Building on the job demands-resources, social exchange, and conservation of resources theories, the present study tests the relationship between job characteristics and intention to quit via work engagement as a mediator, and conscientiousness as a moderator. Based on data collected from a...

We find significant positive abnormal returns around the announcement of both tender and open market repurchases in India. This suggests that the equity markets in India regard repurchase announcements as positive information signals. We examine whether such abnormal returns are justified by the...

According to international statistics, India is reckoned to be among the most corrupt countries of the world. One of the ways in which corruption can occur at the point of public service delivery is through payment of bribes to access or expedite these services. Other less overt, but equally...

This note tries to explain concept of key account management (KAM), factors leading to importance of this emerging concept, criteria to determine key accounts from customer base, benefits to both buyers and sellers agreeing to practice it, stages of KAM relationship, conditions under which power...

In this paper we consider modeling leptokurtic daily log-return distributions of three commodities: gold, silver and crude oil. Three modeling approaches are tried out namely (a) a two component mixture of normal distributions model, (b) Variance Gamma (VG) distribution model and (c) Generalized...

In a country with more than a billion people, opportunities in India are abound. This has led to a rapid growth of the QSR industry. However, simultaneously, it has also created a canvass that has many failures and carcass. Several outlets have been closed, a large number are struggling, still a...

What is the effect of competition on prices in a market where the product is offered at different quality levels? Would the increase in competition reduce the price of high quality good more than the low quality good? These are the questions examined in this paper in the context of the video...

India has one of the largest food subsidy programmes in the world that has created a relatively effective social safety net but is also under increasing criticism because of its large contributions to government budget deficits, economic inefficiency and poor targeting. The Food Corporation of...

Literature on organizational learning has mainly focused on intra-organizational learning with little emphasis on inter-organizational learning. Organizations engage in strategic collaborations with other organizations. To realise the full potential of such relationships, it is very important...

Sensitivity analysis is an integral part of inventory optimization models due to uncertainty associated with estimates of model parameters. Though the newsboy problem is one of the most researched inventory problems, very little is known about its robustness. We study sensitivity of expected...