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Economic geography and networks: role of local and non-local ties in cluster evolution
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The organization of geographic clusters plays an increasingly significant role due to the presence of network ties that exist within the location and beyond. This has proven to be particularly true for knowledge-intensive ...
Priority service system optimization under service level constraints
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
We consider a service system that serves one class of customers, which is willing to pay a premium for a faster delivery, with priority over the other class, which is more price sensitive but is willing to wait longer. The ...
Elements of task definition shopping situations: a study in context of products high on haptic salience
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
Marketing literature has identified task definitions as one of the important situational influences. Task definition features of a situation include an intent or requirement to select, shop for, or obtain information about ...
Measuring and managing institutional environment of institutes of professional education
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
Questionnaire surveys of perceptions of institutional environment have been found to be a good diagnostic tool to facilitate self-renewal, leading to effective management of institutions of Higher education. Normally, such ...
Impact of store format on shopping involvement
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
Store formats exist in three forms of convenience, variety and experience. Shopping involvement tends to change across these formats. This current study (a) establishes the role of store formats on shopping involvement, ...
When are rewards bad for creativity? examining the role of leadership and integrated extrinsic motivation
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
The relationship between common creativity antecedents and creative performance is seldom clarified and the assertion that employee attitudinal and work environment factors spur creative performance has rarely been tested. ...
Strengthening corporate governance in India a review of legislative and regulatory initiatives in 2013-14
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
The passing of the long awaited Companies Act in 2013 is probably the single most important development in India’s history of corporate legislation, next only to the monumental Companies Act 1956 which it replaces. While ...
Police and the rule of law: recent developments in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
For a country like India, which is committed to the rule of law, the role of police is undergoing changes very rapidly. It is primarily due to the fact that the country has transformed from a police state to welfare state ...
Understanding psychological contract in pharmaceutical and FMCG industry: a comparative analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The influence of factors outside the boundaries of organization is largely ignored in the examination of psychological contract. The objective of the current research is to empirically examine the association between ...
Betting against beta in the Indian market
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Recent empirical evidence from diff erent markets suggests that the security market line is flatter than posited by CAPM. This flatness implies that a portfolio long in low-beta assets and short in high-beta assets would ...