Flexible Work Organizations

Part I. Flexible Work Organization

1. Theory of Flexible Systems Management
Sushil

2. Telecommuting and Co-Working Communities: What Are the Implications for Individual and Organizational Flexibility?
Catherine Raffaele, Julia Connell

3. An Exploration of Holistic Learning in Different Contexts
Tirumala R. Vinnakota

4. Flexible Distribution Strategies in Network Marketing Companies
Bhavannarayana Kandala, Sudha Vemaraju

5. Flexibility in Social Sustainability: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industries
V. Mani, Rajat Agrawal, Vinay Sharma

6. Facilitating Workplace Spirituality: A Study of Organizational Values and Practices
Chitra Khari, Shuchi Sinha

Part II. Flexible Capacity Building for Management and HRM

7. Ethical Mindsets: Learning from Cultural Comparisons
Theodora Issa

8. Indonesian Work Life Balance Policies and Their Impact on Employees in the Higher Education Sector
Tri Wulida Afrianty, Theodora Issa, John Burgess

9. The Challenges of Strategic HRM Programs in Thai Higher Education
Sector
Kunsiree Kowsuvon, John Burgess

10. An Analysis
of Social Capital
and Women’s Capacity Building
in Myanmar
Kathy Shein, Julia Connell

11. Agility in Competency Building—A Pedagogical Approach with a Case Illustration from the Indian IT Industry
Jose Kumar Reddypogu, Ravi Shankar Pillutla, M. G. P. L. Narayana

Part III. Flexibility and Internationalization

12. Rethinking Business Models
for Flexible Configuration
: Lessons from Disruptive
Innovations
at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Samir Ranjan Chatterjee

13.
Strategically Flexible Capacity Building
Driving Emerging Markets
Internationalization

Soma Arora, Mahim Sagar

14. Global Competitiveness of Informal Economy Organizations
Sanjay Dhir, Sushil

15. Hierarchy of Continuity and Change Forces of International Technology Strategy
Prakash Kumar Kedia, Sushil

Part IV. Capacity Building—Government and the Broader Economy

16. A Strategic Analysis of Actor Competencies and e-Governance Performance
P. K. Suri

17. Open Innovation: A Flexible Practice for Intellectual Property Management in Pharmaceutical Sector
Vinita Krishna, Sudhir K. Jain

18. Impact of Product Patent Regime on Pharmaceutical Companies in India
Shazli Ahmed Khan, Saboohi Nasim

19. Investment Patterns and Quarterly Trading Flexible Strategies of Indian Mutual Funds Industry
Manoj Kumar Sharma, Deepak Kumar

20. Hierarchical Relationship Models of Strategic Crystal Elements of Telecom Service Business in India: An Empirical Validation
S. B. Khare

Keywords: Business and Management, Organization, IT in Business, Business Strategy/Leadership, Project Management, Innovation/Technology Management