Search results for “firm survival”

Who inherits the shop? Succession, daughters and firm survival in 1,100 informal Indian family businesses

Dr. Ananya Deshpande, Prof. Rajesh Iyer

Lighthouse Journal of Management & Organisation·2026·Business & Management·47 citations

Family firm succession research is built almost entirely on registered, formal firms with documented ownership. We study succession in the informal sector, where ownership is undocumented and the transfer is social rather than legal. Follow…

https://doi.org/10.53456/ljmo.2026.11.4.512

The Informal Firm

Prof. Rajesh Iyer

Lighthouse Studies in Management·2026·Business & Management

Nine in ten firms in India are informal, and management research has almost nothing to say about them because they do not appear in the registries it samples from. Iyer draws on fifteen years of field enumeration across four cities to descr…

https://doi.org/10.53456/book.2026.informal-fir

The people behind the label: working conditions in India's data annotation industry

Prof. Daniel Okonkwo, Aisha Khan, Dr. Hannah Weiss

Journal of AI Ethics & Society·2025·Computer Science·52 citations

…rviews with annotators and eleven with managers across nine firms in Bengaluru, Kochi and Bhubaneswar, we document a labour process organised around quota, surveillance and a quality regime that transfers the cost of ambiguous data to the w…

https://doi.org/10.53456/jaies.2025.7.4.401

Lighthouse Journal of Management & Organisation

Prof. Rajesh Iyer, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Quarterly · ISSN 2456-8155·2015·Business & Management

…tegy, operations, organisational behaviour and the informal firm.