Soumya G. Rajan

Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

At the heart of my research is a belief in dignified workspaces and an exploration of its influence on humans who associate with them. With over 10 years of experience in Corporate and 6 years with Academic institutions, I continue to pursue my love for theory and praxis.

A word of gratitude to the almighty, my gurus and ancestors for lighting my path.

Assistant Manager, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), Mumbai

Assistant Manager, The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd (SCI), Mumbai

Team Manager, L&T Financial Services, Mumbai

Assistant Registrar, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Palakkad

Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai

Journal Articles

• ›‘Propounding an integrated solution ecosystem to effectuate CSR in India: an alternate framework’. Social Responsibility Journal, 20(5): 861-879. https://doi.org/10.1108/SRJ-12-2022-0529 (Q1 in Scopus, B in ABDC)
• ›‘A space for dignity: the vantage of capability approach’. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 59(2):202-216, October 2023. (C in ABDC)
• ›‘Searching for answers on dignity, knowledge and engagement in a Worker Cooperative Society’, IIMB Management Review, Elsevier DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iimb.2021.03.008 (Q2 in Scopus, B in ABDC)
• ›‘Inversion of Control in Employee–Employer Relation: Multiple Case Study of Generational Cohorts from State Government Sector’, NHRD Network journal 2022, Sage Pub, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/26314541221077145

Book Chapter

• ›Dutta, S., Pramanik, H.S., Rajan, S.G., Rajan, R.G., Satapathy, S. (2024). Proliferations in Algorithmic Control: Review of the Phenomenon and Its Implications. (Published) In: Sharma, S.K., Dwivedi, Y.K., Metri, B., Lal, B., Elbanna, A. (eds) Transfer, Diffusion and Adoption of Next-Generation Digital Technologies. TDIT 2023. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 697. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50188-3_5

Teaching Case

• ›‘V-Guard: The Human-first Approach to Building Responsible Business” with IIM Kozhikode – https://iimk.ac.in/uploads/publications/IIMKCS237OBHR202402.pdf

Conferences

• ›‘“But we can’t find them…” Investigating impediments in the sourcing of persons with disabilities (PwD) in the Indian disability inclusion intention’ presented for the 41st EGOS Colloquium 2025, Athens (Greece)
• ›‘Dual pathways of algorithmic influence: Empowerment and precarity in gig economy’ accepted for the 40th EGOS Colloquium, 2024, Milan (Italy)
• ›‘Capability approach for Dynamic capability building: an exploration of their complementarities in nurturing dignity’ presented at INDAM Conference in January 2024.
• ›‘Proliferations in Algorithmic Control: Contextual Review of the Phenomenon and its Implications’ presented at the IIM Nagpur’s IFIP WG8.6 Working Conference in December 2023.
• ›‘Narratives on Experiences with Future of Work: The Case of an Indian Food Delivery Start-up’ presented at SCMHRD – EM Normandie Business School’s S-TEAM Conference, September 2023.
• ›‘Propounding an integrated solution ecosystem to effectuate CSR in India: an alternate framework’, presented at the 38th EGOS Colloquium 2022, Vienna (Austria).
• ›An emergent framework to analyse perception through the lens of knowledge: Observations from a rural social development interventions on Digital Financial Inclusion’ presented at INDAM Conference, IIM Trichy 2020
• ›‘Understanding dignity at the face of changing world of work’ presented at British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference, Birmingham, UK 2019
• ›‘Positing new elements in organisational analysis: the case of engagement’ presented at CERE Conference, IIM Indore, 2019
• ›‘Searching for answers on dignity, knowledge and engagement in a Worker Cooperative Society’ presented at IMRDC, IIM Bangalore, 2018
• ›‘Drawing parallels between knowledge culture and identity: Questions on Decision making and Bounded Rationality’ presented at Max Planck Institute’s Winter School on Bounded Rationality, 2018
• ›‘Dignity at a worker cooperative society through the lens of capability approach’ presented at International Conference on Cooperatives, IIM Kozhikode, 2018
• ›‘CSR implementation: Models in community engagement’ presented at National Conference on CSR, XIMB, 2012