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Attitude toward computers: development of a scale
(2010-07-20)This study reports the development of an instrument to measure attitude toward computers. The importance of attitude in attaining the full potential of computerization is highlighted and possible uses for the attitude ... -
Attitudes of the Youth towards Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of India and China
(2009-08-13)This study argues that social support is an important enabler in entrepreneurial activity in a country or a region. One untested assumption in policy making on entrepreneurship development has been that all regions are ... -
Attitudes towards risk of forest dependent communities evidence from Andhra Pradesh
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)This study is an attempt to generate empirical evidence on attitude towards risk of forest dependent communities (FDCs). The FDCs covered in the study include two different geographical regions from the Indian state of ... -
Attitudes towards women as managers: do extent of exposure and satisfaction with exposure make a difference
(2010-03-23)For changing the discriminatory attitudes of male managers towards women as managers, two approaches are possible. The first one, suggesting organizational responsibility, assumes a positive relationship between the extent ... -
Attitudes towards work and family roles and their implications for career growth of women
(2009-12-14)In this paper the authors attempted to understand attitudes towards work and family roles of professional men and women in India. Propositions based on the adult development theories of men and women, regarding reward value ... -
Attitudinal choquet integrals for strategic decision making
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02)The compensation capabilities of Choquet integral are augmented by providing it with an additional parameter to relate the same with the complex attitudinal character of a decision maker (DM). The resulting operator is ... -
The attribution process in person perception: an attributional analysis of success and failures
(2010-03-29)How can we understand an individual? To understand him, there are several different sources of information, for e.g. his physical characteristics or collecting information indirectly through his friends and acquaintances, ... -
Auditors’ consideration of material income-increasing versus material income-decreasing items: are conservatism and risk affected by company level information?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Auditors tend to focus more on income-increasing items compared to income-decreasing items because they are trained to be more conservative and also because the risk of litigation is significantly higher for failing to ... -
Auditors’ negligence and professional misconduct in India: a struggle for a consistent legal standard
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-01-09)Gross negligence is a severe form of negligence. Its severity has been characterized using the presence of a mental element or mens rea accompanying the negligent act. Within the context of professional negligence, gross ... -
Augmenting career development for women: agenda for organizations and individuals
(2010-04-06)Women's career development in organizations is often different from that of men. Although competent women, like competent men aspire for top positions of leadership in organizations, such positions often elude them. This ... -
Auto-Havra Charvat entropic measures for stationary time series of categorical data
(2013-05)For stationary time series of nominal categorical data or ordinal categorical data (with arbitrary ordered numberings of the categories), autocorrelation does not make much sense. One can alternatively think of using some ... -
Autonomy of public sector enterprises
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Availability and work targets of bulldozers
(2010-04-05)Setting work targets for machines is an important task for engineering managers, especially where they operate large fleets with machines of different makes and ages. Setting uniform work targets is easier but it does not ... -
Average welfare fair and egalitarian solutions for bargaining problems
(2010-03-21)In this paper e present an alternative characterization of the Egalitarian Solution for bargaining problems and show that the Egalitarian solution has the property that for any agent the incremental utility from bargaining ... -
Averaging as a general principle of information integration
(2010-03-21)Virtually all situations require a judgment or decision on the basis of several separate pieces of information. Grading a term paper, evaluating a job applicant, selecting a leader, or simply listening to a speaker, all ... -
Averaging model analyses of teacher expectations of performance from students varying in motivation and ability
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1986-11-01)Although there have been numerous studies of the impact of teacher expectations on student performance, the manner in which expectations are formed has remained unexplored. The present research tested the hypothesis that ... -
Axiomatic analysis of choosing the second best
(2009-12-14)The dominant theme in decision theory has been the one where an agent chooses what is perceived to be the best outcome out of a (finite) set of outcomes. This has been the model that economic theory has traditionally ... -
Axiomatic analysis of vote aggregators
(2010-01-16)In this paper a model for the aggregation of ballot profiles is considered. In this framework some new results are obtained: the characterization of oligarchic aggregators, the characterization of the plurality aggregator ... -
Axiomatic characterisation of weighted boolean vote aggregators
(2010-01-18)A Federation Boolean Vote Aggregator allows a finite set of coalitions to unilaterally elect any candidate from a set containing exactly two candidates. There are several special types of Federation Boolean Vote Aggregators, ... -
Axiomatic characterisation of weighted voting operator
(2010-01-18)A federation voting operator allows a finite set of coalitions to unilaterally elect any outcome. There are several special types of federation voting operators, all of which share a property: the candidates are assigned ...