Browsing 3rd Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (IAM), 2013 by Title
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Alternative Learning: A Voyage for Future Leadership
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)“Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge?”The alarming proportions of the turbulence and complexity in our present global scenario compel us to take fresh look at our dominant models of management and leadership in search ... -
Analysis of consumer feedback on brands in social media space: A market-wise comparison
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Consumer voice on social media is becoming vital for organizations. Kotler (2011) classifies the benefits consumers derive from a brand as functional (physical benefits, M1), emotional (psychological benefits, M2), and ... -
Analyzing Organizational Change: A Sensemaking Perspective
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Exploring and explaining organizational change have emerged to be among the most recurring and challenging themes in organizational research. Over the years, attempts have been made to study change using various perspectives. ... -
Antecedents to Local Store Loyalty: Influence of Cosmopolitanism, Culture and Price
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Developing economies like India are seeing increasing cosmopolitanism yet are culturally rooted. The two opposite phenomenon of keeping the traditional culture with accepting newer values has a tendency to affect consumer ... -
Anti-Consumption: A Literature Review
(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 ... -
Assessing Performance Management Systems from Employees’ Perspectives: An Exploratory Study
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper focuses on the perceptions and experiences of employees in two different large organisations related to Performance Management Systems (PMS) in their respective organisations. Drawing on individual employee ... -
Assessing Performance Management Systems From Employees Perspectives: An Exploratory Study
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper focuses on the perceptions and experiences of employees in two different large organisations related to Performance Management Systems (PMS) in their respective organisations. Drawing on individual employee ... -
The Assimilation of Big Data Analytics (BDA) by Indian Firms: a Technology Diffusion Perspective
(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. ... -
The Assimilation of Big Data Analytics (BDA) by Indian Firms: a Technology Diffusion Perspective
(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. ... -
Building a Leadership Pipeline: A Case Study of NTPC
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Building a leadership pipeline is an alarming challenge in today’s competitive business environment. The insufficiency of available leadership talent is the utmost limiter in a company’s development. Companies arrange a ... -
Building Organizational Trust for Positive Workplace Attitude
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Present study has examined organizational level factors as predictors of organizational trust and its impact on employees’ attitude and behaviour namely knowledge sharing, affective commitment, and turnover intention. The ... -
Capital Structure of Indian Steel Companies: Its Determinants
(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 ... -
Carved in Stone: Discursive Pragmatism and the Dabbawala Discourse
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The study examines the discourse that has been generated around the Dabbawalas’ processes, their reception, assessment and applicability. The questions that this study raises are: Is the discourse generated around the ... -
Colliding Conflicting Perspectives: The rhetoric and reality of employee turnover- Evidence from the Indian BPO industry
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This study provides a deeper exploration of the qualitative thematic structures of conflicting accounts between employee reasons to quit and managerial strategies to prevent employee turnover in six business process ... -
Commercializing and Marketing the Concept of Cord Blood Stem Cells Preservation through Public Private Partnership Model (PPP)
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The medical technology has transformed into a greater pinnacle and changed the way the diseases are diagnosed and treated. The recent innovation is preservation and the use of cord blood stem cells to cure incurable/difficult ... -
Communities-of-Practice: Powerful or Powerless?
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)The extant literature provides evidence that control measures employed in Communities-of-Practice (CoP) have undergone significant changes with the evolution of the concept. When it started as a self-organized group, its ... -
Conceptualisation of community marketing as collaborative entry mode in developing economies with special focus on Mobile Financial Services
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Developing countries in Asia and Africa represent large untapped markets at Bottom of the Pyramid which is not serviced by conventional products using traditional marketing channels. Organisations are increasing looking ... -
Constructing Professional Resource Networks From Career Biographical Data
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Advances in technology and its usage have resulted in vast quantities of information being available on the public domains accessible via the internet. Particularly, research on populations not easily accessible, for ... -
A Content Analysis of Female Portrayals in Indian Magazine Advertisements
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Since 1970’s several research studies have been conducted by the developed countries on portrayal of women in advertising however very few researches can be traced in developing nations particularly in case of India. The ... -
Corporate Governance in Family Owned Small Firms
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)In this paper, we examine the impact of corporate governance on the performance of unlisted family owned small firms in India. By employing regressions with panels corrected standard errors as well as generalized least ...