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Effect of Macro-Economic Factors on Demand for Two-Wheelers in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)The traditional approach for forecasting sales demand in the two-wheeler industry in India primarily relies on naïve models with some overlay of judgmental forecasting methods. The empirical data on sales for the last 30 ... -
Effect of organizational risk orientation and change disposition on dynamic capabilities: An emerging markets perspective
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This conceptual paper address an important gap in the dynamic capabilities literature by conceptualizing that organizational risk orientation and organizational change disposition are critical determinant factors that ... -
Effect of organizational risk orientation and change disposition on dynamic capabilities: An emerging markets perspective
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This conceptual paper address an important gap in the dynamic capabilities literature by conceptualizing that organizational risk orientation and organizational change disposition are critical determinant factors that ... -
Effect of Transformational Leader Communication on Affective Commitment to Change
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Extant literature indicates the significance of both organizational level concept like transformational leadership and individual level aspect like employee attitude, for organizational change. This paper presents a model ... -
Effectiveness of Performance Management Systems in the Indian Construction sector
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This exploratory study seeks to specifically understand Performance management systems, their applicability and effectiveness in relation to the Indian construction sector . The sample for the study consisted of 138 employees ... -
Effects of Energy Price Rise on Investment: Firm Level Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Sector
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper analyses the effects of the rising prices of energy products on the investment of a large panel of manufacturing firms in India during 1993- 2013. The prime motivation behind this study is the absence of an ... -
Effects of TQM on Perceptual HRM
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper examines the effects of TQM practices practiced by software organizations on perceptual HRM within India. The study sample consisted of 324 employees, resulting in a response rate of 81 percent. A questionnaire ... -
Efficiency and Performance of Manufacturing Sector in India: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)To compete in this globalized world, productivity of manufacturing sector is crucial factor. The significance of productivity in increasing national welfare is now universally recognized. In every county, industry or ... -
The Emergence of an Organizational Field: The Case of Open Source Software
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The institutional theory perspective has been used to study organizations and organizational fields. In this paper, we use the perspective to examine the emergence of the organizational field of open source software as ... -
An Empirical Study on Corporate Social Responsibility, Intention to Quit and Job Embeddedness
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Systematic research regarding the effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on organization stakeholder groups, like employees, remains sparse. This paper examines employee’s reaction to CSR programmes at the ... -
An Empirical Test of Efficiency of Exchange-traded Currency Options in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The objective of this paper is to examine efficiency of the exchange-traded currency options market in India. Put-call-futures parity for the USD-INR currency options is studied by analyzing daily closing prices of options ... -
Ensemble Approach for Zoonotic Disease Prediction Using Machine Learning Techniques
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)More than two thirds of emerging infectious diseases in recent decades are zoonotic in origin. Timely prediction of these diseases which migrate from animals to humans and preventive measures to stop the loss in terms of ... -
Enterprising Behavior in an Integral Competence Framework
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)We present insights from literature on enterprising behavior and competence followed by an application of the competence perspective. Data collection is based on the Critical Incident Technique among 205 entrepreneurs. The ... -
Estimating Export Demand: An Empirical Analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Export of a country plays major role since it affects many economic indicators/parameters/variables like current account deficit, foreign exchange reserves etc. Generally all the economies try to boost up the export sector ... -
Ethnography in marketing: Acceptance and relevance
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)In this study, we attempt to explore the acceptance and relevance of ethnography as a research method in marketing. We conduct a semiotics-led textual analysis of 15 leading mainstream academic journals in marketing for ... -
Evaluation of Entrepreneurs on Indian Venture Capital Firms-A Study
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Potential entrepreneurs rely on Venture Capital (VC) as an important source of finance not only for capital infusion but also for their value added services. Therefore, these entrepreneurs are often afraid to voice their ... -
Evidence Based Practice: Proving that what you do makes a Difference in Management of Dental Clinical Practice
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Clinical dentistry is becoming increasingly complex and our patients more knowledgeable. Evidence-based care is now regarded as the ―gold standard‖ in health care delivery worldwide. The basis of evidence based dentistry ... -
Evolution of Network- Formation, Decay and Churning: Evidence from a five year Ph.D. program in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)Network evolution is a topic which has been relatively less explored in the network literature. This study is an attempt to fulfil this gap by trying to understand evolution of networks using the context of a doctoral ... -
Examining the impact of education on Indian farm labour
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Research on understanding the benefits of education in the rural context show positive pecuniary benefits on the farm, and a shift towards non-farm activities. Using the IHDS 2005 data, the years of education was regressed ... -
Examining the relationship between organization structure and innovation: A study of Indian corporations
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This study examined the relationships between innovation in organizations and key organization structure characteristics of vertical and horizontal complexity, formalization, centralization, delegation of authority and ...