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The effects of group brainstorming on the auditor’s search for potential misstatements and assessment of fraud risk in the presence of pressures and opportunities
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper examines the effect of SAS No. 99 recommended group brainstorming on the auditor’s search for potential material misstatements and assessments of fraud risk in the presence of different levels of pressures and ... -
Are big 4 audit fee premiums always related to superior audit quality? evidence from India’s unique audit market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)In this study we examine the fee premiums earned by Big 4 auditors (B4As) in India. We then try to determine the primary cause of the fee premiums in an Indian context. The B4As charge fee premiums for two primary reasons. ... -
Is 2% the Solution? Experimental Evidence on the New CSR Rule in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The Indian government became the first regulator in the world to mandate a minimum CSR spending on certain specified social welfare activities. Prior research in psychology indicates that individuals tend to focus heavily ... -
The impact of psychological traits on judgments related to ethics
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper examines how two contradictory psychological traits, self-deception (SD) and professional skepticism (PS), affect managers and auditors assessments of the ethicality of various earnings management choices. ... -
Exact Procedures for Non-Regular Measures of the Multi-Mode RCPSP
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem (MM RCPSP) is a generalization of the well-studied RCPSP. A literature review reveals applications of inexact heuristics or metaheuristics approaches for solving ... -
Dynamics of Land Use Competition in India: Perceptions and Realities
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Diversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses is an issue of public debate in every agrarian economy experiencing rapid urbanization and industrial development. However, the issue has become more complex and ... -
A Note on Estimationg Variance of Finite Population Distribution Function
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Estimating finite population distribution function is an important problem to the survey samplers since it summarizes almost all the relevant information of interest about the finite population. Moreover due to its ... -
Examination of a moderated-mediation model linking perceived organizational support, affective commitment, organizational citizenship behavior and work engagement: a study of nurses in the indian context
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The present study examines the relationship between Perceived Organizational Support (POS) and work outcomes (work engagement and organization citizenship behaviour) with affective commitment as a mediator and psychological ... -
Examining the mediating and moderating effects of engagement and conscientiousness for the job characteristics and intention to quit relationship
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Building on the job demands-resources, social exchange, and conservation of resources theories, the present study tests the relationship between job characteristics and intention to quit via work engagement as a mediator, ... -
A study on the not-for-profit route to olympic gold
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate a Not-for-Profit (NFP) model for development and support of sports at elite level. This research investigates, Olympic Gold Quest, a NFP organization in India to ... -
Network Structure, Capacity Growth and Route Hierarchies: The case of China’s Air Traffic System (ATS) revisited
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper examines air traffic patterns among China’s scheduled airlines in January 2006 and January 2011, using Official Airline Guide data on carrier schedules. The author classifies Chinese carriers into one of 4 ... -
Goods and services tax: the introduction process
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper focuses on the process of introducing the Goods and Services Tax (GST), bringing out the perspectives of different stakeholders and the contentious issues. The GST was expected to subsume a variety of taxes and ... -
A New Formulation and Benders' Decomposition for Multi-period facility Location Problem with Server Uncertainty
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Facility location problems reported in the literature generally assume the problem parameter values (like cost, budget, etc.) to be known with complete certainty, even if they change over time (as in multi-period versions). ... -
Influence of board diversity and characteristics on CEO compensation: contingent effects of concentrated ownership
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The crisis in the financial and the banking sectors in 2008-2009 brought back into focus the issue of CEO and top management compensation. The unconscionably high compensations, unjustified even remotely by performance, ... -
Diversity and inclusion at the workplace: a review of research and perspectives
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)In recent years, the discourse on diversity has seen a shift to that of inclusion. While there is a rich body of research in the area of diversity, inclusion has emerged as a fairly recent area of exploration and the varied ... -
Managing emotions: emotional labor or emotional enrichment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Concept of „emotional labor‟ has undergone many transformations since Hochschild (1983) described it. Researchers have broadened its scope by including emotion management by professionals in different roles, exploring its ... -
A framework for comparative analysis of national knowledge networks in UK and India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Recognizing that national competitiveness depends on the availability and quality of national Information and Communication Technology networks that support higher education (HE) and research, many countries have developed ... -
International diversification and firm performance: the contingent influence of product diversification
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Despite decades of research, the relationship between international diversification (ID) and performance (P) represents a quandary in the field of International Business.. Though, there seems to be some consensus among ... -
A Bayesian analysis of racial di erences in treatment among breast-cancer patients
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)It is a well known fact that race and ethnicity specific variations exist in the treatment and survival of cancer patients. Studies based on breast cancer patients admitted to community hospitals in U.S depicted that there ... -
Integrated framework for increasing the effectiveness of knowledge networks: roles of network providers and users
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The National Knowledge Network (NKN) was set up to enhance collaboration amongst higher education (HE) and research institutes. The government of India implemented the NKN to provide connectivity to nearly 5000 institutions, ...