Strategies for Sustainable Growth in Modern Organizations

Organizations today are navigating challenging contexts by tinkering with structures, supply chains, technology, and by adopting new ways of working. Management practices are being recalibrated on the go to develop modern, new age organizations that can better deliver on the required speed and agility. Crises, disruptions, and wicked problems have become a part of the business landscape. Interconnectedness and fragility are becoming trademark features of business challenges and organizations are working rapidly to respond to these challenges with solutions that are sustainable, acceptable to multiple stakeholders, and are value based and technology oriented. Leaders are seen to employ myriad strategies in these challenging environments in a bid to pursue sustainable growth.

A deeper investigation of these strategies is required by management researchers in a bid to uncover and explore novel phenomena, significant variables of interest, as also theoretical frameworks that throw light on the new business models and ways of working. Researchers today, therefore, are tasked with realigning their research agendas and methodologies to offer conclusions that enable sensemaking of modern organizations and their growth strategies amidst complex organizational environments. Given the context of emerging trends, new age practices, and wide-spread application of emerging technologies in the world of business, this book offers a research-based perspective of effective solutions to common problems that modern, new age organizations face.

The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and managers working in Business, Management and Marketing; Human Resource Management; Leadership; Operations & Information Management; Organizational Studies; Strategic Management; and Technology & Innovation Management.

Ashu Sharma has 26 years of work experience with industry and academia. She is presently working as a professor in the area of operations and data sciences and is also the Program Chair for MBA Business Analytics at the School of Business Management, NMIMS, Mumbai. Dr. Sharma is also an active researcher and supervisor for PhD scholars, has presented papers at national and international conferences organized by reputed institutions, has edited books, and has published articles in double-blind peer-reviewed Scopus journals.

Veena Vohra is Professor of Human Resources and Behavioural Sciences and Vice Dean at the School of Business Management, NMIMS, Mumbai. Veena’s key research and teaching interest areas relate to leadership, emotional intelligence, organizational development, and key people practices in high performance work systems. Veena has several national and international research paper publications, books and book chapters, and case studies to her credit. She has received several awards for her teaching and contribution from the school and external bodies.

Rose Antony is an enthusiastic researcher and has 8 years of academic and industry experience. She holds her PhD from IIM, Mumbai, in operations and is currently working with NMIMS, SBM, as an assistant professor in the operations and data sciences area. She was conferred with the best research output award in 2023. Her research interest spans across the realm of supply chain management, sustainability, circular economy and project management. She teaches Total quality management, operations strategy, project management, supply chain management, statistics, operations research and risk management.