DSpace at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • Dynamic Feedback E ect And Skewness In Non-Stationary Stochastic Volatility Model With Leverage 
    Mukhoti, Sujay K (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    In this paper I present a new single factor model for assets return observed in discrete time and its latent volatility with a common \market factor". This model attempts to unify the concept of feedback e ect and skewness ...
  • On a Two-Parameter Discrete Distribution and its Applications 
    Chowdhury, Shovan; Mukherjee, Amitava; Nanda, Asok K (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2014)
    Here we introduce two-parameter compounded geometric distributions with monotone failure rates. These distributions are derived by compounding geometric distribution and zero-truncated Poisson distribution. Some statistical ...
  • Is institutional traction a double edged sword? : a case of state owned enterprises 
    Sinha, Anubha Shekhar; Ray, Sougata; Aulakh, Preet S (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2015-03)
    State owned enterprises (SOEs) are responsible for redistribution to citizens of an economy on behalf of governments. They also play important roles for the governments in being their strategic arms for multiple objectives. ...
  • Institutional traction: how state owned enterprises can harness their position from their institutional context? 
    Sinha, Anubha Sekhar; Ray, Sougata; Aulakh, Preet S (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2015-03)
    State owned enterprises (SOEs) have been conceived of across economies as commercial enterprises with liability of redistribution. They also have legitimacy as organizations as a “carrier of many concerns”, whose owners ...
  • Analysis of Replenishment policy options in VMI Systems with Emission Related cost 
    Mateen, Arqum; Chatterjee, Ashis K (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2015-08)
    Organizations are actively trying to incorporate sustainability considerations in their strategic and operational decision making. Recent studies suggest that business process redesign offers a promising avenue for meeting ...
  • Vendor Managed Inventory System with Emission Related Costs 
    Mateen, Arqum; Chatterjee, Ashis K (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2015-08)
    The role of logistics and supply chain has come into prominence in helping the firms achieve their economic and sustainability objectives. Specifically, realignment of business processes, as characterized by supply chain ...
  • Bayes Estimation with Bivariate Prior in M/M/1 Queues 
    Chowdhury, Shovan; Mukherjee, S. P (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2015)
    Bayes estimators of di erent queueing performance measures are derived in steady state by recording system size from each of n iid M=M=1 queues. The Bayes estimators are obtained under both squared error loss function and ...
  • Gender Perceptions and Organisational Climate: A Study of Two Structurally Different Large Organisations in India 
    Kumar, Manish; Jauhari, Hemang; Ladha, Rani S; Shekhar, Niti (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2015-11)
    In this study we observe the gender differences pertaining to perception of organizational climate. We have demonstrated that the perception of female employees in organized sector in India may no longer be restricted to ...
  • Enactment of knowledge brokering: Agents, roles, processes and the impact of immersion 
    Tandon, Ankita; Nair, Unnikrishnan K. (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2015-04)
    This study examines the process of knowledge brokering for organizational learning. Qualitative research methodology was employed to study learning in four Indian Social Enterprises. We mapped and analysed the process by ...
  • Section 135 of Companies Act (2013): Implementation challenges faced by Companies and NGOs 
    Rajeev, Priya Nair; Kalagnanam, Suresh (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2015-04)
    The completion of the first year of implementation of the provisions of Section 135 of the Companies Act (2013) is perhaps an opportune moment to take stock of the potential implementation challenges faced by companies and ...
  • Deregulation of labour market: A comparative study of secondary sector in India and China 
    Dhal, Manoranjan (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2015-03)
    Global competition, technological advancement, and outsourcing of production have demanded the organizations to be cost effective and flexible in order to face the change for their survival and growth. However, factors ...
  • Readying for Change: Use of Improvisation in Change Management Training 
    Rajeev, Priya Nair; Kalpathi, Subramanian (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2015)
    This paper elucidates how Improv games can be used in a change management program and describes its utility and versatility in enhancing training effectiveness. For Change Management consultants and trainers the method ...
  • Social Obligation: Proposing a Compliment to Psychological Contract 
    Sinha, Anubha Shekhar; Rajeev, Priya Nair (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2015)
    Every organization is composed of nested formal and informal organizations. Bernard (1938) conceptualized that informal groups arise in formal organizations and these informal groups evolve to become functioning informal ...