Research Insight: on Project Manager and Conflict Resolution

Usually in project teams, team cohesion leads to team communication. Team communication leads to different types of conflicts such as Task Conflict, Relationship Conflict, and Process Conflict. Usually, Task conflict is good for project performance; relationship conflict hampers project performance; […]

Experiential Insight: on Reviewing Management Leaning Aids

Dr.Goparaju Purna Sudhakar (http://www.gpsudhakar.com) In Management education, Training, and Executive Development learning aids such as Conceptual Papers/Review Papers, Empirical Papers, Case Studies, Books and Videos play major role in imparting learning. Usually both management researchers/professors and practitioners at some point […]

Research Insight: Top-5 Factors Contributing to Indian States GDP ——- Dr. Goparaju Purna Sudhakar

Macro-economic factors such as Literacy Rate, Population, Poverty Rate, Unemployment Rate, Capital Invested, Length of State Highways, etc impact any country’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product). When I was going through data.gov.in portal variables such as Literacy Rate and State GDP […]

Experiential Insight: on Online Teaching

The pandemic and the lockdowns have given new dimensions to teaching profession across the world. The advent of technology made possible the scenario of teacher sitting remotely and students distributed across geographic locations; sometimes even across the world. The online […]

Research Insight: A Failed Research on Entrepreneurial Intention

This time I thought, I should share some of my lessons learned from one of my recent research survey (2020) on Entrepreneurial Intention of Undergraduate Business Administration Students; Lessons learned are interesting; It explains the care we need to take […]

Research Insight: Critical Success Factors for Offshore Software Development Projects –— Dr.Goparaju Purna Sudhakar

I did a research study on Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for offshore software development projects based on literature review, secondary research and reference count techniques of various factors. The collected literature is from scholarly journals/conferences such as Project Management Journal, […]

Research Insight: Critical Failure Factors (CFFs) of IT Projects — Dr.Goparaju Purna Sudhakar

“Our problem is that commonsense is often ignored in systems projects”  —— Dorsey (2000) No IT Project fails for a single reason. The reasons for project failure can be numerous. One of the characteristics of unsuccessful projects: “Unsuccessful projects bad […]

Research Insight: The Role of Conflicts in Top Management Teams – Dr.G.P.Sudhakar

According to a research done by Accenture, 43% of the Top Management Team (TMT) members participated in the survey said that they have given preference to individual and business unit goals than to organizational goals. Top management teams (TMT) come [...]