IMR Doctoral Conference 2013 - Delegate invitation for IMR Doctoral Conference 2013, Dec 13 & 14 It gives us great pleasure to invite you to attend the IMR Doctoral Students Conference (IMRDC) 2013 to be held on 13th and 14th December, 2013, at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. IMRDC 2013 is being organised by IIMB Management Review (IMR) which is IIMB’s management journal, and the Office of the Fellow Programme in Management. The Conference, which will feature full paper presentations by doctoral level students, aims to recognise quality research done in different streams of management and the social sciences and provide a forum where students will receive insightful feedback from senior scholars within India and abroad. This year IMRDC received an unprecedented number of competitive submissions from doctoral students all across the country. A Faculty Committee shortlisted thirteen papers from the submissions for presentation and discussion at the Conference. Among these papers, three best papers will be selected and recognised with awards. In view of the large number and high quality of the submissions, this year the Faculty Committee has introduced a Poster presentation session to enable a larger number of doctoral students to showcase their work. The event is open for registration to faculty and doctoral students of management institutes/departments and the social sciences. We believe that participation at IMRDC would be a fruitful experience for all researchers. We have envisaged a two day programme of paper presentations, lectures, and keynote sessions supported by our corporate partners such as Zee Network and State Bank of Mysore. The details of the programme, the registration fees (with attractive early bird discounts) and the papers selected for presentation are contained in the following pages. IMR Doctoral Conference 2013 December 13 & 14 2013 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Contents iimb.ernet.in/node/1913/ About IMR Doctoral Conference 2013 IIMB Management Review (IMR) and the Office of the Fellow Programme in Management are organising the fifth annual Doctoral Students Conference at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) on 13th & 14th December 2013. We envisage an event which brings together doctoral students affiliated to institutions across India for paper presentations, interactions with senior academics and researchers, and publication-oriented development. With this in view, we invite paper submissions from doctoral students in management and the social sciences from Indian and international institutions. The submissions will be reviewed by a Faculty Committee from which a subset of papers will be selected for presentation. The specific objectives of IMRDC are as follows: o to identify and encourage the most interesting and important research being done by doctoral students in management and the social sciences o to provide a forum where insightful feedback from senior scholars within India and abroad would help improve the quality of students’ work o to facilitate collaborative work among researchers from different institutions o to provide a platform of exchange between doctoral students, leading academicians in India and abroad, and researchers from industry to identify new applications and avenues of research o to provide a publication outlet for promising research by inviting authors of the best papers to submit their shortlisted work to IMR This year IMRDC received an unprecedented number of competitive submissions from doctoral students all across the country. A Faculty Committee shortlisted thirteen papers from the submissions for presentation and discussion at the Conference. Among these papers, three best papers will be selected and recognised with awards. In view of the large number and high quality of the submissions, this year the Faculty Committee has introduced a Poster presentation session to enable a larger number of doctoral students to showcase their work. Programme schedule Day 1: Friday, 13th Dec, 2013 Venue: MDC Conference Room or Class Room M-12 Timings Activity 09.00 – 09.30 am Registration 09.30 – 10.30 am Inauguration 10.30 - 11.30 am Zee Network Keynote Lecture on ‘Creative Industries’, by Prof Stephen Mezias, INSEAD 11.30 – 11.45 am Tea break 11.45 am – 1.00 pm Session 1: Presentation of papers (Quantitative Measurement and Information Systems) 1.00 – 2.00 pm Lunch (MDC) 2.00 – 3.45 pm Session 2 & 3: Presentation of papers (Finance & Public Policy) 3.45 – 4.00 pm Tea break 4.00 – 4.45 pm ‘Structural Thought’ in Dissertation Research – Talk by Avadhoot Jathar, Doctoral student, Quantitative Measurement and Information Systems, IIMB 4.45 – 6.00 pm Presentation of papers (Economics and Social Sciences) 7 – 8 pm Dinner (MDC) Day 2: Saturday, 14th Dec, 2013 Venue: IIMB Auditorium or Central Pergola 9.30 – 10.30 am Invited talk by Prof Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan 10.30 – 10.45 am Tea break 10.45 am – 1.00 pm Session 5 & 6: Presentation of papers (Corporate Strategy and Policy & Organisational Behaviour/Human Resources) 1.00 – 2.15 pm Lunch (MDC) 2.15 – 3.30 pm Presentation of papers (Marketing) 3.30 – 4,30 pm Poster presentation 4.30 – 5.00 pm Tea break 5.00 – 6.45 pm Concluding Lecture by Prof Devanath Tirupati, Director In charge, IIMB Valedictory Ceremony and Award Presentation Vote of thanks 7.00 – 8.00 pm Dinner (MDC) List of Papers selected for IMRDC 2013 The following thirteen papers were selected by the Faculty Committee for presentation at the Conference. Each presentation has been allotted 35 minutes, with students making a 15 minute presentation, followed by 10 minutes of interaction with the discussant and 5 minutes of general discussion. Title Author/Presenter Affiliation Sensitivity Analysis of the Newsboy Model Avijit Khanra IIM Ahmedabad Information Security in Practice: Two Case Studies from Germany Abhishek Narain Singh IIT Delhi Role of Retail Investor Participation in Developing Secondary Market Liquidity for Indian IPOs Arnab Bhattacharya IIM Calcutta Employment Intensity and Job Market Dynamics of Female Workers under Trade Liberalisation: Analysis of Indian Manufacturing Purna Banerjee IGIDR Mumbai Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Soham Sahoo ISI New Delhi Fiscal Policy in an Emerging Market Business Cycle Model Pawan Gopalakrishnan ISI New Delhi Mechanism Design over Matroids Abdul Quadir ISI New Delhi Small World of Inter-firm Network – A Case of India Shreya Biswas IGIDR Mumbai Role of Firm Ownership and Financial Leverage in Determining Information Technology Impact on Organisational Outcomes Gaurav Dixit IIM Indore An Empirical Analysis of Impact of Corporate Characteristics on the Extent of Human Resource related Disclosures in Annual Reports of Indian Companies Surinder Kaur FMS,Delhi University A Construal Level Perspective of Conflict Management Styles Divya Upadhyay IIM Bangalore Bargaining Order and Delays in Multilateral Bargaining with Asymmetric Sellers Amit Maurya IGIDR Mumbai Moderating Effect of Credibility on e-Word of Mouth via Social Media Payal S Kapoor IIM Indore Abstracts of Selected Papers, IMRDC 2013 1. Sensitivity analysis of the newsboy model Avijit Khanra, Doctoral Scholar, IIM Ahmedabad; Prof Chetan Soman, IIM Ahmedabad Sensitivity analysis is an integral part of inventory optimisation models due to uncertainty associated with estimates of model parameters. Though the newsboy problem is one of the most researched inventory problems, very little is known about its robustness. We study sensitivity of expected demand-supply mismatch cost to sub-optimal ordering decisions in the newsboy model. Conditions for symmetry (skewness) of cost deviation have been identified and magnitude of cost deviation is demonstrated for normal demand distribution. We found the newsboy model to be sensitive to sub-optimal ordering decisions, much more sensitive than the economic order quantity model. 2. Information Security in Practice: Two Case Studies from Germany Abhishek Narain Singh, Doctoral Scholar, IIT Delhi; Prof Johann Kranz, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany ; Prof Arnold Picot, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; Prof M P Gupta, IIT Delhi While modern day organisations are adopting emerging IT/ICT mediums to conduct businesses in a more productive and efficient way, securing business information and organisational information assets have remained a persistent challenge for them. One plausible reason for this is considering information security as a technical issue and applying various tools/techniques at operational level to deal with this challenge, while ignoring its core strategic and tactical aspects. This paper aims to investigate various Information Security Management (ISM) practices in two medium-size German IT-software development and services companies. Using multi-case study design, the study adopts qualitative research approach by conducting semi-structured interviews across the hierarchy in the selected companies. Learning derived from the cases could have implications for managing information security in organisations. 3. Role of Retail Investor Participation in Developing Secondary Market Liquidity for Indian IPOs Arnab Bhattacharya, Doctoral Scholar, IIM Calcutta; Prof Binay Bhushan Chakrabarti, IIM Calcutta Using a sample of 66 Indian IPOs during May 2010 and November 2011, we examine the evolution of BSE limit order book during first 20 days of aftermarket trading. We find that order imbalance is significantly negative immediately after listing, and limit order book liquidity follows U-shaped intraday pattern. We also find that initial two weeks of IPO aftermarket explains most of the variation in limit order book characteristics. Our results suggest that retail investor demand significantly explains limit order book liquidity in IPO aftermarket. However, we do not find similar effect of institutional investor demand on IPO aftermarket liquidity. 4. Employment Intensity and Job Market Dynamics of Female Workers under Trade Liberalisation: Analysis of Indian Manufacturing Purna Banerjee, Doctoral Scholar, IGIDR, Mumbai; Prof C. Veeramani, IGIDR, Mumbai Trade liberalisation leads to technology and product mix changes in an economy which can have differential impacts for male and female workers. We analyse the impact of different channels of trade liberalisation on female employment outcomes both in terms of levels as well as dynamics. Using ASI plant level panel data job creation, job destruction and job reallocation rates for women across different industries is measured. We find that women face greater job reallocation than men across all industrial classifications. We also find that increased export orientation and global production sharing are positively associated with female employment intensity. However, increased competition in our importing sectors leads to lower female employment intensity. A similar asymmetry is also noted in the case of differential job reallocation. 5. Female Labor Force Participation and Child Education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Soham Sahoo , Doctoral Scholar, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi; Prof Farzana Afridi, Indian Statistical Institute, new Delhi; Prof Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi We exploit the implementation of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in mothers’ labor force participation and its impact on their children’s educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we find that mother’s participation in the labour force results in almost two additional months of attendance in a school year by her children and reduces the gap between a child’s actual and ideal grade by more than a quarter. These effects are robust for less landed households and for girls. We find evidence of greater household decision-making power of working mothers as an explanation of our results. 6. Fiscal Policy in an Emerging Market Business Cycle Model Pawan Gopalakrishnan, Doctoral Scholar, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi; Prof Chetan Ghate, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi; Prof Suchismita Tarafdar, Shiv Nadar University We propose a model of the Indian business cycle that captures some of its key stylised facts. To do this, we write out a small open economy (SOE) real business cycle model along the lines of Neumeyer and Perri (2005) with one crucial addition: we augment their framework by incorporating .scal policy. Our model suggests that incorporating .scal policy into an otherwise standard emerging market business cycle model enables us to qualitatively replicate most of the features of the Indian business cycles and the business cycles of some other emerging market economies. 7. Mechanism Design over Matroids Abdul Quadir, Doctoral Scholar, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi We consider a mechanism design problem over a matroid and connected graph in quasi-linear and private value environment where we endow the alternatives set with some structure. We show that if a mechanism is anonymous in utility, individually rational and monotone, then it is efficient mechanism. We also show different applications of our general result of matroid in many auction formats and queuing problem. 8. Small World of Inter-firm Network – A Case of India Shreya Biswas, Doctoral Scholar, IGIDR, Mumbai This paper empirically attempts to understand the small world feature of underlying inter-firm network formed by interlocking directorates in India and whether ownership structure can play a role in determining the network structure. It finds that standalone firms are more likely to constitute isolated nodes in the network vis-a-vis group firms. The study also highlights the role of availability of network information and diversity of non market information given by network properties of average path length and clustering coefficient respectively in a firm’s decision to acquire. It finds a negative relation between average path length and probability of acquisition, while clustering only appears to be negatively related for group firms in India. 9. Role of Firm Ownership and Financial Leverage in Determining Information Technology Impact on Organisational Outcomes Gaurav Dixit, Doctoral Scholar, IIM Indore; Prof Prabin Panigrahi, IIM Indore This study seeks to extend our understanding of research in business value of Information Technology (IT) by adopting contingency theory perspective. We conducted an empirical study using data of 459 Indian firms over a period of 2007-2010. Results of our study revealed that IT investments enable firms in reducing their cost of operations, without contingencies related to firm ownership and financial leverage. However, impact of IT investment in improving profit is contingent on firm ownership such that the impact decreases for POEs, FIEs and SOEs in that particular order. This study contributes by examining firm ownership and financial leverage as contingent contextual factors and reveals that impact of IT is either contingent or non-contingent subject to the specific organisational outcome under consideration. 10. An Empirical analysis of Impact of Corporate Characteristics on the Extent of Human Resource Related Disclosures in Annual Reports of Indian Companies Surinder Kaur, Doctoral Scholar, FMS, Delhi University; Prof A. VenkataRaman, FMS, Delhi University, Prof. Monica Singhania, FMS, Delhi University Human resource disclosures are mostly voluntary in nature resulting in discrepancy in the HR disclosure practices across companies and industries. The paper seeks to examine the extent of HR disclosures in annual reports of Indian listed companies and identify their determinants in a three stage analysis. The study reveals that there is high variation among sample companies as regards HRDI (Human Resource Disclosure Index). The results of descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and multivariate regression analysis established that Government’s participation in ownership and market capitalisation has positive significant effect on the HRDI at 1%. Though contrary to expectations, other variables - leverage, ownership concentration, type of auditor, age, complexity of business structure and industry affiliation - are found to have moderate though insignificant influence on HRDI. 11. A Construal Level Perspective of Conflict Management Styles Divya Upadhyay, Doctoral Scholar, IIM Bangalore; Prof Kanchan Mukherjee, IIM Bangalore Construal Level Theory suggests that adopting a distal versus proximal psychological perspective changes the way people think and behave. Psychological proximity induces low level, concrete and contextualized mental construals while psychological distance induces high level, abstract and stable construals. This article shows the systematic effect of construal level thinking on preferred routes to conflict management. We find systematic correlations between construal thinking and co-operative vs. competitive approaches to conflict management. Three studies explore the psychological processes that lead to preferences in conflict management styles, mediated by two distinct processes. Relationship between construal levels and cooperative conflict management styles was found to be mediated by perspective taking and empathic concerns while relationship between construal levels and competitive management styles was mediated by impulsivity and aggression. 12. Bargaining Order and Delays in Multilateral Bargaining with Asymmetric Sellers Amit Kumar Maurya, Doctoral Scholar, IGIDR, Mumbai; Prof Shubhro Sarkar , IGIDR, Mumbai. In a multilateral bargaining problem with one buyer and two heterogeneous sellers owning perfectly complementary units, we find that there exists an equilibrium which leads to inefficient delays when the buyer negotiates with the higher-valuation seller first and where players are extremely impatient. We also find that the buyer prefers to negotiate with the lower valuation seller first, except in an equilibrium where both the buyer and the lower-valuation seller choose to play strategies that lead negotiations between them to hold out. 13. Moderating Effect of Credibility on eWord of Mouth via Social Media Payal S. Kapoor, Doctoral Scholar, IIM Indore; Prof Jayasimha K R, IIM Indore; Prof Ashish Sadh, IIM Indore With the popularity of social media, users indulge in ‘electronic-word-of-mouth’ (eWOM) behaviour thereby diffusing the brand-related discussions to a much larger audience. Researchers have found eWOM on social media to be capable of influencing, both, consumption-related behaviour and brand equity. This study, with the help of two factorial design experiments, understands all the aspects of credibility over moderating the influence capacity of social media eWOM. Results of our study confirm the moderating role of credibility and also suggests that social scores (social media credibility cues) may be able to compensate for legitimate expertise of source and believability of message over the social media platform. The study suggests a strong need for caution to marketers while selecting online influencers to operationalise an induced eWOM campaign. Registration Details Registration Fees: Doctoral Students: Rs 2500/-* ; Faculty: Rs 3500/-** The registration fees include lunch, dinner and tea on the 13th and 14th December. Delegates are advised to register at the earliest for the Conference to avail of our early bird discount (see footnote), though we will also register delegates on themorning of the Conference. Delegates may use the Registration Form for the purpose of registration. Contact Us For any enquiries please contact the IMRDC secretariat at the address below. All email queries should bear the subject line: IMRDC 2013 Vilasini V / Shobha R Kaveri IMRDC Secretariat / IIMB Management Review Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore - 560076 Phone: 91-80-26993099 Fax: 91-80-26584050 Email: [email protected] iimb.ernet.in/node/1913/ * Early bird concession of Rs 500/-. Payment through cheque / DD for Rs 2000/- along with registration form should reach this office latest by Dec 1, 2013 **Early bird concession of Rs 500/-. Payment through cheque / DD for Rs 3000/- along with registration form should reach this office latest by Dec 1, 2013 IMRDC 2013 Registration Form General Information: Name: …………………………………………………………………………………….………..……………………………………… Affiliation:………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………. Address:………………………………………………………………………….………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Email:……………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………….……… Paper Details: Paper Title:……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………...………………………………………………. Paper Author/Co-Author:…………………………………………………………………...……… Area:………………………………………………………………………………………………... Conference Fee: a) Doctoral Students – Rs 2500/-* b) Faculty / Dean – Rs 3500/-** Payment Details: DD/Cheque No:………………………Drawn On:………………………………………………for and amount of …………………… Date:………………………………………………………………………………………….…. (DD/Cheque in favor of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, payable at Bangalore) Logistics: 1. Students/Faculty must attach a bonafide certificate from the Supervisor/head of the department 2. Author(s) are requested to fill in the paper details. 3. Cancellation must be confirmed in writing to the Conference Secretariat. All refunds will be processed after the Conference. 4. Conference fee includes: lunch, dinner, coffee for the duration of the conference. Please return the completed form to: IMR Conference Secretariat, IIMB Management Review, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore-560076 Ph: 91-80-26993099 Fax: 91-80-26584050, Email: [email protected] * Early bird concession of Rs 500/-. Payment through cheque / DD for Rs 2000/- along with registration form should reach this office latest by Dec 1, 2013 **Early bird concession of Rs 500/-. 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