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Safal Batra is Assistant Professor at the Department of Strategic Management, Indian Institute of Management Kashipur, Kashipur, India. He is a Faculty of strategic management at the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. His research interests surround the cognitive and strategic determinants of firm performance and innovation, especially in the context of small and medium manufacturing enterprises.

Sunil Sharma is based at the Department of Business Policy, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India. He is working as a Faculty Member in the business policy area of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His research seeks to understand firm strategies, capabilities and innovation. He has good exposure to manufacturing processes and systems during his long industry experience of 15 years.

Mukund Dixit is based at the Department of Business Policy, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India. He is a Faculty Member of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad since 1981. His teaching, research and consulting areas are corporate and competitive strategies, innovation and knowledge management. He has been an EEC Visiting Professor in the Euro-India Cooperation Programme at ESSEC, Paris, and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. He has also taught in Multi Media University, Malaysia, and has coordinated management development programmes for top and senior managers in India and abroad.

Neharika Vohra is Professor at the Department of Organizational Behavior, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India. She is a Psychologist who teaches organizational behavior at IIM Ahmedabad as a full time faculty. Her research interests are in the area of cross-cultural behavior, educational administration, governance, leadership, discipline development and gender issues. Her recent papers have appeared in Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Organizational Analysis, etc. She has served as the editor of Vikalpa: A Journal for Decision Makers for four years. She has been on the editorial board of several national and international journals. She has also been the recipient of the best teacher award at the University of Manitoba, Canada, and the Young Psychologist Award at the International Union of Psychologists meeting. She has trained and consulted with many large corporations across the world.