Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Does Strategic Planning Determine Innovation in Organizations? A Study of Indian SME Sector
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Innovation is considered to be a source of competitive advantage. Not surprisingly, innovation has been a matter of scholarly interest for several decades now. However, despite its critical importance to the strategy ... -
Understanding the Experiences of ‘Not Knowing’ in Workplace
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)‘Knowing’ is respected, recognized and rewarded, and is the dominant discourse in organizations. The key for understanding and analyzing issues or problems or situations is often seen as ‘knowing’. Amidst the emphasis on ... -
Re-Internationalization Process in Organizations
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Re-internationalization, or a firm’s re-entry into international operations after exiting from initial international operations, is a scarcely researched phenomenon, although it has been found that intentions for re-entry ... -
Modal Shift Estimation and Financial Viability of High Speed Rail in India: The Case Study of Ahmedabad – Mumbai Corridor
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The share of rail in passenger transport in India has declined rapidly, primarily due to severe capacity constraints and inability of railways to increase the speed of travel. Other countries facing similar problems have ... -
A Study of Investor Sentiment in the Indian Market.
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Market sentiment has always been given importance by investors in their decisions. Classical finance theories based on investor rationality, however, largely ignored the possible role of market sentiment in asset pricing. ... -
Solar And Bioenergy Scenarios For India: Modelling And Policy Assessment.
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Renewable energy resources and technologies are among the prime options to mitigate externalities from energy supply-chain. Typically energy externalities appear in different forms and vary across spatial and temporal ... -
Sustainable Low Carbon Urban Mobility: An Assessment of Future Scenarios and Policies for India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Under business-as-usual development, emissions from the transportation system that delivers mobility, given its high fossil-fuel dependence, are expected to exacerbate local air pollution across India's cities and add to ... -
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 ... -
Essays on the Newsboy Problem
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)The newsboy problem is about minimizing the penalty associated with demand-supply mismatch of an item with uncertain demand by suitably deciding the stocking quantity. Newsboy problem arises in a variety of situations ... -
An Integrative Delineation of the Determinants of Dynamic Capabilities: A Study in the Information Technology Industry.
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Dynamic capabilities are the capabilities of an organization to systematically change its resources base by sensing opportunities and making appropriate and timely decisions (Barreto, 2010; Teece, Pisano, & Shuen, 1997; ... -
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 ... -
Essays in mergers and acquisitions, governance structures and firm valuation
(2013)Essay 1: Private Benefits, Wealth-risk Sensitivity and Conglomeration Lifecycle as Determinants of Ownership Structure In the first essay we investigate the cross-sectional determinants of ownership and examine the effect ... -
Impact of perceived overqualification on salesperson performance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)Salesperson performance is a key indicator of organizational performance. We know that many different factors such as qualification level, selling skills, organizational culture, reward systems etc. influence salesperson ... -
Instrumental leadership as a determinant of salesperson performance: applying the extended full range leadership theory (FRLT)
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)Salesperson performance plays an important role in determining the success of an organization. Due to of rapidly changing technology, increasing competition and rising customer expectation, the job of a salesperson continues ... -
Sustainable low carbon transport: an integrated policy framework and assessment for India
(2014)Mobility is integral to socio-economic development. Transport sector‘s fuel mix imposes multiple external costs vis-à-vis energy security, air quality and climate change. The contemporary literature shows that these ... -
Climate change, air pollution and public health in India: impact assessment and adaptation strategies
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Climate change has brought into sharp focus two key environmental health concerns for Indian cities - outdoor air pollution and climate change related temperature extremes. This research explores exposure-response relationships ... -
Uncertainty and risk management of climate change impacts on infrastructure assets
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Infrastructure assets are a constrained resource in India and face stress from population growth, increased urbanization, resource variability and use, and economic growth. Climate change is an additional stress which has ... -
Challenges in the introduction of new technologies: a study of the performance and adoption of hybrid rice in India
(2014)Rice is the most important food staple of India and increasing its production in the context of rising food demand and escalating food prices is a major challenge in India. Breakthroughs are urgently required. A major ... -
Institutional interaction and participative decision-making in development programmes: a study of their importance in effective natural resource management
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)The impact of institutions on economic development has been a subject of considerable interest in recent years. It is now being widely acknowledged that apart from the standard factors such as capital, labour and technology, ... -
Rich dad, poor dad: life-cycle portfolio savings & human capital accumulation
(Indian Institute Of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)This dissertation extends the human-capital and intergenerational literature by examining a two-generation life-cycle problem of an altruistic parent valuing the human-capital of his off spring and facing competing ...