S Prashantham and Charles Dhanaraj
Journal of Management Studies, 2010

Abstract: This paper explores the origin, evolution, and appropriation of social capital by new ventures seeking international growth. Using longitudinal case studies in the software industry, we model the dynamic influence of social capital on new venture internationalisation. We theorise that new ventures of founders from a globally-connected environment have higher stocks of initial social capital than others.

Insecure Advantage? Markets for Technology and the Value of Resources for Entrepreneurial Ventures

Anand Nandkumar and Ashish Arora
Strategic Management Journal (2011)

Abstract: This paper studies how the impact of capabilities for performance is contingent upon the environment. Using a novel dataset of Information Security startups, we study how markets for technology change the relative impact of technology and marketing capabilities on performance.

Cash-out or flame-out! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: Theory, and evidence from the information security industry

Anand Nandkumar and Ashish Arora
Management Science (Forthcoming)

Abstract: This paper studies how entrepreneurial opportunity cost conditions performance. Departing from the common practice of using survival as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, we model both failure and cash-out (liquidity event) as conditioned by the same underlying process.

The Spirit of Jugaad/Bricolage for Enhanced Corporate Entrepreneurship

S Balasubrahmanyam, Prasad Kaipa, Prasad VCS, Sourabh G and Suresh MV
ICSO-2010 Conference Proceedings by Macmillan India, 2010
International Journal of Organizational Analysis (R&R)
Abstract: The paper endeavours to develop a conceptual model based on few cases of Indian Jugaad and Western Bricolage. It makes suggestions to firms about inculcating the spirit of jugaad/bricolage and thereby leveraging various resource reconfigurations through resource fungibility and corporate coherence. 

Alliance Portfolios  and Organisations in Transition: A Study of Shareholder Returns

From New Public Companies
Nacef Mouri, MB Sarkar and Melissa Frye
Journal of Business Venturing (Forthcoming)
Abstract: This paper studies how various structural characteristics of a firm’s alliance portfolio influences its initial public offering. We find that financial markets seem to reward firms whose alliance portfolio is diversified across different types of alliances (a portfolio high in functional diversity), but not those who align their alliance partners into multiple functional points in the value chain (a portfolio high in vertical scope).

Performance Implications of Outsourcing: Managing the Efficiency and Adaptability Trade-Off in Emerging Technologies

Carmen Weigelt and MB Sarkar
Strategic Management Journal (Forthcoming)
Abstract: We explore how increasing efficiency compromises adaptability when a firm outsources activities during the emerging stages of a technological innovation. Although outsourcing yields efficiency gains up to a certain point, it hurts adaptability. Our data on outsourcing for Internet banking is both archival and based on two surveys conducted with 100 US banks.

Case Studies

Managing Breakthrough Innovation at Biocon (ISB-Ivey Case series)
Nita Sachan, Prasad Kaipa, Anand Nandkumar and Charles Dhanaraj(2011)
The case addresses the R&D challenges that an emerging economy firm, Biocon, has to face for its drug IN-105, the oral insulin which has huge potential, but also comes with significant risks.

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB): The commercialization challenge (ISB-Ivey Case series)
Nita Sachan, Prasad Vemuri, Anand Nandkumar and Charles Dhanaraj (2011)
The case presents the details of the research on commercialisation challenges at a premier research institution in India as well as the mechanisms for commercialisation. 

Tata Swatch: Pure water for the Indian Household (ISB-Ivey Case series)
Charles Dhanaraj, Prasad Vemuri, and Monidipa Mukherjee (2011)
The case presents an overview, from conception to launch, of a water purifier (propelled by the need for sustainability and affordability) aimed at providing safe and pure water for the masses in India.

Chotukool of Godrej & Boyce (ISB-Ivey Case series)
Balasubrahmanyam S, Charles Dhanaraj, Arohini Narain and Prasad Vemuri
This case deals with Chotukool of Godrej, an unconventional cooling solution targeted at the Bottom of the Pyramid in India. It encompasses disruptive innovation strategies of Godrej, its blue ocean strategies and the pursuit of parallel business models.