Centres Of Excellence

To focus on new and emerging areas of research and education, Centres of Excellence have been established within the Institute. These ‘virtual' centres draw on resources from its stakeholders, and interact with them to enhance core competencies

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Faculty

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.

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IIMB Management Review

Journal of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

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.

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About IIMB

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Research

RESEARCH THEMES

  • 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