Senthil Kumar Muthusamy

Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing

Associate Professor of Management

Eisenberg Building 105 A

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

United States

http://www.schooloffishstrategy@gmail.com

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Ideas:
“  “The real world does not understand the language of rationality and optimality that scientists would like to talk, nor it follows the music of efficiency and dynamic equilibrium as economists would like to play, rather spontaneously dances to the tunes of fear, hunger, dignity, trust, or liberty". "Metaphorically speaking, there is a sprinting competition between Elephants, Camels, Horses, and Rabbits on the same track. We know that, for sure, the camels and elephants can't beat the horses and rabbits in speed or timing. And the horses cannot beat the rabbits either. Alas, the pace of value-creation can never match the velocity of a gambler's wager". My research interests include the following - the convergence of technologies, VUCA and firm profitability, relational processes such as trust  ”

Scholarly Papers (32)

1.

Applying the Toyota Production System to a Healthcare Organization: A Case Study on a Rural Community Healthcare Provider

Quality Management Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2007
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2022
Kevin F. Collins and Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Indiana University Bloomington and Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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healthcare, patient safety, quality, Toyota Production System

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Self-Managing Work Teams: Enhancing Organizational Innovativeness

Organization Development Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 53-66, 2005
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2015
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy, Jane V. Wheeler and Bret L. Simmons
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing, Bowling Green State University - College of Business Administration and North Dakota State University - Department of Management, Marketing & Finance
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Self-managed teams, innovative behaviors, cognition, commitment

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Minding the Cognition: Toward a Strategic Knowledge Management for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Change, Vol. 17, pp. 145-153, 2008
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 02 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2014
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Organizational cognition, organizational learning, knowledge management, competitive advantage

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The Cross-Functional Coordination between Operations, Marketing, Purchasing and Engineering and the Impact on Performance

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 55-77, 2008
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 01 Jun 2008
Amelia Carr and Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Bowling Green State University and Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Self-managed teams, innovative behaviors, cognition, commitment

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Leveraging Cognition for Competitive Advantage: A Knowledge-Based Strategy Process

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 259-272, 2004
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2013
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy and Ramaraj Palanisamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing and St. Francis Xavier University - Department of Information Systems
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Knowledge Management, Strategy Formulation, Competitive Advantage, Cognitive Leverage

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Architecture of Innovation and Change: An Integrated Model

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 26 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2020
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Innovation Strategy, Organizational Culture, Cognition & Knowledge, and Structure

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Strategic Repositioning of the Service Supply Chain

Organization Development Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring 2012
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2014
Amelia Carr, Senthil Kumar Muthusamy and Charles Owens
Bowling Green State University, Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing and State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook
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organizational change, case study, Blockbuster, strategic repositioning, supply chain management, networks and alliances

8.

Toward a Strategic Role for Employees in Corporate Governance

Strategic Change Journal, Vol. 20 (3-4): 127-138.
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2022
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy, Pawel A. Bobinski and David Jawahar
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing, Independent and Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM)
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Codetermination, Agency theory, Agency cost, Corporate governance, Intellectual capital, Human capital, Performance

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Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Strategic Alliances: A Social Exchange View

Organization Studies, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 415-441, 2005
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2014
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy and Margaret White
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing and Oklahoma State University - Tulsa
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Strategic alliances, interfirm learning, social exchange theory, trust, emprical studies

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Market Efficiency or Lack Thereof: A Critique and Rethinking on Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2022
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy and Ramadevi Kannan
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing and Owens Community College
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stock market, corporate governance, trust, efficiency, regional stock exchanges

11.

Does Power Sharing Matter? The Role of Power and Influence in Alliance Performance

Journal of Business Research, Vol. 59, No. 7, pp. 811-819, 2006
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2014
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy and Margaret White
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing and Oklahoma State University - Tulsa
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Alliance, social exchange, power, performance

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Shoaling (School of Fish) as Competitive Strategy

Strategic Change 24: 499–507 (2015)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 19 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2022
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Shoaling (School of Fish), Competitive Strategy, disaggregation, dispersion, scale reduction, scale economy, knowledge economy, transaction cost, bureaucratic cost, manufacturing technologies

13.

Power of Positive Words

Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 32 No. 1, pp. 103-122. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-05-2018-0140
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2020
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Positive Words, Cognition, creativity, innovation, Organizational Change

14.

Role of Context and Contest in the Structuring of Alliance Governance

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2014
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Alliance, power, international, governance structure, equity/non-equity

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When ‘Trust’ Becomes More or Less Salient for Alliance Performance?

Muthusamy, S. K., & Dass, P. (2021). When “trust” becomes more or less salient for alliance performance? Contextual effects of mutual influence, international scope, and coopetition. Journal of General Management, 46(2), 144–155. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306307020942461
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2021
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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alliance performance and stability, social exchange theory, trust and relative power

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Trustworthiness: A Dialectical Perspective

Senthil Kumar, Trustworthiness: a dialectical perspective, Trusts & Trustees, Volume 26, Issue 8-9, November 2020, Pages 783–789, https://doi.org/10.1093/tandt/ttaa086
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 11 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2022
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Trustworthiness; Societal Trust; Organizational Trust; Trust; Dialectical Perspective;

17.

Confounding Effects of Market Inefficiency: A Crisis in the National Economy

https://eami.upscholar.com/2022/modules/request.php?module=oc_proceedings&action=summary.php&id=53&a=Accept EAMI 2022 Proceedings | ISBN: 978-1-7342680-2-7 » Confounding Effects of Market Inefficiency: A Crisis in the Financial Markets and National Economy
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2022
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Investment Short-Termism; Market Inefficiency; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Market Volatility; Investment Risk; Firm Performance;

18.

Theory and Practice of Smarter Enterprise (Shoaling or School of Fish)

Competitiveness Review, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2014
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2022
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy and Parshotam Dass
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing and University of Manitoba - Asper School of Business
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Knowledge economy, Transaction cost, Bureaucratic cost, Disaggregation/dispersion, Network firm, Shoaling strategy

19.

GDP: A Misnomer? And Misinterpretations in the Context of India’s Economy

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 06 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2022
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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GDP, Prices, Quantity, Quality, Volume of Transactions, Economic Growth, Economic Development

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An Empirical Examination of the Role of Social Exchanges in Alliance Performance

Journal of Managerial Issues, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 53-75, Spring 2007
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2013
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy, Margaret White and Amelia Carr
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing, Oklahoma State University - Tulsa and Bowling Green State University
Downloads 311 (200,693)
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Alliance performance, stability, social exchanges, power sharing, trust

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Does Profitability Really Matter? Marginality, Volatility & $ Trillion Question

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 18 Mar 2020
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Profitability, Firm Performance, Volatility

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Designing a Dis-Entropic Organization

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 01 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2020
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Disentropy, innovation, compexity, kaleidoscopic organization

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Leveraging Knowledge in Buyer-Supplier Alliances: A Theoretical Integration

Int. J. Management and Decision Making, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Mar 2011
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy, Daesik Hur and Ramaraj Palanisamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing, Yonsei University School of Business and St. Francis Xavier University - Department of Information Systems
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buyer-supplier alliances, learning, knowledge transfer, social exchanges

24.

Farming and Agriculture Industry Woes: Keep the Farmers Happy, A Global Appeal

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 14 Dec 2022
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Farming, Agriculture, Decline, Bankruptcies, Subsidies, Commodifies Prices, Sustainability

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Reforming Stock Markets & Firm Governance and Argument for Mini Regional Stock Exchanges (Toward Disaggregation of Economy)

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2020
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Market efficiency, Reforming Stock market, Mini Stock exchanges, Dividends vs stock splits

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Shifting Sands Whilst Sifting for Profits: Evolving Patterns of Firm Size and Performance of U.S. Public Firms

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2022
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Firm Performance, Knowledge Economy, Scale Economy, Firm Size, Profitability, Inefficiency

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Business Growth: Economic Contexts and Contests

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Oct 2022
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Business and Industry growth, Economic Contexts, Contesting Theories, GDP, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Keynes.

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What If Larger Public Firms are Sliced into Smaller Ones

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 02 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2020
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Dispersion, Disaggregation, Scale, Scope of the firm

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Argument for Mini Regional Stock Exchanges: Toward Disaggregation of Economy

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 08 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2022
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Mini-stock exchange, regional exchange, listing of local, regional and small firms, information asymmetry, risk, returns, distribution of gains

30.

Toyota Production System for Healthcare Organisations: Prospects and Implementation Challenges

Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 2015
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 25 May 2014 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2022
Kevin F. Collins and Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Indiana University Bloomington and Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
Downloads 186 (332,511)
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healthcare; patient safety; Toyota production system; total quality management; knowledge management

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VUCA and Profts Crisis: Evolving Patterns of Frm Size and Performance in Traditional U.S. Industries

J. Ind. Bus. Econ. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40812-023-00268-y
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 May 2023 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2024
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy and Ramadevi Kannan
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing and Owens Community College
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Economic Growth, Inefficient Markets, and Economic Inequality

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 May 2023
Senthil Kumar Muthusamy
Slippery Rock University - Department of Management and Marketing
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Economic Growth vs Contraction; Market Inefficiency; Economic Inequality; Government Spending; Income Distribution