Greetings from the editor’s desk! It is my pleasure to bring you Volume 30, No. 2, the June 2018 issue, and my first after having taken over as Editor-in-Chief of IIMB Management Review in April 2018. I would like to place on record my thanks to the outgoing editor, Professor Nagasimha Balakrishna Kanagal.
This issue carries a mix of articles and features. In the first article, “Impact of Job Demands- Resources Model on Burnout and Employee's Well-Being: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Organisations of Karachi”, Professors Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil and Mayra Baig study the impact of the job demands-resources (JD-R) model on burnout and well-being.
Organisational justice is a dominating theme in organisational life. Performance management (PM), a human resource management system, supposedly contributes to how employees perceive procedural, distributive and interactional justice. Given the criticality of employee performance in the Indian IT industry, Professor Anupriya Singh in the article, “Continuous Performance-based Feedback and Justice Perceptions: Evidence for Mediation by Experienced Participation”, examines the relationship of justice perception to continuous feedback on performance of IT employees, using survey data from employees of four Indian software multinationals.
In the present globalised world, sovereign ratings have become an important indicator of a country’s financial development. They are an assessment of the credit worthiness of a country and affect a country’s access to global capital markets. Sovereign ratings have been in the limelight since 2008, with the downgrades of some of the major countries by Standard and Poor’s (S&P). Against this background, the paper, “Sovereign Ratings: Determinants and Policy Implications for India”, by Professors Sanjay Sehgal, Shruti Mathur, Mamta Arora, and Latika Gupta compares the models used by the principal rating agencies -- Moody’s, S&P and Fitch -- to identify the most reliable model of sovereign ratings. The paper also has policy implications with special reference to India.
The paper, “Board Characteristics and Bank Performance in India”, by Professors Abdul Gafoor C P, Mariappan V, and Thyagarajan S, explores the role of bank board structure in the performance of the Indian banking sector. It focusses on three important aspects of board structure, namely board size, board independence and board functioning.
Following global trends, the demand for business education has grown in India, especially since the 1990s, with the opening up of the economy and its rapid growth. Professors Ashutosh Muduli, Vinita Kaura, and Ali Quazi, in their article “Pedagogy or Andragogy? Views of Indian Graduate Business Students”, aim to examine the available methodologies and identify the most preferred instruction methodology for management education as perceived by the learners.
This issue’s Round Table feature examines the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India. This is a very interesting area as a recent study has highlighted that India is the third largest entrepreneurial ecosystem in the world. In the Round Table feature article, “Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in India: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead”, Professor Srivardhini K Jha maps the emerging research area of “entrepreneurial ecosystems” and discusses various issues pertaining to entrepreneurship in India. In the second part of the article, experts discuss the three critical elements of the entrepreneurial ecosystem – the market opportunity, access to finance, and the quality of human capital, with a particular emphasis on the role of education. The discussion gives important insights into the ecosystem but also raises questions for practitioners, academics and policy makers to reflect upon. The panellists are Mr. Naveen Asrani, Director, Startups, Microsoft Corporation India; Mr. Nagaraja Prakasam, Angel Investor, Mentor, Fund Advisor; Ms Tulsi Swamy, CFO, Prime Venture Partners; and Ms Malavika Velayanikal, Head of India, Tech in Asia. The discussion is moderated by Professor Srivardhini Jha.
This issue carries a book review by Professor Dalhia Mani of “Managing the Family Business: Theory and Practice”, by Thomas Zellweger, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
The IMR Doctoral Conference (IMRDC) 2019 is scheduled on 3rd and 4th January, 2019. This issue carries the Call for the Submissions for IMRDC 2019. We invite doctoral students to participate in the conference.
Best wishes,
Ashok Thampy
Editor-in-Chief
IIMB Management Review
India
Email address: eic@iimb.ac.in