Browsing Working Papers by Subject "Performance"
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Degree of openness and project performance: a multi-country empirical assessment of information technology (IT) innovation projects
(2013-11-26)Open innovation is a paradigm that is based on the concept of availability of abundant knowledge outside the boundaries of organizations. This study identified the influence of degree of openness, strength of appropriability ... -
Financial goals and company performance a study of companies in India
(2010-03-27)The objectives of the study were (a) to find out the financial goals structure and the relative significance of the financial goals pursued by companies in India and (b) to examine if a company's financial performance was ... -
Household survival through commons: performance in an uncertain world
(2010-07-15)The search for ethically responsible and scientifically precise alternatives for socially disadvantaged groups in high risk environments requires a multi disciplinary, multi market/multi institutional approach. Various ... -
Implications of changes in the holding period and other parameters on systematic risk and performance of a security
(2010-03-22)The Capital Asset Pricing Model is a single period model which specifies a linear relationship between return on an asset and return on the entire market. The model is widely used in literature as if a portfolio of securities ... -
Indian Railways in the Past Twenty Years Issues, Performance and Challenges
(2009-07-29)Indian Railways (IR) is Asia’s largest and world’s second largest network under one management, with a separate Ministry and its own annual budget. The network carried about 17 million Passengers and 2 mt freight every day ... -
An integration-theoretical analysis of cultural and developmental differences in attribution of performance
(2010-03-18)Singh, Gupta, and Dalal proposed that American and Indian college students differ in their cultural outlook on how motivation and ability determine performance. Americans follow a multiplying rule which implies that effort ... -
Integrative strategy for performance enhancement in organizations
(2010-03-14)Cognitive and acognitive are two basic approaches to the study of human behaviour in organizations. Most of the literature has treated these approaches as mutually opposing and contradictory. The authors suggest that this ... -
Life performance motivation ability opportunity: individual differences in predictive models
(2010-03-14)Previous research showed that prediction of life performance from information about motivation and ability follows the multiplying rule. The present experiment added a third supposedly multiplying factor, external opportunity, ... -
Performance - oriented selection criteria for rural entrepreneurs
(2010-03-12)One of the aims of current developmental policy in India consists of encouraging the scheduled and un-scheduled commercial banks and other financial agencies, to expand their scope of operaiton in order to remove financial ... -
Performance determinants of public enterprises
(2010-03-13)The paper is a summary of a report submitted to the World Bank on the performance determinants of Indian Public enterprises. The study was based on intensive case studies of four engineering enterprises, all attached to ... -
Performance in relation to anxiety and job involvement
(2010-03-13)In this investigation an attempt has been made to study the effect of anxiety and job involvement on performance of workers. Two psychometric tools were administered to 600 rank-and-file workers of textile unit to assess ... -
Performance of task-oriented and relation-oriented persons on a reward allocation task
(2010-03-14)Subjects who scored low and high on Fielder's least preferred coworker scale were provided with information about Behavior and performance of two workers of several groups, and were asked to distribute a fixed sum of money ... -
Prediction of exam performance by children: evidence for utilization of four pieces of information
(2010-03-14)Kindergarten through fourth grade children (n=120) predicted exam performance of stimulus students from information about their current motivation and ability. Each kind of information came from two independent sources and ... -
Prediction of performance from motivation and ability: an appraisal of the cultural difference hypothesis
(2010-03-21)How do people integrate information about motivation and ability of a person when they predict his performance? As the dynamic motivation factor acts as an amplifier of the static capacity factor, a multiplying rule can ... -
Processes, strategies, and performance aspects of open innovation in information technology sector - insights from experts
(2013-11-26)Open innovation paradigm considers that in order to advance technologies and markets, firms can and should leverage internal and external knowledge, ideas, expertise, and paths to market. This is in contrast to the ... -
QWL in Indian organisations - an irreverent view
(2010-03-13)This paper takes the position that in Indian organisation, the most central and pivotal concern is the concept of work itself. Work is defined as activities that contribute to achieving organisational missions. Where work ... -
Role orientation and role performance of Indian managers
(2010-03-29)The paper explores the tend and differential movement of the managers from the processes of social identity to the emergence of work identity in Indian organizations. The focus of the Social Identity is maintenance of ... -
Rural banking in India - its performance and problems
(2010-03-29)This paper discusses in aggregate terms the performance of the formal rural financial market (RFM) in India. Considering three different aspects of this market several criteria are applied for this purpose. Thee three ... -
Trends in strategies and performance of the indian corporate sector what has changed in two decades of economic reforms?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-04)In the context of various policy initiatives made during the last two decades to reform the Indian economy in general and corporate sector in particular, this paper documents strategies followed by firms in this period and ...