The presence of the Seasonal or Monthly Effect in stock returns has been reported in several developed and emerging stock markets. This study investigates the existence of seasonality in India's stock market. The Efficient Market Hypothesis suggests that all securities are priced efficiently to...

Calendar Anomalies in the stock market are those patterns that cannot be explained by traditional asset pricing models. Examples of such patterns include the January Effect, the Day-of-the-Week Effect, and the Week of the Month Effects. These anomalies allow investors to develop trading...

The efficiency of the capital market raises various issues all over the world. Earlier research studies give evidence that the capital markets are informational efficient and hence, cannot outperform the market consistently on the basis of price change predictions. However, some researchers have...

This study investigates whether Friday effect exist in Bombay Stock Market. The weekend Effect or Day of the Week Effect has been a hot research topic among academicians for decades. The most popular Anomaly is the Friday Effect, meaning that the Friday's Average Return is significantly higher...

Any anomaly, including January Anomaly, would enable the investors and speculators to gain abnormal returns. The presence of January Anomaly defeats the basic premises of the efficient market hypothesis. Besides, it has greater implications for the design of investment strategy in the long run....

The time has arrived for a re look on the research literature on service quality as the SERVQUAL instrument forms the basis on which all other works have been actualized. Interestingly, over the years, the conceptualization, measurement and applications of SERVQUAL across different industrial...

The present study on Service Quality (SERVQUAL) holds that SERVQUAL primarily determines the customer value which in turn contributes to the customer retention and loyalty. Realizing the paramount role of SERVQUAL in services marketing, more specifically in a customer intensive industry like...

This research work encompasses the modeling technique-Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), which is widely used in behavioral research. Structural Equation Modeling is capable of handling a large number of endogenous and exogenous variables that are latent. In this research work, Service Loyalty...

This study examines the relationship between Corporate Social Performance and Corporate Financial Performance in Indian firms. This study proposes to examine the various dimensions of relationship between corporate social performance and corporate financial performance in India. The Corporate...

All over the world, deterioration of environmental quality has been considered as a hot issue. The growing number of industries is one of the major reasons for the enhanced level of pollution and fast degradation of environmental resources. This situation urges the corporates to involve...