Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Noronha, Ernesto"
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Adaptiveness in water management institutions: nature, existence and impact
Bhamoriya, Vaibhav (2010)The effective management of water resources is assuming enormous importance in India in the recent years. Sound water resource use is crucial for sustaining and raising food production, increasing rural incomes, alleviating ... -
Beauty service work as dirty work: Understanding employees' lived experiences
Mendonca, Avina Jenifa (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Beauty service work, an emergent industry in the contemporary business context, has earlier been studied as bodywork and interactive service work. The present study explores the subjective experiences of beauty service ... -
Collaborative learning in virtual space and learning in the physical workplace: the case of in-service public-school teachers in India
Maun, Deepak (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)The existing approach to in-service teachers’ professional development in the Indian public-school education system has often been criticized on grounds of ineffectiveness. In recent years, peer-driven, technology-mediated ... -
The Effect of Organizational Identification on Emotional Labor: A Study in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector
Mishra, Sushanta Kumar (2009)Organizations depend on customers for their survival and growth. With increased importance of customers, organizational focus has expanded from the traditional economic rationale associated with the product (service) to ... -
Governing subjectivities: investigating employment relations in the Indian information technology (IT) sector
Banday, Muneeb Ul Lateef (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The objective of this thesis is to study employment relations in the Indian IT industry. Drawing from Foucauldian scholarship on governmentality in organizational studies, employment relations are understood as practices ... -
Investigating the ‘private’ in the educational technology field: imaginaries and precarity in educational provisioning in India
Shukla, Anurag (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"Globally, the rise of the Educational Technology (EdTech) field has been accompanied by the growth of the market in education. Working alongside the dispersed policy networks and the discourse of ‘disruption’, the interests ... -
Language adaptation and advertising effectiveness: a study in a multi-cultural advertising context
P., Venkatesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2011)The Indian television Advertising appears to predominantly standardize its creative strategy and a large part of the creative execution, allowing only localization of the language of the message to regional tastes. Systematic ... -
Redefining dignity in the context of precarity: Indian security guards’ interface with their clients, suppliers and unions
Chakraborty, Saikat (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)Precarity, marked by uncertainty, instability and insecurity has become a significant feature of contemporary work and employment. This is particularly applicable to India, where 93% of the workforce (which includes those ... -
A study of career mobility decisions of dual career couples
Saxena, Richa (2009)Presently, women in India comprise approximately thirty one present of the total workforce including rural and urban sectors (Budhwar, Saini & Bhatnagar, 2005). This statistics indicates a major social change in the country ... -
A Study of Innovation champions' influence approach in the innovation process
Pamu, Venkatesh (2008)With the increasing emphasis on innovations, organizations are looking at options to move from the incremental orbit to the level of quantum innovations. To facilitate such a shift organizations appoint innovation champions ... -
The trajectory of forgiveness in workplace bullying: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of target coping
Mishra, Nidhi (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Forgiveness as a coping strategy in the context of workplace bullying has been largely overlooked, being evidenced by only few studies (D'Cruz & Noronha, 2012a and 2018b). Alternatively, forgiveness which is often ...