Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Integrating water and energy systems for India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)The Paris Climate Change Agreement (PCCA, 2015) calls for holding global warming during 1850-2100 to 2 °C and well below 2°C, mainly through nationally determined contributions (NDCs). United Nations Sustainable Development ... -
Essays on Frontline workers’ motivation and performance under public programs: A multi-method study
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Frontline workers constitute a critical part of the implementation cadre within public policies, serving a significant role in the delivery of public goods and services. This dissertation examines frontline workers’ work ... -
Essays on share repurchases
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)This dissertation comprises three essays, which empirically examine the influence of investor and managerial irrationality on open market repurchases (OMRs) in the US market. In the first essay, we examine the systematic ... -
Self-Initiated teacher innovations in government rural elementary schools: Evolution, impact, and sustainability
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)The challenge to the production function approach has attracted the attention of education research towards the behavioural aspects of key educational change initiators, i.e., teachers and principals. The teaching profession ... -
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 ... -
Essay 1: Audit committee members’ attendance and its impact on earnings management. Essay 2: Exogenously reduced busyness and its impact on earnings management
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Essay 1: Audit committee members’ attendance and its impact on earnings management Prior accounting literature examines the impact of the characteristics of Audit Committee (AC), such as composition, diligence, the presence ... -
Streaming data: New models and methods with applications in the transportation industry
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Streaming data or data streams can be defined as an infinite and continuous inflow of data coming at a very high pace. Streaming Data comes with its set of challenges viz. one-time pass, infinite data, a very high speed ... -
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 ... -
A framework to analyse the telecommunications policy process in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Theories of the policy process refer to the body of theories that may be used as a lens to develop a structured view of the public policy process. What strikingly emerges from a review of literature is that academicians ... -
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 ... -
Impact of regulation change on earnings quality in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)The primary objective of this thesis is to examine the impact of regulation change on earnings quality. This work is organized into two distinct chapters. The first chapter examines the impact of auditor appointment ... -
“Indirect” impact of high-performers on their subordinates’ careers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Studies propound that the intentional effort of the managers to contribute towards their subordinates’ growth and satisfaction leads to a positive impact on the latter’s career advancement (Dulebohn et al., 2012; Scandura ... -
The influence and interaction of online store brand and product brand on pre-purchase and post-purchase consumer behaviour
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Consumers often use product brand name and store brand name as proxies of quality while making purchase decisions. In an online shopping context, the inability of consumers to physically examine the products increases the ... -
Deciphering the choice overload phenomenon – Exploring the role of consideration sets and anticipated regret
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Studies on choice proliferation and its negative effects, popularly referred to as ‘Choice Overload (CO)’, have built on insights from the seminal ‘Jam Study’ (Iyengar & Lepper, 2000), which highlighted the paradoxical ... -
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, ... -
Evolution of new freight structure in India over the long run: A policy assessment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)India’s per capita CO2 emissions increased from 0.8 to 1.7 metric tonnes from 1990 to 2010; however it was well below the world average of 4.9 metric tonnes in 2010. The major contributor to the emissions are the electricity ... -
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. ... -
Contradictions between identity and image of an organization: Exploring responses in new entrepreneurial ventures
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Organizational identity, defined as members’ constructions about who we are as an organization (Gioia & Patvardhan, 2012), is considered as the core of organizational cognition and action. However, the understanding of ... -
Internationalization of emerging market firms: A dynamic capability perspective
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)The dissertation empirically explains how dynamic capabilities enable emerging market firms (EMFs) to expand into international markets and generate higher performance through international expansion. With the help of three ... -
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 ...