Narasimhan Srinivasan

TL;DR: In this paper, a structural equations model of the determinants of external search for automobiles is developed and tested on survey data from recent automobile purchasers by considering how perceived risk and perceived benefits affect search, and specifying the role of experience and knowledge in the search process more precisely than in other field studies of search.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined one specific aspect of the resource-based view, intellectual capital, and its three knowledge components -human, organizational, and social capital -and hypothesize that the impact of each component on financial performance is contingent upon the values of the other components, and that these leveraging effects are themselves dependent upon the industry conditions in which a business operates.

TL;DR: A striking pay-off for hospitals was found: an average of $6.84 in value from volunteers for every dollar spent—a return on investment of 684%.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Schwartz Values Survey (SVS) data from samples of business managers and professionals across 50 societies that are culturally and socioeconomically diverse was used to identify the SVS dimensions that have cross-culturally internally reliable structures and withinsociety agreement for business professionals.