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Occupational Stress among custodians of civic law: An exploratory study
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Purpose of the study: The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors responsible for creating occupational stress among West Bengal Police Officials. Design/methodology/approach – The authors employ an existing ... -
Optimizing Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) or one of the Largest Merchant Acquirers in South America
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Merchant Acquirers (‘MA’) play the essential role of accepting/ capturing, processing and settling the payments made through cards (credit, debit, etc.) for purchases made at merchants/retailers. This MA had a client ... -
Organizational Citizenship Behavior And Job Satisfaction Among Call Centre Representatives In Relation To Stressful Environment
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)In today’s competitive environment, managing the ever escalating customer expectations and need is a key to survival and growth for any company. Considering the consumer-centric nature of the service industry, particularly ... -
Organizational Structure Factors And Job Involvement Among Employees: Mediating Role Of Psychological Contract Fulfillment
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Present study was conducted on medical staff working in not-for-profit, teaching & non-teaching, public hospitals (N=300) in northern India. Results revealed that structural factors (Co-ordination & work autonomy) significantly ... -
Package Attributes and Nutrition Knowledge Influencing Health Food Purchase Behaviors Among Urban Women.
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Worldwide, unhealthy diet and lifestyles are impacting lives due to spiraling health care costs, resulting in impoverishment. Nutrition has been identified as a major modifiable determinant of chronic non-communicable ... -
Patterns of Utilization of Maternal Healthcare Services in Haryana
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Perceived Differences In Culture, Environmental Hostility And Firm Performance: A Study Of Indian Organizations Using Competing Value Framework
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper explores a relationship between corporate culture and the performance of the firm within the context of varying environmental hostility. We collected data from 70 firms and tried to identify the impact of ... -
Performance of local governance: Social capital or Institutional structures?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper critically evaluates the debate on what makes local governments more effective, higher social capital or stronger institutional structures. This study aims at understanding the relationships and processes through ... -
Power And Status Struggles: A Hierarchical Perspective Of Conflict In Groups
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Power and status, two distinct yet related bases of social hierarchy, are intensely sought resources in groups. In this article, we propose a theoretical framework that examines how power and status motives of individuals ... -
Pre-Opening Call Auction of Stock Price Discovery using Multivariate Lognormal Montecarlo Simulation
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Market microstructure design and testing of efficient market hypotheses have been of long interest in security research. Market microstructure discussions also include the impact of call auctions in price discovery and ... -
Predicting Policy Renewal Probability in Auto Insurance Sector
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)We are entering a new phase of the information era, in which organizations query and analyze huge volumes of diverse data in real-time to improve outcomes for their most critical business processes. In today’s competitive ... -
Predicting Risk of Diabetes in Non-Diabetic Population
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic debilitating disease affecting a major population of the developed and developing countries. The occurrence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is rising rapidly among middle-aged American ... -
Predicting risk of Rejection in Non-Submitted claims
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)A 2011 study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that claim denial rates vary significantly among states and health insurers. Of the small number of states tracking such information, denials ranged between ... -
Predictive Analytics For Better Health And Disease Reduction
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Predictive analytics can be used effectively to evaluate enormous data generated by health care industry to extract useful information and establish relationships amongst the variables. In our country, health care providers ... -
Presence of Children in Advertisements and its impact on Consumers’ Purchase Behaviour
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Advancement of technology has enabled households to access different media of communications like television, radio, newspapers, magazines, billboards and several online media. It is nearly impossible to escape the ... -
Price Discovery and Impact on Volatility: A Study of Indian Derivatives Market
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Process Mining of Suture Manufacturing Firms with DMAIC
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Profile Creation and Usage in Social Networking Sites
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Research on the creation of profiles in social networking has been an area of interest in the past few years, and they are used as a major source of information by recruiters and other interested stakeholders. For the ... -
Provision of Emergency Obstetric Services in Rural Gujarat, India: Challenges and Solutions
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Background: The importance of emergency obstetric services in saving mothers’ lives and the inadequacy of these services in less developed regions of the world has been documented by many agencies. The development of private ... -
Psychological Contract Fulfilment and Its Impact on Employees’ Job Attitudes: Does Generations Make Any Difference?
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)In recent years, there has been, particularly among human resource management practitioners, a view that inter-generational differences exist among employees which provide challenges to employers in effectively managing ...