Papers by karminder ghuman
Practical Spirituality and Human Development, 2018
Practical spirituality involves transformation of both science and religion. In the field of reli... more Practical spirituality involves transformation of both science and religion. In the field of religion, practical spirituality emerges in varieties of transformative movements and seeking in self, culture, and society which interrogate existing structures of domination and strive for new modes of self-realization, God-realization, and world-realization. Practical spirituality seeks to transform religion in the direction of creative practice, everyday life, and struggle for justice and dignity. Practice here is not just practice in the conventional sense, for example, in traditions of American pragmatism or anthropological conception of practice as offered by Clifford Geertz, Pierre Bourdieu, and Jurgen Habermas. These conceptions suffer from an entrenched dualism such as theory and practice and immanence and transcendence and work with a notion of subject which is predominantly “techno-practitioner” and cut off from its inescapable and integral links with transcendence. But practice in practical spirituality is simultaneously immanent and transcendent and the actor here is simultaneously a “techno-practitioner” and “transcendentally real self.” Practical spirituality embodies immanent transcendence, as for example in music or in the experience of transcendence in our various moments of everyday life—love, meditations, scientific engagements, and other activities of life and in society.
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 2021
Learning outcomes This paper aims to enable the application of Value Proposition Canvas and Busin... more Learning outcomes This paper aims to enable the application of Value Proposition Canvas and Business Model Canvas to evaluate an opportunity; understand the commonalities and differences between social and commercial enterprises; and recognize the challenges related to the paradox of the social mission and the financial/economic logic. Case overview/synopsis Neha Arora demonstrated exceptional capabilities of defying the social stigma associated with People with Disabilities (PwDs) to establish Planet Abled, a first in the world venture to provide accessible leisure excursions to PwDs. This entrepreneurial initiative enabling group and solo travel for PwDs as inclusive tourism has created the possibility of social sustainability by bringing change in the lives of PwDs and their family members by ignoring either the insensitive or overprotective societal attitudes and lack of infrastructure concerning travel for PwDs. Its potential growth qualifies for scaling-up, but it can also att...
Management Review Quarterly
International Journal of Business Innovation and Research
Emerging Issues in Global Marketing, 2018
Different strategies have been proposed to counter the global trade in counterfeits, but there is... more Different strategies have been proposed to counter the global trade in counterfeits, but there is a dearth of the conceptual framework, which coherently organizes the varied anti-counterfeit interventions. In the present article, we employ the construct of marketing mix and extend it further to organize various anti-counterfeiting tactics into a holistic framework. We attempt to answer: how – and to what extent – can the companies reconfigure their marketing mix so that it is tough for the counterfeiters to make and sell the inexpensive replications of their original creations? The present article makes a contribution by reconfiguring the traditional marketing mix for bringing together disparate anti-counterfeiting tactics at the center stage of designing the marketing program.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2022
This essay argues how practical spirituality involves the art and science of conscious living. Co... more This essay argues how practical spirituality involves the art and science of conscious living. Conscious living involves silencing the continuous chatter of the mind in a relaxed playful manner and looking within to connect with what is going inside us. At the same time being in touch with what is happening outside. Then putting together both these aspects in such a manner that neither is overpowering the other; and experiencing a gentle flow of events that happens naturally, without deciding or fixing anything ahead of the time. The essay argues how conscious living is a reality and possibility in our every day life and relevant for everybody rather than only for the so-called spiritually enlightened.
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 2021
Learning outcomes This paper aims to enable the application of Value Proposition Canvas and Busin... more Learning outcomes This paper aims to enable the application of Value Proposition Canvas and Business Model Canvas to evaluate an opportunity; understand the commonalities and differences between social and commercial enterprises; and recognize the challenges related to the paradox of the social mission and the financial/economic logic. Case overview/synopsis Neha Arora demonstrated exceptional capabilities of defying the social stigma associated with People with Disabilities (PwDs) to establish Planet Abled, a first in the world venture to provide accessible leisure excursions to PwDs. This entrepreneurial initiative enabling group and solo travel for PwDs as inclusive tourism has created the possibility of social sustainability by bringing change in the lives of PwDs and their family members by ignoring either the insensitive or overprotective societal attitudes and lack of infrastructure concerning travel for PwDs. Its potential growth qualifies for scaling-up, but it can also att...
The perceived Quality of Work Life (QWL) is a multi-dimensional construct that significantly infl... more The perceived Quality of Work Life (QWL) is a multi-dimensional construct that significantly influences the various facets of personal interface and professional outcomes of the employees working in an organization. The present empirical study conducted amongst the managers of the private, public sector and foreign banks operating in India performs an in-depth examination of the role of different constituent dimensions of QWL in determining the overall and dimension-wise QWL perceived by the respondents. ANOVA analysis is performed to determine the significance of difference in responses among the managers of private, public sector and foreign banks on the basis of their overall WL and its different constituents. Significant differences were observed amongst the responses of the respondents from the private, public sector and foreign banks; highlighting the differential impact of these constituent dimensions in different organizations in the same industry.
The case study poseses a strategic question that in the emerging internet based service provision... more The case study poseses a strategic question that in the emerging internet based service provision industry, whether it is a better strategy to develop a unique positioning on the basis of single key service or it’s better for an organization to offer multiple services, thereby reducing risk, increasing traction and thus increasing its valuation? To answer this fundamental question, the present study employs the case example of two leading e-platforms: Freecharge and PayTM that are employing diametrically opposite strategies in order to scale up their ventues. It also examines the role of Push and Pull strategies in a single industry, thus drawing the reader to take a position, which is better and why?
Across the definitions of spirituality, the fulcrum and the focus have largely been on realizing ... more Across the definitions of spirituality, the fulcrum and the focus have largely been on realizing meaning and purpose of life for upliftment and enrichment of the individual. But, the spiritual message that we get from Sikhism, a monotheistic religion established in Northwest India at the beginning of the sixteenth century AD, goes much beyond the focus on the spiritual elevation of an individual and lays an equally strong emphasis on the regeneration of the society.
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 2021
Learning outcomes This paper aims to enable the application of Value Proposition Canvas and Busin... more Learning outcomes This paper aims to enable the application of Value Proposition Canvas and Business Model Canvas to evaluate an opportunity; understand the commonalities and differences between social and commercial enterprises; and recognize the challenges related to the paradox of the social mission and the financial/economic logic. Case overview/synopsis Neha Arora demonstrated exceptional capabilities of defying the social stigma associated with People with Disabilities (PwDs) to establish Planet Abled, a first in the world venture to provide accessible leisure excursions to PwDs. This entrepreneurial initiative enabling group and solo travel for PwDs as inclusive tourism has created the possibility of social sustainability by bringing change in the lives of PwDs and their family members by ignoring either the insensitive or overprotective societal attitudes and lack of infrastructure concerning travel for PwDs. Its potential growth qualifies for scaling-up, but it can also att...
Different strategies have been proposed to counter the global trade in counterfeits, but there is... more Different strategies have been proposed to counter the global trade in counterfeits, but there is a dearth of the conceptual framework, which coherently organizes the varied anti-counterfeit interventions. In the present article, we employ the construct of marketing mix and extend it further to organize various anti-counterfeiting tactics into a holistic framework. We attempt to answer: how – and to what extent – can the companies reconfigure their marketing mix so that it is tough for the counterfeiters to make and sell the inexpensive replications of their original creations? The present article makes a contribution by reconfiguring the traditional marketing mix for bringing together disparate anti-counterfeiting tactics at the center stage of designing the marketing program.
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it (Nouwen, 1981). ... more The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it (Nouwen, 1981). Spirituality is about valuing and deeply connecting with what we hold sacred in ourselves, other beings, and the universe as an integral whole. Spirituality isn’t diametrically opposed to science. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both (Sagan, 1995). Like science, spirituality is also involved in the pursuit of meaning, purpose, and explores the nature of reality. The two approaches of spirit and science have received separate emphasis in their development in Eastern and Western civilisations. On the one side, (the spiritual), the individual existentially lives within the collective movement to meaning. On the other side (the scientific) the individual is understood intellectually in the essential material separation from the collective. In this article, we integrate these two approaches. In the spiritual realm, the movement of a...
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
Purpose The theory of consumption values (TCV) has successfully explained much consumer choice be... more Purpose The theory of consumption values (TCV) has successfully explained much consumer choice behavior, but few studies have investigated the values that drive food-delivery application (FDA) use. This study aims to bridge this gap by extending the TCV to the FDA context to examine food consumption-related values and interpreting and rechristening generic consumption values to adapt the TCV to the FDA context. Design/methodology/approach An explorative mixed-method research approach was taken to conduct focus group discussions with 20 target users to develop the questionnaire and then administer it for a cross-sectional survey (pen and pencil) to FDA users aged 22–65 years; 423 complete responses so received were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings The findings show that epistemic value (“visibility”) is the chief driver of purchase intentions toward FDAs, followed by conditional (“affordances”), price (part of functional value) and social value (“prestige”). Food...
IOSR Journal of Business and Management
Journal of Cleaner Production
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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