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Does Strategic Planning Determine Innovation in Organizations? A Study of Indian SME Sector
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Innovation is considered to be a source of competitive advantage. Not surprisingly, innovation has been a matter of scholarly interest for several decades now. However, despite its critical importance to the strategy ...
Analysis and design of public policy using system dynamics approach: a case in healthcare sector.
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
High prevalence of communicable diseases, rapid increase in prevalence of non-communicable diseases, and poor maternal and child health indicators characterize public health situation in India. One of the main reasons for ...
Modal Shift Estimation and Financial Viability of High Speed Rail in India: The Case Study of Ahmedabad – Mumbai Corridor
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The share of rail in passenger transport in India has declined rapidly, primarily due to severe capacity constraints and inability of railways to increase the speed of travel. Other countries facing similar problems have ...
All for a good cause: a study of placement of cause marketing advertisements in consumer online decision journey
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)
This study examines the impacts of placing cause advertisements at different stages of a consumer’s online decision journey. Cause related marketing (CRM) is defined as a commercial activity in which a brand is advertised ...
Essays on behavioural finance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)
We present two essays on behavioural finance in this dissertation. The first essay examines the influence of price-path, particularly the ‘non-straight’ price-path, on several aspects of investor behaviour. We compute ...
Performing eating out: organizing food-spaces and 'new' forms of working
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)
I seek to understand the processes of organising that emerges and manifests as food-spaces, where class and gender are constructed and performed. Such spaces may be constituted as 'eating-out' spaces, work-spaces and social ...
Redefining dignity in the context of precarity: Indian security guards’ interface with their clients, suppliers and unions
(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 ...
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 ...
Governing subjectivities: investigating employment relations in the Indian information technology (IT) sector
(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 ...
Determining effects of a web-based teachers’ professional development programme on teaching self-efficacy beliefs and classroom practice
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)
The design of large-scale professional development (PD) programmes for teachers in the public schooling system faces two challenges. The first is identifying a suitable malleable construct which influences student performance, ...