Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Title
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Exploration of positive characteristics in employee engaging in organizational citizenship behaviors
(2008)Positive Psychology has emerged as an independent area of enquiry in psychology and organizational behavior. Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) and Positive Organizational Behavior (POB) study positive psychological ... -
Explorations in modeling and forecast assessment of energy derivatives
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Amid economic and geopolitical uncertainty, energy commodities have gone through abrupt shifts in supply and demand dynamics during the last decade. This has caused unprecedented price volatility. To manage excessive price ... -
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 ... -
An Exploratory-formulative case study of employee retaliation in industrial relations
(2005)A single incidence of retaliation, which resulted in shooting of a worker by the CEO of an organization and the subsequent lynching and torching of both the Personnel Manager and the CEO within the workplace premises, has ... -
An exploratory-formulative study of executive dispute handling capability, morphology, measurement and modalities
(2006)Dispute handling capability is a critical resource in society given that disputes are an ever present reality in social, economic and political activity spheres. Over the years, there has been a surfeit of scholarly endeavor ... -
Exploring Openness in Innovation Process
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Innovation as a source of competitive advantage helps organization gain superior returns from market. Until recently, innovation activities were generally restricted inside organizations and in some cases to select partners, ... -
Exploring the context, process and outcome of strategic information system decisions: a study of organizations from India and Singapore
(1998)In this era of rapid change, one of the crucial issues facing senior IS executives is the development of an effective information systems (IS) strategy. Increasing advancements in information technology, together with ... -
Exploring the impact of employee perceptions of CSR on work related behavior with spirituality as a moderator
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)With the passage of Indian Companies Act (2013), a new thrust among the managers and researchers has developed for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) research. The extant literature review on CSR suggests a scarcity of ... -
Exploring welfare maximizing SPS standards in a game-theoretic framework: a case of Indo-US trade in wheat and mango
(2010)As the trade quotas have been eliminated under GATT and tariffs have been rationalized under WTO; the focal point of disputes and negotiations in international trade has shifted to non-tariff barriers, particularly Sanitary ... -
Exploring Work Intensification: A Case of Telehomework in the Information Technology Sector in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Most scholars who empirically examined the link between work intensification and telehomework consider work intensification as an outcome of telehomework. However, a few others suggest that work intensification engenders ... -
Exports and economic growth in India: - an empirical investigation
(1993)It has often been argued that the external sector constitutes a small proportion of India’s economy (imports and exports as a proportion of GNP were 8.2 per cent and 6.2 per cent respectively for 1990/91), and hence trade ... -
Extent of exposure and satisfaction with exposure as predictors of attitudes towards women as managers
(1988)Several organizations appear to discriminate against women. This discrimination is commonly traced to the stereotypic attitudes of male managers toward women as managers. Reducing discrimination, therefore, requires changing ... -
Factors influencing commitment of key individuals towards an organisational transformation
(1998)Recent years have been marked by many significant changes in the technological, socio—cultural, competitive, political and legal conditions faced by Indian organizations. To sustain growth and profitability in such fast ... -
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. ... -
Factors related to empowerment of women employees in a streotypical job
(2010)1990s as has been noted as "empowerment era" by some writers {e.g., Hardy, & Lieba O'Sullivan, 1998; Waif, Wood, & Leach, 2004). Empowerment plays a significant role in realizing human potential (Spreitzer, 1992). Right ... -
Father-son relationship dynamics and individual performance: A study of the marwari family business
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Family businesses with their overlapping systems of business, ownership and family (Gersick, Davis, Hampton, & Lansberg, 1997) represent a distinctive class of organizations encompassing the economic landscape of nations. ... -
Financial sector reforms in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
(1997)In the context of Structural Adjustment which involved changing the relative wrights of public and private sectors in the economic matters. Financial Sector Reforms assume added significance as financial institutions have ... -
Firm aspirations, resource orchestration and performance: a study of Indian firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)Resource orchestration is characterized by a series of firm-level strategic actions – from search and selection of assets (resource investment) to the bundling and leveraging of these assets (resource deployment) – and ... -
Firm level technological learning and performance: an empirical study in the Indian drugs and pharmaceutical industry
(1997)Firms acquire technological capability through a process of technological learning. The extant literature indicates that the process of technological learning influences a firm’s technological performance. The conceptual ... -
Formation process of public private partnership in transport infrastructure in India
(2009)The dissertation suggests that an attempt to create strong relational arrangements along with the contractual arrangements would lead to higher rate of success in PPP. Relational arrangements have become a major determinant ...