Department of Management Studies (MS): Recent submissions
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An Exploratory Study on Financial Resources, Scaling, and Performance of Social Enterprises in India
The limitations of the government and current economic system deprived socio-economic opportunities to certain sections of the communities. The non-profit sector, expected to fill this gap, has been afflicted with fiscal ... -
A Study on Counterproductive Work Behavior, Discrete Negative Emotions and Organisation Control Environment
Organisational scholars are increasingly focusing on employee behaviors, while traditionally, the emphasis was more on job performance as an only indicator of employee’s contribution to organisation goals. Employee ... -
Economics of Venture Capital Industry in India : An Analysis of the Macro Ecosystem and Micro Decision Making
Venture Capital (VC) is regarded as one of the most powerful financial innovations of the 20th century (Schwienbacher, 2009). Venture Capitalists are financial intermediaries focused on funding projects in emerging high – ... -
Transboundary externalities and the river sharing problem
Population increase and economic growth have caused competing demands to occur over transboundary water resources. The property rights on such water resources are not well defined, and therefore competing demands give rise ... -
A Study of High Responsibility Teams - Context, Structure and Process
Time-to-market pressures, accelerating technologies, innovation, resource limitations, and technical complexities, social and ethical issues are key characteristics of a high technology organizations. They are complex, ... -
Corporate Sustainability in India : Analysis of Business Performance in the Context of Climate Change Risks and Opportunities
New standards, regulations and expectations of transparency from various stakeholders are forcing corporate sustainability strategy to move into the mainstream demanding the businesses to become proactive and de-risk ... -
Dimensions of Social Capital, Learning Culture, and Individual Performance : A Case of an IT Organization
The study explores the predictors of the individual’s learning through socialization in the context of a learning organization. The process of socialization or social learning is understood through the lens of Social Capital ... -
Study of Composition & Performance of Global IT Project Teams : An Analysis of Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal & Exceptional Performances
Virtual project teams, with their members distributed across onshore-nearshore-offshore locations, have been primary units of delivery for Global IT industry. While the industry has increasingly evolved towards increased ... -
Sustained Competitive Advantage : Strategic HRM Initiatives, Antecedents and Consequences in Indian Context
In the last two decades, researchers have argued that human resources may be seen as a source of sustained competitive advantage. In such a context, it is important to examine some new and emerging HR roles and practices ... -
Benchmarking and Modelling the Sustainability of Urban Mobility System : A Case Study of Bangalore City, India
Indian cities have dealt with the problem arising from the discordance between urbanization due to rapidly growing economies and the demand for increasing mobility services and infrastructure. However, they have failed to ... -
Event Study Methodology Development and Its Application in Assessing the impact of Derivatives Introduction in the National Stock Exchange (NSE), India
Event Studies are one of the predominant themes of research in finance and accounting prevailing for the last eight decades. They provide a powerful setting to examine whether and to what extent a firm's valuation is ... -
Repeat Purchase Behaviour of Online Customers for Grocery Products
Anecdotal evidence, from industry reports, suggest that consumption patterns in India are increasingly moving away from functional needs to lifestyle considerations. However, there is not much empirical evidence regarding ... -
Online Consumer Behaviour in Low Involvement Products: Cognitive Attributes and Purchase Behaviour
The internet has created fundamental shifts in business and consumer behaviour, akin to the industrial revolution of the 1800s. The internet serves as a ubiquitous and limitless information platform, and is leading to ... -
Predicting Innovation Capability at Team Level: An Exploratory Analysis
Innovation is one of the major concerns for technology-driven organizations. Extensive amount of literature is available on ‘managing innovation’ within organizations at individual level as well as firm level. However, ... -
Knowledge Integration Mechanisms, Organizational Capabilities, and Factors of Knowledge Worker Productivity : A Selective Study of Indian Software Firms
(2018-08-11)The importance of knowledge in organizations has been steadily growing. Traditional economies focused on land, labour, and capital as their main production factors, and saw knowledge as external to the economic process. ... -
A Class of Mathematical Models for Low Carbon Electricity Planning
(2018-08-09)India's electricity system is faced with the challenges of meeting the growing demand for electricity, managing recurring shortages in supply and addressing concerns of global warming. India is adopting a two-pronged ... -
Community Microgrids for Decentralized Energy Demand-Supply Matching : An Inregrated Decision Framework
(2018-07-30)Energy forms a vital input and critical infrastructure for the economic development of countries and for improving the quality of life of people. Energy is utilized in society through the operation of large socio-technical ... -
Assessment of University Technology Transfer Efficiency in the Context of Medical Device Technologies
(2018-07-18)Data to understand the inventiveness and technology transfer process for medical devices in India is lacking and majority of medical devices are imported. The presence of a medical school in a university system is expected ... -
Dynamics of Research Scholar-Supervisor Relationship : A Study of Conflict Resolution among Indian Research Scholars
(2018-07-16)The pivotal role that R&D plays in a nation’s development is well recognized globally. Even India has made long strides in this area post-independence. However, it is plagued by issues such as lack of investment, dearth ... -
An Exploratory Study of Indian Medical Device Clinical Trials : Landscaping and Assessment of Challenges
(2018-07-11)The present day world has been experiencing rapid technological advancement on the one hand and increasing number of diseases afflicting the human beings on the other. To deal with the later, medical devices are innovated ...