive wage workers to suicide. In a crisis, revealing additional factors might help create wage-earning programmes. Further investigations in diverse situations are needed to derive context-specific findings to validate this study.
新冠肺炎大流行导致的全球封锁引发了人们对受影响最严重的印度工资工人的经济压力、焦虑和自杀念头之间关系的关注。这项研究的灵感来自于缺乏关于工资劳动者在大流行期间的经济压力、Covid-19焦虑和自杀念头的数据。这项研究得到了一般压力理论的支持，该理论指出，经济或金融压力会导致不满、悲伤和焦虑，从而导致自杀念头(Agnew, 1992)。研究了来自查谟和克什米尔(印度)非正规部门的工资劳动者。但是，样本帧不可用。因此，研究人员采用方便抽样的方法从所有克什米尔山谷地区选择受访者。问卷项目数决定样本量。Hair et al.(1998)认为样本量应为问卷项目数的10倍。我们选取了395名受薪工人作为样本。通径分析显示，经济压力导致自杀意念和焦虑(Covid-19)，而工资工人的担忧导致自杀意念。经济压力和自杀意念部分由焦虑介导(Covid-19)。这些发现意味着工资工人采取具体措施来提高自己，并为未来的危机做好准备，如Covid-19。调查发现，受疫情影响最大的是领工资的员工。这一经验表明，政府、非政府组织和宗教团体是必要和支持的。政府应该在紧急情况下为工薪阶层提供食品安全和健康保险。对于方案、补偿和其他福利，政府应该帮助工人在劳动和就业组织登记。未来的研究将寻求确定导致领工资工人自杀的其他与流行病相关的因素。在危机中，揭示其他因素可能有助于制定工资收入计划。需要在不同的情况下进行进一步的调查，以得出具体的结果来验证这项研究。
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