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Trapping India’s CSR in a legal net: will the mandatory trusteeship contribute to triple bottom line?
(Sage, 2016)
The social responsibility of business is to increase profits.’ This was the title
of an article by Nobel laureate, economist, and an evangelical supporter
of free enterprise, Milton Friedman (1970), published in The New ...
Orphan Food? Nay, Future of Food ! Understanding the Pulse of the Indian Market
(INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AHMEDABAD, 2016)
Pulses have been an important traditional food crop of India. India is the largest producer
and consumer of pulses. However, pulse acreage and yield has not kept pace with the
growing demand in India. As a result, India ...
Impact of student engagement on affective learning: evidence from a large Indian university
(Springer, 2016)
This study has two objectives. The first objective is
to examine the mediating role of intellectual engagement in the
relationship between online engagement and affective learning.
The second objective is to investigate ...
Techniques of job crafting: an exploratory study on management consultants
(2016)
The job crafting perspective considers the ways in which employees proactively alter their
tasks, relationships and perceptions at work in order to achieve a personalized fit to their
work environment. Studies confirm ...
Winning the ‘trust’ of the employees, ethically or strategically?
(Inderscience, 2016)
Research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has indicated that
even though CSR activities are found to be positively influencing employees’
trust, there is lack of clarity regarding the underlying mechanisms of ...
Problem of plenty: managing employee surplus
(IGI Global, 2016)
The article deals with understanding the phenomena of employee rationalisation in firms especially
the ones operating in dynamic environments. In this paper the authors do an extensive review of
literature to understand ...
SB-robust estimation of mean direction for some new circular distributions
(Springer, 2016)
The most often used distribution for modelling directional data has been the
circular normal (CN) (a.k.a. von-Mises) distribution. Recently Kato and Jones (K–J)
introduced a family of distribution which includes the CN ...
Employee interpretations of change: exploring the other side of the resistance story
(2016)
This study examines change resistance in Indian organizations
by departing from change-agent
perspective, and focusing on the
employee interpretation o f
change. Change ‘resistors ’ were
identified based on inputs ...
Stochastic Lotka-Volterra equations: a model of lagged diffusion of technology in an interconnected world
(Elsevier, 2016)
We present a model of technological evolution due to interaction between multiple countries and the resultant effects on the corresponding macro variables. The world consists of a set of economies where some countries are ...
"Hits" emerge through self-organized coordination in collective response of free agents
(American Physical Society, 2016)
Individuals in free societies frequently exhibit striking coordination when making independent decisions en masse. Examples include the regular appearance of hit products or memes with substantially higher popularity ...