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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. ... -
Mr. Right and Ms. Wrong: Impact of Manager’s Gender and Organization Performance on Leadership Attribution
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)In an experiment with 211 students, we studied the impact of gender and performance outcomes on leadership attributions. We found that gender moderates the impact of performance outcomes on leadership attributions. When ... -
Navigating Cultural Diversity through Cultural Intelligence: A Case of Hospitality Industry in India
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)The global cultural experience has become terribly complex due to the growing need for organizations to handle the pervasiveness of cultural diversity in multinational organizations. Consequently, it becomes important to ... -
The Need of Proactive Leadership and HR Environment in Public Sector Banks (India)
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Recent time has witnessed the world economy develop serious difficulties in terms of lapse of banking & financial institutions and plunging demand. Prospects became very uncertain causing recession in major economies. ... -
Network Measures for Organizational Learning Subprocesses: Case of a Consultancy Firm
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)A new scholarship has emerged that proposes the use of social network analysis as a tool for measuring organizational learning. O’Reilly’s (1991) remark that organizations are fundamentally relational entities clearly ... -
Networks Analysis for Mapping Knowledge Flows: A Case Study from India
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Knowledge Management literature lays emphasis on the fact that a major chunk of knowledge dissemination occurs through the various forms of social networks that exist within the organizations.. A social network is a ... -
A New Method of Construction of E-optimal Generalized Group Divisible Designs With Two Groups
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Here we consider the construction of generalized group divisible designs with two groups (GGDD(2)) from balanced incomplete block designs. E-optimality of such GGDD is also discussed. -
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 ...