{"title":"Sourcing Process – A Supply Chain Management Perspective to Meet Consumer Demand with Special Reference to Solitaire Diamond Brand Sold in Damas Outlets, Dubai","authors":"Janani Ravinagarajan, N. Anitha, L. Karthikeyan","doi":"10.12725/UJBM.45.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12725/UJBM.45.4","url":null,"abstract":"Diamond in a supplier‟s catalogue encompasses a steady price appreciation and less volatility. Strategic sourcing for diamond is based on the assessment of needs and exploration of the legal mining process, and the allied risks. This paper analyses the sourcing process for managing the supply chain with special reference to Damas, Dubai where an organisation has functional expertise at every level but lacks expertise in the value chain.","PeriodicalId":151929,"journal":{"name":"Ushus - Journal of Business Management","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130527813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors Influencing Consumer’s Purchase Intention on Social Networking Sites: Evidence from Bangalore","authors":"Sayyed Arbaina, A. Suresh","doi":"10.12725/UJBM.45.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12725/UJBM.45.3","url":null,"abstract":"Most online shoppers indicate that they visit e-retail websites on a social networking site. Previous research shows that visiting websites affect the consumer’s purchase intentions. This study identified various factors that affect consumer behaviour while shopping on social media. It further studied the services offered by social media and several factors that influence the consumer’s purchasing experience in social networking sites. Analysing 105 responses, the study revealed that factors such as price, services offered, advertising attitude, and shopping attitude have a significant impact on consumer behaviour. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":151929,"journal":{"name":"Ushus - Journal of Business Management","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123343175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Maheshkar, Vinod Sharma, Manohar Kapse, A. Tiwari
{"title":"Impact of Advertising on Branding in Small Towns and Villages of India","authors":"C. Maheshkar, Vinod Sharma, Manohar Kapse, A. Tiwari","doi":"10.12725/UJBM.45.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12725/UJBM.45.2","url":null,"abstract":"The consumer base for the Indian rural and semi-urban markets has been largely ignored by advertising practices. Specifically, the personal care products and their advertising practises are influenced by personality and individual perceptions. This paper reports the observations of the study conducted to identify the impact of advertising practices on branding of personal care products. It was found that advertising, suitability of content and advertisement media have no significant impact on the branding of personal care products in small towns and villages of India. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":151929,"journal":{"name":"Ushus - Journal of Business Management","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122595793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Contexts of Customer Service in the Social Media Era: Challenges and Opportunities for Indian e-tail Industry","authors":"P. Kulkarni, Ajay Inamdar","doi":"10.12725/UJBM.45.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12725/UJBM.45.1","url":null,"abstract":"The research aims to analyse the impact of social media on customer service provided by the E-tailing companies in India. The analysis depicted that antecedent variables of customer service such as personal greetings, idea generation, loyalty benefits, and feedback mechanisms have a positive impact but they fail to create an impression on the consequence variables such as loyalty development, time efficiency, and knowledge creation. Researchers conclude that the lack of clarity in media vehicles communication, proliferation of e-tailing, and their rivalry create issues among the consumers of E-tail companies.","PeriodicalId":151929,"journal":{"name":"Ushus - Journal of Business Management","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131509727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana: An Evaluation","authors":"Ravikumar T","doi":"10.12725/ujbm.44.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12725/ujbm.44.2","url":null,"abstract":"Financial inclusion is a process of providing access and usage of financial services like savings, credit, insurance and payment facilities by the financially excluded people. Initiatives towards financial Inclusion have been taken by the Government of India which includes priority lending, lead bank scheme, nationalisation of banks, Swabhimaan approach and Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna (PMJDY). This article evaluates Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana scheme critically and its difference with a previous similar scheme. \u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":151929,"journal":{"name":"Ushus - Journal of Business Management","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114150816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Era of Credit Analysis","authors":"Vidya Cm","doi":"10.12725/ujbm.44.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12725/ujbm.44.5","url":null,"abstract":"Credit analysis is the evaluation of the credit worthiness of a business or an organisation done through historic data like audited balance sheets, forecasts in the form of budgets and cash flow, ratings given by credit rating companies, analysis of ratios, capital marketisation, share prices and many more benchmarks. However, in today’s world, “Big Data” is what is being spoken about by all. Data is collected every second from various sources like social media sites, online and offline purchases and so on. The emerging era of credit analysis is based on consumer behaviour online; their likes and dislikes, preference for the products they purchase and so on. Everything is recorded through “Big Data” and is accessible to judge whether a person is worthy of credit or not. All these are studied through complicated mathematical computations to analyse sequences of information within an ocean of data. These credit scorings can be provided within no time and are equally cost-efficient. The study focusses on the effectiveness of big data for credit analysis. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":151929,"journal":{"name":"Ushus - Journal of Business Management","volume":"388 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116488487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are General Insurance Companies Efficient in their Performance? – A Comparison","authors":"P. Muthulakshmi","doi":"10.12725/UJBM.44.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12725/UJBM.44.1","url":null,"abstract":"The insurance sector has witnessed significant changes in the last few years, specifically due to the effects of liberalisation, globalisation, and privatisation. It is imperative to compare and study the earnings and profitability of public sector non-life general insurance companies in India. The public sector non-life general insurance companies are competing with each other, and also with the private players in the same industry and thereby reducing the processing costs and facilitating the innovation of different types of policies across the geographic boundaries. In this paper, secondary data is used to analyse the earnings and profitability of non-life general insurance companies in India by using certain ratios which are available exclusively to evaluate the performance of insurance companies such as Claim Ratio, Expenses Ratio, Combined Ratio, Investment Income Ratio and Return on Equity Ratio. \u0000 \u0000, , , Ratio Analysis","PeriodicalId":151929,"journal":{"name":"Ushus - Journal of Business Management","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130819071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Demonetisation on Bank Stock","authors":"P. Triveni, A. Kumari","doi":"10.12725/UJBM.44.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12725/UJBM.44.4","url":null,"abstract":"This paper empirically examines the impact of demonetisation on Indian bank stock. On 8th November 2016, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi declared demonetisation in an unscheduled live broadcast. Currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 were demonetised from the midnight of 8th November 2016. This was issued to curb black money and corruption. During demonetisation, the index values of the stock market SENSEX, NIFTY and BANKEX went down. This research mainly focusses on how demonetisation affected the stock price of the top Indian banks. With the help of CAAR, change in return and change in volatility, the effect of demonetisation on the stock market was calculated. Furthermore, an understanding of the impact of demonetisation on bank stocks was attempted. The evaluation helped in concluding that there has been no impact on the bank stocks post demonetisation. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":151929,"journal":{"name":"Ushus - Journal of Business Management","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127080882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges in Globalisation of Global Software Development: A Conceptual Study of Co-locating Key Roles and its Impact on Product Life Cycle","authors":"Umasankar Saketharaman, V. Anandkumar","doi":"10.12725/UJBM.44.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12725/UJBM.44.3","url":null,"abstract":"This study characterises the results of published scientific research in the field of Global Software Product Development (GSD). Based on the analysis of about 22 scholarly articles published between 2001 and 2014, it is observed that in spite of issues and challenges faced in its implementation, GSD is a business necessity. To ensure more successful realisation of the benefits of GSD, co-locating some of the key-roles at global locations along with software development could be exercised. This could have a positive impact on the software product life cycle. This relationship needs to be validated by further research backed with empirical data. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":151929,"journal":{"name":"Ushus - Journal of Business Management","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122876775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collective Bargaining: A Catalyst for Dispute Resolution between Employers and Employees in the Retail Industry in Urban Mutare","authors":"Nyanga Takupiwa, Tapfumanei Christian Shelfa","doi":"10.12725/UJBM.46.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12725/UJBM.46.1","url":null,"abstract":"The study assesses the effectiveness of collective bargaining in resolving conflicts between employers and employees in the retail industry. The study shows that collective bargaining is a valuable dispute resolution device in the retail industry. It gives an opportunity to employers and employees to discuss their concerns pertaining to issues of work thereby preventing and resolving disputes amicably. Collective bargaining creates a platform for effective communication, negotiations in good faith, impart knowledge of rights as outlined in the Labour Act Chapter 28:01 and make organisations follow through the collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The study proposes that organisations should ensure that collective bargaining adheres and implements all the CBAs.","PeriodicalId":151929,"journal":{"name":"Ushus - Journal of Business Management","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115326692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}