3rd Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (IAM), 2013: Recent submissions
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Effect of Transformational Leader Communication on Affective Commitment to Change
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Extant literature indicates the significance of both organizational level concept like transformational leadership and individual level aspect like employee attitude, for organizational change. This paper presents a model ... -
Understanding the role of ‘process’ in value co-creation
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Existing research on value co-creation enumerates value as an outcome of co-creation process The purpose of this article is to lay emphasis on process, not only for its role in co-creation of value but process itself being ... -
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 ... -
Impact of Servant Leadership Style on Employee’s Intentions to Stay in Indian Organizations
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The research paper attempts to study Servant leadership (SL) style in Indian organizations and its impact on employee’s intentions to stay with particular organization. The finding of the study indicates that there exists ... -
Transactions Cost, Reconfigurational Innovation and Sustainable Competitive Advantages: Evidences from the Bottom of the Pyramid
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)In this paper, we argued that, contrary to received wisdom, firms operating at the bottom of the economic pyramid are motivated more, by a desire to be cost competitive than, by pure philanthropy. We performed a content ... -
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 ... -
Effect of organizational risk orientation and change disposition on dynamic capabilities: An emerging markets perspective
(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 ... -
Influence of Dimensions of Strategic Orientation (SO) on the Growth of Small Firms & Resources as Moderating Variable: A Study of Indian Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Strategy-firm growth relationship has remained an important issue for researchers, despite considerable theoretical advances made in this area, little consensus has emerged on the key dimensions of strategy construct -- ... -
A Replication Approach Towards Assessment of Performance of Group Affiliated Firms during Institutional Transition in India
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)We try to replicate findings of a previously published paper that differentiates firm performance of group affiliated firms from unaffiliated ones during institutional transition in India using different sampling approaches. ... -
Investigating Drivers of Loyalty: A Case of Rural Retail Banks in India
(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 ... -
Foreign Direct Investment and Infrastructure Development: Evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The availability of developed infrastructural facilities is a sine-qua-non of progress of the economy. Adequate infrastructure is necessary not only to facilitate domestic investment but also to woo foreign investment. In ... -
Innovation, Ownership Structures And Inyernationlization: Empirical Evidence From Indian Pharmaceutical Sector
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)We combine insights from international trade and corporate governance literatures to explore the link between innovation and internationalization under different ownership structures in the context of the pharmaceutical ... -
Examining the impact of education on Indian farm labour
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Research on understanding the benefits of education in the rural context show positive pecuniary benefits on the farm, and a shift towards non-farm activities. Using the IHDS 2005 data, the years of education was regressed ... -
The Role of Talent Management in Enhancing B2B Relationships in Offshoring Organisations: Evidence From Indian IT Services Sector
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Labor Market outcome for Vocational Training in India- Does Safety net Theory holds true
(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 ... -
Improving Information Sharing in Groups by Using Dyads
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Present research focused on studying impact of preparation work (prework) in dyads on information sharing in groups. Stasser and Titus (1985) found that groups focus on common information during discussion and neglect ... -
Impact of Proactive Personality in predicting Training Outcomes
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)While past researches have extensively focused in the field of training transfer, there is little empirical work done examining the influence of personality. The purpose of the paper is to operationalize the personality ... -
Revisiting Organizational Climate: Conceptualization, Interpretation and Application
(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. ... -
HRM Configurations In Project Based Organizations
(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 ...