Kandathil George

Area

Primary Area : Organisational Behaviour

Secondary Area : Information Systems

Contact

Email : gmk@iima.ac.in

Phone : +91-79-7152 4812

Secretary : Hena Nair

Phone : +91-79-7152 7914

Website : Personal Website

Education

PhD, Cornell University, New York

M.Tech, Indian Institue of Technology, Kanpur

Teaching

Graduate 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

Co-creating and leading organizational change
Managing change related to IT implementation

Research Area

Current Research Interests:

• Worker-owned co-operatives • Ecofeminist alternatives • Work solidarity-based alternatives in informal space • Commoning-based alternatives in informal space

• New information technology, organizational culture, and work-organizing • New technology and organizational space • Work-organizing and work-strategy • Working bodies, gender, and socioeconomic class

• Enterprise Systems-based change • Electronic Medical Recording-based change

Ongoing Research:

Embodied commoning of waste and waste work in Kerala: Emergence of a collective alternative and its contradictions

Hegemonies of environmental governance: A neo-Gramscian analysis of the changes in public hearing process within EIA policies in India

Beyond Professional Logics of Health Care: EMR ecnoutners in Obstetrics and Gynecology outpatient consultation

Invisibilization of foodwork in open kitchen cafe

Academic Experience

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

ILR School, Cornell University

Professional Experience

ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore

British Tyres, Sahibabad, U.P

Journals

Kandathil, G. & Chennangodu, C. Postfeminist individuating of a women collective and the
strugglesome emergence of a relational collective feminist solidarity: The story of Kudumbashree, a Kerala state-instituted women empowerment programme. Gender, Work & Organization (forthcoming)

Chennangodu, C. & Kandathil, G. 2023. (Dis)empowering the feminine? Spatialising the interlace of gender-class-neoliberal managerialism in a women-only Café in India. Gender, Work & Organization, 1-18.

Mittal, H., Kandathil, G., & Mathur, N. 2023. Beyond the technology-centric and citizen-centric binary: Ontological politics of organizing in Translation of the Smart City Discourse in India. Organization, 1-19.

Shailini, Bathini, D. R., & Kandathil, G. 2021. Actions in phygital space: Work solidarity and collective action among app‐based cab drivers in India. New Technology, Work and Employment, 1-24.

Pathak, A & Kandathil, G. 2019. "Strategizing in small informal retailers in India: Home delivery as a strategic practice." Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 1-27.

Bathini, D. R., & Kandathil, G. M. (forthcoming). Bother me only if the client complains: control and resistance in home-based telework in India. Employee Relations. 1-17.

Biju, R & Kandathil, G. 2019. Women Entrepreneurship: Painting It Bright While Missing the Dark, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(1), 205-213.

Bathini, D. & Kandathil, G. 2019. A negotiated exchange? Work intensification and flexible work arrangements in India, Journal of Business Ethics,154(2), 411-423.

Kandathil, G & Joseph, J. 2019. Normative underpinnings of direct employee participation studies and implications for developing ethical reflexivity: A multidisciplinary review, Journal of Business Ethics, 157(3), 685–697.

Kandathil, G. & Wagner, E. 2017. Technology Non-Affordances: The Political Interactions in the Designer-User-Technology Trio in a Developing Country. Computer Human Interaction, 1, 1-15

Wagner, E. & Kandathil, G. 2016. Narrative Methodologies in Information Systems Literature: Illuminating Interconnectivity and Change over Time. Communications of the Association for Information System, 39, 555-575

Bathini, D. & Kandathil, G. 2015. Don't Bother Me as Long as The Client Has No Issues: Control and Resistance in Telework. In George T. Solomon (Ed.) Proceedings of the Seventy Fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (CD), ISSN. USA.

Bathini, D. R., & Kandathil, G. 2015. Work from home: a boon or a bane? The missing piece of employee cost. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 50(4), 569.

Turaga, M. & Kandathil, G. 2014. Defining the Social Responsibility of Businesses, Economic and Political Weekly, XLIX (7).

Kandathil, G. & Varman, R. 2007. Contradictions of Employee Involvement, Information Sharing, and Expectations: A Case Study of Indian Worker Cooperative. Economic & Industrial Democracy, 28(1): 140-174.

Kandathil, G. 2003. Prediction of Spacecraft Project Duration Using Adaptation of Markoff Chain Analysis, Journal of Spacecraft Technology, 13 (1): 1-30

Kandathil, G., Turaga, RMR. and Jacob, J. The Superspreading of Superspreader: Negative Stereotyping in the Times of Covid-19. The Hindu. July 16, 2020

Cases

Kandathil, G. 2011. Evolution of Technology-Organization Studies from 1950s through 2000s. IIMA, Ahmedabad.

Kandathil, G. 2011. The Undulations during an Organizational Transformation: The Story of NCJM Employee Cooperative. IIMA, Ahmedabad.

Kandathil, G. 2011. Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: ERP Implementation in EurIndia. IIMA, Ahmedabad.

Kandathil, G. & Iyer, S. 2003. An Analysis of ISRO Scientists' Workplace Motivation. Bangalore, India: ISRO Satellite Centre.

Kandathil, G. & Reddy, C. 2002. Trends in Satellite Communication Technology 1995-2002: A Review. Bangalore, India: ISRO Satellite Centre.

Chapters

Chennangodu, C & Kandathil, G. Rhythmanalysis of a cafe: (in)visibilizing foodwork in an “open” kitchen. In (eds.) Kociatkiewicz, J. & Kostera, M. How to Do Social Science That Matters. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., UK

Chennangodu, C & Kandathil, G. Affecting a desiring “woman worker”: a spatial interpretive ethnography of a café in India. In (eds.) Simpson. A., Simpson. R., & Baker, D. Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and Belonging. Bristol University Press, UK

Kandathil, G., Varma, P., & Turaga, R. M. R. (2022). A Women-Inclusive Emancipatory Alternative to Corporate Capitalism? The Case of Kerala’s State-Instituted Kudumbashree Programme. In Varman and Vijay (eds.), Organizing resistance and Imagining alternatives in India. Cambridge University Press. UK

Shah, P., Kandathil, G. & Kapoor, A (2017). Acting for Change: A Circuits of Power Analysis of a Denotified Nomadic Tribe and Budhan Theater's Struggle for Change. In A. Rohit Varman & Devi Vijay (Eds.) Managing Alternative Organizations in India, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, India.

Kandathil, G. 2003. Trilogy in Organizations: Through the Lens of Organizational Identity Change Process. Pp:88-102. In G. Kandathil (Ed.), One plus One is Three. India, Cochin: ICTA.

Academic Conferences

Arif, A. & Kadnathil, G. Understanding policy implementation: A practice-based approach to study the transition from “Health Sub-centres” to “Health and Wellness Centers” in India. 6th International Conference on Public Policy 2023, June 27-29, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.

Chennangodu, R., Kandathil, G., Rajendra, A., Turaga, RMR. Embodied commoning of waste and waste work: Emergence of a collective alternative to waste management and the contradictions within. 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023, July 5-7, University of Cagliari, Sardinia/Italy.

Chennangodu, R., & Kandathil, G., Rhythm-analysis of a café: In-visibilizing foodwork in an “open” kitchen of a café. 38th EGOS Colloquium 2022, July 7-9, WU Vienna, Austria

Kandathil, G., Varma, P., & Turaga, RM. Women Emancipatory Alternative to Corporate Capitalism? The Case of Kerala State Instituted Kudumbashree Programme, Degrowth & ISEE conference 2021, July 5-8, University of Manchester, UK

Chennangodu, R., Kandathil, G., & Mathur, N. (Dis)empowering the feminine? Producing a women-only Café space. Gender, Work & Organization 11th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, 2020, June 24-26, New Times University of Kent, London, UK

Chennangodu, R., Kandathil, G., & Mathur, N. Performing spaces of eating out: constructing work, leisure and foodspace through ‘new forms of work’ in a cafe space. 36th EGOS Colloquium 2020, July 2-4, University of Hamburg, Germany

Kandathil, G., Varma, P., & Turaga, RM. A collective against women exclusion? Interrogating Kudumbashree, India as an Alternative for women empowerment. 11th International Critical Management Studies Conference 2019, June 27-29, Open University, UK

Chennangodu, R., Kandathil, G., & Mathur, N. Becoming a home-cafe: performing power struggles and contradictions of liminality. 11th International Critical Management Studies Conference 2019, June 27-29, Open University, UK

Tandon, A., Kandathil, G., Deodhar, S., & Mathur, N. 2019. Electronic records of obstetrics and gynecology encounter: beyond professional logics of health care. In Proceedings of the 10th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. ACM.

Kandathil, G., Varma, P. & Turaga, M. A Women Inclusive Emancipatory Alternative to Global Capitalism? The Case of Kerala State Initiated Kudumbashree Programme, 34th European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, July 2018, Tallin, Estonia.

Shah, P., Kandathil, G. & Kapoor, A. Acting for change: Narratives from a denotified nomadic tribe in India, 32nd European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, July 2016, Naples, Italy.

Bathini, D. & Kandathil, G. Don't Bother Me as Long as The Client Has No Issues: Control and Resistance in Telework, 75th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, August 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Bathini, D. & Kandathil, G. Always available: Posturing visibility and compliance in home-based telework, 31st European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, July 2015, Athens, Greece.

Pathak, A. & Kandathil, G. Exploring Strategizing of Kirana Shopkeepers: The case of Indian retail industry, 74th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, August 2014, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Won SAP Best student Paper Award.

Pathak, A. & Kandathil, G. 2014. Exploring Strategizing of Kirana Shopkeepers: The case of Indian retail industry. In George T. Solomon (Ed.) Proceedings of the Seventy Fourth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (CD), ISSN. USA.

Pathak, A. & Kandathil, G. A Strategy as Practice Approach to Understanding the Strategies of Small, Informally Organised Retail Grocery Shops in India, 3rd Indian Academy of Management conference, December, 2013, Ahmedabad, India.

Kandathil, G, Newell,S. & Wagner, E. Co-mingling Contrasting Institutional Logics: Exploring the Macro-Micro Interplay during an Indian-based ES Implementation, 27th European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, July 2011, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Kandathil, G, Newell,S. & Wagner, E. Co-mingling Contrasting Institutional Logics: Exploring the Dialectics of Institutional Change through an Indian-based ERP Implementation, 71st Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, August, 2011, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Kandathil, G. When global times encounter local times: Cross-temporal politics during an Enterprise Resource Planning implementation in a Western multinational organization in India. 68th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, Chicago, IL. August 2009. Nominated for 2009 OCIS Best Student Paper Award.

Kandathil, G. A Multi perspective Integrative Framework to Study the Use of Power in Organizations during Techno-Organizational Change. 24th European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium. Amsterdam, Netherlands. July 2008.

Kandathil, G. & Varghese, T. Who does fix the meaning of time? Exercise of ideological power and semiotic power during the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning in a Western Organization in India. 24th European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium. Amsterdam, Netherlands. July 2008.

Kandathil, G. A Multi perspective approach to study the use of power during implementation of configurable Information Technologies in organizations. 67th Annual meeting of Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA. August 2008.

Goncalo, J. & Kandathil, G. Connecting Group Success to Individual: Achievement Cross-Cultural Attributions for Group Performance. 66th Annual meeting of Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA. August 2007: Nominated for 2007Carolyn Dexter Best Paper Award.

Kandathil, G. & Polman, E. From Behavioral Compliance to Value Internalization: The Critical Role of the Match between Employee's Pre-socialization Habitual Behavior and Organization's Expected Employee Behavior. 11th Graduate Sociology Conference, May 2007, Cornell University, NY, USA.

Kandathil, G. & Varman, R. Contradictions of Worker Participation: A Case Study of a Worker Owned Jute Mill in India. 11th Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation, Brussels, Belgium. July 2002.

Kandathil, G. & Varman, R. 2002. Contradictions of Worker Participation: A Case Study of a Worker Owned Jute Mill in India. Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation, ISSN, Belgium.

Kandathil, G. 2015. Contradictions of employee involvement in organizational change: The trasnformation efforts in NCJM, an Indian industrial worker cooperative. Rowman & Littlefiled: Lexington Press, Maryland: Lanham.

Faculty & Research

Kandathil George