Prof. Dr. Ernesto Noronha
Ernesto Noronha holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India and is currently Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. He is currently a board member of the RC30 Sociology of Work group at the International Sociological Association (ISA) and the section editor of Labour Relations and Business Ethics at the Journal of Business Ethics. He has been a past board member of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA). Ernesto has been received bi-lateral and multi-lateral grants to study various aspects of employee experiences of work in India’s offshoring and outsourcing sector, focusing on new and unexplored areas such as organizational control, diversity, telework and collectivization, in addition to the VVEF Outstanding Researcher Award 2009 and 2017 at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Ernesto has been a visiting professor at the Industrial and Labour Relations (ILR) School, Cornell University and at the Institute for Sociology, University of Vienna. Ernesto has numerous papers published in reputed peer-reviewed journals on these topics including Journal of Business Ethics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Information and Organization and Journal of Contemporary Asia and has presented invited talks as a visiting scholar at numerous European universities such as Strathclyde, Portsmouth, Bergen and Hamburg, in addition to the keynote address at the 2010 Work, Employment and Society (WES) conference. Ernesto is committed to ensuring the impact of his research work through active engagement with industry, trade unions, employer associations and civil society organizations.
Research interests:
- Labour and globalization
- Global production networks
- Workplace diversity
- Technology and work
- Precarious and informal work and employment
- Workplace bullying
- Visual research methods
Select publications:
D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2025). Agility and the transition from uncertainty to recovery: the Indian IT industry and COVID-19. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, 22(1), 103-117.
Bisht, N. S., Noronha, E., & Tripathy, A. K. (2025). Digital technologies exacerbating mission drift in microfinance institutions: Evidence from India. Information and Organization, 35(1), 100541.
Du, S., Babalola, M., D’Cruz, P., Doci, E., Garcia-Lorenzo, L., Hassan, L., … & van Gils, S. (2024). The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-16.
D’Cruz, P., and Noronha, E. (2023). India’s platform economy: A site for the commodification-decommodification dynamic. In I. Ness (Ed.), Platform labour and global logistics: A research companion. Routledge
D’Cruz, P., Du, S., Noronha, E., Parboteeah, K. P., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., & Whelan, G. (2022). Technology, megatrends and work: Thoughts on the future of business ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-24.
Noronha, E., & D’Cruz, P. (2022). Social upgrading, a mixed bag: The Indian IT/ITES sector. In Economic and social upgrading in global value chains: Comparative analyses, macroeconomic effects, the role of institutions and strategies for the Global South (pp. 173-195). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Ahmad, S., Islam, T., D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2022). Caring for those in your charge: the role of servant leadership and compassion in managing bullying in the workplace. International Journal of Conflict Management, DOI 10.1108/IJCMA-05-2022-0098.
Noronha, E., & D’Cruz, P. (2021). Key challenges for management policies and practices: The Indian experience. In N. Rogovsky and F. L. Cooke (Eds), Towards a human-centred agenda: Human resource management in the BRICS countries in the face of global challenges (pp. 81-105). Geneva: ILO.
Noronha, E., & D’Cruz, P. (2021). Employment relations in India. In G. Bamber et al (Eds), International and comparative employment relations: Global crises and institutional responses (pp. 315-338). London:SAGE.
D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2021). Workplace Bullying in the Context of Robotization: Contemplating the Future of the Field. In P. D’Cruz et al, (Eds). Concepts, Approaches and Methods, Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment, pp. 293-321. Springer.
D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2021). Mapping ‘varieties of bullying’ The scope of the field. In P. D’Cruz et al, (Eds). Concepts, Approaches and Methods, Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment. Springer.
Noronha, E., D’Cruz, P., & Banday, M. U. L. (2020). Navigating embeddedness: experiences of Indian it suppliers and employees in the Netherlands. Journal of Business Ethics, 164(1), 95-113.
Noronha, E., Chakraborty, S., & D’Cruz, P. (2020). ‘Doing dignity work’: Indian security guards’ interface with precariousness. Journal of Business Ethics, 162(3), 553-575.
Noronha, E., & D’Cruz, P. (2020). The Indian IT industry: A global production network perspective (No. 134/2020). Working paper.
Noronha, E., and D’Cruz, P. (2019). Organization advantage: Experience of telework in India. In J. Messenger (Ed.) Telework in the 21st century. Edward Elgar.
D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2018). Target experiences of workplace bullying on online labour markets: Uncovering the nuances of resilience. Employee Relations, 40(1), 139-154.
D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2018). Abuse on online labour markets: targets’ coping, power and control. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 13(1), 53-78.
Kuruvilla, S., & Noronha, E. (2016). From pyramids to diamonds: legal process offshoring, employment systems, and labor markets for lawyers in the United States and India. ILR Review, 69(2), 354-377.