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Interplay of religion and marketplace transactions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Through an ethnographic study of an Indian marketplace, I examine how religion shapes marketplace transactions. In considering the impact of religion on marketplace transactions, I find that impression management through ... -
Intraday activity patterns and market microstructure effects in Indian capital markets: an empirical investigation using high frequency data
(2010)This study analyzes the intraday activity (volatility, volume and trade frequency) patterns and market microstructure effects in the Indian capital market using a large dataset. Intraday 5-minutes volume and volatility are ... -
Introducing management control systems for construction projects
(1985)The construction industry plays an important role in the overall economy, social growth and development by its contribution to gross domestic product and employment. It is estimated that during the Sixth plan, the industry ... -
Investigating the ‘private’ in the educational technology field: imaginaries and precarity in educational provisioning in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"Globally, the rise of the Educational Technology (EdTech) field has been accompanied by the growth of the market in education. Working alongside the dispersed policy networks and the discourse of ‘disruption’, the interests ... -
Investment options and least cost planning in the electricity sector in India
(2002)Today, the notion that all of the electricity sector is a natural monopoly, and as such is best organized as a regulated monopoly is no longer valid. Developments in contracting in regulation methods, in information ... -
Investment, profits and capacity utilisation in the Indian cement industry
(1984)This thesis studies various indicators of performance in the lndian Cement Industry like investment, profit and profitability and capacity utilization. An attempt was also made to explain the behavior of these performance ... -
Job performance of women at work in rural India: Job demands-resources (JD-R) perspective
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Rural working women in India represent a highly potential but mainly underutilized human resource whose job performance has individual as well as community level ramifications. Difficult geographies that are characterized ... -
Job satisfaction of frontline enforcement officers: a study of job demands, resources, stressors (JDRS) among officers of Indian Customs
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"The enforcement and regulatory public services, operating in a highly sensitive context with national security implications, display high job demands relative to resources. This study examines it through Frontline Customs ... -
Joint R&D projects of industrial firms and technology institutions with developmental financial institutional support: a strategy process study
(1996)Introduction: This study develops an empirically based conceptually derived typology and model of the process through which industrial firms and technology institutions (Tis) such as technology universities and national ... -
Lags in the transmission process of monetary policy in India
(1981)Monetary policy has been a major instrument of economic stabilization. Reliance on monetary policy for this purpose involves two main assumptions. a. That monetary policy is effective in influence the operation of ... -
Language Abstraction In Marketing Communication: Online Reviews Of Product Failure Context
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Although language is an essential component of word of mouth (WOM) there is limited understanding of how language used in WOM messages affects receivers. Extant research indicates that there are three dimensions of language: ... -
Language adaptation and advertising effectiveness: a study in a multi-cultural advertising context
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2011)The Indian television Advertising appears to predominantly standardize its creative strategy and a large part of the creative execution, allowing only localization of the language of the message to regional tastes. Systematic ... -
Learned helplessness in organizations
(1990)Problems and aversive situations usually make individuals engage in problem solving activities. Yet some people remain passive and apathetic. They tend to not do anything and quietly suffer the unpleasant consequences of ... -
Learned helplessness in the banking sector: interaction of individual and role characteristics
(1994)Learned helplessness (LH) syndrome is widespread in organizations. After repeated exposure to uncontrollable events, people come to expect that outcomes are not related to efforts. The expectation of uncontrollability leads ... -
Let's Put a Smile on that Face: A Study on the Embeddedness of Humorous Advertisements
(2016)The phenomenon of embeddedness has implications in the field of advertising, as the context in which ads are shown is one of the salient factors influencing their evaluation. The affect transfer hypothesis and 'mood as ... -
Life cycle costs and energy market equilibrium: a policy assessment for India
(2009)Energy production and consumption cause unintended impacts. Their exclusion by the market leads to sub-optimal resource allocations. Conventionally, market correction is proposed through Pigouviantaxes or Coasianbar gaining ... -
Lifestyles of Indian managers: an exploratory study of the images, experiences and impact of collectors in their districts
(1982)This is a study of the lifestyles of the managers of the districts celled district collectors in a State. The study has attempted to understand and describe the lifestyles of the individuals, discover the areas of commonalities ... -
Linkages between human resource flexibility, ambidexterity and successful outcomes in the context of information technology firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Management of alternate contexts that may arise due to a volatile exogenous environment can compel an organisation to explore new capabilities along with the exploitation of existing capabilities (O'Reilly and Tushman, ... -
Liquidity: effect on securities returns in Indian capital markets
(1994)In the mainstream literature of finance, Liquidity of an asset has not been considered an important determinant of its expected return or its price. There have been, however, few empirical and theoretical works which point ... -
Long-term technology strategies and policies for Indian power sector
(2001)Power sector technology strategy issues in the long-term covers a wide spectrum of economic, technological, environmental, institutional and socio-political issues. The broad research objective is to assess technology ...