3rd Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (IAM), 2013: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Towards Developing Career Technology Fit Frame Work And Analyzing Its Influence On Work Related Outcomes Among IT Professionals
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)With growing attrition rate and significant demand for skilled IT professionals, the importance of studying their behaviour has become important for both academia and industry. Despite ample amount of research, there is ... -
The Emergence of an Organizational Field: The Case of Open Source Software
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The institutional theory perspective has been used to study organizations and organizational fields. In this paper, we use the perspective to examine the emergence of the organizational field of open source software as ... -
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. ... -
Work Life Balance And Subjective Well Being: A Comparative Study In Public And Private Institutes In Higher Education
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper provides an insight into the Work life balance and Subjective well being of Educationists in Public and Private Higher Education Institutions. As in other multidimensional organizations Work life balance is a ... -
Examining the relationship between organization structure and innovation: A study of Indian corporations
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This study examined the relationships between innovation in organizations and key organization structure characteristics of vertical and horizontal complexity, formalization, centralization, delegation of authority and ... -
Does the Big Idea drive the social enterprises? The role of mission and vision in scaling up
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)In this paper, we attempt to examine how the ‘Big Idea’ explicated by the founder, drove the social enterprises towards rapid scaling up. By ‘Big Idea’, we mean the broadness and the magnitude of the problem definition by ... -
Responses to Climate Change: An Integrative Model of Organisational Processes using a Complex Evolving Systems (CESs) perspective
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper explores how business organisations can develop effective responses to the far-from equilibrium conditions in their environment, intensified due to climate change. The disruptions caused by climate change and ... -
Developing Organizational Creativity and Innovation: Toward a model of self-leadership, employee creativity, creativity climate and Workplace Innovative Orientation
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Creativity and innovation provide the basis for sustainable competitive advantage to the organizations operating in the present business environment. Organizational creativity stems from the summative approach of collective ... -
Vista Of Business Ethics: A Navigating Force For Good Governance
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Business ethics is apparent in management literature and business houses today. The essence of human values is quite essential for a long term survival of business. Notwithstanding the social uncertainties and the business ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Making a Product Development Team Flexible: The Role of Strictness of Review Process
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)During the course of Product Development (PD), a product is continuously evaluated at each stage. The review process adopted for evaluating the progress can vary in terms of ‘strictness'. We explored how this strictness ... -
Measurement Of Tact Necessary To Prevent Industrial Disputes Leading To Loss Of Productivity----With Reference To Industries In South Bengal
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Industrial Disputes cause loss of productivity and decrease of profit, tending towards huge losses. It is, therefore, necessary to establish a benchmark level of tact or skill, that is required to ensure the prevention ... -
Knowledge Management Practices and Competitive Advantage: The Mediating Role of Innovation Capacity
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This study has investigated the impact of knowledge management on competitive advantage through innovation capacity (mediator) of an organization. The research sample comprised employees (N=331) of private telecommunication ... -
Improvement in Economic Well-being: Does Inter-generational Occupational Mobility Matter?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This study makes use of the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) data to look at the effect of inter-generational occupational mobility in India on perceptions of improved economic well-being. The study provides ... -
Knowledge Integration As A Driver Of Growth: The Case Of Indian IT Firms
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper argues that knowledge integration processes are critical in explaining firm performance and growth. We propose a framework in which efficiency, scope and flexibility of knowledge integration is promoted by a ... -
Rational And Emotional Appeals In Polio Eradication Campaign In India: A Comparative Study Before And After 2002-03
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Polio eradication Campaign was one of the most successful Health Communication Campaign in India. The WHO announced India as Polio free Nation in 2012. Before 2002-03, Polio cases were reported on large scale in India, but ... -
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 ...