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Poor management research in the India: fault lines in the academic bulwark and 'wayward' priorities
(Decision, 2014)
The article points at some historic reasons for poor productivity in research, including unproductive competition among institutions due to a false sense of self sufficiency, lack of adequate research infrastructure at the ...
Role of energy efficiency in climate change mitigation policy for India: assessment of co-benefits and opportunities within an integrated assessment modeling framework
(Springer-Verlag, 2014)
Addressing the challenges of global warming requires interventions on both the energy supply and demand side. With the supply side responses being thoroughly discussed in the literature, our paper focuses on analyzing the ...
Psychological capital as a mediator of the relationship between leadership and creative performance behaviors: empirical evidence from the Indian R&D sector
(Routledge, 2014)
A study was conducted to evaluate the relationships between leadership, psychological capital and employee creative employee performance behaviors in the Indian research and development (R&D) context. Results indicated ...
Meta-analysis of test accuracy studies: an exploratory method for investigating the impact of missing thresholds
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)
Background Primary studies examining the accuracy of a continuous test evaluate its sensitivity and specificity at one or more thresholds. Meta-analysts then usually perform a separate meta-analysis for each threshold. ...
The transition of childbirth practices among tribal women in Gujarat, India - a grounded theory approach
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2013)
Background Under the National Rural Health Mission, the current emphasis is on achieving universal institutional births through incentive schemes as part of reforms related to childbirth in India. There has been rapid ...
International competitive strategy choices: comparing firms in China and India
(Asia Pacific Business Review, 2013)
This study investigates the types of international competitive strategies (ICS) followed by Chinese and Indian firms. Using firm-level primary data, the contribution analyses the factors that affect ICS choices and whether ...
Two paths to diversification performance implications of related diversification across two dimensions in professional service firms
(International Journal of Emerging Markets, 2015)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of related diversification across service offerings and industry domains for professional service firms (PSFs) in emerging economies by integrating the reputational ...
Celebrity endorsements and branding strategies: event study from India
(Journal of Product and Brand Management, 2015)
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to evaluate the economic value of celebrity endorsements to Indian firms based on their branding strategy – corporate or house-of-brands – and their “congruence” or “fit” with the ...
Assessing the dependence structure of the components of hybrid time series processes using mutual information
(Indian Statistical Institute, 2015)
Hybrid processes, which are multivariate time series with some components continuous valued time series and the rest discrete valued time series or point processes, often arise in studies of neurological systems. Assessment ...
A Bibliometrics profile of Gujarat University, Ahmedabad during 2004-2013
(Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, 2015)
This study attempts to undertake bibliometric analysis of the research publications of Gujarat University during the ten-year period between 2004 and 2013. The data for this study was extracted from SCOPUS and included a ...