CKPIM Business Review

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Authors: Dr. Kh. Tomba Singh and Dr. Nongmaithem Dadina Devi

Entrepreneurship plays a significant role in the economic development of the nation. The present research paper tries to find the relationship between the characteristics of entrepreneurs and their success and also tries to find out the motivational factors of entrepreneurs in Manipur. The data were collected from 207 entrepreneurs in SMEs sector of Manipur. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis and regression analysis were used to achieve the objectives. The study also shows the educational qualification of the respondents and success has significant relationship. The study also depicted that most of the enterprise are of the age of 6 years and more. The success and longevity of the enterprise have significant relationship. The study further shows that need for increasing income is the most important factor that motivates entrepreneurs to start their own enterprise. Family member security was also one of the important factors that motivate entrepreneurship in the study area.

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Authors: Mehul Mehta

The purpose of this study is to measure calendar effect in the Indian stock market. The researcher took the closing price of two indices i.e. Sensex and Nifty from January 1999 to December 2012 and applied independent t test, ANOVA, Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test monthly return series. The main findings of the research are: November-December effect that is mean returns for November and December are significantly greater than those of the other ten months. January-may effect, in which mean returns for the months January to May are significantly less than those during the other seven months.

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Authors: Prof. Preeti Nair

Today’s workforce consists of literate workers who expect more than just money from their work.

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Authors: Ms. Rakhi Thakkar ,Dr. Trupti S. Almoula, Ms. Rashmi Ghamawala

Since Kahn (1990) coined the word employee engagement, a lot of research has been conducted to identify variables at different level that contributes to better employee engagement. Studies have exhibited that it requires top management philosophy, conducive work practices and organization culture to bring about better employee engagement. But many processes are such that the cause and effect relationship is two way process. Had it not been so there would be a stagnation or at times decline of any given situation, because the relevance of variables to create a desired effect is also short lived. Given the thought that the relevance of variables must be dynamic so that its effect is sustainable across and in spite of various changes- macro & micro, external & internal, it was thought to examine how engaged employees & practices leads to creation of positive organization culture which is more long lasting and sets the ball rolling for continuing employee engagement. The employee engagement practices is viewed as a lubricant that eliminates all frictions and build a sustainable culture that promotes engagement at all times irrespective of any external factor. Hence this study aims to evaluate how existing employee engagement practices have contributed in building an everlasting culture in terms of positive leadership, innovation, productivity, two way communication, commitment, accountability, team work and transparency. Twenty five Manufacturing Organizations located in Bharuch region were selected as samples through convenience sampling method.

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Authors: Dr. Parimal H. Vyas and Mr. Parag S. Shukla

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Authors: Purvi Dipen Derashri and Dr. Hitesh Shukla

The corporate sector all over the world is restructuring its operations through different types of growth strategies like mergers and acquisitions in order to face challenges posed by the new pattern of globalization, which has led to the greater integration of national and international markets. The intensity of cross-border operations recorded an unprecedented surge since the mid-1990s and the same trend continues. The objective of the study is to analyze and compare the pre and post-merger and acquisition value creation by the financial performance of total five firms of Metal and Metal Product Industries. For this, the data was being collected for the years before and after the acquisition from different secondary database like BSE, NSE, annual reports of the firm etc. The study concluded that cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions of the selected firms have resulted in no significant effect on value creation of selected Indian companies.

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Authors: Dr. Keyur M. Nayak and Poonam P. Yadav

This paper is an attempt to identify the customer satisfaction level at HDFC bank in context with ATMs at Vapi. The descriptive study is being used in this paper. Data was collected from both the sources and structure questionnaire was prepared to collect data from the 200 respondents with Vapi region. Random sampling is being used to select the respondent. The data is being analyzed on the basis of different aspects related to ATMs located in Vapi region. This study attempted to measure the satisfaction level of HDFC bank with special reference to ATM in Vapi. ATM is such type of innovation that can mechanically accept deposits, issue withdrawals, transfer funds between accounts and collect cheques.