Browsing 3rd Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (IAM), 2013 by Title
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Labor Market outcome for Vocational Training in India- Does Safety net Theory holds true
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This work is an attempt to explore and examine why people join Vocational Education and Training (VET) by looking at the labour market outcome for VET trained people. Emerging literature on the performance of VET in European ... -
Leadership activities and their impact on creating knowledge in organizations
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Leaders play a central role in the process of knowledge creation. While researchers have emphasized a strong link between leadership styles and knowledge creation, the role of leadership in knowledge creation activities ... -
Life and Death of International Joint Ventures (IJVs): A Review of Literature and Theories
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper reviews scholarly work on International Joint Ventures (IJVs) as appeared in peer-reviewed journals. It attempts to identify how the research in this field has evolved and developed into sub-fields, which topics ... -
Making a Product Development Team Flexible: The Role of Strictness of Review Process
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)During the course of Product Development (PD), a product is continuously evaluated at each stage. The review process adopted for evaluating the progress can vary in terms of ‘strictness'. We explored how this strictness ... -
Management Control Systems and Corporate Governance: A Theoretical Review
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper reviews researches that study the relationship between the various components of the management control systems (MCS) as a package namely cybernetic control & cultural control and the organizational performance ... -
Management of Agency Problem through Performance Contracts – Case of Public Sector Enterprises
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)The current endeavor attempts to understand how the management of public enterprises could be incentivized to work by putting their maximum effort in the direction of the objectives set forth by the government as the ... -
Managing Emotions: Emotional Labor Or Emotional Enrichment
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Concept of ‘emotional labor’ has undergone many transformations since Hochschild (1983) described it. Researchers have broadened its scope by including emotion management by professionals in different roles, exploring its ... -
A Means-End Approach to Understand the Role of Values as Motivations of Sustainable Consumption Behaviour
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)With recent increased interest in understanding sustainable consumption behaviour of people, there is need to explore the value motives behind sustainable buying behaviour of consumers. Using means-end approach, an ... -
Measurement Of Tact Necessary To Prevent Industrial Disputes Leading To Loss Of Productivity----With Reference To Industries In South Bengal
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Industrial Disputes cause loss of productivity and decrease of profit, tending towards huge losses. It is, therefore, necessary to establish a benchmark level of tact or skill, that is required to ensure the prevention ... -
Measuring Consumer spirituality through a valid scale
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Spirituality has hardly received any attention from the marketing and consumer behaviour scholars. This study seeks to bridge that gap by addressing the issue of consumer spirituality and its measurement through CONSPIRIT ... -
Measuring Financial Risk taking using a dual preference approach for determination of Financial Satisfaction
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The purpose of this study is to measure the dual dimensions of financial risk taking and to find out how these dimensions relate to the financial satisfaction of the individual investors. A context specific measure of ... -
Measuring firm sustainability performance: Arriving at the right metrics
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Sustainability Performance is a popular word for firms, which is highlighted for competitive advantage. Firms present their initiatives through various forms of quantitative reporting highlighting their efforts towards ... -
Mindfulness: Nurturing global mindset and global leadership
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)In the contemporary globalized world, firms span across geographic, socio-cultural and economic boundaries and deal with the resultant diversity and complexity. Such firms look for developing a ‘global mindset’ in their ... -
Mixing tradition with enterprise: The case of English Apprenticeships
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The paper is an empirical critique of the use of tradition in the field of apprenticeship education in England. The paper briefly traces the history of apprenticeship schemes over the last 300 years in order to provide ... -
Mobile Merchandising Exploring new business practices in the mobile payment ecosystem
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Only a few mobile payments trials have been successful, many only partially. Failure may be explained by the lack of merchant involvement during the early stages of design. Previous researchers have suggested that high ... -
MODELING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR AND TEAM PERFORMANCE IN HIGH EMOTIONAL LABOUR JOBS
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This explanatory study tested a model within team team context the relationships among emotional intelligence of team leaders, transformational leadership behaviour and team performance. A total of 657 respondents i.e. ... -
Mr. Right and Ms. Wrong: Impact of Manager’s Gender and Organization Performance on Leadership Attribution
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)In an experiment with 211 students, we studied the impact of gender and performance outcomes on leadership attributions. We found that gender moderates the impact of performance outcomes on leadership attributions. When ... -
Navigating Cultural Diversity through Cultural Intelligence: A Case of Hospitality Industry in India
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)The global cultural experience has become terribly complex due to the growing need for organizations to handle the pervasiveness of cultural diversity in multinational organizations. Consequently, it becomes important to ... -
The Need of Proactive Leadership and HR Environment in Public Sector Banks (India)
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Recent time has witnessed the world economy develop serious difficulties in terms of lapse of banking & financial institutions and plunging demand. Prospects became very uncertain causing recession in major economies. ... -
Network Measures for Organizational Learning Subprocesses: Case of a Consultancy Firm
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)A new scholarship has emerged that proposes the use of social network analysis as a tool for measuring organizational learning. O’Reilly’s (1991) remark that organizations are fundamentally relational entities clearly ...