Browsing 3rd Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (IAM), 2013 by Title
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Building a Leadership Pipeline: A Case Study of NTPC
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Building a leadership pipeline is an alarming challenge in today’s competitive business environment. The insufficiency of available leadership talent is the utmost limiter in a company’s development. Companies arrange a ... -
Building Organizational Trust for Positive Workplace Attitude
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Present study has examined organizational level factors as predictors of organizational trust and its impact on employees’ attitude and behaviour namely knowledge sharing, affective commitment, and turnover intention. The ... -
Capital Structure of Indian Steel Companies: Its Determinants
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper is an attempt to study the capital structure of Indian Steel Industry and its determinants. The 66 sample steel companies are bearing an average debt portion of 68% in their capital structure means highly debt ... -
Carved in Stone: Discursive Pragmatism and the Dabbawala Discourse
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The study examines the discourse that has been generated around the Dabbawalas’ processes, their reception, assessment and applicability. The questions that this study raises are: Is the discourse generated around the ... -
Colliding Conflicting Perspectives: The rhetoric and reality of employee turnover- Evidence from the Indian BPO industry
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This study provides a deeper exploration of the qualitative thematic structures of conflicting accounts between employee reasons to quit and managerial strategies to prevent employee turnover in six business process ... -
Commercializing and Marketing the Concept of Cord Blood Stem Cells Preservation through Public Private Partnership Model (PPP)
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The medical technology has transformed into a greater pinnacle and changed the way the diseases are diagnosed and treated. The recent innovation is preservation and the use of cord blood stem cells to cure incurable/difficult ... -
Communities-of-Practice: Powerful or Powerless?
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)The extant literature provides evidence that control measures employed in Communities-of-Practice (CoP) have undergone significant changes with the evolution of the concept. When it started as a self-organized group, its ... -
Conceptualisation of community marketing as collaborative entry mode in developing economies with special focus on Mobile Financial Services
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Developing countries in Asia and Africa represent large untapped markets at Bottom of the Pyramid which is not serviced by conventional products using traditional marketing channels. Organisations are increasing looking ... -
Constructing Professional Resource Networks From Career Biographical Data
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Advances in technology and its usage have resulted in vast quantities of information being available on the public domains accessible via the internet. Particularly, research on populations not easily accessible, for ... -
A Content Analysis of Female Portrayals in Indian Magazine Advertisements
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Since 1970’s several research studies have been conducted by the developed countries on portrayal of women in advertising however very few researches can be traced in developing nations particularly in case of India. The ... -
Corporate Governance in Family Owned Small Firms
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)In this paper, we examine the impact of corporate governance on the performance of unlisted family owned small firms in India. By employing regressions with panels corrected standard errors as well as generalized least ... -
The crippling effect of diversity of emotional intelligence on team performance and the moderating role of a leader in managing emotions
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Many researchers assert the importance of emotional intelligence on team performance, without actually hinting at the effect of diversity of emotional intelligence on team performance. We develop a theoretical model which ... -
Cultural competence of Successful Indian Leaders
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)What characterizes global leaders of Indian nationality with high performance indicators? This conceptual paper examines the behavior preferences of Indian corporate leaders while leading people across various cultures. ... -
Demystifying the Gateways to Social Entrepreneurship through Resource Dependence Perspective
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Extant literature elucidates that the social entrepreneurial process is quite different from commercial entrepreneurial process. This paper conceptually delineates the reasons for ‘entry’ and intentions for ‘exit’ of a ... -
Developing Organizational Creativity and Innovation: Toward a model of self-leadership, employee creativity, creativity climate and Workplace Innovative Orientation
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Creativity and innovation provide the basis for sustainable competitive advantage to the organizations operating in the present business environment. Organizational creativity stems from the summative approach of collective ... -
Developing Organizational Creativity and Innovation: Toward a model of self-leadership, employee creativity, creativity climate and Workplace Innovative Orientation
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Creativity and innovation provide the basis for sustainable competitive advantage to the organizations operating in the present business environment. Organizational creativity stems from the summative approach of collective ... -
Do Family Firms Learn? A Relational View
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Though theoretical contributions have enriched organizational learning literature for over five decades, it is surprising to find that organizational learning has rarely been studied for family firms. When two out of every ... -
Does the Big Idea drive the social enterprises? The role of mission and vision in scaling up
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)In this paper, we attempt to examine how the ‘Big Idea’ explicated by the founder, drove the social enterprises towards rapid scaling up. By ‘Big Idea’, we mean the broadness and the magnitude of the problem definition by ... -
Effect of organizational risk orientation and change disposition on dynamic capabilities: An emerging markets perspective
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This conceptual paper address an important gap in the dynamic capabilities literature by conceptualizing that organizational risk orientation and organizational change disposition are critical determinant factors that ... -
Effect of organizational risk orientation and change disposition on dynamic capabilities: An emerging markets perspective
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This conceptual paper address an important gap in the dynamic capabilities literature by conceptualizing that organizational risk orientation and organizational change disposition are critical determinant factors that ...