Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Understanding work engagement of start-up employees using a mixed method approach
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"Over the last decade, the robust start-up ecosystem has significantly contributed towards global economic growth and employment generation. However, due to increased market competition and dynamicity, start-ups are ... -
Exact solution methods for non-convex optimization problems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"The thesis focuses on the development of efficient algorithms for solving the non-convex problems arising in different application areas involving operations and supply chains. In the first essay, we propose an exact ... -
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 ... -
Peer mentoring of school-based mentors: an exploratory study of mentoring relationships in public schools in urban Delhi
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"Peer mentoring of mentors, as a mechanism for the job-embedded professional development of mentors, provides opportunities for more competent mentors to guide the development of their mentor colleagues. The mentoring ... -
Collective action among communities for early adoption of top-down adaptation policies
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"This thesis, through two essays, examines how policy interventions for climate adaptation can foster collective action for vulnerable communities as well as the configuration of conditions at the community level that ... -
A team level examination of the creativity to innovation link
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"A vast body of literature exists that acknowledges the role and impact of both creativity and innovation. However, reaching to innovation from a creative idea is not a guaranteed outcome. Leaders have been found to be a ... -
Overcoming institutional voids in the agricultural product market: analysing the role of farmer organizations
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"In this thesis, we analyse the ability of farmer organizations to overcome institutional voids in the agricultural product markets. We further look at the impact of membership to one such farmer organization i.e., farmer ... -
Essays on managerial discretion
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"This thesis examines discretionary managerial decisions and investigates their association with the behavioral biases of market participants. We study managerial discretion in the context of repricing employee stock ... -
Stochastic models for omnichannel retail order fulfillment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-30)With a massive increase in the number of internet users and rapid urbanization, online retail is on a path of unprecedented growth. The online retail sales in India - with over 600 million internet users - is expected ... -
Exact methods for solving linear and nonlinear max-min problems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)This thesis focuses on developing exact solution methods for mixed-integer linear and nonlinear maxmin problems. The first essay proposes a tri-level min-max-min optimization problem (pM-FLPI) to design a resilient food ... -
Real-time analytics for intelligent systems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-17)Data streams are defined as a sequence of observations arriving continuously at a fast pace. They pose unique computational challenges viz: Single-pass at incoming observations, huge storage requirements, and accounting ... -
Factors influencing the performance of IS megaproject in an emerging economy: the freight operations information system of the Indian railways
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-13)IS megaprojects (ISMPs) are long duration complex ventures that involve extremely largescale investments, are transformational in nature, influence large populations and engage multiple public and private stakeholders. ... -
Essays on consumers’ responses to retail promotions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-24)How do consumers respond to innovative forms of promotional strategies employed by retailers? This thesis attempts to answer this question across two essays, using experiments as a primary method of inquiry. In Essay 1, ... -
Unbundling innovation strategies: firms’ technological choices and complementarities-in-performance of innovation inputs and outputs across developing countries
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Innovation is considered a multi-level construct and it takes the form of (i) inputs and (ii) outputs. Based on this, the thesis considers three inter-related questions in the form of three essays: (1) What factors (firm, ... -
Mitigation strategies for transitioning towards ‘Net-zero’ emissions from energy systems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-03-23)Net-zero emissions from energy systems are essential to meet the Paris climate goals. These transitions require intensive efforts from national governments, in addition to deeper climate commitments. As a coal-dependent, ... -
Markets, home country ecosystem partners & value creation: a study of Indian pharmaceutical industry
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Recently scholars have started studying the locus of value creation outside the firm and how various ecosystem partners and stakeholders impact firms and markets. We expand this research agenda in the context of the ... -
Designing for digital: an insight into the technological evolution of work-from-home in the contemporary workplace
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Work-from-home is increasingly becoming more prevalent over the last few decades. Given the recent pandemic, work-from-home has become an essential practice for many organisations across the world. Large-scale implementations ... -
Challenges of saving water: the adoption and impact of micro-irrigation technology in agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-04-06)The large-scale use of traditional irrigation methods has pushed agriculture towards extensive and unsustainable water use. The thesis focuses on the adoption and impact of Micro-Irrigation (MI) technology, considered an ... -
Individual choice decisions for joint consumption in close relationships: the roles of attachment security and relationship power
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-07-30)Consumers are part of multiple relationships which directly or indirectly influence their consumption decisions. We examine a set of consumer decisions in close relationships where they face the conflict of choosing ...