Ajith Kumar

Academic Distinction (Awards and Scholarships)

My case titled, "Primacy: Global Design from India", won first prize in the "Innovation" category of ISB-Ivey Global Case Writing Competition, 2012. It was later published by Ivey and is currently available in their case collection.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Raj, A., Kumar, J. A. and Bansal, P. (2020), A Multicriteria Decision Making Approach to Study the Barriers to the Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 133, pg. 122-137.
• Rudran, R. and Kumar, J. A. (2017), Measurement scales for technology-generated customer contact, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 37, No. 5, 534-556.
• Nandi, M. L. and Kumar, J. A. (2016), Centralization and the Success of ERP Implementation, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. 29, No. 5, 728-750.
• Kumar, J. A. and Chakrabarti, A. (2012), Bounded Awareness and Tacit Knowledge: Revisiting Challenger Disaster, Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 16, No. 6, 934-949.
• Kumar, J. A. and Ganesh L.S. (2011), Balancing Knowledge Strategy: Codification and Personalization During Product Development, Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 15, No. 1.
• Kumar, J. A. and Ganesh L.S. (2011), Inter-individual Knowledge Transfer and Performance in Product Development, The Learning Organization, Vol. 18, No. 3.
• Kumar, J. A. and Ganesh L.S. (2009), Research on Knowledge Transfer in Organizations: A Morphology, Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 13, No. 4.

Paper Presentations-Refereed

• (2018), Organizational constraints in continuous production: structure and ranking?, 12th ISDSI conference held at the SP Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai, Dec 28th 30th, 2018.
• (2017), Is 5S beneficial in the workplace: what do Indian managers think?, POMS 2017 International Conference held at the MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia, Dec 12-14.
• (2017), Managers perceptions of the benefits of 5S in the workplace: An exploration in Indian organizations, 31st ANZAM Conference held at the RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Dec 5-8.
• (2016), Disruption in Supply Chains: A Study Using Discrete-event Simulation, 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management held at ABV-IIITM Gwalior, Dec 22-24.
• with Rudran, R. (2015), Customer Contact: A Consolidated Framework, 19th Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management held at IIM Calcutta, Dec 11-13.
• with Rudran, R. (2015), Measurement Scales for Technology Generated Customer Contact, 19th Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management held at IIM Calcutta, Dec 11-13.
• (2013), A simulation-based heuristic to determine staffing levels in product support centers, 17th Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management held at IIT Madras, Dec 20-22.
• (2012), Staff Scheduling for Service Support, 16th Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management held at IIT Delhi, Dec 21-23.
• (2011), The Paradoxical Property of Knowledge in Organizations, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Singapore, Dec 6-9.
• with Ram Baliga B. (2008), Individual Knowledge, Knowledge Strategy and Product Complexity in Product Development, India Special Conference of the Strategic Management Society, ISB Hyderabad.
• with Ganesh L. S. (2007), Modelling the Sharing of Tacit Knowledge in Organizations, Eighth International Conference on Quality and Innovation Management, New Delhi.
• with Ganesh L. S. (2006), Operationalizing the Flow of Tacit Knowledge, 10th Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIM Ahmedabad.