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Ableism and employment of persons with disabilities: organizational socialization of employees with blindness
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)Despite rights-based conventions and legislative structures in place, PWDs face overwhelming challenges in obtaining a paid job. Those who succeed to get employed, face numerous issues, especially during their organizational ... -
Acquisition and assimilation of technology in the tractor industry in India: the strategic perspective
(1980)Researchers in international transfer of technology have predominantly assumed the perspective of top management of multinational corporations or public policy makers in developing countries. The influence of the external ... -
Adaptiveness in water management institutions: nature, existence and impact
(2010)The effective management of water resources is assuming enormous importance in India in the recent years. Sound water resource use is crucial for sustaining and raising food production, increasing rural incomes, alleviating ... -
Adoption of family planning: a process model and optimal pattern for the visit of a field worker
(1975)In the context of the poor performance of the national family planning programme and the current paucity of resources, a major problem facing the programme administration is that of effective utilization of available ... -
Adoption of management systems in Indian organisations
(1980)Management Systems have always been in use in Indian organisations. However, not much is known about them either for their functional advantages or for their long term effects on organisations. This study was undertaken ... -
Algorithms for evaluation and design of reliable networks
(2010)A reliable network is a network in which network elements, i.e., arcs and/or nodes, are functional only with a pre-specified probability. Such networks are used to model real-life networks such as telecommunication networks ... -
Aligning decarbonization of energy systems and sustainable development in India: synergies and tradeoffs
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)Although a rapidly growing economy, India faces many challenges on energy access and clean energy echoing some of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Moreover, post-2020 climate actions outlined in ... -
All for a good cause: a study of placement of cause marketing advertisements in consumer online decision journey
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)This study examines the impacts of placing cause advertisements at different stages of a consumer’s online decision journey. Cause related marketing (CRM) is defined as a commercial activity in which a brand is advertised ... -
Analysis and design of public policy using system dynamics approach: a case in healthcare sector.
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)High prevalence of communicable diseases, rapid increase in prevalence of non-communicable diseases, and poor maternal and child health indicators characterize public health situation in India. One of the main reasons for ... -
Antecedents and consequences of job crafting by school teachers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)The effects of facilitating factors within a school, such as leadership style and psychological empowerment, on job crafting behavior of teachers were explored. Wrzesniewski and Dutton (2001) defined job crafting as ... -
Antecedents and consequences of top management team's power structure in a family business context
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)There are differences in the goals and motivations of the family managers vis-a-vis the nonfamily managers of a family firm that lead to power struggles between the two cohorts. Power distribution among family and non-family ... -
Antecedents of diversification: perspectives from theories of firm
(2006)The managers and consultants in the West continue to dismantle conglomerates and refocus the mildly diversified firms; however the large, diversified firms and business groups continue to remain a dominant from in emerging ... -
An application of cost benefit analysis to rural electrification
(1977)The purpose of Benefit-Cost Analysis is to evaluate benefits and costs 'correctly' while comparing competing alternatives and choose the best of them in order to maximize society's benefits. If every input is cost at its ... -
Assessment of the electricity reforms: restructuring improving access and policies for the future
(2005)The frenzy generated by the throwing open of the generation sector in 1991 by the amendment of the electricity statute has largely subsided with the experiences in Orissa and the prolonging problems in Dhabol. Hence ... -
Asset pricing models under parameter nonstationarity
(1988)Asset pricing theory in modern finance deals with the valuation of risky assets, particularly, financial securities. Apart from its application in portfolio management, asset pricing theory is used in corporate finance to ... -
An attribution theoretical analysis of consumers satisfaction and dissatisfaction with products
(1985)Satisfaction and dissatisfaction of a consumer with a product depend on his initial expectations and the extent to which these expectations are fulfilled (confirmed) or not Fulfilled (disconfirmed) According to attribution ... -
Banking on human beings: action research in human resource development and organization development in a large organization
(1983)Changing organizations to suit their socially desirable purposes while furthering humanistic values for its members is a growing challenge to the theory and practice of behavioural sciences. The task appears to be all the ... -
Beauty service work as dirty work: Understanding employees' lived experiences
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Beauty service work, an emergent industry in the contemporary business context, has earlier been studied as bodywork and interactive service work. The present study explores the subjective experiences of beauty service ... -
Behavioral perspective of budgeting; an exploratory study set in two fertilizer companies
(1985)This study examines budgeting from three different perspectives. 1. Industry practices and the importance of budgeting to organizations. 2. The relationships between the objectives of budgeting (planning evolution, ... -
Behaviour of stock market prices: information assimilation and market efficiency
(1985)The stock market plays an important role in the allocation of capital resources. The market is allocation ally efficient when it maintains equivalent rates of return on comparable investments, for this would channelize ...