Devi Vijay

Devi Vijay

Designation

Professor
Academic Group: Organizational Behavior

Contact

Phone No.: 033-24878300 Extn. 2129
Email ID.: devivijay

Biography

Personal Details:

Devi Vijay's work examines inequality, institutions, and collective action, with a focus on healthcare. A significant strand of her research documents the evolution of the community-based form for palliative care in Kerala, and its translations to other geographies. Devi has co-edited, "Alternative Organisations in India: Undoing Boundaries" (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Organising Resistance and Imagining Alternatives in India (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2022). She has published in journals such as Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization, Journal of Service Research, Gender Work & Organization, Public Management Review, M@n@gement, Marketing Theory, Decision, IIM Bangalore Management Review, and Medical Anthropology. Devi completed her PhD from IIM Bangalore. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellow (December 2016-May 2018) at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. She is a Senior Editor at M@n@gement journal, Associate Editor at Business & Society, Media and Artefacts Review Editor at Organization, and serves on the editorial board of Management Learning. She has co-founded Peer Community in Organization Studies.

Contact Details:

K-408, New Academic Block

Website:

sites.google.com/iimcal.ac.in/devivijay/home

Academics

Academic Background:

Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2016-2017), Columbia University
Fellow, IIM Bangalore (2012) - PhD

Courses Taught:

Post Graduate Programme: Organizational Behaviour 

Post Graduate Programme for VLM: Organizational Structure and Design (Core) 

Doctoral: Social Movements and Organization Studies; Advanced Organisational Behaviour (Classics in Management); Qualitative Research Methods (Module) 

Health Care Executive Management Program: Public Policies in Health Care; Organisational Design & Change

Awards:

2024: Finalist for the 2024 Responsible Research in Management Award by the Fellows of the Academy of Management and the Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) network. 

2023: Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. Aiman Nida, Devi Vijay, Randhir Kumar. Relational Work - Indian Women Domestic Workers Navigating Quotidian Work Challenges. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Division Best Paper Proceedings. 

2022: #ThinkListImpact20 in 2022: Center for Business, Organizations, & Society at University of Bath, UK annual list of 20 academics world-wide working on impact scholarship and responsible business. 

2020: Academy of Management 2020 Awards. Devi Vijay, Philippe Monin, and Mukta Kulkarni. (2020). Strangers at the Bedside: Subaltern Solidarities and New Form Institutionalization. 

- Carolyn Dexter Award, All Academy Award 

- Best International Paper Award, Organization and Management Theory Division 

- Runner up, Best Paper Award, Organization and Management Theory Division 

2020: Academy of Management 2020 Awards. Vivek Nair and Devi Vijay. Façade of Neoliberal Merit 

- Best Doctoral Student Paper Award. Critical Management Studies Division, 

2018, 2017, 2016: Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD) Reviewing Award winner, Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division, Academy of Management

2013: Best Paper Award in General Track at 20th International Conference of the Indian Association for Palliative Care (IAPCCON 2013), Bangalore. 

2011: Recipient of the Pradip N. Khandwalla award at the IMR Doctoral Conference 2011 

2011: Finalist, Carlo Masini Award for outstanding scholarship in the fields of public and non-profit management, Academy of Management Meeting 2011, San Antonio, Texas

Current Projects:

2018-19 UK Global Challenges Research Funding “Assessing Quality and Outcomes in a Community Form of Palliative Care Delivery in Kerala, India“ (Principal investigator - Professor David Clark, University of Glasgow) IIM Calcutta Category I funding "Institutional Change in the Healthcare Field in India"

Past Projects:

Healthcare Inequalities in the Indian Healthcare Field Evolution of the Kerala palliative care sector Translation of the Kerala palliative care model: Examining Sanjeevani palliative care program, Nadia, West Bengal Mritshilpis of Kumortuli: Institutions, Practices, Scripts

Experience

Work Experience:

Nov. 2022: Professor 
Nov 2017-2022: Associate Professor 
2016-2018: Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 
2012- 2017: Assistant Professor, IIM Calcutta

Research

Journal Publications:

Organization Studies

Conferences:

Selected Recent: 

  • Devi Vijay. 2019. Community Palliative Care in Kerala and Nadia District, West Bengal VoIces, Narratives and Experiences. International Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care, February 2019. Conference Proceedings: DOI: 10.4103/0973-1075.256277
  • Vivek Nair and Devi Vijay. "Middle-class Meritocracy and Neoliberal Technologies of the Self at an Indian Business School”. Accepted for Critical Management Studies Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018. 
  • Vivek Nair and Devi Vijay. “Middle-class Meritocracy and Neoliberal Technologies of the Self at an Indian Business School”. CERE 2018, IIM Indore. 
  • Vijay, D., Kulkarni, M., Monin, P. “Construction of a community-based organizational form”. Academy of Management Meeting, Aug-2015, Vancouver 
  • Kulkarni, M., Gopakumar,K., Vijay, D. Institutional Discourses and Ascribed Disability Identities. Academy of Management Meeting, Aug -2015, Vancouver. 
  • Vijay, D. 2015. Lessons from Project Sanjeevani: Translating Kerala’s Community Based Form of Organizing for Palliative care to West Bengal. 22nd International Conference of the Indian Association for Palliative Care, Feb 13-15th, Hyderabad, India. 
  • Vijay, D., & Kulkarni, M. 2013. Distributed agency and Emergence of an Organizational Field. Academy of Management Meeting, 2013. Florida, USA. 
  • Vijay, D. 2013. Collective Action and Institutional Change. 20th International Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPCCON), Bangalore, India

Research Interests:

  • Inequality, Markets, Institutions 
  • Palliative Care, Sociology of Health
  • Alternative Forms of organizing, Collective Action
  • Qualitative Methods

Books/Book Chapters:

  • Vijay, Devi. (2023). Studying Precarious Lives. In Saija Katila, Emma Bell, and Susan Merilainen (Eds.), Handbook of Feminist Methods in Management and Organizations Studies. Edward Elgar. 
  • Vijay, Devi (2022). Vulnerability as Praxis in Studies of Social Suffering. In Emma Bell, Sunita Sengupta (Eds.). Empowering Methodologies in Organisational and Social Research. Routledge India Series. 
  •  Rohit Varman, and Devi Vijay. (forthcoming). “Event, Thanatopolitics, and Consumer Precarity ”. Selected for publication in Russ Belk and Yuko Minowa (Eds.)., “Consumers in Precarious Asia” DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.25447.60323 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339677495_Event_Thanatopolitics_and_Consumer_Precarity 
  • Devi Vijay and Rohit Varman (Eds). (2017). Alternative Organizations in India: Undoing Boundaries. Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/management/management-general-interest/alternative-organisations-india-undoing-boundaries?format=HB#C3XUbKaotkxvMMmf.97 
  • Devi Vijay and Rohit Varman (2017) Undoing Boundaries. In Vijay, D. and Varman, R. (Eds). Alternative Organizations in India: Undoing Boundaries. Cambridge University Press. 
  •  Devi Vijay (2017) Scripting Alternative Images: Institutions, Practices and Scripts of the Mritshilpis of Kumortuli. In Vijay, D. and Varman, R. (Eds). Alternative Organizations in India: Undoing Boundaries. Cambridge University Press.

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