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Beauty service work as dirty work: Understanding employees' lived experiences
(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 ...
Workplace gender dilemmas: insights from women's narratives
(2011)
The phenomenon of workplace gender diversity has become a reality today even in India and
across the globe (Budhwar, Saini and Bhatnagar, 2005). However, this diversity has triggered challenges both for management and the ...
A Study of Value Creation and Value Appropriation In Inter-Firm Alliances of Simultaneous Cooperation and Competition
(2013)
Relatively little is known about how value is created and appropriated in inter-firm alliances of simultaneous cooperation and competition. In this dissertation, I address this gap from both theoretical and methodological ...
Intraday activity patterns and market microstructure effects in Indian capital markets: an empirical investigation using high frequency data
(2010)
This study analyzes the intraday activity (volatility, volume and trade frequency) patterns and market microstructure effects in the Indian capital market using a large dataset. Intraday 5-minutes volume and volatility are ...
Planning, coordination and stability of supply chain networks
(2010)
Over the past quarter century, supply chain management has evolved as an interdisciplinary and attracting interests from practitioners and academia. During this period, a number of supply chain paradigms have helped transform ...
Strategic response of Indian state owned enterprises to environmental shifts
(2010)
Researches on strategic response of firms to environmental shifts have been conducted, mostly with respect to the private corporations and, predominantly in the North American and European Context. This apparent inclination ...
International Trade: Elixir Or Venom For Health?
(2016)
The impact of globalization, especially economic globalization, on human development of underdeveloped countries has been a widely debated topic. There are two contrarian views: modernization view that sees globalization ...
Private sector participation and container terminal efficiency issues and evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
Greater Private Sector Participation (PSP) is widely considered an effective means to enhance the competitiveness of a nation’s port sector. In this context, the thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of container terminal ...
Industrial Productivity Growth and Agglomeration Economies
(2016)
Industries concentrate spatially because dense networks of firms and individuals generate benefits known as agglomeration economies. The literature has established that agglomeration economies have an impact on productivity ...
Integrating water and energy systems for India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
The Paris Climate Change Agreement (PCCA, 2015) calls for holding global warming during 1850-2100 to 2 °C and well below 2°C, mainly through nationally determined contributions (NDCs). United Nations Sustainable Development ...