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    • An Empirical Study on Corporate Social Responsibility, Intention to Quit and Job Embeddedness 

      Ghosh, Debjani; Gurunathan, L. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Systematic research regarding the effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on organization stakeholder groups, like employees, remains sparse. This paper examines employee’s reaction to CSR programmes at the ...

    • The Assimilation of Big Data Analytics (BDA) by Indian Firms: a Technology Diffusion Perspective 

      Agrawal, Kalyan Prasad (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Big Data Analytics (BDA) is an emerging technology that is being used in many echelons of business and management. Recent IS research about this technology lack focus on the factors that impact its organizational adoption. ...

    • Understanding the experiences of ‘not knowing’ 

      Doshi, Vijayta; Vohra, Neharika; Khokle, Pradyumana; Sharma, Rajeev (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      ‘Knowing’ is respected, recognized, and rewarded. Amidst the emphasis on ‘knowing’, there is hardly any space for ‘not knowing’. Especially those occupying leadership roles are demanded and expected to be ‘knowing’. This ...

    • Capital Structure of Indian Steel Companies: Its Determinants 

      Panda, Brahmadev; Mohapatra, Siba Prasad; Moharana, Samson (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This paper is an attempt to study the capital structure of Indian Steel Industry and its determinants. The 66 sample steel companies are bearing an average debt portion of 68% in their capital structure means highly debt ...

    • The role of traits, values and self-efficacy beliefs in volunteering 

      Bathini, Dharma Raju; Vohra, Neharika (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Recent literature on prosocial behavior has emphasized on the joint role of traits, values and self-efficacy beliefs in prosocial behavior. Even though some attention has been paid to studying the role of traits and values ...

    • Ethnography in marketing: Acceptance and relevance 

      Nanarpuzha, Rajesh; Sharma, Dheeraj (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      In this study, we attempt to explore the acceptance and relevance of ethnography as a research method in marketing. We conduct a semiotics-led textual analysis of 15 leading mainstream academic journals in marketing for ...

    • Do Family Firms Learn? A Relational View 

      Thomas, Nobin; Vohra, Neharika (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Though theoretical contributions have enriched organizational learning literature for over five decades, it is surprising to find that organizational learning has rarely been studied for family firms. When two out of every ...

    • Enterprising Behavior in an Integral Competence Framework 

      Nandram, Sharda; Orhei, Loredana; Born, Marise (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      We present insights from literature on enterprising behavior and competence followed by an application of the competence perspective. Data collection is based on the Critical Incident Technique among 205 entrepreneurs. The ...

    • Revisiting ‘Consumer Needs’ in Marketing: A critical theory Perspective 

      Arora, Shubhda (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      The discipline of marketing needs to critically engage itself in a self-reflexive interrogation with the objective of challenging the underlying assumptions (ontological and epistemological) and probing into the ideologies ...

    • Anti-Consumption: A Literature Review 

      Agarwal, Ridhi (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      The body of literature on consumer behavior, attitudes, preferences and motivation etc. is vast and expansive. In comparison, work on anti-consumption is at a nascent albeit growing stage. I undertake a review of the ...

    • Measuring Financial Risk taking using a dual preference approach for determination of Financial Satisfaction 

      Sahi, Shalini Kalra; Kalra, Satish Kumar (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 ...

    • An Empirical Test of Efficiency of Exchange-traded Currency Options in India 

      Bhat, Aparna; Arekar, Kirti (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      The objective of this paper is to examine efficiency of the exchange-traded currency options market in India. Put-call-futures parity for the USD-INR currency options is studied by analyzing daily closing prices of options ...

    • Effect of organizational risk orientation and change disposition on dynamic capabilities: An emerging markets perspective 

      Pathak, Atul Arun (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This conceptual paper address an important gap in the dynamic capabilities literature by conceptualizing that organizational risk orientation and organizational change disposition are critical determinant factors that ...

    • Presence of Children in Advertisements and its impact on Consumers’ Purchase Behaviour 

      Parida, Biswajita (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 ...

    • Impact of Personality and Belief Systems on Helping 

      Mulla, Zubin; Krishnan, Venkat (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
      We investigate the effects of sattva guna (a dimension of Indian personality theory) and beliefs in the law of karma (an essential aspect of Indian philosophy) on helping behaviors in teams. We studied a group of 292 ...

    • Effects of TQM on Perceptual HRM 

      Jain, Ankur (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This paper examines the effects of TQM practices practiced by software organizations on perceptual HRM within India. The study sample consisted of 324 employees, resulting in a response rate of 81 percent. A questionnaire ...

    • Revisiting Organizational Climate: Conceptualization, Interpretation and Application 

      Bamel, Umesh Kumar; Budhwar, Pawan; Bamel, Nisha (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
      In this paper efforts were put to revisit one of the extensively studied organizational construct – organizational climate. Relevant studies have been reviewed to make generalizations from organizational climate literature. ...

    • Effectiveness of Performance Management Systems in the Indian Construction sector 

      Rai, Soumi; Lele, Vishwanath (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This exploratory study seeks to specifically understand Performance management systems, their applicability and effectiveness in relation to the Indian construction sector . The sample for the study consisted of 138 employees ...

    • HRM Configurations In Project Based Organizations 

      Mathew, Jossy; Srinivasan, Vasanthi; Gooderham, Paul; Croucher, Richard (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      The dominant conceptualization of SHRM is unitarist and assumes intra organizational homogeneity of practices. It has been argued that HRM implementation is likely to differ in parts of the same organization. We use four ...

    • Labor Market outcome for Vocational Training in India- Does Safety net Theory holds true 

      Ahmed, Tutan (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 ...