Volume 8
A Study on Impact of Merger and Acquisition on Financial Performance of Agri- Food Companies
T V Raman, Isha Gupta
The purpose of this study is to explore the expansion of merger and acquisition (M&A) literature in the context of Indian studies and examine the impact of mergers and acquisitions on various financial performance parameters of India’s Agri-Food companies. The period of study is from 2011 to 2019, and Wilcoxon Sign Rank methodology has been used. The study hypothesized that there is significant growth in Indian literature of M&A and there is a significant difference in the operating performance, financ...
Volume 8
An Exploratory Study to Investigate the Interpersonal Listening Behaviour in Personal Sales Context, its Impact on the Customer’s Perception and Outcomes
Archana Srivastava, Ruchi Tandon , Sanjeev Tandon
Authors argue that the perception of salespersons about their interpersonal listening ability is important but the perspective of the listened-to is equally important for an assessment of the competence. As the traditional studies on listening in sales refer to either self or buyer's evaluation, we propose to investigate their validity. We also argue that the traditional scales to measure listening behaviour proposed by Castleberry and Ramsey and Sohi in 1997 may produce diverse results when used in a di...
Volume 8
Benevolent Leader as A Social Entrepreneur
Deepak Chamola, Ajoy K Dey , Arunaditya Sahay
This research, done at the intersection of benevolent leadership style and for-profit social entrepreneurship, examines the research question: How does a benevolent leader, concerned for ecological sustainability, drive a for-profit social enterprise? Adopting a case approach, the phenomenon has been probed within the bounded context of SOS Organics—a for-profit social enterprise—located in a remote village of Uttarakhand state of India. The data was collected from multiple sources and thematic analy...
Volume 8
Critical Success Factor Models for Project Success
Virender Kumar, Rahul Singh , Amrendra Pandey
Project success is dependent on multiple stakeholders’ perceptions; however, current theories on project success are not translating into practice. Previous studies have duly captured or highlighted the need for the identification of critical success factors (CSFs) from multiple stakeholders’ perspectives. However, most of the previous research on CSFs has been carried out in developed countries. Therefore, their applicability in developing economies needs to be explored. This study reviews the exist...
Volume 8
Demystifying the Green Purchasing Behavior of Young Consumers: Moderating Role of Green Skepticism
S M FatahUddin, Mohd. Naved Khan , Mohd. Nishat Faisal , Mohd. Danish Kirmani
Environmental protection is increasingly a concern, but false claims by companies have raised green skepticism among consumers. Young consumers constitute a significant group for consumption in an economy like India. While young consumers have rarely been surveyed on factors like green perceived value and perception regarding green claims, there is a paucity of research on the moderating role of skepticism. This paper provides a new perspective regarding the underexplored debate on green skepticism level...
Volume 8
Deriving Weights of Investment Alternatives Using Deahp
Sourabh Bishnoi, Girish Jain , G N Patel
Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is known for its great flexibility and wide applicability. Because of ease of use, AHP has been studied extensively and used in all applications related to multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) since its inception. AHP converts qualitative opinion of experts into quantitative values and generates a comparison matrix. In this paper, multiple expert judgments have been considered for development of matrices for criteria and alternatives of an investment selection problem....