Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

About: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is a education organization based out in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Emerging markets & Context (language use). The organization has 491 authors who have published 1254 publications receiving 23853 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMB.

Factors affecting team performance in globally distributed setting

Abstract: Organizations are currently facing important and unprecedented challenges in an ever dynamic, constantly changing and complex environment Groups of individuals working across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology, commonly referred to as virtual team, have become a 'norm' in order to cater to the needs of global market places Thus, it becomes essential to understand those factors that impact some of the key team related measures like efficiency, effectiveness and productivity of this evolved team setting This paper presents a conceptual model and develops testable propositions highlighting factors that affect team performance in globally distributed setting The research focus of this paper is on the impact of diversity, distributedness and task characteristics on team performance in distributed settings Analysis plan and directions for future research are also discussed in the paper

Purchasing Competence: A Stakeholder‐Based Framework for Chief Purchasing Officers

Abstract: A specific research stream within the purchasing and supply management literature focuses on the development of purchasing competence frameworks We apply stakeholder theory and multiple methods of data collection to develop and confirm a hierarchy-specific purchasing competence management framework for chief procurement officers and validate it using confirmatory factor analysis on empirical data from 124 multinational companies The results reveal a significant relationship between CPO’s purchasing management competence and different purchasing performance measures confirming the appropriateness of stakeholder theory for such a competence framework

Pressure or premium: what works best where? Antecedents and outcomes of sustainable manufacturing practices

Abstract: In this study, we empirically test the antecedents and consequences of sustainable manufacturing practices across emerging as well as developed countries such as India, China and OECD. We use data ...

Household Finances and Social Interaction: Bayesian Analysis of Household Panel Data

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between social interaction and household finances using the British Household Panel Survey We explore the relationship between a wide range of aspects of household finances and social interaction, rather than focusing on one particular facet of household finances, such as the holding of stocks and shares We develop a Bayesian statistical framework to simultaneously explore both sides of the household balance sheet—liabilities and assets Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on household finances to be time dependent, enabling us to model the effects of social interaction from a dynamic perspective We also develop a two-part model to jointly investigate the influence of social interaction on the amount of different types of debt and financial assets held conditional on holding the different types of debt and assets Our analysis suggests that social interaction is associated with households holding larger amounts of debt and assets