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Knowledge Integration As A Driver Of Growth: The Case Of Indian IT Firms
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper argues that knowledge integration processes are critical in explaining firm performance and growth. We propose a framework in which efficiency, scope and flexibility of knowledge integration is promoted by a ... -
Knowledge Management Practices and Competitive Advantage: The Mediating Role of Innovation Capacity
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This study has investigated the impact of knowledge management on competitive advantage through innovation capacity (mediator) of an organization. The research sample comprised employees (N=331) of private telecommunication ... -
Labor Market outcome for Vocational Training in India- Does Safety net Theory holds true
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This work is an attempt to explore and examine why people join Vocational Education and Training (VET) by looking at the labour market outcome for VET trained people. Emerging literature on the performance of VET in European ... -
Leadership activities and their impact on creating knowledge in organizations
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Leaders play a central role in the process of knowledge creation. While researchers have emphasized a strong link between leadership styles and knowledge creation, the role of leadership in knowledge creation activities ... -
Life and Death of International Joint Ventures (IJVs): A Review of Literature and Theories
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper reviews scholarly work on International Joint Ventures (IJVs) as appeared in peer-reviewed journals. It attempts to identify how the research in this field has evolved and developed into sub-fields, which topics ... -
Location Analytics – Store Location Analysis
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Retail chains compete against each other in terms of reaching the customer. While companies often try to attract customers by targeting them with the right set of offers and promotions, it is imperative that they are located ... -
Making a Product Development Team Flexible: The Role of Strictness of Review Process
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)During the course of Product Development (PD), a product is continuously evaluated at each stage. The review process adopted for evaluating the progress can vary in terms of ‘strictness'. We explored how this strictness ... -
Making the Data Complete: An approach to Deal with Missing Data Problems
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)How the missing values should be treated seems to be a universal dilemma in the world of statistics. The subject has seen a lot of research in the past mainly on the methods of handling missing values. While in theory ... -
Management Control Systems and Corporate Governance: A Theoretical Review
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper reviews researches that study the relationship between the various components of the management control systems (MCS) as a package namely cybernetic control & cultural control and the organizational performance ... -
Management of Agency Problem through Performance Contracts – Case of Public Sector Enterprises
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)The current endeavor attempts to understand how the management of public enterprises could be incentivized to work by putting their maximum effort in the direction of the objectives set forth by the government as the ... -
Managing Dental Tourism in India: Let’s Collaborate to bring more Smiles
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Dental tourism is patient movement from highly developed nations to other areas of the world for dental care, usually to find treatment at a lower cost. Dental tourism is different from the traditional model of international ... -
Managing Emotions: Emotional Labor Or Emotional Enrichment
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Concept of ‘emotional labor’ has undergone many transformations since Hochschild (1983) described it. Researchers have broadened its scope by including emotion management by professionals in different roles, exploring its ... -
Market Intelligence & Analytics 2.0
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Analytics and market intelligence maybe the buzz words of today, but these concepts aren’t new. These can, in some shape and form, be traced back to the evolution of mankind right from the agrarian to industrial to the ... -
A Means-End Approach to Understand the Role of Values as Motivations of Sustainable Consumption Behaviour
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)With recent increased interest in understanding sustainable consumption behaviour of people, there is need to explore the value motives behind sustainable buying behaviour of consumers. Using means-end approach, an ... -
Measurement Of Tact Necessary To Prevent Industrial Disputes Leading To Loss Of Productivity----With Reference To Industries In South Bengal
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Industrial Disputes cause loss of productivity and decrease of profit, tending towards huge losses. It is, therefore, necessary to establish a benchmark level of tact or skill, that is required to ensure the prevention ... -
Measuring Consumer spirituality through a valid scale
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Spirituality has hardly received any attention from the marketing and consumer behaviour scholars. This study seeks to bridge that gap by addressing the issue of consumer spirituality and its measurement through CONSPIRIT ... -
Measuring Financial Risk taking using a dual preference approach for determination of Financial Satisfaction
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The purpose of this study is to measure the dual dimensions of financial risk taking and to find out how these dimensions relate to the financial satisfaction of the individual investors. A context specific measure of ... -
Measuring firm sustainability performance: Arriving at the right metrics
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Sustainability Performance is a popular word for firms, which is highlighted for competitive advantage. Firms present their initiatives through various forms of quantitative reporting highlighting their efforts towards ... -
Measuring Relative Impact of KPIs – A Game Theory Approach
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Customer satisfaction (CSAT) and Net Promoters Score (NPS) are related to key measures of future financial performance for firms. The ability to find key drivers for CSAT & NPS is an important step in any organizations’ ... -
Measuring Technical Efficiency of CEmONC Centers of Tamil Nadu using Stochastic Frontier Analysis
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Background: In order to promote safe motherhood,several Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC) centers have been setup all over Tamil Nadu under the World-bank funded Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project ...