Sukanya Panda

@xim.edu.in

Assistant Professor
Xavier Institute of Management (XIM) University Bhubaneswar

Sukanya Panda


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EDUCATION

MBA (HRM), UGC-NET-JRF, Ph.D. (HRM)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

HR Capability, Organizational Capability, Agility, Strategic alignment
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Scopus Publications

629

Scholar Citations

9

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Scopus Publications

  • Loved, but not embraced? Examining the “female financial paradox” in India
    Sukanya Panda, Vijaya Batth, Leesa Mohanty
    International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2026
    Purpose The purpose of the study is to gauge financially independent married women’s participation in their family’s financial decision-making process. Furthermore, this study examines the moderating effect of marriage age (the age at marriage) on the relationship between financial independence and financial decision-making. Design/methodology/approach A simple random sampling technique is used to collect primary responses from married female bank employees working in various public, private, and regional rural banks in India. Data analysis is performed using AMOS, a covariance-based structural equation modeling approach. Findings The two-fold findings include, first, financial independence has a partial positive effect on financial decision-making, and second, women who marry at an early age have lower participation in financial decision-making compared to women who marry later. Originality/value Although this research is developed based on existing literature on financial independence and financial decision-making, this study asserts that it is the first to investigate the connection between them. It elucidates the novelty of this work and its significant contribution to the present behavioral finance literature. Furthermore, marriage age is usually studied as a control variable, whereas this research considers financially independent women’s marriage age as a moderator to investigate its effect on the less-explored linkage between financial independence and financial decision-making in the context of emerging economies such as India.
  • Effects of information technology and knowledge management capabilities on organizational innovation: the mediating role of organizational agility
    Sukanya Panda
    Vine Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems, 2025
    Purpose This study aims to investigate how information technology and knowledge management capabilities (ITCs and KMCs) impact organizational innovation (OI) through organizational agility (OA) (in terms of adaptive and entrepreneurial agilities; AA and EA). Design/methodology/approach Data are collected from IT and bank managers working in Indian banking sector through a matched-pair field survey. The analysis is performed using AMOS-25, a covariance-based structural equation modeling approach. Findings The findings are twofold. First, ITC and KMC are essential to realizing augmented OA (in terms of AA and EA). However, AA (fostering incremental innovation) contributes more than EA (fostering radical innovation) to attain OI. Second, although KMC is not directly impacting OI, its indirect effect via AA is obtained. It indicates that in Indian banking firms, KMC is still in the infancy level and not fully entrenched in corporate strategies; hence, may not necessarily enhance OI. Originality/value Although extant literature focuses on the impact of ITC and KMC (studied in separate research) on agility and performance, it pays very scant attention to the ITC–KMC–OA–OI linkages. There is a lack of research regarding the joint effects of ITC and KMC on OA and OI, specifically, there exists no research highlighting the indirect effect of OA on the ITC–KMC–OI relationships. The two pivotal concepts “the necessity of KM practices fully ingrained in the organizational innovative culture” and “critical focus on incremental innovation more than radical innovation practices,” substantiate the novelty of this research.
  • The role of employee ambidexterity on employee agility: a moderation analysis with employee organizational tenure
    Sukanya Panda
    Evidence Based Hrm, 2025
    PurposeThe purpose of the study is to investigate how employee ambidexterity (studied as passive and active ambidexterity; EPA and EAA) impacts employee agility (in terms of proactivity, resilience and adaptability) along with the moderating influences of employee organizational tenure (EOT).Design/methodology/approachA simple random sampling technique is used to collect primary responses from bank managers working in various public, private and regional rural banks in India. The analysis is performed using AMOS (Version-25), a covariance-based structural equation modeling approach.FindingsThe two-folded findings include first, the EAA–agility relationship is stronger than the EPA–agility linkage. Second, EOT negatively influences the EAA–EPA–agility relationships.Originality/valueAlthough the performance impact of ambidexterity is well documented in the literature there is a dearth of empirical investigation on its agility impact. Since most of the extant researchers have studied ambidexterity and agility from an organizational context, this research highlights the less-studied ambidexterity-agility connection from an employee perspective. Further, EOT is mostly studied as a control variable, while this research investigates as a moderator influencing the ambidexterity–agility linkage in the context of emerging economies such as India.
  • The impact of human IT capability on workforce agility: exploring the significance of environmental factors
    Sukanya Panda
    Cross Cultural and Strategic Management, 2025
    Purpose The purpose of the study is to investigate how human information technology (HIT) capability (in terms of business functions, interpersonal management and technology management capabilities) influences workforce agility (WFA) (termed as workforce proactivity, resilience and adaptability) along with the moderating influences of external environmental factors named environmental diversity (EDiv) and hostility. Design/methodology/approach A simple random sampling technique is used to collect primary responses from information technology (IT) and bank managers working in various public, private and regional rural banking enterprises in India. The analysis is performed using AMOS (Version 25), a covariance-based structural equation modeling approach. Findings The findings are that business functions, interpersonal and technology management skills make the workforce proactive and, to some extent, adaptable, but their adaptability is compromised by excessive resilience when they only focus on developing IT management skills. It is further supported by the moderation analysis with environmental hostility. Additionally, EDiv makes the workforce more agile with augmented HIT capabilities. Originality/value Although the existing literature extensively examines the IT capability-organizational agility relationships, there is very little attention to the human aspects of IT (HIT) and agility (WFA). This kind of research in the context of developing economies such as India is very thin on the ground. Further, a meticulous investigation of how the HIT capability–WFA relationships vary in the presence of external contingent factors offers novel insights into the extant theories.
  • The impact of IT capability on organizational agility and performance: the role of IT spending
    Sukanya Panda
    Information Discovery and Delivery, 2025
    Purpose This study aims to investigate how critical information technology capability (ITC) components such as managerial and technical ITCs (MITC and TITC) impact organizational performance through organizational agility (studied as business process and market responsive agilities; BPA and MRA). Furthermore, the influence of information technology spending (ITS) on the ITC–agility linkage, along with ITC-agility-performance relationship at different levels of ITS are thoroughly examined. Design/methodology/approach Data are collected through a matched-pair field survey taking information technology (IT) and bank managers as target participants. The analysis is performed using AMOS-25, a covariance-based structural equation modeling approach. Findings The findings are three-folded. First, both MITC and TITC positively influence BPA and MRA. Furthermore, MRA and TITC (but not BPA and MITC) establish a positive impact on performance. Second, BPA and MRA significantly mediate TITC–performance relationship, while there exists significant mediation of only BPA (but not of MRA) on MITC-performance. Third, ITS has a significant positive effect on MITC–BPA–MRA relationship. However, it only exhibits a significant positive impact on TITC–MRA and not on TITC–BPA linkage. Originality/value In the era of digital transformation, it is essential to understand how ITCs shape performance outcomes. Furthermore, extant literature reports the empowering impact of ITCs on organizational agility. However, the focus on ITC-driven agility and performance, along with the ITS impacts, is very sparse. Moreover, academic research lacks enough studies on ITS and its effect on ITC-agility linkage and its moderated-mediating effect on ITC–agility–performance relationships. It substantiates the novelty of the research.
  • The burgeoning trajectory of Indian gig workers: Is independence the price for minimum wages and social security?
    Leesa Mohanty, Sukanya Panda, Vijaya Batth, Lalatendu Kesari Jena
    Social Responsibility Journal, 2025
    Purpose This study aims to investigate three questions pertaining to the gig workers belonging to the hospitality industry in India: (1) their perception of labour legislations, (2) their awareness and interest in the industry and (3) the status of social security and pace of the gig platforms in adopting “minimum wages”. Design/methodology/approach A purposive sampling is constructed and applied on the gig workers in the eastern part of the country, involving 107 App workers. This paper has embarked on the Multi-Method-Triangulation Strategy by combining focus group discussions and individual survey interviews (Lambert and Loiselle, 2007) with studying the awareness and understanding of Indian gig workers on recent developments on minimum wage and social security schemes. Findings This research has developed a 5P framework with Pay, Place, Purpose, Procedure and Pride as primary components. While there is a strong need to unlock the existing legislation, it is also essential to create inclusiveness for the workers (Gen X, Y and Z) to mainstream them under the umbrella of legal and social security. Originality/value The qualitative inquiry of the study provides valuable insights into gig workers’ perception of recent changes in Indian labour legislation. The business implications point out that the employer must inculcate clear terms and conditions relating to work done by the gig workers, keeping in mind the 5P-framework and implementing social security provisions.
  • Strategic IT-business alignment capability and organizational performance: roles of organizational agility and environmental factors
    Sukanya Panda
    Journal of Asia Business Studies, 2022
    Purpose This study aims to test a model in which the effect of strategic information technology (IT)-business alignment capability (hereafter referred to as “strategic alignment”) on organizational performance is examined via the mediating role of organizational agility [studied as operational adjustment agility (OAA) and market capitalizing agility (MCA)] along with the moderating influence of environmental uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach The research uses survey data accumulated from 220 managers (IT and bank managers) working in the regional rural banks of Odisha, India. A structural equation modelling approach is used to investigate the strategic alignment-performance relationship. Findings The findings demonstrate the positive effect of strategic alignment on agility (studied as OAA and MCA). This paper finds the positive effects of strategic alignment and both OAA and MCA on organizational performance. The moderation analysis reveals that in an uncertain environment, strategic alignment has more impact on MCA than OAA. However, the test of mediation exhibits OAA as a more significant mediator promoting the strategic alignment-performance linkage, than MCA. This was further validated from the moderated-mediation analysis. Originality/value Although previous research studies (mostly conducted in the context of developed countries) have reported about the positive strategic alignment-agility-performance linkages, yet the literature is silent regarding the influence of external contingent factors on these relationships from a rural banking perspective in a developing country setting (such as India). The research extends the strategic alignment-agility-performance theories and provides empirical support for these unique associations in the context of rural banking in India and thereby, greatly contributes to the existing strategic alignment literature.
  • How information technology capability influences organizational agility: empirical evidences from Indian banking industry
    Sukanya Panda, Santanu Kumar Rath
    Journal of Indian Business Research, 2021
    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight a precise investigation of the relationship between information technology (IT) capability and organizational agility along with the moderating impact of environmental factors on this association. Design/methodology/approach Pre-tested structured questionnaires were administered during a matched-pair field survey to collect primary responses from 300 business and IT personnel working in various public and privately owned banking groups functioning in India. The structural equation modeling approach has been used for data analysis. Findings The two-folded research findings are first, IT capability enables organizational agility (studied as business process and market responsive agility), while IT capability has more effect on market responsive agility. Second, the environmental factors (studied as environmental diversity and hostility) possess a significant effect on the IT-agility relationship and, thereby, suggest that a more diverse and less hostile environment is required for the firms to build up superior IT capability for realizing enhanced agility. Originality/value The authors have studied IT capability as a first-order factor, organizational agility and environmental factors as second-order factors and by meticulously examining their critical dimensions this study greatly contributes to the existing IT-agility literature. The derived inferences provide various implications for the bank and IT managers to emphasize on superior IT capability for generating enhanced organizational agility.
  • Information technology capability, knowledge management capability, and organizational agility: The role of environmental factors
    Sukanya Panda, Santanu Kumar Rath
    Journal of Management and Organization, 2021
    This study precisely investigates the relationship of information technology (IT) and knowledge management (KM) capabilities with organizational agility along with the moderating influence of external environmental actors on this linkage. A matched-pair field survey was conducted and pretested structured questionnaires were administered to accumulate primary responses from 300 business and IT personnel working in various Indian financial groups. The research findings encompass first, IT and KM capabilities are enablers of organizational agility, while KM capability is more effective on agility. Second, a more diverse and less hostile environment is required for IT and KM capabilities to have more positive influence on agility, yet the moderating effects of environmental factors are found to be more on IT–agility linkage than on KM–agility relationship. These inferences provide several implications for the business and IT executives to concentrate on leveraging both IT and KM capabilities for generating augmented organizational agility.
  • Strategic IT-business alignment and organizational agility: from a developing country perspective
    Sukanya Panda, Santanu Kumar Rath
    Journal of Asia Business Studies, 2018
    Purpose This study aims to test a model in which the effect of strategic information technology (IT)-business alignment on organizational agility is examined by the moderating influence of environmental uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach This research utilizes a matched-pair survey data collected from 300 IT and business executives working in various privately owned Indian financial enterprises, and structural equation modeling is used to examine the alignment–agility linkage. Findings The analysis demonstrates the positive effect of alignment on agility (studied as business process and market responsive agilities), and alignment is more effective on business process agility than market responsive agility. However, the moderation analysis reveals that in a highly uncertain environment, alignment has more effect on market responsive agility but not on business process agility. Originality/value Although previous studies (mostly conducted in the context of developed countries) have reported about the positive IT-business alignment and organizational agility linkage, the literature is silent regarding the influence of external contingent factors on this relationship from a developing country perspective. The authors have conceptualized alignment on the basis of strategic alignment maturity model and meticulously examined its relationship with both categories of agility. This research extends the alignment-agility theory and provides empirical support for this unique association from a developing country (i.e. India) perspective, and thereby, greatly contributes to the alignment literature.
  • Modelling the Relationship Between Information Technology Infrastructure and Organizational Agility: A Study in the Context of India
    Sukanya Panda, Santanu Kumar Rath
    Global Business Review, 2018
  • The effect of human IT capability on organizational agility: an empirical analysis
    Sukanya Panda, Santanu Kumar Rath
    Management Research Review, 2017
  • Investigating the structural linkage between IT capability and organizational agility: A study on Indian financial enterprises
    Sukanya Panda, Santanu Kumar Rath
    Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 2016

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The burgeoning trajectory of Indian gig workers: Is independence the price for minimum wages and social security?
    L Mohanty, S Panda, V Batth, LK Jena
    Social Responsibility Journal 22 (3), 664-684 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Loved, but not embraced? Examining the “female financial paradox” in India
    S Panda, V Batth, L Mohanty
    International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 1-19 , 2026
    2026
  • The impact of human IT capability on workforce agility: exploring the significance of environmental factors
    S Panda
    Cross Cultural & Strategic Management 32 (4), 619-643 , 2025
    2025
  • Effects of information technology and knowledge management capabilities on organizational innovation: the mediating role of organizational agility
    S Panda
    VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems 55 (6), 1527-1552 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 20
  • The impact of IT capability on organizational agility and performance: the role of IT spending
    S Panda
    Information Discovery and Delivery , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • The role of employee ambidexterity on employee agility: a moderation analysis with employee organizational tenure
    S Panda
    Evidence-based HRM: A global forum for empirical scholarship 13 (1), 68-84 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 12
  • Strategic IT-business alignment capability and organizational performance: roles of organizational agility and environmental factors
    S Panda
    Journal of Asia Business Studies 16 (1), 25-52 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 81
  • How information technology capability influences organizational agility: empirical evidences from Indian banking industry
    S Panda, SK Rath
    Journal of Indian Business Research 13 (4), 564-585 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 40
  • Information technology capability, knowledge management capability, and organizational agility: The role of environmental factors
    S Panda, SK Rath
    Journal of management & organization 27 (1), 148-174 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 105
  • Growth performance and hemato-biochemical alterations in induced aflatoxicosis in white pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus)
    A Ali, SL Panda, S Pati, S Mishra, GR Mohanty, AP Jena, AP Acharya, ...
    J. Entom Zool. Stud 7, 1291-1295 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 7
  • Strategic IT-business alignment and organizational agility: from a developing country perspective
    S Panda, SK Rath
    Journal of Asia Business Studies 12 (4), 422-440 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 79
  • The effect of human IT capability on organizational agility: an empirical analysis
    S Panda, SK Rath
    Management Research Review 40 (7), 800-820 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 85
  • Effects of organizational capabilities on organizational performance: empirical evidences from Indian banking industry
    S Panda
    2017
    Citations: 6
  • Modelling the Relationship Between Information Technology Infrastructure and Organizational Agility: A Study in the Context of India
    S Panda SKR
    Global Business Review 19 (2), 1-15 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 55
  • Investigating the structural linkage between IT capability and organizational agility: A study on Indian financial enterprises
    S Panda, SK Rath
    Journal of Enterprise Information Management 29 (5), 751-773 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 129
  • Investigating the relationship between IT Capability and Organizational Agility: An Empirical Analysis
    S Panda, SK Rath
    International Conference on Business Management & Information Systems … , 2015
    2015
  • Investigating the relationship between IT capability and organizational performance: an empirical evidence from Indian banking units
    S Panda, SK Rath
    The International Journal of Management Science and Information Technology … , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 7
  • An Empirical Analysis on Impact of Information Technology (IT) Capabilities on Firm Performance
    S Panda, RS Kumar
    Sixth International Conference on Excellence in Research and Education … , 2014
    2014

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Investigating the structural linkage between IT capability and organizational agility: A study on Indian financial enterprises
    S Panda, SK Rath
    Journal of Enterprise Information Management 29 (5), 751-773 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 129
  • Information technology capability, knowledge management capability, and organizational agility: The role of environmental factors
    S Panda, SK Rath
    Journal of management & organization 27 (1), 148-174 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 105
  • The effect of human IT capability on organizational agility: an empirical analysis
    S Panda, SK Rath
    Management Research Review 40 (7), 800-820 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 85
  • Strategic IT-business alignment capability and organizational performance: roles of organizational agility and environmental factors
    S Panda
    Journal of Asia Business Studies 16 (1), 25-52 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 81
  • Strategic IT-business alignment and organizational agility: from a developing country perspective
    S Panda, SK Rath
    Journal of Asia Business Studies 12 (4), 422-440 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 79
  • Modelling the Relationship Between Information Technology Infrastructure and Organizational Agility: A Study in the Context of India
    S Panda SKR
    Global Business Review 19 (2), 1-15 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 55
  • How information technology capability influences organizational agility: empirical evidences from Indian banking industry
    S Panda, SK Rath
    Journal of Indian Business Research 13 (4), 564-585 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 40
  • Effects of information technology and knowledge management capabilities on organizational innovation: the mediating role of organizational agility
    S Panda
    VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems 55 (6), 1527-1552 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 20
  • The role of employee ambidexterity on employee agility: a moderation analysis with employee organizational tenure
    S Panda
    Evidence-based HRM: A global forum for empirical scholarship 13 (1), 68-84 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 12
  • Growth performance and hemato-biochemical alterations in induced aflatoxicosis in white pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus)
    A Ali, SL Panda, S Pati, S Mishra, GR Mohanty, AP Jena, AP Acharya, ...
    J. Entom Zool. Stud 7, 1291-1295 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 7
  • Investigating the relationship between IT capability and organizational performance: an empirical evidence from Indian banking units
    S Panda, SK Rath
    The International Journal of Management Science and Information Technology … , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 7
  • Effects of organizational capabilities on organizational performance: empirical evidences from Indian banking industry
    S Panda
    2017
    Citations: 6
  • The burgeoning trajectory of Indian gig workers: Is independence the price for minimum wages and social security?
    L Mohanty, S Panda, V Batth, LK Jena
    Social Responsibility Journal 22 (3), 664-684 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • The impact of IT capability on organizational agility and performance: the role of IT spending
    S Panda
    Information Discovery and Delivery , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Loved, but not embraced? Examining the “female financial paradox” in India
    S Panda, V Batth, L Mohanty
    International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 1-19 , 2026
    2026
  • The impact of human IT capability on workforce agility: exploring the significance of environmental factors
    S Panda
    Cross Cultural & Strategic Management 32 (4), 619-643 , 2025
    2025
  • Investigating the relationship between IT Capability and Organizational Agility: An Empirical Analysis
    S Panda, SK Rath
    International Conference on Business Management & Information Systems … , 2015
    2015
  • An Empirical Analysis on Impact of Information Technology (IT) Capabilities on Firm Performance
    S Panda, RS Kumar
    Sixth International Conference on Excellence in Research and Education … , 2014
    2014