Towards the next orbit a corporate odyssey (SAGE, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: PAPERS; 1 -- Routes to Peaks for Building Corporate Renaissance; 2 -- Strategic Positioning Choices for Indian Businesses: Beyond Jugaad into the Next Orbit; 3 -- Finding the Future and Making It Happen; 4 -- Managing Performance: Beyond Value-based Leadership; 5 -- Empowerment Practices and Corporate Effectiveness: Either be Democratic or Go Bust; 6 -- Antecedents of Employee Performance and the Role of Job Satisfaction as a Mediator; 7 -- Managing Talent through Employee Engagement Strategies
The global meltdown, the concomitant demise of legendary corporate behemoths, and the challenge of competing in a world marked by unprecedented complexities, volatility, discontinuities, and ambiguities, have pushed discussions on survival and excellence to the forefront. Towards the Next Orbit: A Corporate Odyssey brings forth ideas, experiences, studies, insights, and suggestions from renowned theoreticians and practitioners towards changing and succeeding in a new world. The first part of the book comprises rich conceptual papers and research-based empirical papers written primarily by thou