Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Mindful gaming in a busy world: exploring the retro renaissance

Purpose Motivated by the increasing busyness of modern lives and the rise in video game adoption, this study aims to explore how a busy mindset affects consumers’ gaming preferences, highlighting the relevance of retro (nostalgic) gaming as a psychological coping mechanism and a...

Supervisory trust and urgency culture: the role of temporal desynchronisation

Purpose This study aims to explore how miscalibrated supervisory trust may contribute to an urgency culture. Drawing on the trust calibration theory, it challenges the assumption that supervisory trust is uniformly and linearly beneficial and explains its unintended consequences....

Four-port triple notched wide-band MIMO antenna and verification by theory of characteristics mode for multiple applications

Abstract This paper presents a compact four-port multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna featuring a triple notched-band characteristic for wideband, multiple applications. The single-element antenna is systematically developed and analyzed using the Theory of Characteristi...

From diversity to eco-consciousness: how a diverse workforce enhances consumer’s perception of a brand’s environmental stewardship

Purpose This research aims to investigate how workforce-wide diversity, defined as the proportion of employees from underrepresented communities (URCs) across all organizational levels, influences consumer perceptions of environmental stewardship. The authors propose that consume...