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Do stress and personality determine health of the Indian executive?
(1988)
Many researchers have concluded that stress causes illness. This conclusion is based on studies with cross sectional designs that found correlations between stress and illness. However, this conclusion has been criticized ...
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 ...
Novel cognitive consequences of product anthropomorphism on consumer judgment and decision making
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)
Consumers frequently come across anthropomorphic products, i.e., products imbued with human-like features. Marketers may anthropomorphize products by designing them to visually resemble human physical features (e.g., a ...
Governing through problems: public policies as discursive practices
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-01-29)
Policies produce ‘problems’ in specific ways (Bacchi, 2009). Following this logic, policies are
regarded as an attempt to bring together ‘rules’ for the ‘solving’ of ‘problems’ that occur with
respect to specifically ...
Essays on consumers’ responses to retail promotions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-24)
How do consumers respond to innovative forms of promotional strategies employed by
retailers? This thesis attempts to answer this question across two essays, using experiments as
a primary method of inquiry. In Essay 1, ...
Exact methods for solving linear and nonlinear max-min problems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)
This thesis focuses on developing exact solution methods for mixed-integer linear and nonlinear maxmin problems.
The first essay proposes a tri-level min-max-min optimization problem (pM-FLPI) to design a resilient
food ...
Change in leadership behaviour through online professional development programme: contextualising community based identity cohesion and intentionality
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
School principals play a crucial leadership role by managing four components of their schools’ organizational capacity: teachers’ skills, professional community, technical resources, and program coherence. Though important ...
Factors influencing the performance of IS megaproject in an emerging economy: the freight operations information system of the Indian railways
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-13)
IS megaprojects (ISMPs) are long duration complex ventures that involve extremely largescale investments, are transformational in nature, influence large populations and engage
multiple public and private stakeholders. ...
Unbundling innovation strategies: firms’ technological choices and complementarities-in-performance of innovation inputs and outputs across developing countries
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)
Innovation is considered a multi-level construct and it takes the form of (i) inputs and
(ii) outputs. Based on this, the thesis considers three inter-related questions in the form of three
essays: (1) What factors (firm, ...