Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Institutionalization of ethics at workplace: A study of contributory role of HR and line functionaries
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Growing number of observed unethical practices in workplace and its dire consequences for the organization has forced the organization to think beyond compliance based initiatives hence, organizations have started responding ... -
Environmental Compliance: A case study of the Alang ship-breaking yard
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2003)A study of the Alang Ship-breaking Yard, Gujarat was undertaken to examine the factors responsible for environmental non-compliance. Levels of pollution can be lowered through effective environmental regulations. The ... -
Response of National R&D Laboratories to Environmental Change: A Study of Five Indian Industrial R&D Laboratories
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1996)Background: In a country like India, where more than 60% of the national expenditure on research and development is made by the central government, national RSLD laboratories have a major role to play in technological ... -
The Strategies of Voluntary Organizations: A Study of the Content of Strategy and the Process of Strategy Formation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1992)An organization’s strategy has been viewed as an important variable as it defines the relationship of the total organization to its environment, and guides the internal administrative and operational activities on an ... -
Multilevel Network Measures for Organizational Learning Process
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Organizational learning has received increasing attention from scholars and practitioners alike for the past five decades. Yet the lack of agreement among scholars for an accepted theory or methodology for measuring ... -
Freedom Related Practices and Corporate Effectiveness: An Exploratory Study
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2003)This study explores the relationship between the practices embedded in the notion of freedom within the corporate context and corporate effectiveness. It hypothesizes that those corporate organizations that grant greater ... -
Impact of Overlapping Price Ranges on Psychological Price Perception: Revisiting The Range Theory of Pricing
(2016)The context in which a product is seen has an impact on the behavior of consumers. Specifically the impact of the context provided by the most and least extreme values, i.e., the range of stimuli presented has been well ... -
International Trade: Elixir Or Venom For Health?
(2016)The impact of globalization, especially economic globalization, on human development of underdeveloped countries has been a widely debated topic. There are two contrarian views: modernization view that sees globalization ... -
Drivers, Facilitators and Consequences: Exploring & Examining Job Crafting among Management Consultants
(2016)The job crafting perspective considers the ways in which employees proactively alter their tasks, relationships and perceptions at work in order to achieve a personalized fit to their work environment. Studies confirm that ... -
Patterns and Determinant of Internationalization by New Ventures in India: A study of entrepreneurial, firm and industry factors
(2016)Researchers had recognized the important contribution of SMEs to international trade, but Oviatt & Mcdougall (1994) highlighted the importance of younger and smaller firms and their distinguishing features that help them ... -
Industrial Productivity Growth and Agglomeration Economies
(2016)Industries concentrate spatially because dense networks of firms and individuals generate benefits known as agglomeration economies. The literature has established that agglomeration economies have an impact on productivity ... -
Multi-Period Facility Location Problem With an Uncertain Number of Servers
(2016)Facility location problems reported in the literature generally assume the problem parameter values (like cost, budget, etc.) to be known with complete certainty, even if they change over time (as in multi-period versions). ... -
Perception of foreignness of brands: An investigation of consumers classification schema and its impact on brand evaluations
(2016)Country-of-origin (COO) affects consumers’ perceptions towards brands and products. However, research also suggests that consumers rarely recognize brand origins accurately (Balabanis & Diamantopoulos, 2008; Samiee, Shimp ... -
Impact Of Bundle Forms On Change In Consumers’ Internal Reference Price (IRP) Of Bundle Components
(2016)Consumers’ internal reference price (IRP) is an internal standard against which observed prices are compared. Promotions on individual products lead to change (reduction) in consumers’ IRP leading to lower purchase of ... -
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 ... -
The Role Of Community Health Insurance In Perfecting Financial Inclusion
(2016)Financial inclusion has become a major imperative for development of rural regions and elimination of poverty. Within India, several attempts at financial inclusion have been made, but these efforts have remained mostly ... -
Impact of CEO Succession on Strategic Changes in Large Indian Firms
(2016)This thesis integrates aspects of CEO cognition, managerial discretion, firm’s internal dynamics and institutional drivers to better understand the impact of CEO succession on strategic changes. This is the first broad-based ... -
Community Influences On Strategy-As-Practice In Family Businesses
(2016)The strategy-as-practice perspective concerns ways of doing that fall into specific routines and works patterns, which may vary from firm to firm in an industry, and between different types of firms, while at the same time ... -
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, ... -
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: ...