Kandathil George

George Kandathil is a faculty in Organizational Behaviour area. His areas of research interest include Technology-based Organizational Change, Worker Participation in Labour-owned/managed Firms and Value Incongruent Employees.

Educational Qualifications

• PhD, Cornell University, New York
• M.Tech, Indian Institue of Technology, Kanpur

Academic Affiliation

• Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
• ILR School, Cornell University

Professional Affiliation

• ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore
• British Tyres, Sahibabad, U.P

Teaching

Gradauet courses

• Co-constructing organizational change
• Power and politics in organization (co-teach)
• Investigating corporate social irresponsibility (co-teach)
• Individual dynamics

Doctoral courses

• A journey into the conversations on organizational change
• Classics in organizational behavior (co-teach)
• Organizational structures and processes (co-teach)
• Crafting and publishing of research (co-teach)

Executive Education

• Courses on co-creating and leading organizational change
• Courses on managing change related to IT implementation

Area of Research:

• Alternatives to corporate-centric capitalistic organizing
• Technology-based organizational change
• Technology-based institutional change
• Worker participation in labour-owned/managed firms
• Stratgey enactment of informally organized retialors
• Gender orientation - emotional labor dynamics of start-up entrepreneurs

Current Research:

• Framing-institutional logics interaction during Enterprise System implementation (with Sue Newell and Erica Wagner)
• Change in temporality during Enterprise System implementation
• Dynamics of technology affordance during Enterprise System implementation (with Erica Wagner)
• Employee involvement during the transformation of worker cooperatives
• Behavioral compliance and employee internalization of incongruent organizational values (with Evan Polman)
• Changing strategies of small and informally organized Indian retail stores (with Atul Patak)
• Work intensification and employee control in telehomeworking in Indian IT sector (with Dharmaraju Bathini)
• Social transformation of Denotified Tribes in Gujarat (with Prateek Shah)
• Gender orientation - emotional labor dynamics of start-up entrepreneurs (with Reena Byju)