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Profitability and working capital management: a meta-study in macroeconomic and institutional conditions DECISION Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Jacek Jaworski, Leszek Czerwonka
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What happens to information, situational cues, and individual strategies in decision-making? The contribution of latent decisional profiles in realistic decisions DECISION Pub Date : 2024-03-08
Abstract The role of information-processing strategies in defining individual attitudes toward decision-making has been little investigated and, in general, has almost always been explored via self-reported measures. This study investigates how different strategies for information processing are used to make decisions, via a new task based on realistic decision-making scenarios and observation of actual
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Identifying decision-making style: Do REI-20 and GDMS measure the same? DECISION Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Tomasz Wachowicz, Ewa Roszkowska, Marzena Filipowicz-Chomko
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Digital elixir for healthcare: market intelligence and policy implications DECISION Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Naveen R. Gowda, H. Vikas, Sidhartha Satpathy, Anjali Ramaswamy, Meghana Prabhu, Atul Kumar, Ananth Kini, Angel Rajan Singh, D. K. Sharma, Devashish Desai, J. B. Sharma, Praveen R. Gowda, Rajkumar, Bharath Gopinath, Chandrashekhar Huded, K. P. Sowmya, T. K. Divya, Khyati Vakharia, Somanath Viswanath, Dhayal C. John, Neeraj Gudipati
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The impact of individual short-term memory capacity on choice overload effect: Is there stimulus specificity? DECISION Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Chenyu Lv, Ofir Turel, Qinghua He
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Symmetric and asymmetric volatility spillover among BRICS countries' stock markets DECISION Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Bashir Ahmad Joo, Younis Ahmed Ghulam, Simtiha Ishaq Mir
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Firm-level productivity and its determinants in the Indian pharmaceutical industry DECISION Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Subhrabaran Das, Ariful Hoque
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Building a transcendental attitude: integrating ancient wisdom for ethical conduct in the modern workplace DECISION Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Meenakshi, Adeeba Hoor, Yogesh Sharma, Rajeev Sijariya
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Evaluating the trustworthiness of employees: are choices made as actors perceived as a more reliable signal of trustworthiness? DECISION Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Kean-Siang Ch’ng, Suresh Narayanan
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Undoing the enduring colonial influence of Weber’s racist perspective on India DECISION Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Abhoy K. Ojha
This article attempts to highlight the Eurocentric and colonial roots of Weber’s racist perspective on caste in India and urges scholars to overcome Eurocentric and colonial influences and seek more emic understandings of complex phenomenon in non-European societies, including India.
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Research in Indian management: prospects and challenges DECISION Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Ashish Pandey
Even a cursory look at the management research output would suggest that the majority of the management research in India takes place with the microlevel atomistic constructs developed in the Western context and used without examining their meaning in Indian society and without studying the correlated constructs in the Indian text or Indian languages. In this write-up, I propose and explain that the
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Participation in health insurance and changes in the well-being status of co-operative members in Tanzania DECISION Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Petro G. Nzowa, Felix A. Nandonde, Somo M. L. Seimu
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Returning to the workplace after COVID-19: determinants of employee preferences for working onsite versus working from home in generation Y DECISION Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Tim Hampel, Nora Hampel
During COVID-19, a large proportion of employees have been able to work from home (WFH) in order to prevent from contagion. With a downturn of the pandemic, firms have recently announced a return to the onsite offices for their employees, at least for some days of the week. In order for firms to smoothen the transition from full-time remote work to (part-time) onsite work, the determinants of employee
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Continuous literacy programs: case for mobile based financial literacy solution DECISION Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Laxmi Gunupudi, Krishnan Dharmarajan
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Indigenous Indian management (IIM): constructs, models, theories, and methodologies DECISION Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Dharm P. S. Bhawuk
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Do board and audit governance matters for insurer performance? A meta-analytical review DECISION Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Barkha Goyal, Rachita Gulati
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Implications of (un)awareness for decision-making in strategic interaction: another take on the Prisoner’s dilemma DECISION Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Katarina Kostelić
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A survey on willingness-to-pay for food quality and safety cues on packaging of meat: a case of Poland DECISION Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Anna Walaszczyk, Aleksandra Kowalska, Iwona Staniec
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Mapping consumers’ semi-conscious decisions with the use of ZMET in a retail market setup DECISION Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Shuvam Chatterjee, Pawel Bryla
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Mediating effect of decision-making between the scientific council and the efficiency of public higher education institutions: case of the University of Sfax DECISION Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Wahiba Ben Fradj Nasrallah, Ghazi Zouari
In this study, we examined the impact of the mediator effect (decision-making) between the scientific council, as a governance mechanism, of public higher education institutions and their efficiency, through an empirical study based on a correlational investigation. Such studies are numerous and widely discussed for for-profit organizations, using linear regression techniques to examine the relationship
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Crowd-sourced idea filtering with Bag of Lemons: the impact of the token budget size DECISION Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Gafari Lukumon, Mark Klein
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The determinants of board size in Italian State-owned enterprises operating in water industry DECISION Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Cristina Cersosimo
This study investigates what are the determinants of board size in Italian water State-owned enterprises. The analysis has been conducted on a sample of 105 Italian water State-owned enterprises. Furthermore, data for the year 2018 have been used to run an ordinary least squares statistical model. Most relevant findings suggest that the two ownership structure variables, expressed through the number
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Do coopetition and cohesion of business groups stimulate their innovation performance? DECISION Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Wioletta Mierzejewska, Maria Aluchna, Emilia Tomczyk
Innovation performance is a widely studied issue in management literature. However, despite an increasing number of innovation studies in the context of stand-alone firms, there is still little empirical evidence on business group innovation performance and its driving forces. Our study attempts to shed light on the relationship between coopetition and cohesion of a business group and its innovation
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The effect of trait-state anxiety on choice overload: the mediating role of choice difficulty DECISION Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Xinye Hu, Ofir Turel, Wanting Chen, Jia Shi, Qinghua He
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Signals influencing corporate credit ratings—a systematic literature review DECISION Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Jaspreet Kaur, Madhu Vij, Ajay Kumar Chauhan
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The impact of personal sense of power on unethical decision-making: a moderated mediation model of love of money motive and power distance orientation DECISION Pub Date : 2023-04-18 D. M. Sachinthanee Dissanayake, Ananda K. L. Jayawardana
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‘An Infinite Deal of Nothing’: critical ruminations on ChatGPT and the politics of language DECISION Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Nandita Roy, Moutusy Maity
In this short piece, we examine ChatGPT primarily through the lens of textuality and ponder upon the meaning, politics and construction of generative text. Through this examination, we arrive at three broad ways to understand ChatGPT—information asymmetry, naturalness (or natural Interaction) and personal control. However, before we embark upon the textuality, we provide a short description of what
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Hub location–allocation for combined fixed-wireless and wireline broadband access networks DECISION Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Ramesh Bollapragada, Uday S. Rao, Junying Wu
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How can we improve tourism service experiences: insights from multi-stakeholders’ interaction DECISION Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Arpan Kumar Kar, Shweta Kumari Choudhary, P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan
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A multi-item scale for open strategy measurement DECISION Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Joanna Radomska, Aleksandra Szpulak, Przemysław Wołczek
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Novolutions in Covid-19: a Mocktail of decision dilemmas a live case analysis DECISION Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Kishinchand Poornima Wasdani, Mathew J. Manimala
A live case study incorporates experiential learning through a modified version of the case method pedagogy that treats students as consultants (Roth & Smith, 2009). It is defined by Simpkins (2001, p 1) as a case-based teaching method using a “current problem or issue that a company is investigating where the company provides information regarding the problem/issue seeking input to assist in management
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Multicriteria decision-making method under the complex Pythagorean fuzzy environment DECISION Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Madad Khan, Inam Ul Haq, Muhammad Zeeshan, Saima Anis, Muhammad Bilal
The concept of complex fuzzy set (CFS) and complex intuitionistic fuzzy set (CIFS) is two recent developments in the field of fuzzy set theory. The significance of these concepts lies in the fact that these concepts assigned membership grades from the unit circle in the plane, i.e., in the form of a complex number instead of [0,1] interval. CFS cannot deal with information of yes and no type, while
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Managerial decisions and new product development in the circular economy model enterprise: absorptive capacity and a mediating role of strategic orientation DECISION Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Monika Stelmaszczyk, Agata Pierscieniak, Denisa Abrudan
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Erotic capital and its role in the assessment of candidates and employees: scale development and validation DECISION Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Katarzyna Wojtaszczyk, Marzena Syper-Jędrzejak
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Centrality of psychological well-being of IT employees during COVID-19 and beyond DECISION Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Sangeeta Gupta, Poonam Devdutt, Urmila Jagadeeswari Itam
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Moderation effects of co-operative institutions’ capabilities on the relationship between health insurance literacy and participation in health insurance among co-operative members in Tanzania DECISION Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Petro G. Nzowa, Felix A. Nandonde, Somo M. L. Seimu
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The influence of the pandemic on financial decisions made by individuals in Turkey: A cross-sectional study DECISION Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Hazar Altınbaş
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Assessing efficacy of association rules for predicting global stock indices DECISION Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Jasleen Kaur, Khushdeep Dharni
Present study explores the efficacy/performance of association rules for prediction of global stock indices. Global stock indices data for the last 12 years are used to develop the prediction models. The data consists of several technical indicators. Technical indicators were converted to categorical variables and rules were extracted using association rules. The performance of mined rules was tested
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Intergenerational income distribution before and after the great recession: winners and losers DECISION Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Filip Chybalski
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Reaching SDG4 By 2030: characteristics of interventions that can accelerate progress in the lowest-income countries DECISION Pub Date : 2022-08-30 B. Haßler
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the global learning crisis, with many learners losing access to their classrooms. Recovery from the pandemic and transition back to regular schooling is slow, and there is a need to catch up. Despite some EdTech having been introduced as a mitigating measure, it is clear that the poorest children, especially, have missed significant learning. The present overview
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The digital divide, gender and education: challenges for tribal youth in rural Jharkhand during Covid-19 DECISION Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Kumari Vibhuti Nayak, Shamsher Alam
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Impact of pedagogical changes in management education post-COVID-19: a comparison study DECISION Pub Date : 2022-08-21 Kedarnath Thakur, Yasmin Kukul
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Learning loss and learning recovery DECISION Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Harry Anthony Patrinos
In 2020, most countries closed schools. Two years after the pandemic began, the evidence strongly indicates that school closures result in learning loss. A decrease in learning could decrease future employment prospects and lower future earnings. This means that schooling matters. One promising policy option for mitigating learning losses during closures as well for subsequent learning recovery and
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An analysis of business students’ stressors and their coping strategies in the post-pandemic era DECISION Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Huma Akram, Maqsood H. Bhutto, Muhammad Salman Chughtai
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Service quality and intention to recommend in low-cost and full-service airlines in Turkey DECISION Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Kazim Sari, Abdullah Alper Sener
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Dealing with online and blended education in India DECISION Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Rajnish Kumar, R. Selva Ganesh
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused disarray in the country's formal school education system (Ministry of Education in Initiatives by School Education Sector in 2020–21 for Continuing Teaching and Learning. https://dsel.education.gov.in/sites/default/files/update/covid_initiatives.pdf, 2021). While some children had engaged in learning from home using digital devices, television, radio and also with the
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Digital labor of school teachers and their well-being: content analysis of English-language dailies in India DECISION Pub Date : 2022-07-06 S. Devi Priya
The concept of online and hybrid classrooms has penetrated mainstream school education in India during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. It has popularized digital technologies mediated teaching in schools and ensuing digital labor has affected the everyday routine activities of teachers. The sudden shift to the unfamiliar domain of digital labor has an impact on the well-being of teachers. This paper
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Is India ready to accept an EdTech-intensive system in post pandemic times? A strategic analysis of India’s “readiness” in terms of basic infrastructural support DECISION Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Rohit Kumar Nag
The pandemic situation has forced most of the countries to plummet toward a virtual, distant learning format in recent years since 2020. While there are certain undeniable benefits of a virtual, technology-infused setup, it essentially calls for a complete paradigm shift for a country like India which has otherwise been a practitioner of traditional classroom teaching. Despite that, the recent boom
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The damages of negative information: illustration from two markets DECISION Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Dana Nayer, Mosi Rosenboim, Miki Malul
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Goal-boundary typology of nonprofit organizations: a proposal DECISION Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Nimruji Jammulamadaka
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Creating supply chain resilience during and post-COVID-19 outbreak: the organizational ambidexterity perspective DECISION Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Barbara Ocicka, Wioletta Mierzejewska, Jakub Brzeziński
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Comparing attribute-based and memory-based preferential choice DECISION Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Jana B. Jarecki, Jörg Rieskamp
Common theories of multiattribute preferential choice predict that people choose options that have on average better attribute values than alternative options. However, following an alternative memory-based view on preferences people might sometimes prefer options that are more similar to memorized options that were experienced positively in the past. In two incentivized preferential choice experiments (N =
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TTS-based appointments and university research productivity: a case of Pakistan DECISION Pub Date : 2022-03-19 Muhammad Zeeshan Younas
The tenure track system (TTS) program was launched by the Higher Education Commission to improve research quality and international visibility of research conducted by Pakistani higher educational institutes. The prime aim of this study is to examine the impacts of TTS policy on university-level research productivity by utilizing the unbalanced panel data of Pakistani universities covering the period
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Role of market structure in firm-level innovation: an extended CDM model for a developing economy DECISION Pub Date : 2022-02-27 Muhammad Zeeshan Younas, Muhammad Iftikhar ul Husnain
Despite the substantial number of empirical and theoretical studies, the relationship between competition and innovation remains unclear. This paper shed lights on this multifaceted relationship from a new angle based on a detailed firm-level dataset of private manufacturing Pakistani firms, a survey first time conducted by the World Bank for the Pakistan economy. We used a refined version of the CDM
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Growing together! Unmasking the intelligence behind the satisfaction of holiday couples DECISION Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Marymagdaline Enowmbi Tarkang, Uju Violet Alola, Yurdanur Yumuk
The decisions of where and how people want to spend their leisure time have a direct effect on the tourism industry, their well-being, and their happiness. Stemming from the social comparison theory, the present study investigates the impact of couple holiday decision tactics on their emotional well-being and the satisfaction and the mediating effect of emotional well-being on the relationship between
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Lemon Tree Hotels: managing business during COVID-19 DECISION Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Chetan Joshi, Rita Karmakar
On 30 January 2020, the Director General of World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak (2019-nCov) [hereafter COVID] as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. By 7 March 2020, global tally of reported COVID cases had crossed 1,00,000. Taking cognizance of the situation and to stem the increase in the number of cases, India went to a 21-day lockdown on 25 March 2020
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Service robots are an option for contactless services due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the hotels DECISION Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Subhodeep Mukherjee, Manish Mohan Baral, Chittipaka Venkataiah, Surya Kant Pal, Ramji Nagariya
The development of robotics in the current COVID-19 pandemic scenario can change the face of the industries. Robots are becoming more prominent in the hospitality industry. In this scenario, the usage of service robots for hotels is the best option. This study is performed using TAM and TRI theories. The constructs selected for the study are perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitudes, behavioural
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Revisiting the antecedent of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) during COVID-19 Pandemic DECISION Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Rani, Anshu, Shivaprasad, H. N.
The main feature of the Internet and e-commerce is electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) through online reviews. As Internet users and their consumption of eWOM for product information overgrow in India, it is vital to examine the elements that influence the effectiveness of eWOM communication during COVID-19 pandemics. A systematic literature review has been conducted to assess the factors influencing eWOM