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Innovative Entrepreneurship: An Indian Scene Of Drivers And Obstacles, Saif Siddiqui, Sumaira Jan Apr 2022

Innovative Entrepreneurship: An Indian Scene Of Drivers And Obstacles, Saif Siddiqui, Sumaira Jan

Management Dynamics

Global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM) in its report in 2013 revealed that India is a nation whose economy is factor driven and not innovation driven. But still entrepreneurs here are continuously coming up with ideas, leading to the creation of such products/services which carry a great competitive advantage for them and thereby helping them to survive in this highly competitive business world. At the same time, this business world is becoming increasingly more complex. We see rapid advances in technology and most critically markets face rising churn and this causes an unprecedented rise in business failures today. Among many reasons to …

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Types Of Personality And Stress Coping Approaches (Contrasting Fci And Cwc Organisations), Luxmi, Sandeep Apr 2022

Types Of Personality And Stress Coping Approaches (Contrasting Fci And Cwc Organisations), Luxmi, Sandeep

Management Dynamics

Today the world is changing with-changing business environment .To keep a pace with this changing business environment one has to go through physical, mental, emotional and social stress. It has become important for an individual and the organization to keep them free from stress. For this purpose different kind of stress coping strategies are available. A comparative analysis was conducted on FCI and CWC organaisation to test stress coping approaches used by different personality type. For this t test, ANOVA and correlation analysis was conducted on a sample of 70 employees each from FCI and CWC organizations. Results indicated that …

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Making "Make In India" Sustainable, V. K. Sharma Apr 2022

Making "Make In India" Sustainable, V. K. Sharma

Management Dynamics

First, and foremost, I deem it an honour and privilege to be addressing this very august and discerning academia-industry audience on " Make In India", which from all accounts, is by far the most contemporary national agenda, with the promise and potential of delivering sustainable inclusive economic growth. However, after going through the Conference agenda, I have decided not to speak about how to 'make' "Make in India" happen, but, instead, to speak about how to 'ensure' that "Make in India " ever remains a commercially, socio-economically and financially viable and sustainable proposition as it actually happens!

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Futuristic Analysis Of Banc Assurance Market Scenario In India, Suchita Vishwakarma Apr 2022

Futuristic Analysis Of Banc Assurance Market Scenario In India, Suchita Vishwakarma

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Banc assurance is a concept of "Rightpartnership" between a bank and a insurance company to work hand in hand and to be mutually benefitted by each other's expertise in the existing market. It is a model, in which the partner companies try to take leverage of others expertise and competencies to offer the non banking products and act as one stop shop. In India, after privatization lots of private player have entered the insurance market and hence the competing insurance companies find out new ways of increasing the business and spreading to the untapped markets of our country. In this …

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Export, Import And Economic Growth In India: A Study, Jyoti Kumari Apr 2022

Export, Import And Economic Growth In India: A Study, Jyoti Kumari

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Export and Import are very crucial part of our international trade and have always been so in the past. Export helps the country to earn dearer foreign exchange which supports imports and this promotes the economic growth. This study is carried out to investigate the linkage between exports, import and GDPat factor cost at constant price in India for the period post liberalization from 1991-92 to 2012-13. It is analyzed how exports and imports contribute to the economic growth of India. This study found that imports must be supported by exports to achieve continuous growth in the economy. Export tends …

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Service Quality Of Banks: Perception Of Customers Of Tier 2 Cities, Sabeeha Fatma Apr 2022

Service Quality Of Banks: Perception Of Customers Of Tier 2 Cities, Sabeeha Fatma

Management Dynamics

Customer retention has become a Herculean task in today's turbulent business environment. The situation has often been compared with a bucket in which water is being filled but the problem is that the bucket has got a hole in the bottom, thus although the bucket is getting filled, water is percolating out as well. The condition is even more difficult in service sector, where the main driver of customer retention, quality is hard to define and measure. India has witnessed many changes in last few decades. Opening of economy was one such turning point in history of India. It affected …

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Beta Factor, Systematic Risk And Unsystematic Risk: A Study Of Prominent Companies Of It And Banking Sector, Satyendra P. Singh, Ridhi Bhatia Apr 2022

Beta Factor, Systematic Risk And Unsystematic Risk: A Study Of Prominent Companies Of It And Banking Sector, Satyendra P. Singh, Ridhi Bhatia

Management Dynamics

Investment in share market involves high level of risk. This risk is multiplied with the increase in volatility in stock prices. Therefore it is important for an investor to have proper knowledge of the risk and returns attached with various stocks so that a better risk-return trade off can be reached and a wise investment decision can be made. For quite a few years, Indian Stock Markets, driven by domestic as well as foreign institutional investors, have been growing at unprecedented rate and thus have given an opportunity for investors to earn superior returns. But, at the same time, the …

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Impact Assessment Of E-Governance Projects-A Select Case Of E-Mitra In South Rajasthan, Shubham Goswami Apr 2022

Impact Assessment Of E-Governance Projects-A Select Case Of E-Mitra In South Rajasthan, Shubham Goswami

Management Dynamics

India suffers from slow economic growth with less technology penetration. Government is using Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) as an opportunity to improve transparency and responsiveness towards delivery of services to its major stakeholder i.e. citizens. For future sustainability of e-governance projects, assessment of impact of these citizen centric services is important and should not be a onetime affair. The present study attempts to conduct an impact assessment of a G2C service called e-mitra in Rajasthan in comparison with manual delivery system. Results show that e-delivery system increases the responsiveness and transparency in system with low level of corruption but …

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Effect Of Leverage Ratio And Ownership Structure On Internationalization Of Indian Firms, Rashmi, Swati Matta Apr 2022

Effect Of Leverage Ratio And Ownership Structure On Internationalization Of Indian Firms, Rashmi, Swati Matta

Management Dynamics

The paper attempts to find a relation between internationalization of firms & the amount of leverage and ownership stake in the capital structure. 'Ownership' & 'Leverage' have been taken as independent variables for the purpose of this study; and 'Degree of internationalization'- defined as 'the percentage of total sales coming from foreign operation' is taken as the dependent variable for the purpose of this analysis. The multivariate dummy regression was run on the data of 100 firms to determine the nature of relationship between the capital structure and internationalization of firms. Further, t-test was used to find the strength of …

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Behavior Finance Or Financial Behavior?, Shweta Bhutani Apr 2022

Behavior Finance Or Financial Behavior?, Shweta Bhutani

Management Dynamics

Conventional and modern finance is related to various theories and concepts that has done respectable job in financial market in providing guidance for strategic financial decisions. Among all, emerging behavior finance has come up with psychological and sociological issues that affects the financial choices and are often ignored by modernized financial theories. This paper will elaborate the concept of behavior finance and its relation with Efficient Market Hypothesis. The paper helps us to known that the loopholes in EMH gave birth to behavior finance but due to lack of clarity of its usage it could not be acceptedfully by the …

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Job Satisfaction Of Employees In Restaurant & Cafe Chains: A Study Of Outlets In Lucknow, Tripti Barthwal, Akanksha Srivastava Apr 2022

Job Satisfaction Of Employees In Restaurant & Cafe Chains: A Study Of Outlets In Lucknow, Tripti Barthwal, Akanksha Srivastava

Management Dynamics

Job satisfaction as a bi-dimensional concept consisting of intrinsic and extrinsic satisfaction dimensions. Job satisfaction is simply how people feel about their jobs and different aspects of their jobs. It is the extent to which people like (satisfaction) or dislike (dissatisfaction) their jobs. This paper deals with the concept of job satisfaction, its core dimensions & then goes on to analyse the level of job satisfaction of the employees working in the Lucknow outlets of Restaurant & Cafe Chains. The topic is significant because these outlets fall under food & beverages retailing where most of employees directly deal with customers …

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Impact Of Stock Split On Stock Prices In India, Yogesh Puri Apr 2022

Impact Of Stock Split On Stock Prices In India, Yogesh Puri

Management Dynamics

An efficient market is a market in which prices fully reflect all information. Efficiency ofthe market can be judged operationally and informational. The present study is focused on the informational efficiency of the Indian capital market. A capital market is said to be efficient with respect to corporate event announcement (stock split, buyback, bonus issue, right issue, merger and acquisition and dividend etc) contain information and its disseminations. How quickly and correctly the security prices reflect these event contained information shows the efficiency of the stock market. The present study is investigating the impact of stock split on share price …

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Knowledge Management For Integration Of Agricultural Supply Chain In India, Sazzad Parwez Apr 2022

Knowledge Management For Integration Of Agricultural Supply Chain In India, Sazzad Parwez

Management Dynamics

Paper tries to explore the problems faced by Indian agriculture for food security in terms of inadequate infrastructure and highly inefficient supply chain in context of information technology. This paper broadly covers some of important aspects of agriculture supply chain in India-identification of issues at different levels in the supply chain; transformation in the agriculture due to various supply chain interventions; the role of information management in supply chain: and this paper also covers the suggestion to improve efficiency at different levels in supply chain. The paper concludes that information management plays very important role for development and contemporary issue …

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Employee Involvement Climate As Predictor Of Work Related Attitudes: A Study In India, Pushpendra Priyadarshi Apr 2022

Employee Involvement Climate As Predictor Of Work Related Attitudes: A Study In India, Pushpendra Priyadarshi

Management Dynamics

This research paper examines employee involvement climate as a construct and its impact on job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover in Indian organisation. The framework of this study has been provided by the earlier work on employee involvement by Lawler and others (Lawler, 1996; Lawler et al., 1995) and further examined by Riordan et al, 2005). With a total sample of more than 100 junior and middle level executives, the findings of this study show a strong relationship between employee involvement climate variables and job satisfaction, affective commitment and turnover Performance based review was found to be the predictor of …

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An Analysis On The Consumer Insights In The Bottled Water Market In Bangladesh, Md. Anwar Sadat Shimul, Ummee Kulsum, Mohammed Abu Jahed Apr 2022

An Analysis On The Consumer Insights In The Bottled Water Market In Bangladesh, Md. Anwar Sadat Shimul, Ummee Kulsum, Mohammed Abu Jahed

Management Dynamics

The scarcity of publicly available purified water has increased the demand for bottled water in Bangladesh. Consumers prefer bottled water over tap water mostly for the safety, hygiene and convenience factors. As the bottled water market is becoming competitive day by day, companies are trying to create differentiations and innovations which have been found quite difficult but not impossible to implement in reality. Therefore, it is essential to understand the factors influencing consumers' preferences and decision making processes for bottled water purchase. This paper examines the consumers' tastes, preferences, perceptions for and attitudes toward bottled water in Bangladesh. The results …

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Gender Diversity Management In Indian It Organizations, Wincy Abraham, Kapil Sharma Apr 2022

Gender Diversity Management In Indian It Organizations, Wincy Abraham, Kapil Sharma

Management Dynamics

The concept of diversity management has been in news since the past two decades. Owing to the increasing workforce diversity which is mainly the result of the management's acknowledgement of the fact that diverse workforce results in innovative ideas and higher overall organisational efficiency, more and more organisations are seriously considering the diversity management techniques to maintain harmony among the workers. On comparing workforce in the present with that of the past, we see a considerable demographic shift in terms of nationalities, ethnic background, socio-economic status etc. Although the management off-late has recognized the importance of diversity management, it has …

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Performance Analysis Of Bankex Banks Through Camel Model, Jigna Chandrakant Trivedi Apr 2022

Performance Analysis Of Bankex Banks Through Camel Model, Jigna Chandrakant Trivedi

Management Dynamics

Banks are barometer of every economy. Indian banks are well known for their closed and cautious operations. A sea change is experienced in operations of Indian banking sector due to varied reasons like tough competition from private banks, expectation of 24x7 banking services, financial inclusion and corporate as new entrant in banking sector Indian banks have been always appraised for their accuracy and firm foot-holding in the odd times, when other global banks were feeling the hiccups of financial turmoil such as subprime mortgage and recession. The report card of banks is evaluated on its operational efficiency and risk management …

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Acceptance Of E-Banking Services Among Customers, Priyanka Arya, Prashant Saxena Apr 2022

Acceptance Of E-Banking Services Among Customers, Priyanka Arya, Prashant Saxena

Management Dynamics

E-Banking is spreading all over the world with speed, sometimes at the cost of throwing caution to the winds. This has not only transformed the banking and financial institutions in their modern form, but has also brought a paradigm shift in their attitude to banking operations. In India also, it has strongly impacted the strategic business considerations for banks. In the last few decades, information technologies have changed the banking industry and have provided a way for the banks to offer differentiated products and services to their customers. The advent of technology made the banks which were used to branch …

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A Study Of Competencies And Skill Sets Needed By Potential Recruiters In The Financial Sector For Management Graduates, Saima Rizvi, Shivani Teckchandany, Girish Ahuja Apr 2022

A Study Of Competencies And Skill Sets Needed By Potential Recruiters In The Financial Sector For Management Graduates, Saima Rizvi, Shivani Teckchandany, Girish Ahuja

Management Dynamics

The global economic crises which has gripped the developed economies and also has its ripple effects on emerging economies like India. Organizations are trying hard to cut down on their recruitment and training cost in order to improve their bottom lines. They want to recruit candidates who are job ready in terms of knowledge and competencies apt for the job. Financial sector in India comprises of financial institutions, banks, insurance companies and various non banking finance companies which offer immense opportunities to management graduates looking for specialized jobs in finance area. Some of the skill sets required for such jobs …

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Measurement Of Consumer's Perception Of Service Quality In Organized Retail Using Servqual Instrument, Neha Chhabra Apr 2022

Measurement Of Consumer's Perception Of Service Quality In Organized Retail Using Servqual Instrument, Neha Chhabra

Management Dynamics

Retail sector is one of the fastest growing sectors in the world today. India is seeing a growth of about 15-25 percent per annum in its retail business. The government is also looking forward to open up foreign direct investment in the Indian retail industry. The paradigm shift in Indian retail industry can be accounted to many factors; the growth of Indian economy, the change in consumer's attitude, the increase in per capita income and overall household income, and the influence of western culture, being a few of them. These factors have led to a major change in the buying …

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Performance Of Microfinance Services In Urban Punjab: A Customers' Perspective, Sangeeta Arora, Sapna Apr 2022

Performance Of Microfinance Services In Urban Punjab: A Customers' Perspective, Sangeeta Arora, Sapna

Management Dynamics

This paper analyses the qualitative performance of microfinance services in Urban Punjab as perceived by the beneficiaries. The success of microfinance in achieving its social objectives, effectiveness of the systems, role of HR and the ultimate impact it has on its customers has been taken into consideration. For this, the customers were asked to fill the questionnaires and a comparison of formal and informal service providers was made. The factor analysis technique followed by weighted average score ranked the various performance indicators. Even though the loan policies of formal channels were found favorable, they could not transform the status of …

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Demystifying The Millennials' Perception Of Retail Store Attributes, Smita Singh Apr 2022

Demystifying The Millennials' Perception Of Retail Store Attributes, Smita Singh

Management Dynamics

The Indian economy with its liberalisation in 1991, introduced the domestic customers to new ways of shopping and raised expectations by pampering the hitherto cloistered Indian. The generation which grew up in this customer-centric atmosphere were the Millennial (currently 13 to 30 year olds) who not only savoured the attention lavished on them, but became more demanding and discerning than the earlier generations. Identified as self-reliant with a strong sense of independence and autonomy. Millennial enjoy the experience of shopping. However, all Millennial are not the same. Studies have revealed finer lifestyle differences within the generational cohort of Millennial. These …

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Social Protection Floor: A Socio Economic Development Policy, Gurpreet Randhawa Apr 2022

Social Protection Floor: A Socio Economic Development Policy, Gurpreet Randhawa

Management Dynamics

Recently the issue of social protection floor (SPF) has gained a strong momentum at International Labour Organisation (ILO) and World Health Organisation (WHO) meetings. A series of discussions are going on in ILO for a comprehensive instrument in the form of non-binding recommendation on social protection floor for providing basic social protection benefits for all. SPF is considered as a powerful instrument at national level for addressing the permanent human crisis. In this regard the present paper attempts to examine the concept of social protection floor and its significance. The paper is based on the secondary sources of data. For …

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Implementation And Management Of Workforce Diversity In The Indian Context: Employer And Employee Perspectives, Rashmi Apr 2022

Implementation And Management Of Workforce Diversity In The Indian Context: Employer And Employee Perspectives, Rashmi

Management Dynamics

This study focuses on the issue of worlrforce diversity among organizations in India. It analyses the current perspectives, of employees and employers, regarding the need, enforcement, and management of diversity in their respective organizations. The paper tries to cover different employment contexts by studying a Public Sector Unit, an Indian MNC, and a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) organization. The study investigates the seriousness of implementation of Diversity with respect to the seriousness of the perception of the need for Diversity. The study attempts to uncover the purpose of worlrforce diversity, and seeks the answer whether diversity is being implemented by …

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Increasing Brand Resonance By Improving Brand Salience-A Study Of 5 Product Brands Of Hul, Nidhi Sinha, Vandana Ahuja Apr 2022

Increasing Brand Resonance By Improving Brand Salience-A Study Of 5 Product Brands Of Hul, Nidhi Sinha, Vandana Ahuja

Management Dynamics

Interacting with your customers in today's business world has become a must. Leading companies seek to build a strong base of loyal, profitable customers who are advocates for their products and services. The key to success is to fully understand the customers' needs and emotional expectations. The present study focuses on increasing brand resonance by improving brand salience. This is an empirical investigation on improving the consumer-brand relationship spectrum by focusing on strengthening the brand functions that make the brand more customer-centric. The present study draws its roots from the same milieu of using the digital space to engage the …

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Employee Job Satisfaction In Health Care Industry In A Private Multi-Speciality Organization, C. Swarnalatha, T. S. Prasanna Apr 2022

Employee Job Satisfaction In Health Care Industry In A Private Multi-Speciality Organization, C. Swarnalatha, T. S. Prasanna

Management Dynamics

Employee job satisfaction is essential to face the dynamic and ever-increasing challenges of maintaining productivity of the organization by keeping their workforce constantly engaged and motivated. In the present era of globalization, the varied and changing demands of consumers are putting consistent pressure on the employers to satisfy their needs and to be competitive in the business. Furthermore, environmental pressures, rising health costs and various needs of the workforce also pose a challenge for the management. This could be overcome by creating a work environment that maintains employee job satisfaction as well as motivates people towards exceptional performance at the …

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Environmental Concerns And Role Of Media In Environment Management: A Few Possibilities, Seema Singh Apr 2022

Environmental Concerns And Role Of Media In Environment Management: A Few Possibilities, Seema Singh

Management Dynamics

Mass media is one of the most important factors underlying the knowledge of environmental problems. This can only be true on the conditions that first, mass media are accessible to large proportions of the population second, are spending some time on environmental issues and third, people are interested in information on ecological issues provided by the media so that they view or listen to the corresponding programs as well as read newspaper articles or other written publications dealing with environmental issues. Television, print news, radio broadcast, and the Internet are enlisted to help promote a "green " ethic and raise …

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Investigating The Relationships Between The Components Of Transformational Leadership And Job Performance: An Empirical Study, Sahidur Rahman, Shameema Ferdausy Apr 2022

Investigating The Relationships Between The Components Of Transformational Leadership And Job Performance: An Empirical Study, Sahidur Rahman, Shameema Ferdausy

Management Dynamics

This paper aims to investigate the relationships between the components of transformational leadership (such as, idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration) and job performance in a collectivistic society. Transformational leadership components were measured by the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire 5X while job performance was assessed by Tsui et al.,'s Job Performance Scale. Data for this study were collected from 116 working MBA students who were asked to rate their managers' transformational leadership behavior and job performance studying at three private universities in Chittagong, a port city of Bangladesh, with the help of printed survey instruments. In data collection, …

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Determinants Of Initial Public Offerings: A Case From Indian Capital Market, Rohit Bansal, Ashu Khanna Apr 2022

Determinants Of Initial Public Offerings: A Case From Indian Capital Market, Rohit Bansal, Ashu Khanna

Management Dynamics

This paper attempts to design for and tests empirical models, which integrate theoretical, institutional, and other factors, which interact to explain ownership structure. Ex-ante in formation at the level of underpricing succeeding the Indian stock market crunch. The study is based on IPO that listed at Bombay stock exchange given that April-2000 to Dec-2011. Multiple linear regressions are used to distinguish the relationship between various independent variables with the dependent variable, i.e. level of underpricing. The outcomes of multiple regressions reveal that, firm's age, IPO years, book building pricing mechanism, ownership structure, issue size & market capitalization explained 44% of …

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Work-Family Spillover And Burnout Across Psycho-Demographic Variables In A Few Selected Banks, Luxmi Apr 2022

Work-Family Spillover And Burnout Across Psycho-Demographic Variables In A Few Selected Banks, Luxmi

Management Dynamics

The main objectives of this paper were to study work family spillover and burnout of employees in a few selected public and private sector banks, to find the correlation between workfamily spillover and burnout and to see the association of workfamily spillover and burnout vis-a-vis psycho-demographic factors. The scope of the study was public and private sector banks in and around Chandigarh. The sample comprised 120 respondents drawn from four public and private sector banks. The results revealed a very significant positive correlation between workfamily spillover and burnout. Almost all null hypotheses concerning work-family spillover and burnout across psycho-demographic variables …

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