2014: Recent submissions

  • Distribution-free CUSUM Control Chart for Joint Monitoring of Location and Scale 
    Chowdhury, Shovan; Mukherjee, A; Chakraborti, S (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    Mukherjee and Chakraborti (2012) proposed a single distribution-free (nonparametric) Shewhart-type chart based on Lepage (1971) test statistic for simultaneously monitoring both the location and the scale parameters of a ...
  • Towards a Conceptualization of Karma Yoga 
    Rastogi, Ashish; Pati, Surya Prakash (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    Individuals across organizations and roles are increasingly seeking a meaningful and fulfilling experience in their activities. Towards that, the Bhagavad Gita advises the practice of Karma Yoga. However, the conceptualization ...
  • Employee Brand Building Behaviour: Scale Development & Validation in B2B Services Context 
    Jauhari, Hemang; Kumar, Manish; Singh, Shailendra (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014-03)
    Frontline service employees (FSEs) make or break a brand. Especially, in B2B services, their attitudes and behaviors are crucial in shaping valuable customer-related outcomes for a services firm/brand. Service firms are ...
  • Impact of HR Practices on Union Management Relationship: Evidence from India 
    Dhal, Manoranjan (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    While unions are struggling with issues like loss of membership, lack of mature leadership, management is challenged by the technology, and cost factors of business. Though both the parties try to maintain an amicable ...
  • A Qualitative Study of Training Effectiveness 
    Dhal, Manoranjan (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014-03)
    Organizations invest a lot of money and time on training towards employee development and learning transfer. Training is defined as a systematic process designed to provide trainees with knowledge, skills and develop ...
  • Implicit Boundaries, Boundary Configurations and Key Agents: Tracing SocialL Enterprise Learning 
    Tandon, Ankita; Nair, Unnikrishnan K. (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    We micro-analysed organizational learning interactions in social enterprises from a boundary perspective. Using qualitative data from four Indian social enterprises, we identified three implicit boundaries – competence, ...
  • Value Proposition and Social Proof in Online Deals: How to predict Sales and pick Winners on Group On 
    Amblee, Naveen C.; Bui, Tung X (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    In this paper, we examine the role of value proposition and social proof on the success of localized online deals that are made available in coupon form. We develop a model to understand what factors affect coupon sales ...
  • Analysis of the Impact of Online Product Reviews on temporal and Cognitive search Costs: An Eye-Tracking Approach 
    Amblee, Naveen C. (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    The literature on online product reviews examine the fundamental premise that reviews reduce search costs and also increase consumer confidence in their purchase decisions, whichhas not been proven in the previous literature. ...
  • Do Emotions Matter? Exploring the Distribution of Emotions in Online Product Reviews 
    Ullah, Rahat; Kim, Wonjoon; Oh, Alice; Lee, Hyunjong; Amblee, Naveen C (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    Word-of-mouth (WOM) in the form of online customer reviews has received considerable attention by practitioners and academics. Prior literature has focused more on the understanding of the phenomenon using the frequency ...
  • Executive Perceptions of Top Ten Soft Skills at Work: Developing these through Saif 
    Sethi, Deepa (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    Hard skills are technical competencies and domain knowledge. Soft skills are a combination of people skills, interpersonal skills, communication skills, and emotional intelligence amongst others. Soft skills are vital ...
  • Exploring the Relation Between Promoter's Contribution and Resubmitted Approved loan proposal in ihe Indian Banks at the Loan Inception Stage 
    Baag, Pankaj (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    We empirically evidenced that the promoter’s contribution with respect to resubmitted approved loan proposal in the Indian banks at the loan inception stage, is different and high with proper control for resubmission and ...
  • Predicting the Probability of Default Using Asset Correlation of a Loan Portfolio 
    Bagg, Pankaj (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014-03)
    We use the asymptotic single risk factor model, which is a portfolio invariant model and preferred by BCBS with the factor based structural CreditMetrics portfolio default model to empirically estimate the Probability ...
  • Inflation Hedging in India 
    Dey, Shubhasis (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014-11)
    Inflation in India has been moderately high and volatile. In this paper we provide an estimate of the conditional mean and variance of CPI and WPI inflation rates with the help of a GARCH (1, 1) model. Under an environment ...
  • Forecasting the Price of Gold: An error correction approach 
    Gangopadhyay, Kausik; Jangir, Abhishek; Sensarma, Rudra (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    Gold prices in Indian market may be influenced by a multitude of factors such as investment decision, inflation hedge and consumption motives. Gold prices are modelled using a vector error correction model. We identify ...
  • Determinants of crime across conflict and non-conflict states in India 
    Amaral, Sofia; Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Bhattacharya, Samrat; Sensarma, Rudra (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    The paper has two main goals. First, using district level panel data we examine the key determinants of violent crime, non-violent crimes and crime against women in India for the period 1990-2007. Second, using the district ...
  • Strategic Planning and Performance - A Systematic Review of the Literature 
    Nandakumar, M.K. (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    A large number of empirical studies have been conducted examining the impact of strategic planning on organisational performance. Many studies have suggested that this relationship is influenced by various factors like the ...
  • A Phase-II Nonparametric Cusum Chart with an Application to Exchange Rates Data 
    Mukherjee, A; Marozzi, M; Chowdhury, Shovan (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014-11)
    Recently, Chowdhury et al. (2014a) proposed a single distribution-free Shewhart-type control chart based on the Cucconi (1968) test statistic for monitoring shift in the unknown location and scale parameters of a process ...
  • Stochastic Comparisons of Parallel Systems of Heterogeneous Generalized Exponential Components 
    Kundu, Amarjit; Chowdhury, Shovan; Nanda, Asok K (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014-10)
    Let X1;X2; : : : ;Xn (resp. Y1; Y2; : : : ; Yn) be independent random variables such that Xi (resp. Yi) follows generalized exponential distribution with shape parameter i and scale parameter i (resp. i), i = 1; 2; : ...
  • Lean Thinking in Healthcare Sector: Experience from an Indian Hospital 
    Narayanamurthy, Gopalakrishnan; Gurumurthy, Anand (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    Experience of implementing lean thinking (LT) in a multispecialty hospital located in southern part of India is discussed. Case hospital was chosen and problems associated with various processes were identified and they ...
  • Compounded Generalized Weibull Distribution- A Unified Approach 
    Chowdhury, Shovan (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014-03)
    A uni ed approach is proposed in this paper to study a family of lifetime distribu- tions of a system consisting of random number of components in series and in parallel. While the lifetimes of the components are assumed ...

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