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425: The Glass-Ceiling Phenomenon: A Literature Review and Research AgendaAbstract: In a patriarchal society with values that are mostly male-dominated, it is indeed difficult for a woman to secure a deserving platform for herself. Gender issues thus have received much importance in the field of management studies. One such prominent gender issue is the glassceiling phenomenon that exists in workplaces. This paper does a review of 98 articles on the glass-ceiling effect and has segregated each article under one of the four baskets - (i) Evidence of the glass-ceiling phenomenon. (ii) Sources of origination of the glass-ceiling, (iii) Consequences of the existence of a glass-ceiling & what happens when it is broken (iv) Ways to shatter the glass ceiling in the workplace. Further to this, several research agendas have been put forward for future researchers. This paper contributes immensely to the existing body of knowledge pertaining to the glass-ceiling issue and will also help future scholars to streamline their research avenues

Basu Madhurima and Shekhar Sinha Anubha

424: Thank You for Being Fair: Can Gratitude Explain Why Justice Perceptions Enhance Work Engagement?Abstract: Social exchange theory has been extensively used to explain the motivational effects of employee justice perceptions (Colquitt, et al., 2013). Moreover, emotions are at the center of most justice-related experiences and social exchanges at work. Yet there is still a dearth of research on emotions in the justice literature. In this study, we integrate the social exchange perspective with research on discrete positive emotions and examine whether the specific emotion of gratitude mediates the relationship between distributive, procedural and interactional justice, and work engagement. Furthermore, we also develop the boundaries around these relationships by examining the moderating role of promotion focus. We test our hypothesized model in a two-wave study based on a sample of 241 full-time working professionals. Results show that even after controlling for work engagement at time 1, each justice dimension – distributive, procedural, and interactional justice – has indirect effects on work engagement at time 2 through the emotion of gratitude. Moderated-mediation analyses indicate that for each justice dimension, indirect effects via gratitude are significant only for low promotion focus employees. Several important theoretical and practical implications of our study are discussed.Length: 3 pages

Verma Kapil and Trevor Yu K.Y.

423: Moral Character and Stewardship: Explaining the Role of Enlightened Self-InterestAbstract: Stewardship theory has proven influential in enhancing our understanding of responsible leadership. At the same time, much less is known about what the dimensions of stewardship are or why certain leaders tend to act as stewards of their organizations. Limited empirical research on stewardship, characterized by contentious findings, has led some scholars to question the utility of stewardship theory. In this conceptual article, we develop a framework that can explain how organizations can foster the development of responsible leaders, i.e. stewards. We elucidate the dimensions of stewardship and argue that stewardship is promoted through a state of “enlightened self-interest”, which is a consequence of moral character. Overall, we aim to advance our understanding of the usefulness of stewardship theory in promoting responsible leadership

Verma Kapil

422: Differentiating Discrete Positive Emotions: Examining the Effects of Gratitude and Pride on Daily Work EngagementAbstract: Past studies have shown that both trait and state positive affect are beneficial for work engagement. Extending this line of research, we examined the within-person relationship between engagement and two discrete positive emotions – gratitude and pride. We hypothesized that gratitude would positively impact daily engagement. Integrating goal orientation theory with research on pride, we hypothesized that performance-approach orientation and learning orientation would moderate the relationship between authentic pride and engagement. A diary study conducted over five consecutive days with two measurement occasions per day (N = 119 employees) provided support for our hypotheses regarding the direct effects of gratitude and the moderating effects of performance-approach orientation. We demonstrate that different discrete positive emotions can have substantially different effects on engagement

Verma Kapil

421: Positive mood and engagement: A moderated mediation model of promotion focus and social supportAbstract: In this paper, we examined the within-person relations between positive mood at the beginning of the work day and job engagement during the day. We hypothesized that selfefficacy mediates the positive association between positive mood and state work engagement. We also investigated the boundary conditions and predicted that trait promotion focus and perceived social support moderate these relations. A diary study conducted over five consecutive working days with two measurement occasions per day (N = 119 employees) provided support for our moderated mediation model. Self-efficacy mediated the relationship between positive mood and state engagement. As predicted, these relationships were significant only for individuals low in promotion focus. As a key work characteristic, perceived social support strengthened the relations between positive mood, efficacy and engagement. Results establish causal links between positive mood and state engagement, and elaborate existing knowledge about when these effects are likely to occur

Verma Kapil and Trevor Yu K.Y.

420: State Humility and Helping – Explaining a Dynamic RelationshipAbstract: We advance research on humility as a state and use experience sampling techniques to examine how humility can influence helping behaviors. Data was collected for six consecutive weeks and multilevel analysis revealed that humility significantly affects gratitude, which in turn impacts the following week’s helping behaviors. The relationship between gratitude and helping behaviors was stronger when employee’s task performance was high.Length: 3 pages

Verma Kapil

419: Do Engaged Employees Create Resources Daily? The Role of Family-to-Work Conflict and ExtraversionAbstract: In previous research, scholars have sought to better understand the association between work engagement and job and personal resources, and have mostly argued that engagement results in building more resources over longer periods of time. However, we suggest that it may be difficult for engaged employees to create resources every day. Drawing from the Conservation of resources theory, we investigate the boundary conditions of the association between day-level work engagement and three key resources: positive affect, self-efficacy and social support at work. We propose that work engagement may not be positively related with these resources when family-to-work conflict is high. Secondly, we also contend that engaged employees, who are low in extraversion, may not be able to build these resources. A diary study conducted over five consecutive working days with two measurement occasions per day (N = 116 employees) provided support for our multilevel, moderated-mediation model. Results indicated that when family-to-work conflict is high, previous-day’s work engagement leads to lower positive affect, which in turn results in lower levels of self-efficacy and social support. Moreover, for low extraversion employees, work engagement is associated with decreased positive affect, leading to lower self-efficacy and social support. Overall, this study enhances our understanding of when and for whom work engagement may not lead to job and personal resources.Length: 3 pages

Verma Kapil

418: Phases in evolution of Information Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) Literature: A systematic reviewAbstract: In this literature review the objective is to undertake a comprehensive study of ICTD literature and identify major themes in it. This work aims to identify major research gaps that may lead to useful directions for future research. For the scope of this literature review we have limited the referred literature within the domain of information systems. Some references from fields like development studies and public policy have been made for the sake of clarifying the basic concepts but it majorly adheres to information system literature. Under the descriptive classification I studied the distribution of articles as per chronology, publication source and methodology they followed. It was observed that year 2007 was a crucial year for ICTD literature with maximum number of publications in this year. Post this the overall number of publications in this field increased substantially. Methodically ICTD is a qualitatively studied domain predominantly. It was found that ICTD studies have abundantly used theories from various fields and have an appreciable amount of theoretical basis in their analysis. Native theories however are low and mostly consisting of frameworks and models. I then studied the ICTD project on basis of five themes: Transformation belief, development approach, design approach, agency of development and impact measured and identified related patterns. Finally, I studied the patterns in evaluative studies in ICTD literature and observed a dominance of research efforts in understanding the implementation issues and consequences of the project but very little efforts in gaining knowledge about environment factors and conceptualization of an ICTD projects.Length: 3 pages

Pandey Vidushi

417: Importance of Teacher’s training in ICT based education interventions in developing regions

Pandey Vidushi

416: Exploring the presence of network governance in creative industry using social network analysis: A case of BollywoodAbstract: Network governance is a governance structure which comprises mainly of informal social systems instead of rigid and formal bureaucratic systems within firms (Snow, Miles, & Coleman Jr, 2000). Conditions promoting this type of governance have been identified as high demand uncertainity,customized exchanges high in human asset specificity, complex task under time and pressure and frequent exchanges among parties comprising the network (Jones, Hesterly, & Borgatti, 1997). Film industry has been identified in literature as a creative or a cultural industry. Uncertainity in demand, need of diverse skills and infinite variety of the products are key characteristics of creative industries. It is also a difficult industry to gain entry. Apart from core competency informal networks, contacts and socialisation skills also play an important role in career growth. In this paper we explore the presence of network governance structure in Indian Film industry (Bollywood) using secondary data collected from public listing of movie releases. We employ social network analysis to verify the presence of network characteristics. Our findings suggests that Indian film industry has selectivity in network and to some extent it is structured. The structured ties in Bollywood suggest that producers are the main coordinator in Bollywood projects since they are in the most central people in our network. The producer have to build their network in this way to facilitate them to perform their functions more efficiently since they are responsible to bring together the professionals for the film and provide financial backing to the entire project.Length: 3 pages

Pandey Vidushi

415: Evaluation of E-Government Websites from an S-D Logic PerspectiveAbstract: This study aims to evaluate the role of E-government website from the perspective of Service Dominant Logic (S-D logic). S-D logic underpins that service is the basic unit of exchange and service is exchanged for a service. It also proposes that customer is a cocreator of value. This study proposes an overarching framework integrating all the fundamental premises of S-D logic in the context of E-government websites. This study brings clarity about the role and relation of E-government, E-government website and citizen and can be used in the context of public services.Length: 3 pages

Pandey Vidushi

414: When logos seem human: Moderating role of dynamic imagery and product types on evaluations of anthropomorphized logos

Kumar Deepak S and Vinitha V U

413: Monitoring Percentiles of Proportion Data - An Application in HealthcareAbstract: Beta control charts are used for monitoring proportion data as an alternative to the standard p and np charts. These charts in general use average of proportion data to set up the control limits assuming in-control parameters known. Specific percentile of proportions may be a key quality performance measure as opposed to average for an effective process monitoring scheme. Moreover, it may be of interest to the practitioners to monitor the top or bottom percentiles of proportion data more than the other percentiles/average. In this sense, control chart based on distribution truncated suitably over the support of the random variable may be a better choice over the same with complete support. This paper considers the problem of detecting shift(s) in the percentiles of a truncated beta distributed process monitoring scheme. Performance of the proposed chart is evaluated through an application in healthcare.Length: 3 pages

Chowdhury Shovan, Kundu Amarjit and Modok Bidhan

412: Revisiting Income Inequality Measures

Suresh Saparya and Bhattacharya Malay

411: Testing the Change in Correlation Structure across Markets: High-Dimensional Data

Suresh Saparya and Bhattacharya Malay

410: Normal Mixture Process

Suresh Saparya and Bhattacharya Malay

409: A perspective on Electric Vehicle Adoption from an Indian Context

Suresh Saparya

408: Dynamics of Firm-level exchange rate risk around the world: Evidence from COVID-19

Sikarwar Ekta

407: Board Structure and Exchange Rate Risk in Emerging Market Firms

Sikarwar Ekta

406: Health Status across Social Groups (Caste) Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Learnings from India’s 75th Round National Sample Survey, 2017-18

Alok Ranjan and Salamah Ansari

405: Disability Legislation in India: Too little, Too late

Vinay Suhalka1 and Salamah Ansari

404: Geographic cluster or global linkages? What accelerate emerging market firms foreign entry speed

Sandeep Yadav and Rajesh Srivinas Upadhyayula

402: Resolving Sovereign Debt Restructuring Disputes: Contractual v. Statutory Approach

Salamah Ansari

401: Overcoming The Limitation Of Space: A Novel Arrangement For Verticalisation Of Solar PV Systems

Afsal Najeeb and Mohammed Shahid Abdulla

400: From Strive to Thrive: Way forward at LIVE

Joffi Thomas

399: SS Steel: Launch of Parallel Flange Sections

Joffi Thomas

398: Review of Social Innovation: Dimensions, Elements and Links to Innovation Domains

Shambhavi Agrawal, Anubha Shekhar Sinha and Sidhartha Padhi

397: A critical hermeneutical analysis of CSR reports of three major IT firms in India

Christina Sanchita Shah, Ben Krishna and Anubha Shekhar Sinha

396: Effect of virtual organizing on formal-informal interplay within an organization

Latasri Hazarika1 and Anubha Shekhar Sinha

395: Balancing Commerce and Conviction: Emerging Business Models for News Media

Afsal Najeeb and Mohammed Shahid Abdulla

394: Resilience to achieve Urban Transformation: Evidence from Delhi, India

Salamah Ansari

393: Evaluation Of Coastal Shipping For Transportation Of Perishable Agricultural Produce In India

Afsal Najeeb and Mohammed Shahid Abdulla

392: The Paired Role of Online Promotion with Mobile Payments in Crisis Relief Fund: Evidence from COVID-19 Pandemic in India

Abhipsa Pal and Salamah Ansari

391: The Return of Cash with the Declining Effect of Crisis: Rise and Fall of Digital Payments in India post Demonetization

Abhipsa Pal and Mahesh Balan U.

390: A DEMATEL-based Investigation of Safety Factors influencing Mobile Payment Habit Formation

Utsav Pandey and Abhipsa Pal

389: Future of Smart cities and National Smart Cities Mission, India

Salamah Ansari

388: Beating the heat: Assembled air conditioning solutions for outdoor kiosks

Afsal Najeeb and Mohammed Shahid Abdulla

387: Without A Pinch Of Salt: A Business Model For Mobile Small Scale Desalination Units For Water-Scarce Areas

Afsal Najeeb and Mohammed Shahid Abdulla

386: A Fleet Solution for EV Integrated Public Transport

Afsal Najeeb and Mohammed Shahid Abdulla

385: Crisis Leadership of World Leaders: Anecdotal Evidence from Global Covid-19 Fightback

Rameshan Pallikara

384: A business model for use of backed-down renewable energy for electric vehicle charging

Afsal Najeeb and Mohammed Shahid Abdulla

383: Escalation of Commitment as Sunk-Cost Justification: Impact of Individual Status and Reputation

Sandeep Yadav and Deepak Dhayanithy

382: Cognitive perspective to Organizational Innovation: Evidence from F1 racing

Latasri Hazarika1 and Deepak Dhayanithy

381: Cognition and Wealth accumulation among Indian households

Ashok Thomas

380: Exploring the determinants of integrity in Public Administration – Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service

Girish Balasubramanian and Ram Kumar Kakani

379: Portfolio Risk and Stress across Business Cycle

Aravind Sampath, Sandip Chakraborty1 and Ram Kumar Kakani

378: Coalition-based Governance: Ramifications of Parliamentary Meetings on Asset Prices

Sandip Chakraborty1, Avinash Ghalk and Ram Kumar Kakani

377: Westminster Parliamentary Legislative Session-type phenomenon on asset prices and its contours

Sandip Chakraborty1, Avinash Ghalk and Ram Kumar Kakani

376: THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF POLITICAL CONNECTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

Avinash Ghalk and Ram Kumar Kakani

375: NEW MOON DAY ANOMALY: ROLE OF CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA

Kameshwar Rao Modekurti, Avinash Ghalk and Ram Kumar Kakani