The All-Academy award is given to the paper that best meets the objective of internationalizing the Academy of Management
14 August, 2017: A co-authored paper of Professor Rejie George Pallathitta, faculty from the Strategy area at IIM Bangalore, has been selected as one of the six finalists of the prestigious Carolyn B. Dexter Award. The finalists were announced earlier this month at the Academy of Management Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
The paper, co-authored with Dr. Alexander Eapen (Senior Lecturer & Deputy Director – Research, ANU College of Business & Economics) and Jihye Yeo (PhD candidate, ANU College of Business & Economics), is titled ‘Business Group Affiliation and FDI Spillovers’, and was submitted to the Business Policy and Strategy division.
The Carolyn B. Dexter Award, as explained on the AOM website, is an all-academy award given to the paper that best meets the objective of internationalizing the Academy of Management. This serves the mission of the academy and the charge of the International Theme Committee, which sponsors this award. Each of the academy's Divisions & Interest Groups nominates one annual meeting submission for this award every year, up to three of these nominations may be selected to receive the award. Each paper nominated for the Carolyn Dexter Award is designated as such on the program.
The Carolyn B. Dexter awardees are selected by an inclusive nomination process and dedicated award committees. Each paper is self-nominated through the academy’s abstract submission entry portal to the division or interest group of their choice. Each of the 25 divisions or interest group program Chairs then nominates one paper to be considered by the respective award committee. From this pool, the award committees formally review and select recipients for the awards.
Professor Rejie George Pallathitta, who is also IIMB Chair of Excellence, is currently the Chairperson of IIMB’s doctoral programme, the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), and Chairperson of the Centre for Corporate Governance & Citizenship (CCGC), a Centre of Excellence at IIMB which aims to bring, under a single umbrella, research, teaching and policy support related activities of the faculty in the field of corporate governance, ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability.
He teaches courses in Strategic Management and Corporate Governance for the MBA programme and Executive Education Programmes at IIMB.
His research interests are in the areas of Corporate Governance, Strategic Management and International Business. He has published in journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Business Studies, Long Range Planning, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He has presented his research work at several international conferences.
Abstract of the paper
Recent studies have pointed to several advantages business group-affiliated firms enjoy over their standalone counterparts, a prominent one being their access to a network of tightly connected diverse firms. Business group-affiliated firms have access to the diverse resource and knowledge bases of other group firms, and importantly, to the combinatorial opportunities that arise thereof. But is there a downside to this intra-group network advantage? Could the strong social and economic ties that bind group-affiliated firms also blindside them from valuable external sources of knowledge? This paper examines whether business group affiliation helps or hinders affiliated firms in agglomerating and combining knowledge from an external source, specifically, from collocated foreign firms. The authors’ analysis of knowledge spillovers from foreign firms in India to group-affiliated and standalone domestic firms over the period of 2002-2011 suggests that while the internal ties between group firms may allow for recombination of knowledge held inside the network, those very ties can also shield group firms – viz-`a-viz their standalone counterparts – from agglomerating external knowledge.
See: http://proceedings.aom.org/content/2017/1/15198?related-urls=yes&legid=amproc;2017/1/15198
The All-Academy award is given to the paper that best meets the objective of internationalizing the Academy of Management
14 August, 2017: A co-authored paper of Professor Rejie George Pallathitta, faculty from the Strategy area at IIM Bangalore, has been selected as one of the six finalists of the prestigious Carolyn B. Dexter Award. The finalists were announced earlier this month at the Academy of Management Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
The paper, co-authored with Dr. Alexander Eapen (Senior Lecturer & Deputy Director – Research, ANU College of Business & Economics) and Jihye Yeo (PhD candidate, ANU College of Business & Economics), is titled ‘Business Group Affiliation and FDI Spillovers’, and was submitted to the Business Policy and Strategy division.
The Carolyn B. Dexter Award, as explained on the AOM website, is an all-academy award given to the paper that best meets the objective of internationalizing the Academy of Management. This serves the mission of the academy and the charge of the International Theme Committee, which sponsors this award. Each of the academy's Divisions & Interest Groups nominates one annual meeting submission for this award every year, up to three of these nominations may be selected to receive the award. Each paper nominated for the Carolyn Dexter Award is designated as such on the program.
The Carolyn B. Dexter awardees are selected by an inclusive nomination process and dedicated award committees. Each paper is self-nominated through the academy’s abstract submission entry portal to the division or interest group of their choice. Each of the 25 divisions or interest group program Chairs then nominates one paper to be considered by the respective award committee. From this pool, the award committees formally review and select recipients for the awards.
Professor Rejie George Pallathitta, who is also IIMB Chair of Excellence, is currently the Chairperson of IIMB’s doctoral programme, the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), and Chairperson of the Centre for Corporate Governance & Citizenship (CCGC), a Centre of Excellence at IIMB which aims to bring, under a single umbrella, research, teaching and policy support related activities of the faculty in the field of corporate governance, ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability.
He teaches courses in Strategic Management and Corporate Governance for the MBA programme and Executive Education Programmes at IIMB.
His research interests are in the areas of Corporate Governance, Strategic Management and International Business. He has published in journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Business Studies, Long Range Planning, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He has presented his research work at several international conferences.
Abstract of the paper
Recent studies have pointed to several advantages business group-affiliated firms enjoy over their standalone counterparts, a prominent one being their access to a network of tightly connected diverse firms. Business group-affiliated firms have access to the diverse resource and knowledge bases of other group firms, and importantly, to the combinatorial opportunities that arise thereof. But is there a downside to this intra-group network advantage? Could the strong social and economic ties that bind group-affiliated firms also blindside them from valuable external sources of knowledge? This paper examines whether business group affiliation helps or hinders affiliated firms in agglomerating and combining knowledge from an external source, specifically, from collocated foreign firms. The authors’ analysis of knowledge spillovers from foreign firms in India to group-affiliated and standalone domestic firms over the period of 2002-2011 suggests that while the internal ties between group firms may allow for recombination of knowledge held inside the network, those very ties can also shield group firms – viz-`a-viz their standalone counterparts – from agglomerating external knowledge.
See: http://proceedings.aom.org/content/2017/1/15198?related-urls=yes&legid=amproc;2017/1/15198