Purpose – The apparent differences between the leadership requirements of traditional and empowered environments suggest that traditional measures of leadership may not be applicable to empowered work environments. Through an exhaustive literature review and a series of in-depth interviews...

The study is part of the ongoing efforts to identify the dimensions of societal and organisational cultures, the impact of the former on the latter, and their combined influence on managers' work related thoughts and feelings. A sample of 674 middle level managers at seven locations in India...

This paper analyses the trends of cost efficiency and its components across Indian public sector banks (PSBs) during the post-deregulation period spanning from 1992/1993 to 2007/2008. The study also examines the issue of convergence in cost, technical and allocative efficiency levels of Indian...

We study a profit-maximizing firm providing a service to price and delay sensitive customers. We are interested in analyzing the scale economies inherent in such a system. In particular, we study how the firm's pricing and capacity decisions change as the scale, measured by the potential market...

This paper studies a rental firm that offers reusable products to price- and quality-of-service-sensitive customers--Netflix or Blockbuster can be thought of as the canonical example. Customers' perception of quality is determined by their likelihood of obtaining the product or service...

This article investigates the relevance of the inclusion of non-traditional activities in the specification of banks' output on the efficiency of Indian banks. The results indicate that the exclusion of non-traditional activities not only understates the cost, technical and allocative...

We apply RMT, Network and MF-DFA methods to investigate correlation, network and multifractal properties of 20 global financial indices. We compare results before and during the financial crisis of 2008 respectively. We find that the network method gives more useful information about the...

Using the data of 86 sugar mills operating in the year 2003-04, this study endeavours to gauge the extent of technical efficiency in the sugar industry of Uttar Pradesh (UP) by employing the technique of data envelopment analysis (DEA). The empirical results reveal that mean overall technical...