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Managing Rural Institutional Credit: Lessons From Interlinked Transactions
(2013)
In recent years, the focus of numerous rural credit institutions, which includes lenders from both formal and semi-formal (the micro-finance providers) domains, has started shifting from traditional credit-alone approach ...
Studying the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Perceptions on Employee Work Attitudes
(2013)
In the last couple of decades the concept of corporate social responsibility has gained
importance both in practice as well as in research. Globalization and international trade have given rise to increased complexities ...
Metaheuristics for the Single Row Facility Layout Problem
(2013)
The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging a set of facilities with given lengths on a line so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem ...
Measurement of Systemic Risk and its Drivers
(2013)
The recent global financial crisis has taught us a tough and important lesson- there is
a pressing need for containing systemic risk in the financial system. However, prior to
Containing this risk and form the necessary ...
Role of Gratitude and Obligation in Business Relationships
(2013)
Marketers build customer relationship through various relationship marketing (RM) investments (Berry, 1994). These investments impact customers in terms of their loyalty and customer purchase intentions (Hsu, 2007; Yuping ...
Degree of Openness and Project Performance: a Multi-Country Empirical Assessment of Open Innovation Information Technology Initiatives
(2013)
The concept of open innovation has received much interest in management research of late. Open innovation paradigm considers that in order to advance technologies and markets, firms can and should leverage internal and ...
Impact of Perceived Bases of Power of Brand on Consumers’ Behaviour and Attitude in a Brand-Consumer Relationship Context
(2013)
Research suggests that brands have human like qualities (Aaker, 1997; Aaker & Fournier, 1995; Levy, 1985; McGill, 2000) and consumers can form relationships with brands as they form social relationships with other human ...
Managing Ambidexterity in Growth Phase of Start-Up Firms
(2013)
This thesis explores how startup firms balance the conflicting requirements of exploration and exploitation during their growth phase, i.e., until they reach a stage of maturity when they no longer can be called start-ups. ...
From Needing Help to Seeking Help: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Interpersonal Help Seeking Behavior in the Software Industry
(2012)
Helping behavior is appreciated and rewarded, and helping interactions are greatly encouraged in organizations. Research in organizational behavior too is replete with studies on helping and on helpers. The present study ...
An Exploratory Study of Post-implementation Experiential Perceptions of Reservations with Focus on Stigmatization Processes in the Higher Professional Education Context
(2013)
Multiple efforts around the world are made to address the issue of discrimination and marginalization. The Indian experience has taken the form of reservation policy in public services, in public sector jobs and in public ...