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Working Papers | 2015

Examining the Mediating and Moderating Effects of
Engagement and Conscientiousness for the Job
Characteristics and Intention to Quit Relationship

Upasna A. Agarwal and Vishal Gupta

Building on the job demands-resources, social exchange, and conservation of resources theories, the present study tests the relationship between job characteristics and intention to quit via work engagement as a mediator, and conscientiousness as a moderator. Based on data collected from a sample of Indian managers (N = 1302), we found that work engagement mediated the relationship between job characteristics and intention to quit. Moreover, personality trait of conscientiousness qualified job characteristics-intention to quit and work engagement-intention to quit relationships such that the negative effects of JC and work engagement on intention to quit were stronger for high conscientiousness than low. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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Working Papers | 2015

A Study on the Not-for-Profit Route to Olympic Gold

Sanjeev Tripathi and Kopal Agrawal

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to investigate a Not-for-Profit (NFP) model for development and support of sports at elite level. This research investigates, Olympic Gold Quest, a NFP organization in India to understand and analyse the factors that contribute to its success in developing sports at elite level and as an NFP to solicit funds for support.
Design/ Methodology/ Approach-The research is based on the case analysis of the organization, Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ). The analysis was done through in-depth interviews of various stakeholders of the organization such as directors, donors, employees, athletes, fans and sports enthusiasts. These were supplemented by information from other sources such as scholarly papers, annual reports of organizations working in similar space, online sources and videos interviews on video sharing websites.
Findings- The analysis shows that there are two elements of OGQ's success, the first one is related to the success in sports development and the second aspect is related to its success as a NFP organization. The factors leading to its success in sports domain are due to its stringent selection process of athletes, a strategy based on focus investments, bringing together expertise support and fast support response. The essential factors of OGQ's success as a NFP are related to creating legitimacy, transparency, beneficiary management and expertise in marketing.
Originality/Value-The literature in the domain of development of sport at the elite level is limited. This paper is possibly one of the rare ones that examine the role of a NFP in working towards development of sports at elite level. This research is set in the context of an emerging country and highlights issues related to sports development in emerging economies and contributes to the literature in this domain.
Implications/Limitations-We contribute to the literature on sports development and Not-for-Profits. This study proposes NFPs as a viable model to support sports development for elite sports and identifies its success factors. Insights from this research can be applied to develop similar models for supporting sports in other emerging countries.

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Working Papers | 2015

Constituents of Successful Sports Leagues in Emerging Markets

Sanjeev Tripathi and Ankur Kapoor

Findings: Based on the inputs from key informants and prior research, this research identifies fan acceptability as a measure of success for leagues in the early stage of their development. Findings of the research indicate that the success of leagues is dependent upon the sport and its fan base, national team performance for that sport, design of the league, quality of players, initiatives to build fan experience, relationship of league with relevant sports federation and involvement of celebrities in the league.

Originality/ Value: Sports leagues are appearing for the first time in many new sports markets, especially in developing countries. It is possibly the first study that has been carried out to understand sports leagues in initial phases of development and to identify factors that contribute to their success. Almost all previous studies on this subject are restricted to North American or European market, this study is one of the few ones conducted in an emerging sports markets. This study identifies some novel factors such as role of celebrities and relationship between leagues and national federations and enhances the current understanding of leagues.

Implication/ limitations: A number of sports leagues are being started in emerging sports markets. The findings of the research have implications for academicians who want to study the complex dynamics of sports leagues as well as practitioners who wish to apply these findings to improve the chances of success of their leagues. The study is done in India and can be improved if data from other emerging markets is also incorporated.
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand and identify the factors that contribute to the success of sports leagues in emerging sports markets.

Design/ Methodology/ Approach: This paper uses a mixed methodology qualitative approach. It relies on qualitative inputs from key informants through focus group discussions of sports followers and interviews of experts from sports domain such as team officials, league administrators, etc. The research is further supplemented by secondary data from scholarly articles on related subjects and media reports pertaining to the phenomenon under study.

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Working Papers | 2015

Goods and Services Tax: The Introduction Process

G. Raghuram and K.S. Deepa

This paper focuses on the process of introducing the Goods and Services Tax (GST), bringing out the perspectives of different stakeholders and the contentious issues. The GST was expected to subsume a variety of taxes and simplify the indirect tax regime. The Empowered Committee (EC) was mandated in 2007, to bring about consensus among the States to move towards GST. The important stakeholders in the process were the Government of India (GoI), individual States, industry and the committees commissioned by the GoI or EC. However, the EC faced challenges since there were issues of control between the Centre and States, perceived loss of revenue by some States, extent of uniformity across various commodities and their tax rates, input credit mechanism and dispute settlement. The deadline for the introduction of GST kept getting postponed due to the slow resolution of the challenging issues. Finally, it was tabled in the Parliament as the 122nd Constitutional Amendment Bill (CAB) in December 2014.

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Working Papers | 2015

Market overreaction to poor long-run performance? A case of repurchase firms in India

Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla, Joshy Jacob, and Ellapulli Vasudevan

We find significant positive abnormal returns around the announcement of both tender and
open market repurchases in India. This suggests that the equity markets in India regard
repurchase announcements as positive information signals. We examine whether such abnormal returns are justified by the operating performance of firms during the post repurchase
period. We find that firms which announce open market repurchases underperform their
peers on several measures of operating performance. We infer from these results that the
market overreacts to open market repurchase announcements. Moreover, most open market
repurchases are preceded by sharp price declines, suggesting that these are more frequently
used for price support than for signalling undervaluation. The tender repurchase firms, on
the other hand, do not exhibit any significant decline in their operating performance in the
long run.

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Working Papers | 2015

A New Formulation and Benders' Decomposition for Multi-period facility Location Problem with Server Uncertainty

Amit Kumar Vatsa and Sachin Jayaswal

Facility location problems reported in the literature generally assume the problem parameter values
(like cost, budget, etc.) to be known with complete certainty, even if they change over time (as in
multi-period versions). However, in reality, there may be some uncertainty about the exact values of
these parameters. Specifically, in the context of locating primary health centers (PHCs) in developing countries, there is generally a high level of uncertainty in the availability of servers (doctors) joining the facilities in different time periods. For transparency and efficient assignment of the doctors to PHCs, it is desirable to decide the facility opening sequence (assigning doctors to unmanned PHCs) at the start of the planning horizon. For, this we present a new formulation for a multi-period maximal coverage location problem with server uncertainty (MMCLPSU). We further demonstrate the superiority of our proposed formulation over the only other formulation reported in the literature. For instances of practical size, we provide Benders decomposition based solution method, along with several refinements. For instances that CPLEX MIP solver could solve within a time limit of 20 hours, our proposed solution method turns out to be of the order of 150 - 250 times faster for the problems with complete coverage, and around 1000 times faster for gradual coverage.

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Working Papers | 2015

Preparation for the World of Work: Secondary and Higher Secondary Education in India

Charanya Raman and Vishal Gupta

Secondary education is, perhaps, the most important part of an individual's education as it is during these years that a student decides what she is going to take up for further education and how she is going to earn her daily bread. The present chapter examines the secondary and higher secondary education system in India and discusses how it prepares the student for the world of work. The chapter focuses on the vocational training that is imparted during the fours years of secondary (and higher secondary) education. The changing trend of vocational education at the secondary level of Indian education system is described. A description of the current state of vocational education at secondary level, different institutes/government agencies offering vocational courses, curriculum followed by different agencies, teaching methodology used, assessment methodology and certification pattern is provided. In-depth analysis of the problems faced and recommendations for the future are presented.

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Working Papers | 2015

Make in India: Re-chanting the Mantra with a Difference

Satish Y. Deodhar

Make in India is an old mantra. It was very much there during India's colonial period and the post-independence decades till 1991, and now it has been pronounced from the ramparts of Red Fort. The paper attempts to trace the origin and idea of Make in India through time and identifies what needs to be done to turn the Make in India mantra into a reality. Free market is the engine of growth for the economy and government has to provide the necessary lubricant for it to work. This involves reforming industrial, labour, and land acquisition laws; liberalizing inflow of FDI and technology; simplifying and integrating state/center administrative compliances for business; government staying away from economic activities which do not qualify for market failure argument, and, instead concentrating on improving comparative advantage of the country by investing in merit goods such as basic research, primary education, and primary healthcare.

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Working Papers | 2015

Farmer Producer Organizations as Farmer Collectives: A Case Study from India

Nalini Bikkina, Rama Mohana Turaga, and Vaibhav Bhamoriya

Small and marginal farmers in India have been vulnerable to risks in agricultural production. Several organizational prototypes are emerging to integrate them into the value chain with the objectives of enhancing incomes and reduction in transaction costs. One such alternative is Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs). We explore the potential of FPOs as collective institutions through a case study of Avirat, one of the first FPOs in Gujarat. Our analysis suggests that FPOs have the potential to provide benefits through effective collective action. The main challenge, however, is to raise sufficient capital that can maximize these benefits. We discuss the implications of our findings to policy

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Working Papers | 2015

Extended Producer Responsibility as an Instrument for Electronic Waste Management: A Critical Analysis of India's e-waste Rules

K. Bhaskar and Rama Mohana Turaga

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) has been a widely used policy approach, in developed and developing countries alike, to manage the growing problem of electronic waste (e-waste). EPR assigns the responsibility of the end-of-life waste management to the producers of electric and electronic equipment. India has adopted EPR approach in its e-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011, which have come into effect in May, 2012. According to these rules, the producers have been made responsible for setting up collection centres of e-waste and financing and organizing a system for environmentally sound management of e-waste. In this paper, we use implementation of these rules in the city of Ahmedabad in western India as a case study to conduct a critical analysis of the provisions of India's new rules. Interviews of main stakeholder groups, including a sample of commercial establishments regulated under the rules, regulatory agencies enforcing the rules, informal actors involved in waste collection and handling, as well as publicly available information on the implementation constitute data for our case study. We draw broader implications of our analysis of implementation in Ahmedabad. In general, there is a need for more transparency from the producers in providing information on the mechanism for collection and recycling; more awareness must be generated on e-waste and the Rules amongst the consumers; and it is important to sort out potential issues around enforcement jurisdiction.

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