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Business leadership in India: An example from print media (2012)
Journal Article
Prabhakar, G. P. (2012). Business leadership in India: An example from print media. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 25(1),

Historically, India has been the seat of civilization either in the form of Indus Valley Civilization or for setting up of highly advanced educational systems offered by the ancient universities of Nalanda, Patliputra, Takshashila and others. Leaders... Read More about Business leadership in India: An example from print media.

The confluence of leadership and culture in the melting pot of India (2012)
Journal Article
Prabhakar, G. P. (2012). The confluence of leadership and culture in the melting pot of India. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 25(4),

Global warming, climate change, sustainable and renewable sources of energy, bio fuels, bio technology and similar terms have gained unparallel importance across the globe these days. There is an increasing need to engage in undertaking the basic res... Read More about The confluence of leadership and culture in the melting pot of India.

An interview with former CSIR Director General Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (2011)
Journal Article
Prabhakar, G. P. (2011). An interview with former CSIR Director General Raghunath Anant Mashelkar. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 24(5),

For 11 years, Dr. Mashelkar served as the Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which is a premier industrial R&D organization in India. He has been bestowed with Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards by the governme... Read More about An interview with former CSIR Director General Raghunath Anant Mashelkar.

Leading Indian Railways: corporatization initiatives and challenges (2011)
Journal Article
Prabhakar, G. P. (2011). Leading Indian Railways: corporatization initiatives and challenges. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 24(3),

Indian Railways operate around 15,000 trains everyday and carry 18 million passengers everyday which is equivalent to transporting people of 46 countries with minimum population from one place to another. It is a tremendous operation. Indian Railways... Read More about Leading Indian Railways: corporatization initiatives and challenges.

Project managers as senior executives, Volume 2: How the research was conducted: Methodology, detailed findings and analyses (2011)
Book
Debourse, J., Archibald, R. D., Francois, G., Pailot, P., Poroli, C., & Prabhakar, G. P. (2011). Project managers as senior executives, Volume 2: How the research was conducted: Methodology, detailed findings and analyses. USA: Project Management Institute

Can project managers actually become senior executives? If not, what can be done to allow them to climb the ladder? What are the odds? How can a project manager better design his or her career development to take advantage of these opportunities? The... Read More about Project managers as senior executives, Volume 2: How the research was conducted: Methodology, detailed findings and analyses.

Project managers as senior executives, Volume I: Research results, advancement model and action proposals (2011)
Book
Debourse, J., Archibald, R. D., Francois, G., Pailot, P., Poroli, C., & Prabhakar, G. P. (2011). Project managers as senior executives, Volume I: Research results, advancement model and action proposals. USA: Project Management Institute

Can project managers actually become senior executives? If not, what can be done to allow them to climb the ladder? What are the odds? How can a project manager better design his or her career development to take advantage of these opportunities? The... Read More about Project managers as senior executives, Volume I: Research results, advancement model and action proposals.

Economic sustainability challenges facing the poor women of India: Leadership example from a not-for-profit public sector (2011)
Journal Article
Prabhakar, G. P. (2011). Economic sustainability challenges facing the poor women of India: Leadership example from a not-for-profit public sector. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 24(6),

Modern day India is largely portrayed as an economic powerhouse but a vast majority of the billion-plus population is still deprived of the gains of economic prosperity. In view of this National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) was set u... Read More about Economic sustainability challenges facing the poor women of India: Leadership example from a not-for-profit public sector.

When in India do as the...: An insight into an Italian automotive company's experiences in India (2010)
Journal Article
Prabhakar, G. P. (2010). When in India do as the...: An insight into an Italian automotive company's experiences in India. Management Decision, 48(6), 1010-1022. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251741011053514

Purpose: The emergence of India as an economic power over recent years has created a need to understand the way in which business is carried out in that part of the world. It is also important to realize how businesses are founded and structured in I... Read More about When in India do as the...: An insight into an Italian automotive company's experiences in India.

Talking heads: An interview with Ratan Jalan (2010)
Journal Article
Prabhakar, G. P. (2010). Talking heads: An interview with Ratan Jalan. Leadership in Health Services, 23(2),

Profiling an entrepreneurial family in the UK (2010)
Journal Article
White, G., Carter, S., Abd Razak, A., & Prabhakar, G. P. (2010). Profiling an entrepreneurial family in the UK

The purpose of this investigation is to profile a family in the U.K. whose members display entrepreneurial characteristics but are not engaged in a typical family-owned business. Of the 46 family members that are over the age of 18, 27 of them (59%)... Read More about Profiling an entrepreneurial family in the UK.

Project managers as senior executives (2009)
Report
Debourse, J., Archibald, R. D., Francois, G., Pailot, P., Poroli, C., & Prabhakar, G. P. (2009). Project managers as senior executives

Over the past five decades in the evolution of modern project management there has been little research regarding the career paths of persons working in this field: project planning and control specialists, project managers, program managers, and exe... Read More about Project managers as senior executives.

Project managers’ career paths (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Prabhakar, G. P. (2009, August). Project managers’ career paths. Paper presented at 3rd Annual Project Management Symposium, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Several apparent similarities exist between the roles and responsibilities of top level executives of large organizations of various kinds, and those of large, complex program and project managers of various program and project categories. But little... Read More about Project managers’ career paths.

Dr. R. K. Pachauri and his experiments with the energy and resources institute: An interview on Indian research entrepreneurship (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Prabhakar, G. P. (2009, April). Dr. R. K. Pachauri and his experiments with the energy and resources institute: An interview on Indian research entrepreneurship. Paper presented at AUMEC: Ankara University Marketing and Entrepreneurship International Conference., Antalya, Turkey

Global warming, climate change, sustainable and renewable sources of energy, bio fuels, bio technology and similar terms have gained unparallel importance across the globe these days. There is an increasing need to engage in undertaking the basic res... Read More about Dr. R. K. Pachauri and his experiments with the energy and resources institute: An interview on Indian research entrepreneurship.

Multicultural project teams and their management (2009)
Journal Article
Prabhakar, G. P., & Duda, D. (2009). Multicultural project teams and their management

Organisations are becoming more and more diverse due to the increasing globalisation of business operations. Multicultural project teams can potentially assist in better decision making and bring in greater creativity and innovation. Additionally, th... Read More about Multicultural project teams and their management.

Re-discovery of India (2009)
Book Chapter
Prabhakar, G. P. (2009). Re-discovery of India. In I. Bernhard (Ed.), The Geography of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (887-898). Sweden: University West, Sweden

Case study on Haldiram’s: India’s answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Prabhakar, G. P. (2008, March). Case study on Haldiram’s: India’s answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts. Paper presented at Entrepreneurship and Firms in the New Economy, Tunisia

Western companies are opening up their factories and offices in India in an unprecedented manner and thus creating a need to study the organization and management of their Indian counterparts. The emergence of India as an economic power over the rece... Read More about Case study on Haldiram’s: India’s answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts.

The project of life: Generalizing spiritual theory for applied project management research and the interconnections (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Prabhakar, G. P. (2008, March). The project of life: Generalizing spiritual theory for applied project management research and the interconnections. Paper presented at Entrepreneurship and Firms in the New Economy, Tunisia

This is an inter-disciplinary systemic research work. This work is not an inter-religion comparison and attempts to establish a relationship between the disciplines of project management and spirituality. In doing so the literature review was conduct... Read More about The project of life: Generalizing spiritual theory for applied project management research and the interconnections.

Haldiram’s: India’s entrepreneurial answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts (2008)
Journal Article
Prabhakar, G. P. (2008). Haldiram’s: India’s entrepreneurial answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts. International Journal of Business and Management, 3(5), 95-99

Western companies are opening up their factories and offices in India in an unprecedented manner and thus creating a need to study the organization and management of their Indian counterparts. The emergence of India as an economic power over the rec... Read More about Haldiram’s: India’s entrepreneurial answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts.

A post-mortem evaluation of an IT project: a case study of a process enhancement IT-project in a maintenance, repair and overhaul company (2008)
Journal Article
Lehmann, U., & Prabhakar, G. P. (2008). A post-mortem evaluation of an IT project: a case study of a process enhancement IT-project in a maintenance, repair and overhaul company. International Journal of Business and Management, 3(6), 57-70

The present work represents a post mortem evaluation of an SAP-IT project. It focuses on critical success factors (CSF) in order to establish an appropriate guideline for the project evaluation. A review of contemporary project management literatur... Read More about A post-mortem evaluation of an IT project: a case study of a process enhancement IT-project in a maintenance, repair and overhaul company.

Culture and conflict management style of international project managers (2008)
Journal Article
Mohammed, U. K., Prabhakar, G. P., & White, G. (2008). Culture and conflict management style of international project managers. International Journal of Business and Management, 3(5), 3-11

The management of culture has become increasingly important to many organisations and business disciplines, particularly multicultural and international project management. Cultural differences often result in varying degrees of conflict and require... Read More about Culture and conflict management style of international project managers.