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Faculty members at IIMB generate knowledge through cutting-edge research in all functional areas of management that would benefit public and private sector companies, and government and society in general.
IIM Bangalore offers Degree-Granting Programmes, a Diploma Programme, Certificate Programmes and Executive Education Programmes and specialised courses in areas such as entrepreneurship and public policy.
Business Strategies and Challenges in Indian IT services and software product organizations
Various aspects of software engineering management and project management in global IT and software organizations
Outsourcing of knowledge-intensive services
Globally distributed work
Human Resource Management in IT and ITES organizations
IT in Economic Development
Knowledge Management in Indian software and IT organizations
Innovation and Competition in IT industry
Governance in the Indian IT sector
Contemporary IT based learning systems
E-Governance
Quality of products, processes and services in the Indian IT industry
Metrics and data generation on Indian IT industry
Study / Consultation Reports
Pal, Abhipsa, Dattathrani, Sai and De', R. ‘User-Level Security Issues in Mobile Payments’, 2017.
Dattathrani, Sai and De', R. 'Open-source vendor evaluation framework', 2016.
Dattathrani, Sai. 'Market Research Consultation Report for Agricultural Supply Chain Performance Monitoring Tool', 2016.
Research Papers From CSITM
Rao, R.A. and De', R. ‘Open-Source Reuse and Strategic Imperatives’, in Sim, S.E. and Gallardo-Valencia, R.E. (eds) Finding Source Code on the Web for Remix and Reuse, Springer, pp. 187-204, 2013.
Prakash and De (2007) ‘Importance of development context in ICT4D projects: A study of computerization of land records in India’, Emerald Insight/ Information Technology & People/vol20 issue 3
Mahadevan, B. and Srinivasan, G. (2003). ‘Software for manufacturing cell formation: Issues and Experiences’, GT/CM World Symposium. July 28-30, 2003, Columbus, OH.
Prof. N.M. Agrawal (2001) - Creating Organizational Culture for Knowledge Management, IIMB Review
Prof. N.M. Agrawal and Prof. M.R. Rao (2002) - Developing Human Capital for Sustaining Growth of Indian IT Industry, AHRD Conference Book
Prof. N.M. Agrawal and Mohan Thite (2003) - Human resource issues: challenges and strategies in the Indian software industry, International Journal of Human Resource Management and Development
Prof. N.M. Agrawal and Prof. Mohan Thite (2006) - Nature and Importance of Soft Skills in Software Project Leaders, Asia Pacific Management Review (2006) 11(2), 405-413
Prof. N.M. Agrawal, Prof. Naresh Khatri and Prof. R. Srinivasan (2011) - Managing growth: Human resource management challenges facing the Indian software industry, Journal of World Business Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 159-166
Prof. N.M. Agrawal, Rajesh Pandit and Divya Menon (2012) - Strategy to usher in the next phase of growth in the Indian IT industry, IIMB Management Review Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 164-179
Prof. N.M. Agrawal, Prof. M.R. Rao and Sudheesh Venkatesh (2014) - Education and Employability: Learning from the Indian IT /ITES Industry, Book Chapter in the book published by Cologne University, Germany
Prof. N.M. Agrawal, Prof. Dhara Shah and Prof. Mirriam Moeller (2020) - Career decisions of married Indian IT female expatriates, Journal of Global Mobility Vol. 7 No. 4, 2019, Pages: 395-418
Prof. N.M. Agrawal, Pratyush Bharati, Kui Du, Abhijit Chaudhury (2021) - Idea Co-creation on Social Media Platforms: Towards a Theory of Social Ideation, The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems
Completed Research Projects
Prof Shankar Venkatgiri: Openworld - A study of open-source e-learning environments that can be integrated to enhance the learning portal at IIMB and make it replicable.
Prof Raghunath: Boundary Spanners and Client Vendor Relationships in IT Outsourcing: A Social Capital Perspective Social Media, Big Data and Innovation Business Models and Strategies for Cloud Computing
Market Research consultation report for Agricultural Supply Chain Performance Monitoring Tool. A final report on tool recommendation along with market outlook was submitted in September 2016
Research on open-source vendor evaluation to create a framework for evaluation of open-source vendors in India (completed in 2016-17)
Security in Mobile Payments: A Report on User Issues to focus on risks associated with Indian mobile phone-based payment systems (completed in 2016-17)
Changing nature of Alliances and Partnerships with the changing IT business models (completed in 2016-17)
Working Papers
Ramesh G; L S Murty (2011) Working paper of IIMB titled Determinants of Management Control at Responsibility Centre Level : Software Industry as a Case. D. V. R. Seshadri, James A. Narus (2004), Offshore Outsourcing of High Tech Jobs: The View from India
Prof. N.M. Agrawal (1998) - Managing Knowledge Workers: Benchmarking Indian IT Organization
