Browsing 3rd Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (IAM), 2013 by Subject "India"

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    • Fastfood work: McJobs in India 

      Bathini, Dharma Raju (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This study explores the nature of fast food work in the Indian context using an qualitative case-study approach. To understand the context, the production and service systems at an India based fast-food chain outlet are ...

    • 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 ...

    • Investigating Drivers of Loyalty: A Case of Rural Retail Banks in India 

      Adil, Mohd (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Mobile Merchandising Exploring new business practices in the mobile payment ecosystem 

      Gaur, Aakanksha; Avison, David; Ondrus, Jan (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 ...

    • Performance of local governance: Social capital or Institutional structures? 

      Udayaadithya, A; Gurtoo, Anjula (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 ...

    • Role of Communication in the Large-scale Construction Projects in India 

      Rajhans, Kirti (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013-12-12)
      The large scale construction projects require efficient interaction and coordination of multiple stakeholders during the entire life cycle of the project and hence the role of effective communication management is crucial ...

    • The Role of Talent Management in Enhancing B2B Relationships in Offshoring Organisations: Evidence From Indian IT Services Sector 

      Chadee, Doren; Raman, Revti; Roxas, Banjo (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This paper argue that for firms which are already global in nature, talent management (TM) serves as the mechanism for leveraging the organisations global mindset (GM) in improving its relationship quality (RQ) with client ...

    • 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 ...