Browsing 3rd Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (IAM), 2013 by Title
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Measuring Consumer spirituality through a valid scale
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Spirituality has hardly received any attention from the marketing and consumer behaviour scholars. This study seeks to bridge that gap by addressing the issue of consumer spirituality and its measurement through CONSPIRIT ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...