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Improvement in Economic Well-being: Does Inter-generational Occupational Mobility Matter?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This study makes use of the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) data to look at the effect of inter-generational occupational mobility in India on perceptions of improved economic well-being. The study provides ... -
Improving Information Sharing in Groups by Using Dyads
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Present research focused on studying impact of preparation work (prework) in dyads on information sharing in groups. Stasser and Titus (1985) found that groups focus on common information during discussion and neglect ... -
Indian Medical Tourism: Opportunities & Challenges
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Medical Tourism is the growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain health care. It mixes leisure, fun and relaxation together with wellness and healthcare. Within Asia, India, Thailand and Singapore ... -
Indian Military Leadership: An Exploratory Study
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper is based on an exploratory study of Indian military leadership that was delimited to the indigenous perspective and veterans’ own interpretations of effective military leadership when preparing and leading ... -
Individual pay, performance and career stages: A study in the context of the Men’s cricket team of India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Extensive research has been done in the field of professional sports and interesting implications have been drawn for organizations. Using Cricket as a professional sport we study the linkage between pay, performance and ... -
Influence of Dimensions of Strategic Orientation (SO) on the Growth of Small Firms & Resources as Moderating Variable: A Study of Indian Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Strategy-firm growth relationship has remained an important issue for researchers, despite considerable theoretical advances made in this area, little consensus has emerged on the key dimensions of strategy construct -- ... -
Influence Of Relational Mentoring On Role Based Performance
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Relational mentoring process denotes high quality mentoring on the mentoring continuum and it encompasses traditional or average quality of mentoring. Although, the undercurrent of support provided through relational ... -
Influence of Top Management Team Characteristics on Firm Performance in High Growth Environment: Examining Mediation Mechanisms Using Content Analysis of Annual Reports
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Top Management teams (TMT) play an important role in determining the strategic actions of a firm and in turn shaping the organizational outcome and performance. Hambrick and Mason’s Upper Echelon perspective provides a ... -
Innovation, Ownership Structures And Inyernationlization: Empirical Evidence From Indian Pharmaceutical Sector
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)We combine insights from international trade and corporate governance literatures to explore the link between innovation and internationalization under different ownership structures in the context of the pharmaceutical ... -
Interrelatedness of family and small business
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)We present a view that social construct-family- is closely intertwined with the economic construct-small business-. We also demonstrate that the notion of family is deeply entrenched in the thoughts of small business owners. ... -
Investigating Drivers of Loyalty: A Case of Rural Retail Banks in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)The aim of the present study is to explore customer’s perceived service quality and also attempts to determine the most significant predictor of customer loyalty. It also aims at developing a comprehensive model by integrating ... -
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 ...