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    • Factors Affecting the Work Attitudes of Indian Reentry Women in the IT Sector 

      Ravindran, Bharathi; Baral, Rupashree (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Women’s increased participation in today’s labor force has not essentially guaranteed a continued presence for working women in the Indian IT sector. Hence, the current study aims at finding the effect of organizational ...

    • "Family Owned Businesses: Issues Relating To Succession Planning" 

      Yadav, Preeti; Singh, Jeet (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      In the lives of family owned businesses, the issues of successors and succession reigns supreme. While more is written about this area of family business than any other, it is often the most neglected area of activity by ...

    • Fastfood work: McJobs in India 

      Bathini, Dharma Raju (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This study explores the nature of fast food work in the Indian context using an qualitative case-study approach. To understand the context, the production and service systems at an India based fast-food chain outlet are ...

    • Field Services efficiency within Telecom Network enabled by Analytics 

      Sanyal, Kaushik; Shingari, Rajan; Sarkar, Saswata (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      As the gamut of activities within the area of Field Services increases, it is increasingly becoming an important aspect of differentiation within Telecom operators and Network Providers. Today organizations have come to ...

    • Financial Inclusion, Gender and Economic Impact on Poor Households 

      Swamy, Vighneswara (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This primary research has examined the question: “In the context of gender dimension what is the evidence of the impact of the financial inclusion programs on poor households represented by women relative to that represented ...

    • Forecasting Daily Transactions Volume for Financial Planning and Budgeting 

      Mathur, Gautam; Goyal, Tarang; Muramalla, Neelima (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Appropriate transactions volume prediction is very crucial for making different Strategic and Tactical decisions at various management levels in any field. This paper analyzes the possible reasons behind daily transaction ...

    • Forecasting Techniques for Air Cargo Forecasting and Air Traffic Forecasting In Changing Economic Environment 

      Pandey, A.S. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Research on forecasting techniques for air cargo forecasting and air traffic forecasting is extensive and includes many studies that have tested alternative methods in order to determine which ones are most effective. In ...

    • Foreign Direct Investment and Infrastructure Development: Evidence from India 

      Kaur, Manpreet; Yadav, Surendra S.; Gautam, Vinayshil (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      The availability of developed infrastructural facilities is a sine-qua-non of progress of the economy. Adequate infrastructure is necessary not only to facilitate domestic investment but also to woo foreign investment. In ...

    • Fraud Analytics Like finding a needle in a haystack 

      Nekkalapu, Kranthi R.; Verma, Anupriya (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      We are drowning in the barrage of data that is being collected world-wide, while starving for knowledge at the same time. Despite the enormous amount of data, particular events of interest are still quite rare. Modeling ...

    • Functional Food Acceptance in India: Socio-Demographic and Lifestyle Determinants 

      Shamal, S.; Mohan, Bijuna C. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Lifestyle changes and poor eating habit augmented the development of diseases like cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obesity and certain type of cancer as never before in the developing countries particularly in ...

    • Green Supply Chain Initiatives in Brand Building –Evidences From Indian Pharmaceutical Industry 

      Trott, Sangeeta (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Purpose: the main purpose of the paper is to examine the role of green supply chain initiatives in brand building with special reference to Indian pharmaceutical industry. Objectives of study :the study is based on two ...

    • Greenfield Airport Development in India: A Case Study of Bangalore International Airport 

      Gupta, Alok; Agrawal, Smita (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Government of India (GOI) is promoting Public Private Partnership (PPP) for development of Airports in India. Successful implementation of PPP depends on the efficient distribution of project risks among stakeholders. ...

    • Health Care for Indian Elderly: Time for a Shift in Policy? 

      Mishra, Anindya J. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      The tremendous growth of the elderly population in India has led to an expansion of demand for health, housing accommodation and pensions for aging populations and is thus of crucial importance for governments, policy ...

    • How can Predictive Analytics help E-Retailers? 

      Kuppili, Abhishek; Dacha, Kalyani (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      The rapid emergence of e-commerce sites has made the web-space an exciting and interactive business platform for producers, marketers and consumers. In their quest for increasing their share of customers’ wallets, online ...

    • How is Whatsapp driving Businesses to Enhance Conversion Rates: An Empirical Approach 

      R, Madhavi; Rao, Aditya B.; R., Srisudhan (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Networking platforms have revolutionized the very concept of messaging services. While WhatsApp’s powerful features – like instant messaging & sharing, automatic contact addition, and WiFi operation – had already popularized ...

    • HR Shared Services: The Big Picture 

      Madhu Bala; Jomon, M.G. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Human Resource Shared Services (HRSS) as a rage has occupied huge space in all types of human resource magazines and conferences. It’s becoming a vogue among organizations in the west and gradually spreading in other parts ...

    • HRM Configurations In Project Based Organizations 

      Mathew, Jossy; Srinivasan, Vasanthi; Gooderham, Paul; Croucher, Richard (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      The dominant conceptualization of SHRM is unitarist and assumes intra organizational homogeneity of practices. It has been argued that HRM implementation is likely to differ in parts of the same organization. We use four ...

    • Identification of Best Practice HRMs in NTPC With the help of Statistical Tools 

      Kishore, E. Nanda (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      The “common Sense of Belief” is that the way people are managed has positive correlation with People performance (Truss, 2001: 1124) and also people can provide a strong source of Competitive advantage to the organisation ...

    • Identification of Critical Risk Factors for Nuclear Power Projects in India using Risk FMEA 

      Dudam, Rohan; Narkhede, Balkrishna; Raut, Rakesh; Ghadage, Yogesh (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Nuclear power is a reliable, do not have carbon emissions and is a most concentrated form of energy. The major drawback is a large amount of nuclear wastes are generated and disposal of these wastes is a major challenge. ...

    • Identifying Determinants Of Intention To Sharing Knowledge Among Sales People 

      Palo, Sasmita; Charles, Linu (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This article examines role of various economic, socio-psychological and organizational factors that influence a salesperson’s intention to share knowledge with others. The Theory of Reasoned Action was used as the theoretical ...