Papers by Parthasarathi Banerjee
Economic institutions in India : sustainability under liberalization and globalization
Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, 2003
Advanced telecommunication in India : regulation and strategy
Har-Anand Publications eBooks, 1996
Skill and technological change : society and institutions in international perspective
Developing self-searched curriculum based on epistemic queries
Educational Technology & Society, 2001
Abstract Contents put up in disjoint sites in hypertexts are costly though multiple and repeated ... more Abstract Contents put up in disjoint sites in hypertexts are costly though multiple and repeated use of these contents by globally distributed self learners remain limited owing to limitations in methods available to navigate the hypermedia. This results in failures in developing a curricula by a self-learner and in limited use of contents. A learner-centric approach towards the solution of
Rairo-operations Research, Jul 18, 2023
Academicians and practitioners have focused a lot of attention on the separate issues of pricing ... more Academicians and practitioners have focused a lot of attention on the separate issues of pricing and inventory control in a competitive setting. However, integrating these choices in a competitive environment has received scant attention for deteriorating inventory systems from academics despite being crucial to practitioners. From this perspective, our research focuses on designing a supply chain model with inventory coordination to reflect time systems with improved accuracy and optimal control systems. In this research, we develop a two-layer supply chain model consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer incorporating the inventory classification of the retailer. Price-sensitive market demand and two-parameter time-varying Weibull distribution deterioration have been assumed to develop the mathematical model. First, a collective decision on price and inventory control of a deteriorating product has been evaluated in a duopoly environment. Secondly, to explore the decentralized scenario, we have proposed the NSGA-II algorithm to solve the bi-objective programming problem of the two-layer supply chain. The paper aims to explore product collaborative pricing policies and the inventory decision of the deteriorating item in two-layer supply chain coordination. Finally, numerical research is conducted to execute the centralized supply chain and NSGA-II application in a decentralized supply chain. The research findings can provide valuable insights for members of the two-layer supply chain to make optimal product pricing and inventory scheduling decisions.
Book Reviews : NASIR TYABJI, Colonialism, Chemical Technology and Industry in Southern India 1880-1937. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995, 242 + viii pp. Rs 395
Science Technology & Society, Sep 1, 1996
we are exposed to new perspectives of the multicultural and gendered nature of knowledge producti... more we are exposed to new perspectives of the multicultural and gendered nature of knowledge production. Those who do not agree with the social constructivists are inadequately represented. The neo-institutionalist trend which has significance for the social studies of S&T is completely ignored. Finally, for the STS community, the volume represents a sociological turn that is content with explaining situations but fails to address the question of what we should do to improve the situation for the better. While it is true that we are situated in an environ-
Metamorphosis: A Journal of Management Research, Jul 1, 2003
Corporate understanding on strategies of cooperation and outsourcing of business processes has co... more Corporate understanding on strategies of cooperation and outsourcing of business processes has come closer over the years. An outsourced partner is described sometimes as the extended enterprise. Supplier's organizational structure, following the logic of extended
Exploring governance issues between online food delivery platforms and restaurant partners in India
Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance
Purpose This paper aims to explore the governance of external entities that lie outside the bound... more Purpose This paper aims to explore the governance of external entities that lie outside the boundaries of digital platform firms by using the theoretical lens of the transaction cost theory (TCT). TCT offers alternative modes of governance for effectively managing transactions in market, hierarchy or hybrid scenarios providing a perfect framework to study platform governance. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores governance issues between restaurant partners and online food delivery platforms in India via qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews of various stakeholders, including restaurant partners and platform managers. Findings The study reveals that information asymmetry, opportunism, control and trust deficit are the major strategic governance issues in online food delivery platforms. Research limitations/implications Though care had been taken to cover all types of restaurants, due to lockdown number of restaurants studied was restricted in number. Despite t...
Technovation, 2003
Indicators of dynamic competencies are important. Managerial attitudes, intuitive understanding a... more Indicators of dynamic competencies are important. Managerial attitudes, intuitive understanding and managerial opinion on what indicates competencies determines these competencies. This research constructs a few indicators of competencies, of small/start-up software firms from India, based on managerial understanding and opinion. Received literature on competencies appear more as theory-driven and suggested measures depend upon financial values of variables, both internal and public. A meta-theory driven, opinion based empirical and theory-building route to comprehending competencies, we observe, do provide a richer understanding and a set of indicators, which can be employed as well by managers to redeployed resources. Managers or entrepreneurs of several start-up or new firms in Indian software provided information on the preferred decision criteria and based on these inputs, four simple indicators of competencies in the dimensions of product, project/services, technology and strategy, have been constructed.
Metamorphosis: A Journal of Management Research, 2004
Saha, in a densely articulated text, has raised several issues, some of which are corroborated by... more Saha, in a densely articulated text, has raised several issues, some of which are corroborated by Singh and Bandyopadhyay. Saha rightly refers to a new definition of strategy as the ability or the intent to 'deshape' the structures of other organizations in the strategic milieu of an incumbent firm. Indeed, this aspect, together with joint generation or joint management of demand, renders plausible a definition of strategy which is much away from the textbook descriptions. Porter-type rivalry, especially the resourceperspective, ultimately ends up in equilibrium. The Industrial-organization theorists based upon game theoretic notions have elaborated upon a few non-equilibrium seeking interactions amongst firms. However, the supreme importance of the structure of an organization in the reckoning of strategy by its rivals has remained unaddressed. My attempt was to initiate a dialogue in this direction.
Strategy, Structure, Knowledge
The Indian Software Industry, 2004
Strategy and governance are related. Governance has wondered since the time of Adam Smith how mar... more Strategy and governance are related. Governance has wondered since the time of Adam Smith how market dynamics is co-ordinated or how individual choices get pre-reconciled. From a firm’s perspective, strategy issues have considered how best to govern and mobilize competencies, resources and processes for one’s own advantage and to the exclusion of other firms. The regulator or legislator perspective, however, considers the firm’s strategy in terms of its effect on social welfare and adherence to or coherence with the other principal or minimal sets of social goals. There has thus been continual recognition that the strategic acts of firms maintain the market dynamics while the market responds by governing co-ordination amongst conflicting and incoherent demands. A closer look at this phenomenon led to the admission that the issue of governance was primary and perhaps more basic. The strategy of a firm governs such processes, as around authority, loyalty (Simon, 1991; Williamson, 1996) and agenda, which lead to distinctive traits of a firm and to the mobilization of resources by the firm. Similarly, social regulations or the prescriptive and normative boundaries set by principles of rationality and the rules of a game govern the strategic behaviours of the agents in a market. Governance, it appears, inheres through strategic considerations.
Technovation, 2003
Core competency and competencies in general have been defined on the resources generated or recom... more Core competency and competencies in general have been defined on the resources generated or recombined inside a firm. The strategic differences that a firm can maintain with others too have been defined upon the extent and levels of resources usage. These ideas have been examined here through a study of seven software firms from India. The resources dependence of core competence has been refuted analytically. Competencies have been defined through a hierarchy of resource usage. Additionally, resource-dependent competencies have been measured through a novel method. The measured competencies suggest that a core competency cannot be defined in terms of resource use although it can be defined in terms of the capability of a firm to effect switching across competencies. Moreover, a strategic difference can indeed be maintained by a firm through its decision capability reflected in core competency and the same cannot be asserted through levels and extents of resource use. Future research may explore whether results from this study can be extended to larger firms from other sectors.
Scientometrics, 2000
Numbers of patents cannot indicate the state of research or the contents of patent documentation ... more Numbers of patents cannot indicate the state of research or the contents of patent documentation cannot indicate the true technological features achieved. Patent statistics though so used, is not a good indicator of the economic returns to investments in research. ...
Introduction: Emerging Facets of Innovation and Its Indicators
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New industrial organization in the age of information
Intangibles in Competition and Cooperation: Euro-Asian Perspectives
Competition, Co-operation and the Euro-Asian Leverage of Intangibles Competition for Co-operation... more Competition, Co-operation and the Euro-Asian Leverage of Intangibles Competition for Co-operation - How Exchange Enabling Assets Influence a Firm's Success in International Co-operations Intangibles and Finance: Motives and Consequences of Mergers in the Indian Corporate Sector Intangibles and Competition: A Theoretical Approach from the Controller's View A Framework for Designing Technological Knowledge Management Systems: Sector-Specific Approach Competition and Cooperation between the Japanese and British Management Models in the UK: International Transfer Problems of Intangible Management Systems Intangibles, Lean Production and their Impact on China Making the Intangible Tangible Networking Knowledge for Value Creation Innovation Competence - Intangibles in Cooperative Innovation Processes Intangibles, Organizational Learning and the Management of Technologies: A Popperian View Study on Technology Innovation in Transition Economy The Effects of Intangible Assets on Inco...
Strategies of Outsourcing
A Socio-Economic Perspective
Knowledge Strategy and Knowledge Divisions
The Indian Software Industry, 2004
Manpower, as a resource, is often believed to be homogeneous. If one accepts that experience adds... more Manpower, as a resource, is often believed to be homogeneous. If one accepts that experience adds to the quality of manpower, one can also accept that experience always gets an added enhancing quality. Information on quality is, however, primarily private and any contract or negotiation would remain incomplete in the absence of shared and commonly believed and accepted standard of quality (Kennan and Wilson, 1993). Moreover, the holder of private information is an egotist and an opportunist (Williamson, 1981, 1993). This further adds to the vitiated measure of quality. One problem is how exactly quality can act as a signal. Further, a signal is weak and cannot reach distant corners of a market. Firm-internal information on quality, even when it trickles down, reaches only a small local quarter, which often includes only a small number of other firms which are situated in the same strategic milieu as the incumbent holder of that quality manpower. Such a market remains ‘uncleared’ (Benassy, 1993; Fishback, 1998). There is an additional problem too. Commonly believed theories on wage settlements or valuation of manpower treat a manpower signal quantitatively. Supply-and-demand quantity positions, a la Keynes (Leijonhufvud, 1968; Patinkin, 1965), constitute the quantity signals. Such signals are macro by nature. The incumbent firm or the incumbent individual resource-holder acts in the micro domain, and for them, while the quantity signals constitute an important backdrop, the micro quality information remains more important and deciding.
Knowledge Wealth: An Indian Software Profile
The Indian Software Industry, 2004
Knowledge as wealth is a constituent of the structural sort of a firm. A structural sort, in term... more Knowledge as wealth is a constituent of the structural sort of a firm. A structural sort, in terms of the earlier discussion, is a manner of describing several structural aspects of an organization. A sort is larger in scope than the scaffolding perspective, which is a description of structure in terms of hierarchy and divisions or units. A structural sort has seven constituents, one of which is knowledge as wealth and finance. Knowledge as wealth, as argued earlier, is different from the two other types of knowledge: as a factor of production and as strategic knowledge. Of these, the former is descriptive knowledge and is publicly available or tradable and can be accessed by an organization, a group or an individual. Strategic knowledge is not descriptive and is held in non-descriptive attitudinal or intentional form by the individuals, including the chief and process groups of an organization. The structure of an organization cannot be the residence of strategic knowledge. Knowledge as wealth is thus only partly descriptive and largely attitudinal. This knowledge, like strategic knowledge, cannot be publicly generated or traded. Knowledge wealth constitutes the structure and, therefore, is resident in the structural sort. It cannot reside in single individuals such as the chief. Limitations to trading or public generation of knowledge wealth make it appear to be tacit but, as argued earlier, it cannot be a tacit knowledge.
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