Jindal Management Journal

The main aim of the article is theoretical and empirical analysis of the causal relationship between the budget balance and the current account balance in India from the period 1990–2013. The article starts with a descriptive statistics to check the presence of normality in the frequency distribution followed by unit root test of non-stationarity. The presence of short-run and long-run relationship among the concerned variables, current account balance and fiscal balance has been tested by applying co-integration test followed by vector error correction mechanism, and finally it ends with Wald–Granger causality test. The results of the Wald–Granger casualty test claim that there exists bi-directional causality among the variables in the long-run whereas, the cointegration test results also conform the long-run association among the variables, and vector error correction mechanism results claim that there is no short-run relationship among the variables. The results indicate that the twin deficits hypothesis does exist in India.

The rationale of the current research is to seek the role of training methods (on-the-job and off-the-job) on Tacit Knowledge Sharing (TKS) behavior of the employees of IT organizations in India. Highly prevalent on-the-job and off-the-job training methods (six of each) have been identified through Delphi (experts from IT organizations in India). The research involves an in-depth study of training methods, and their affect on TKS behavior. For the study, TKS has been divided into three forms: Organization related Knowledge Sharing behavior (OKSb), Project/Task related Knowledge Sharing behavior (PKSb) and Skills related Knowledge Sharing behavior (SKSb). The study focuses on IT organizations in India. A semi-structured questionnaire has been developed. For the data analysis of the research SEM tool has been employed with training methods as Independent variables and forms of TKS as Dependent variables. Since the paper is based on a single research setting, the findings have potential limitation of the static nature of the study i.e. generalization of the findings.

The article deals with the project risk analysis for electrical transmission line installation projects, where both probabilistic decision tree (DT) and non-probabilistic analytical hierarchy process (AHP) methods are used simultaneously on the same risks. The study gives the complete analysis for each risk type and finally they are analyzed by both AHP and DT; both of these techniques are selected for project’s risk minimization while designing the risk mitigation plan. A model is generated for minimizing the project risk and the risks selected after being analyzed through AHP and DT are then treated with this model for risk mitigation. Overall the study minimizes project risk by a three-step procedure, that is, AHP, DT, and finally through the risk minimization model for electrical transmission line installation projects.

The existing research on charitableness focuses on the consequences of the charitable behavior, rather than its determinants. In this paper, we focus on Jackson’s Learning Profiles, and suggest that when assessed through learning profiles, emotional management accounts for the values of benevolence and universalism, which are values commonly associated with charitableness. A cohort of university students participated in a study that examined related hypotheses suggesting that learning profiles in personality can predict the charitable values of benevolence and universalism both directly and indirectly via emotional management. In the present study, general support of the hypotheses was established based on Jackson’s learning styles profiler. Hence, emotionally intelligent achievers directly predicted the charitable values of benevolence and universalism, and managing one’s own and understanding others’ emotions mediated the association between Learning Profiles and charitable values.

Many criticisms are being made relevant to the effectiveness of the community-oriented corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects implemented by business organizations today. This study has been carried out with special reference to the community-oriented CSR project implemented by a local subsidiary of a multinational company in Sri Lanka with the purpose of investigating the targeted community’s perception of the project. The qualitative approach was used as the main research method using the case study approach. For the purpose of data collection, interviews, observations, and documentary reviewing were used. The findings reflect that the targeted community perceives that the renovation of wells project is just a gesture of good work, but it brings fewer benefits to them. The concept “community partnership” can play a significant role with regard to the effectiveness of the project. This study concludes that companies should design their CSR projects in the way that meets the needs and expectations of the target social actors in order to create win–win outcomes for both company and target community.

To make the success of the brand in the market, basic and one of the most important elements is the “positioning”. For right positioning of the brand in the mind of the customers, study of the consumer behavior is essential. This study includes laptop industry and end users of the laptop brand. The major focus of the study is search for the answer of the question: “Do people buy the laptop brand which resembles their own personality?” In search of the answer, so many literatures have been studied. Aaker (1997) has developed scale “Dimensions of the Brand Personality” and Malhotra (1981) has developed scale to measure Self-concept, Person concepts, and product concepts. According to him the same scales which we are using to measure brand-image can be used to measure self-image. For the study both literature taken as base with others to identify the congruence between the brand personality and user’s own personality correlation analysis have been used. To support this major finding, brand-wise correlation analysis, analysis of variance, and LSD test have been used. It identify there is an association between the role of gender and the laptop own for which the test has been performed.

The present study is an attempt to examine critical perspective of high-performance work system in Indian settings. As per critical perspective, high-performance work practices (HPWPs) may lead to increase in job demands and pressure, which, in turn, may result into poor employee attitudes and well-being. The article seeks to examine the perspective by exploring the direct linkage between HPWPs and employee well-being. Employee well-being is studied through three constructs, namely, employee commitment, job satisfaction, and work–life balance satisfaction. Data reveal direct statistical relationship between awareness and perception of employees with all three constructs of employee well-being. Thus the article statistically discards critical perspective and approves mutual gain perspective of high performance practices. Further managerial implications and theoretical contribution of the article is also discussed.

The paper discusses the relationship between emotional intelligence and decision-making styles (Intuitive, Decision making through thorough analysis, Consultative, Based on Market demand) of Entrepreneurs in the Indian manufacturing Industry. Past literature supports the importance of vision for decisions to be advantageous to the company. The present paper is an effort towards this direction, of understanding the role played by Top management teams Vision, between (Emotional Intelligence) EI and Decision making style (DMS). The sample consisted of 4 Indian medium-sized manufacturing companies. Emotional Intelligence was measured by an EI questionnaire by Esther Orioli, Cooper & Sawaf, and Decision-making styles questionnaire for measuring decision-making style of Indian entrepreneurs. Test of Cronbach’s alpha for all the variables were above 0.8, indicated that reliability for these questionnaires were accepted. The analysis is done using Structural Equation modeling. The results emphasize on the importance of emotional intelligence of entrepreneurs on their decision making style and the mediating role of Vision between emotional intelligence and Decision making style. Analyzing the data revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between EI and Decision making style (DMS) through TMT Vision. The study supports the past theory of interdependence of emotion and cognition in Decision making process.

Bank financing is an imperative component of financing the companies. When banks are short on liquidity, this financing activity also tends to go slow. Banks liquidity is dependent upon the policy enforced by the central bank which uses cash reserve ratio (CRR) and Repo rates very frequently to this effect. Since bank credit is dependent on its liquidity position, any change in key policy rates will affect the corporate funding. This is the basic hypothesis which is being tested in this research. The objective of the article is to understand the effect of two important policy rates, Repo and CRR, on corporate output through aggregate sales of the listed companies. The objective was achieved by building a VAR system and doing the required analysis using quarterly data for the time period 2000–2015. One of the important findings was that lag effect is very critical to understand this relationship between policy rates and corporate output and while formulating policies, this should be an important variable to be considered.

QSR … the buzzword all over the world. Quick service restaurants (QSRs) are the fast food retail outlets which provide fast food in no time. The leading QSRs are McDonald, KFC, Pizza Hut, Dominos Pizza, Subway etc. Almost every major city in India and all over the world is having most of these fast food restaurants. The customers are visiting these outlets either to spent leisure time or they do not have time to go for home made meals. In such a situation it is very difficult to know what exactly the customer wants. The fast food business in India and the rest of the world is getting increasingly more complex and competitive. Keeping this market situation in view, primary objective of this study is to identify the attributes of customer patronage for choosing a particular fast food outlet for fast food consumption. The study also offers recommendations to the fast food retailers based on the most expected attributes by the fast food consumers.