Antecedents of strategic thinking and its impact on competitive advantage

Shubham Dixit is currently working as an Account Manager in Rockwell Automation India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India. He completed his MBA (Sales and Marketing) from the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India. Before joining MBA, he has worked for three years in one of the largest automobile manufacturers in India. He completed his undergraduate degree in B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.

Shiwangi Singh is a Research Scholar in Strategic Management Area at the Department of Management Studies (DMS), IIT Delhi. She is gold medallist during her studies in graduation and post-graduation. Her area of research is the strategic management, innovation, implementation of innovation, and start-ups. She has published several research papers in leading international journals including International Business Review, Asia-Pacific Business Review, Service Industries Journal, and Technology Forecasting and Social Change.

Sanjay Dhir is an Associate professor in Strategic Management Area at Department of Management Studies (DMS), IIT Delhi. He is a Fellow (Ph.D.) from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow. He worked at corporate sector’ Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (Automotive), R&D Department, Nasik – for three and a half years. He is also a core committee member of Government of India’s project – ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan’. He has published several research papers in leading international journals including case studies at Richard Ivey School of Business, Western Ontario jointly distributed by Ivey and Harvard Business School, Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and International Business Review. His research papers were presented and published as conference proceedings at several prestigious academic conferences such as Academy of Management (AoM), Academy of International Business (AIB), Strategic Management Society (SMS), Southern Management Association (SMA), International Simulation Conference of India (ISCI, IIT Mumbai) and Strategic Management Forum (SMF, IIM Lucknow). His research interests include strategic management, joint ventures, innovation management, management of change, implementation strategies, and international strategy.

Swati Dhir is a Fellow of Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and completed the FPM in OB/HRM area in 2014. She is currently working as Associate Professor in OB/HRM area at International Institute of Management New Delhi. She is a B.Tech in Textile Technology from UPTTI Kanpur Uttar Pradesh. She has published her research work in many National and International Journals (Scopus and ABDC indexed) and attended various international conferences. She has also written a textbook on HR Analytics: Theory and Application Techniques for post-graduate students. She is a certified DiSC trainer created by John Wiley and Sons Inc.