Browsing by Author "Gupta, Parvinder"

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    • Ashok Desai Subscribes to Bharat Today 

      Gupta, Parvinder; Gupta, Nirmal K. (2010-08-19)

    • Ashok Desai Subscribes to News Today (A) 

      Gupta, Nirmal K.; Gupta, Parvinder (2010-08-18)
      The case describes Mr Ashok Desai's experience and the problems he faced as a subscriber to News Today, a weekly news magazine.

    • Ashok Desai Subscribes to News Today (B) 

      Gupta, Nirmal K.; Gupta, Parvinder (2010-08-18)
      This case adds to the data presented in "Ashok Desai Subscribes to News Today (A)" (MAR0329) case. Students should have read the previous case "Ashok Desai Subscribes to News Today (A)” (MAR0329)case.

    • Ashok Desai Subscribes to News Today (C) 

      Gupta, Nirmal K.; Gupta, Parvinder (2010-08-26)
      The case describes experience of Mr. Ashok Desai as a Subscriber of News Today. This case adds to the data presented in “Ashok Desai Subscribes to News Today (MAR0329(A))” and “Ashok Desai Subscribes to News Today (MAR0329(B))” ...

    • Asoka Spintex 

      Gupta, Parvinder (2010-08-16)
      Asoka Spintex, formerly known as Asoka Mill Ltd., was set up in 1920, not doing well. Most of textile mills in the country were not doing well in the 1980s owing to rising costs, competition from powerlooms, and heavy ...

    • Asoka spintex 

      Gupta, Parvinder (1999-10-14)
      The case featured in this issue discusses the turnaround of Asoka Spintex from an ailing company in 1987 to a growing company in the year 1997. What strategies should Anang Lalbhai adopt for the long-term survival of ...

    • Asoka Spintex (Teaching Note) 

      Gupta, Parvinder (2010-08-16)

    • Beauty service work as dirty work: Understanding employees' lived experiences 

      Mendonca, Avina Jenifa (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
      Beauty service work, an emergent industry in the contemporary business context, has earlier been studied as bodywork and interactive service work. The present study explores the subjective experiences of beauty service ...

    • Canto Systems Limited 

      Gupta, Parvinder (2010-08-26)
      Canto Systems Limited (CSL), a Canto Group company was a leading international Information Technology organization headquartered in Mumbai. It had four operating divisions and five non-operating or support divisions. ...

    • "Close - Encounters of Diffrent Kind (A). 

      Gupta, Nirmal K.; Gupta, Parvinder (2012-09-12)

    • Comfort in Steam 

      Gupta, Parvinder; Gupta, Nirmal K. (2010-08-17)
      The case describes the experience of a customer who visited Shop India, one of the largest and most popular consumer goods stores in Ahmedabad, to purchase an iron. After reaching home, he noticed that the maximum retail ...

    • Concept of success among executives 

      Gupta, Parvinder (1999-10-12)
      This paper analyses the concept of success by exploring the views executives hold about their success. The concept is given the name "idealized success" to reflect the subjective or personalized definition of success, ...

    • Dhruva advisors: culture as northstar of growth 

      Sharma, Sunil; Gupta, Parvinder (2019-11-21)
      The case describes the first four years of Dhruva, a tax advisory firm set up by Dinesh Kanabar, ex-Deputy CEO of KPMG. Dinesh and other founding partners had worked with the Big-4 firms and were familiar with some of the ...

    • Dhruva advisors: culture as northStar of growth: a teaching note 

      Sharma, Sunil; Gupta, Parvinder (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-11-21)

    • An Evening in Habibabad 

      Gupta, Nirmal; Gupta, Parvinder (2010-08-27)
      A group of colleagues went out for dinner at a restaurant, which was part of one of the top hotel chains. They were disappointed with their entire experience at this restaurant. The case provides details about the incident ...

    • An exploration of the Indian mindset 

      Sinha, Jai B. P.; Singh, Shailendra; Gupta, Parvinder; Srivastava, Kailash B. L.; Sinha, R. B. N.; Srivastava, Sanjay; Ghosh, Anjali; Siddiqui, Roomana N.; Tripathi, Nachiketa; Gupta, Meenakshi; Mulla, Zubin; Vijayalakshmi, C.; Pandey, Ashish; Srivastava, Sweta (2011-05-04)
      Eight hundred and twenty-nine adults, drawn from 12 locations in all four parts of India, participated in a study that explored the joint effects of Indians’ discrepant mindset, context sensitivity, and quality of environment ...

    • Facets of societal and organizational cultures and managers work related thoughts and feelings 

      Sinha, J. B. P.; Sinha, R. B. N.; Bhupatkar, A. P.; Sukumaran, Anand; Gupta, Parvinder; Gupta, Rajen; Panda, Abinash; Singh, Shailendra; Singh- Sengupta, Sunita; ; Srinivas, E. S. (2004-10-22)
      lthough cirlture consists of the totality of assumptions, beliefs, values, behaviour, and their artifacts, values are considered to be the core of a culture (Hofstede, 1980; Kluckhohn & Strodtebeck, 1961; Leung et al., ...

    • Functions of some of the management institutions: an exploration 

      Venkatachalam, P. K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998)
      During the last decade, MBA (or its equivalent) has become one of the most popular degrees/diplomas among students. More and more students are opting for courses in management. Consequently, the number of institutions ...

    • Governing subjectivities: investigating employment relations in the Indian information technology (IT) sector 

      Banday, Muneeb Ul Lateef (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)
      The objective of this thesis is to study employment relations in the Indian IT industry. Drawing from Foucauldian scholarship on governmentality in organizational studies, employment relations are understood as practices ...

    • Headset Headache (A) 

      Gupta, Nirmal; Gupta, Parvinder (2010-09-07)
      A customer was highly disappointed because of non-receipt of the gift that was promised with his five-year subscription to a business magazine. The case describes the chain of events that started with the subscription. In ...