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Biography

Contact Details:

K-105, New Academic Block

Academics

Academic Background:

Ph. D. (Organizational Behaviour and HRM), IIM Bangalore, India

Visiting PhD Student, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada

MBA (PGSEM), IIM Bangalore, India

B. Tech., NIT Nagpur, India

Awards:

Mitacs Globalink Research Award 2023-24 from Mitacs Canada

Wipro Sustainability Fellowship at IIM Bangalore (2022-23 and 2021-22)

Best Paper Award (Organization and Management Theory Track) at the INDAM Conference 2020

Best Developmental Paper Award (Identity Track) at the British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference, 2019

Experience

Work Experience:

2024-present: Assistant Professor, IIM Calcutta

Previous Experience: 

Over 10 years of experience working with an MNC and startups in the technology domain, in roles spanning ERP technical consulting, client engagement, knowledge management, product management, content management, and marketing. 

Exposed to business delivery, business development and business enablement, leading to a multi-faceted understanding of organizations to aid both research and teaching.

Research

Journal Publications:

Jain, A., & Kondayya, A. (2023). Leader development: How “leaders in the making” manage uncertainties. IIMB Management Review, 35(1), 82-89.

Conferences:

•    Jain, A., Kondayya, A. & Sivashankar, A. Temporal and spatial ambidexterity: How uncertainty aids leader development. Paper accepted at the 40th EGOS Colloquium, Milan, Italy. July 4-6, 2024

•    Kondayya, A., Coraiola, D. & Ojha, A. Entrepreneuring as Creative Resistance: Modernizing Ayurveda to Preserve Tradition and Resist Medical Colonization. Paper presented at the Gustavson Research Festival 2024, University of Victoria, Canada, March 8, 2024 

•    Kondayya, A. Towards Medical Pluralism: Boundary Expansion of the Drug Regulatory Category in India. Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, USA, August 4-8, 2023. 

•    Kondayya, A. Regulatory categorization through boundary expansion: The case of the Drugs Act, 1940, India. Paper presented at the 39th EGOS Colloquium, Cagliari, Italy. July 6-8, 2023

•    Kondayya, A. & Ojha, A. The Exercise of Fiat by the State and the Emergence of Values-Based Categories: The Case of Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals in India. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Research Workshop on The Nexus of Business and Government in the Global Economy, ESSEC Business School, Singapore, March 16-17, 2023

•    Kondayya, A. & Ojha, A. Emergence of a Values-Based Category: The Case of Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, USA, August 5-9, 2022. 

•    Kondayya, A. & Mani, D. Category Status Reclamation: How a Marginalized Gender Reclaimed Its Status. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, USA, August 5-9, 2022. 

•    Kondayya, A. & Mani, D. From Criminals to Demigods: Status Recategorization of the Third Gender in India. Paper presented at the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Virtual, August 6-10, 2021    

•    Kondayya, A., Arora, S. & Malhotra, P. ‘Somewhere I Belong’: Alienation and Belonging Among Homosexual Corporate Employees in India. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Virtual, July 29-August 4, 2021. 

•    Kondayya, A. & Mani, D. From criminals to demigods: Status recategorization of the third gender in India. Paper presented at the 37th EGOS Colloquium, Online, July 8-10, 2021.

•    Kondayya, A. A Discursive Model of Institutional Entrepreneurship: The Case of the Kinnar Akhara in India. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Virtual/Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 7-11, 2020. 

•    Kondayya, A. A Multi-Institution Discursive Model of Institutional Entrepreneurship: The Case of the Kinnar Akhara in India. Paper presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (INDAM 2020), IIM Trichy, India, January 2-4, 2020

•    Kondayya, A. & Malhotra, P. Stigmatized Identities And Media In An Atmosphere Of Criminality: A Case Of Homosexual Individuals In India. Paper presented at the British Academy of Management Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, September 3-5, 2019 

•    Kondayya, A. & Ekkirala, S. An Ayurveda-Based Model for Career Planning and Vocational Guidance. Paper presented at the International Conference on The Changing Nature of Careers: Implications for a Sustainable World, XLRI Jamshedpur, India, December 14-15, 2018.
 

Books/Book Chapters:

Kondayya, A., Fohim, E., & Höllerer, M. (Forthcoming). Curating Open Academic Fora: Reimagining Institutional Arrangements for
Scholarly Dialogue and Exchange. In Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies – Why, How, and What. Emerald Publishing Limited.

Kondayya, A., & Ekkirala, S. (2020). An incongruence-driven approach to careers: insights from Ayurveda. In Career Dynamics in a Global World (pp. 13-23). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Articles/Cases:

Dutta, D. & Kondayya, A. (2021). MakeMyTrip and Goibibo Merger: Minimum People Disruption For Maximum Customer Advantage. Case # IMB891. Harvard Business School Publishing.