Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Governing through problems: public policies as discursive practices
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-01-29)Policies produce ‘problems’ in specific ways (Bacchi, 2009). Following this logic, policies are regarded as an attempt to bring together ‘rules’ for the ‘solving’ of ‘problems’ that occur with respect to specifically ... -
Novel cognitive consequences of product anthropomorphism on consumer judgment and decision making
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Consumers frequently come across anthropomorphic products, i.e., products imbued with human-like features. Marketers may anthropomorphize products by designing them to visually resemble human physical features (e.g., a ... -
Governing by (in)visibilising: a case of waste materials, infrastructure and work
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)India has a long history of condemning Dalits and Bahujans and later Adivasis to waste-work. Intersections and overlays of caste, gender, historic exclusion, and policy neglect are mired in waste-work – work that is essential ... -
Examining entrepreneurial orientation from the lens of CEO characteristics
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The dissertation empirically examines the effects of the characteristics of Chief Executive Officers (CEO) on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of firms with the help of three essays. EO is the strategic posture of firms ... -
Competitive hub location problem
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)I seek to understand the processes of organising that emerges and manifests as food-spaces, where class and gender are constructed and performed. Such spaces may be constituted as 'eating-out' spaces, work-spaces and social ... -
Redefining dignity in the context of precarity: Indian security guards’ interface with their clients, suppliers and unions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)Precarity, marked by uncertainty, instability and insecurity has become a significant feature of contemporary work and employment. This is particularly applicable to India, where 93% of the workforce (which includes those ... -
In the pursuit of international assignment success: role of cultural intelligence
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)International assignments form the backbone of global human resource management. These assignments have been elemental for various business strategies, control, coordination, knowledge transfer, and the development of ... -
Governing subjectivities: investigating employment relations in the Indian information technology (IT) sector
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The objective of this thesis is to study employment relations in the Indian IT industry. Drawing from Foucauldian scholarship on governmentality in organizational studies, employment relations are understood as practices ... -
Determining effects of a web-based teachers’ professional development programme on teaching self-efficacy beliefs and classroom practice
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The design of large-scale professional development (PD) programmes for teachers in the public schooling system faces two challenges. The first is identifying a suitable malleable construct which influences student performance, ... -
Developmentally effective experiences in a graduate business school and their role in self-authorship among students
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)Holistic student development is an important objective of higher education. It requires students to move from a conventional assumptions-based mode of understanding to a critical, systemic thinking that enables the development ... -
Three essays on diversity in multiple levels of strategic leadership
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)In three independent but related essays, we examine diversity (heterogeneity) in strategic leadership to explore the interdependency among multiple levels of strategic leadership and analyze the role that strategic leaders ... -
Workplace incivility antecedents and outcomes-implications on HR practices
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)Counterproductive and deviant behavior at the workplace can take many forms from rudeness to bullying to abusive supervision to even violence. In the recent decade, there has been a lot of research on the antecedents and ... -
Implications of delivering healthcare through strategic partnerships under publicly funded health insurance schemes: analysis of equity in access, demand for health services and quality of care in Indian context
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)In forwarding the agenda of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), developing countries, including India, have adopted Publicly Funded Health Insurance Schemes (PFHIs) to serve their impoverished population. When PFHIs are ... -
Variations in the use of electronic medical records in obstetrics and gynecology consultation: role of sociocultural aspects
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The use of electronic medical records (EMRs) in providing quality care for patients is spreading across countries including India. A systematic review of the literature reveals that EMR systems are designed as the database ... -
Incentive effects of pay for performance on employee motivation, performance and well-being: a self-determination perspective
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)Pay-for-performance (PFP) is a financial incentive component of employee compensation that is contingent on performance. It is rewarded to the employee in recognition of the past performance and also acts an incentive for ... -
Performing eating out: organizing food-spaces and 'new' forms of working
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)I seek to understand the processes of organising that emerges and manifests as food-spaces, where class and gender are constructed and performed. Such spaces may be constituted as 'eating-out' spaces, work-spaces and social ... -
Essays on behavioural finance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)We present two essays on behavioural finance in this dissertation. The first essay examines the influence of price-path, particularly the ‘non-straight’ price-path, on several aspects of investor behaviour. We compute ... -
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 ... -
Multitype branching process: extensions, inferences and applications
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)The idea of a simple branching process is that a parent produces offsprings. They then further take the role of parents and produce o springs, and the processes continue either until infinity or until extinction. We relax ... -
Three essays on interest rate modeling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)This dissertation presents three essays that explore and propose methodological modifications to adapt yield curve modeling to the context of emerging markets using data from Indian bond markets. While no arbitrage affine ...