Browsing 3rd Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (IAM), 2013 by Title
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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 ... -
Effect of Transformational Leader Communication on Affective Commitment to Change
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Extant literature indicates the significance of both organizational level concept like transformational leadership and individual level aspect like employee attitude, for organizational change. This paper presents a model ... -
Effectiveness of Performance Management Systems in the Indian Construction sector
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This exploratory study seeks to specifically understand Performance management systems, their applicability and effectiveness in relation to the Indian construction sector . The sample for the study consisted of 138 employees ... -
Effects of TQM on Perceptual HRM
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper examines the effects of TQM practices practiced by software organizations on perceptual HRM within India. The study sample consisted of 324 employees, resulting in a response rate of 81 percent. A questionnaire ... -
The Emergence of an Organizational Field: The Case of Open Source Software
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The institutional theory perspective has been used to study organizations and organizational fields. In this paper, we use the perspective to examine the emergence of the organizational field of open source software as ... -
An Empirical Study on Corporate Social Responsibility, Intention to Quit and Job Embeddedness
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Systematic research regarding the effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on organization stakeholder groups, like employees, remains sparse. This paper examines employee’s reaction to CSR programmes at the ... -
An Empirical Test of Efficiency of Exchange-traded Currency Options in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The objective of this paper is to examine efficiency of the exchange-traded currency options market in India. Put-call-futures parity for the USD-INR currency options is studied by analyzing daily closing prices of options ... -
Enterprising Behavior in an Integral Competence Framework
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)We present insights from literature on enterprising behavior and competence followed by an application of the competence perspective. Data collection is based on the Critical Incident Technique among 205 entrepreneurs. The ... -
Ethnography in marketing: Acceptance and relevance
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)In this study, we attempt to explore the acceptance and relevance of ethnography as a research method in marketing. We conduct a semiotics-led textual analysis of 15 leading mainstream academic journals in marketing for ... -
Evaluation of Entrepreneurs on Indian Venture Capital Firms-A Study
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Potential entrepreneurs rely on Venture Capital (VC) as an important source of finance not only for capital infusion but also for their value added services. Therefore, these entrepreneurs are often afraid to voice their ... -
Evolution of Network- Formation, Decay and Churning: Evidence from a five year Ph.D. program in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)Network evolution is a topic which has been relatively less explored in the network literature. This study is an attempt to fulfil this gap by trying to understand evolution of networks using the context of a doctoral ... -
Examining the impact of education on Indian farm labour
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Research on understanding the benefits of education in the rural context show positive pecuniary benefits on the farm, and a shift towards non-farm activities. Using the IHDS 2005 data, the years of education was regressed ... -
Examining the relationship between organization structure and innovation: A study of Indian corporations
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This study examined the relationships between innovation in organizations and key organization structure characteristics of vertical and horizontal complexity, formalization, centralization, delegation of authority and ... -
Examining the Role of Relational Identification in between the Transformational Leadership and Job Performance
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The present study focuses on the role of relational identification between transformational leadership and job performance. The model has been tested in the higher education sector. Information regarding transformational ...