Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Title
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A team level examination of the creativity to innovation link
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"A vast body of literature exists that acknowledges the role and impact of both creativity and innovation. However, reaching to innovation from a creative idea is not a guaranteed outcome. Leaders have been found to be a ... -
Technical and allocative efficiency in Indian dairy industry: a comparative study across institutional structures
(2008)The dairy sector in India has undergone rapid changes in last two decades in terms of milk production, market structure and Government policy orientation. India’s emergence as the largest milk producer in the world, coupled ... -
Technical innovation in the manufacturing enterprise: context and process
(1982)This study is about the micro bases of technical change. Strategic action at innovating technology within the manufacturing enterprise is one prominent route to aggregate technical change. There is, however, little ... -
Technologies, policies and measures for energy and environment future
(2001)Energy, economic activities and natural environment have close linkages that manifest in diverse problems like global climate change and local air pollution affecting human health, socio-economic conditions and ecological ... -
Technology adaptation in Indian chemical and engineering enterprises having collaboration with French enterprises - a comparative study
(1990)Technology innovation has been central to the growth of the economies of the industrialized countries. Technology innovation has therefore been extensively researched. In case of the newly industrializing countries, lacking ... -
Technology adoption and innovation in healthcare
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)What explains differential rates of healthcare technology adoption in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)? Three determinants that can help determine the technology adoption trajectory in LMICs are – demand-pull from ... -
Television advertising and consumer price sensitivity: a contingent approach
(2000)Advertising and pricing are two critical elements of a firm’s marketing strategy after the product design stage. On one hand advertising spending being a cash outflow, reduces profits while realised price on the other hand, ... -
Three essays in monetary economics
(2006)This thesis studies the monetary economics of the Indian economy in the form of three related essays. Starting from Friedman's constant money growth rate prescription & Kydiand & Prescott's Noble winning work on time ... -
Three essays on diversity in multiple levels of strategic leadership
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)In three independent but related essays, we examine diversity (heterogeneity) in strategic leadership to explore the interdependency among multiple levels of strategic leadership and analyze the role that strategic leaders ... -
Three essays on interest rate modeling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)This dissertation presents three essays that explore and propose methodological modifications to adapt yield curve modeling to the context of emerging markets using data from Indian bond markets. While no arbitrage affine ... -
Three essays on operational and strategic decisions in a competitive auto component replacement market
(2008)With constantly evolving markets and changing dynamics among firms, the competition has taken new dimensions. Competition on price alone is no longer sustainable. Increasingly, firms are competing on multiple dimensions ... -
Three essays on the Indian derivatives market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)The Indian derivatives market is one of the largest derivatives markets by volume in the world. The existence of liquid single stock options, single stock futures, and spot market along with very high retail participation ... -
Through the e-looking glass: three essays on influencer marketing, self-discrepancies and consumer behavior
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"One of the most popular buzzwords of recent times, influencer marketing has attracted significant attention across academia and practice. However, the impact of exposure to influencers on an individual's self-concept is ... -
Toward a better understanding of negation and brand recall memory
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Consumers rely heavily on their memories during decision-making. Consequently, the ability of consumers to recall brand-related information plays a vital role in their purchasing decisions. In this context, our research ... -
The trajectory of forgiveness in workplace bullying: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of target coping
(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 ... -
Trust and organisational commitment: a study in the Indian pharmaceutical sector
(2007)Organizational commitment (OC) is among the most widely researched topics in organizational behavior literature. Organizational commitment typifies the employees’ relationship with their organization and is believed to ... -
Trust and shopper patronage intentions: impact of congruity in store-shopper relationships
(2007)This study develops a Value-Congruity model of Trust for understanding how shopper trust builds in a store and how shopper patronage intentions are impacted at different levels of store-shopper relationship quality. The ... -
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, ... -
Uncertainty and risk management of climate change impacts on infrastructure assets
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Infrastructure assets are a constrained resource in India and face stress from population growth, increased urbanization, resource variability and use, and economic growth. Climate change is an additional stress which has ...