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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 ... -
Medical Tourism: Recruiting the Right Coordinator for Transnational Patients
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Acquisition of transnational patients in medical tourism is a comprehensive exercise that can span over months and require coordination from multiple stakeholders in a hospital. The quality of communication with these ... -
“MEDIPRENEURSHIP”: New Age Healthcare Entrepreneurship – Prospects and Challenges in Indian Perspective
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Purpose: The Purpose of this paper is to put light on the options available in India for Healthcare Entrepreneurship; an emerging trend in form of MEDIPRENEURSHIP and the opportunities and challenges for the medipreneurial ... -
Mindfulness: Nurturing global mindset and global leadership
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)In the contemporary globalized world, firms span across geographic, socio-cultural and economic boundaries and deal with the resultant diversity and complexity. Such firms look for developing a ‘global mindset’ in their ... -
Mixing tradition with enterprise: The case of English Apprenticeships
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The paper is an empirical critique of the use of tradition in the field of apprenticeship education in England. The paper briefly traces the history of apprenticeship schemes over the last 300 years in order to provide ... -
Mobile Merchandising Exploring new business practices in the mobile payment ecosystem
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Only a few mobile payments trials have been successful, many only partially. Failure may be explained by the lack of merchant involvement during the early stages of design. Previous researchers have suggested that high ... -
MODELING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR AND TEAM PERFORMANCE IN HIGH EMOTIONAL LABOUR JOBS
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This explanatory study tested a model within team team context the relationships among emotional intelligence of team leaders, transformational leadership behaviour and team performance. A total of 657 respondents i.e. ...