Browsing 3rd Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (IAM), 2013 by Title
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Identifying Determinants Of Intention To Sharing Knowledge Among Sales People
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This article examines role of various economic, socio-psychological and organizational factors that influence a salesperson’s intention to share knowledge with others. The Theory of Reasoned Action was used as the theoretical ... -
Impact of a Sudarshan Kriya Based Occupational Stress Management Intervention on Physiological and Psychological Outcomes
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013-12-12)In a field experiment with 72 participants, we study the impact of Sudarshan Kriya on participants’ physiological and psychological variables. The intervention significantly reduced participants’ stress levels and blood ... -
Impact Of Learning Organization Attributes On Organization Performance: A Study Of An Indian PSU
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of learning organization dimensions on organizational performance in one of India’s leading PSUs using the ‘Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ)’developed ... -
Impact of Organizational Culture and Structure on Organizational Commitment and Individual Performance: Mediating Role of Self Efficacy
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)This study examines the impact of four types of organizational culture on the affective organizational commitment of the employees along with in-role and extra role behavior. We also measured the mediating effect of ... -
Impact of Personality and Belief Systems on Helping
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)We investigate the effects of sattva guna (a dimension of Indian personality theory) and beliefs in the law of karma (an essential aspect of Indian philosophy) on helping behaviors in teams. We studied a group of 292 ... -
Impact of Proactive Personality in predicting Training Outcomes
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)While past researches have extensively focused in the field of training transfer, there is little empirical work done examining the influence of personality. The purpose of the paper is to operationalize the personality ... -
Impact of Servant Leadership Style on Employee’s Intentions to Stay in Indian Organizations
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The research paper attempts to study Servant leadership (SL) style in Indian organizations and its impact on employee’s intentions to stay with particular organization. The finding of the study indicates that there exists ... -
Impression Management: Mitigating The Effects Of Sex-Stereotyping In Organizations
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Sex-stereotyping is a major barrier to advancement of women in organizations. Since sex-stereotypes are based on role attribution, they are less amenable to change through measures such as legislation and education. Women ... -
Improvement in Economic Well-being: Does Inter-generational Occupational Mobility Matter?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This study makes use of the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) data to look at the effect of inter-generational occupational mobility in India on perceptions of improved economic well-being. The study provides ... -
Improving Information Sharing in Groups by Using Dyads
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Present research focused on studying impact of preparation work (prework) in dyads on information sharing in groups. Stasser and Titus (1985) found that groups focus on common information during discussion and neglect ... -
Indian Military Leadership: An Exploratory Study
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper is based on an exploratory study of Indian military leadership that was delimited to the indigenous perspective and veterans’ own interpretations of effective military leadership when preparing and leading ... -
Individual pay, performance and career stages: A study in the context of the Men’s cricket team of India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Extensive research has been done in the field of professional sports and interesting implications have been drawn for organizations. Using Cricket as a professional sport we study the linkage between pay, performance and ... -
Influence of Dimensions of Strategic Orientation (SO) on the Growth of Small Firms & Resources as Moderating Variable: A Study of Indian Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Strategy-firm growth relationship has remained an important issue for researchers, despite considerable theoretical advances made in this area, little consensus has emerged on the key dimensions of strategy construct -- ... -
Influence Of Relational Mentoring On Role Based Performance
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Relational mentoring process denotes high quality mentoring on the mentoring continuum and it encompasses traditional or average quality of mentoring. Although, the undercurrent of support provided through relational ... -
Influence of Top Management Team Characteristics on Firm Performance in High Growth Environment: Examining Mediation Mechanisms Using Content Analysis of Annual Reports
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Top Management teams (TMT) play an important role in determining the strategic actions of a firm and in turn shaping the organizational outcome and performance. Hambrick and Mason’s Upper Echelon perspective provides a ... -
Innovation, Ownership Structures And Inyernationlization: Empirical Evidence From Indian Pharmaceutical Sector
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)We combine insights from international trade and corporate governance literatures to explore the link between innovation and internationalization under different ownership structures in the context of the pharmaceutical ... -
Interrelatedness of family and small business
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)We present a view that social construct-family- is closely intertwined with the economic construct-small business-. We also demonstrate that the notion of family is deeply entrenched in the thoughts of small business owners. ... -
Investigating Drivers of Loyalty: A Case of Rural Retail Banks in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)The aim of the present study is to explore customer’s perceived service quality and also attempts to determine the most significant predictor of customer loyalty. It also aims at developing a comprehensive model by integrating ... -
Knowledge Integration As A Driver Of Growth: The Case Of Indian IT Firms
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper argues that knowledge integration processes are critical in explaining firm performance and growth. We propose a framework in which efficiency, scope and flexibility of knowledge integration is promoted by a ...