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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 ... -
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 ...