INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERVICES MANAGEMENT
DETAILED PROGRAMME
DAY-1               
Activity Time
Registration 8:45 to 9:45 AM
Inauguration 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Keynote Speaker Mr. Ashwini Kakkar, Managing Director & CEO , Thomas Cook
FRIDAY (MARCH 11,2005) TECHNICAL SESSIONS
                                 11:30 to 11:45        TEA BREAK
Time:  11:45 TO 1:15 Time:  11:45 TO 1:15 Time:  11:45 TO 1:15 Time:  11:45 TO 1:15
Hospitality-I Education-I Health Care-I Tourism-I
Room: Surya Mahal-I, Room: Surya Mahal-III      Room: Jaisalmer   Room: Sanganer 
Session Chair: Dr. Mahmood Khan  Session Chair: K.G. Viswanadhan Session Chair: Dr. Pramod Singh Session Chair: Dr. Vinayshil Gautam
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Vishnuprasad Nagadevara Improving the Effectiveness of Hotel Loyality Programmes through Data Mining Timmor Yaron & Talia Rymon  To do or not to do: The Dilemma of Technology-Based Service Improvement  Thaneswar Bir Health Insurance: A Potential Policy Option for Health Care Financing in the Developing Countries like India Azizi Bahauddin, Aldrin Abdullah & Badaruddin Mohamed The Heritage Tourism of Georgetown, Penang- Setting the Right Tourism Culture
Peter O'Connor An International Comparison of Approaches to Online Privacy Protection: Implications for the Hotel Sector Sindhu R. &                      N.J. Rao Technology Enhanced Learning – A Hope for Indian Engineering Education
Pramod K Singh  Spatial Pattern of Diseases and Health Infrastructure in India: A GIS Approach Debadyuti Das Assessing the Fulfilment of Needs of the Host Community Dependent on Tourism – A Case Study
Hsin-Hui “Sunny” Hu, H.G. Parsa & Maryam Khan Effectiveness of Price Discount Levels and Formats in Service Industries Manu Sharma, Uma Kumar & Luc Lalande Role of University Technology Transfer Offices in University Technology Commercialization: Case Study of the Carleton University Foundry Program Seema Joshi GATS, Indian Services Sector and Trade Potential in Health Services Sanjeev Varshney & Anita Goyal Adventure Sports Industry of India and its Value Network
João C. Neves &         Sofia Lourenço  Performance Evaluation of Worldwide Hotel Industry Using the Data Envelopment Analysis K. Rajesh Kumar, P.K. Muthu Kumar & T. Sezhiyan Globalization and Changing Concept of Education Sandeep Dulluri, V. Prasanna Shrinivas, N. R. Srinivasa Raghavan & Vijay Chandru Combinatorial Resource Allocation Mechanism for Health Care Management Debadyuti Das & Sushil K Sharma Perspective of Foreign Tourists With Reference to a Tourist Destination: A Case Study
Preeti Menon & Hetal Machhi Health and Medical Care
Deepa Bharti & R.Srinivasan Changing Face of Indian Health Care – A Case Study of Sagar Apollo Hospital
                                1:15 pm-2:15 pm       LUNCH BREAK
Time:  2:15 to 3:45 Time:  2:15 to 3:45 Time:  2:15 to 3:45 Time:  2:15 to 3:45
Hospitality-II Education-II Health Care-II IT & ITES-I
Room: Surya Mahal-I   Room: Surya Mahal-III    Room: Jaisalmer  Room: Sanganer
Session Chair : Manav Thadani Session Chair: Dr. Suresh Misra Session Chair: Prof. R. Srinivasan Session Chair: K. Narayanan
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Hakan V. Erkutlu The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Organizational and Leadership Effectiveness  Rashmi Diwan   Internationalisation and the Imperative for Functional Change in the Tertiary Education Sector Swagatika Panda & Durga Prasad Samantaray Medical Tourism- India to Become the “Global Health Destination Mahil Carr & A.R.Dani Consumer Trust in Electronic Commerce
Prakash K. Chathoth & Michael D. Olsen  A Macro Analysis of Labor Productivity as a Value Driver in the Logding Industry Y. Malini Reddy  To Be or Not To Be Accredited Rooma Roshnee Ramsaran-Fowdar Investigating Service Quality Dimensions through Exploratory Factor Analysis in a Healthcare Setting R.Srinivasan & RLN Murthy Managing Space Services Marketing – A Case Study of Antrix Corporation
Dennis Reynolds &  David Biel Why isn’t Satisfaction Included in Productivity Statistics? –
An Empirical Investigation of Holistic Productivity Analysis

Dindayal Swain Challenges of Globalisation for Management Education in India: A Vision for 2030 R. Chakrabarty & Zeenat Sayeed The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Hospital Management: A Case Study Naveen George, Mahesh Babu, K.Ganesh & P. Parthiban  VPC: Decision Making Model for Performance Measurement in Supply Chain
Manav Thadani HVS Overview of Indian Hospitatlity Industry K.G. Viswanadhan, N.J.Rao & C. Mukhopadhyay Impact of Privatization on Engineering Education- A Study through the Analysis of Performance of Self-Financing Engineering Programmes in India. R.Rohini Service Quality in Bangalore Hospitals- An Empirical Study Mohammed Shahedul Quader,  Akhter Jahan & Mohammad Shohidullah Knowledge Management and E- Learning: Tools For Organizational Evaluation
Smita Singh &
Rehana Ghadially
Women’s Mental Health
Role of NGO: A Case Study
Diganta Kumar Das & K. Narayanan Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and India’s Development:
Achievements and Challenges Ahead
                                     3:45 to 4:00         TEA BREAK
Time:  4:00 to 5:30 Time:  4:00 to 5:30 Time:  4:00 to 5:30 Time:  4:00 to 5:30
Hospitality-III Finance & Insurance-I Telecommunication-I Public Services-I
Room: Surya Mahal-I Room: Surya Mahal-III   Room: Jaisalmer Room: Sanganer
Session Chair: Dr.Peter O Connor Session Chair: Dr. Harjeet Sekhon Session Chair: Dr. Gael Bonnin  Session Chair: Dr. Peter Oppenhaim
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Kyuoho Lee & Maryam Khan Culture and Its Impacts on International Service Management: Exploring Global Consumers’ Different Service Perceptions and Preferences in the Hospitality Industry
Vimi Jham Customer Centric Approach in the  Banking Industry----A Conceptual Model of Relationship Building. S. Rajeev, K.V. Sreenaath & A.S.Bharathi Manivannan e-Purchases through Mobile Phones using
Policy Based e-Supply Chain Management 
Abhijit Parkhe and        R. Srinivasan Air Deccan: A Comparative Study with the Pioneers - South-West Airlines and Ryan Air
Sajith K. Augustine & Binoy Joseph A Study on Emotional Labour among the Front Line Employees of Hotel Industry in India Christine Ennew & Harjit Sekhon Trust: The Success Factor
for Financial Services
Anita Seth, Kiran Kumar Momaya & H.M. Gupta An Exploratory Investigation of Customer Loyalty and Retention in Cellular Mobile Communication Suresh Misra Re-Engineering Public Service Organisations –
 E-Governance in Service Delivery



Sanjay K.Jain  Searching For Critical Success Factors: A Dimension-Specific Assessment of Service Quality and Its Relationship with Customer Satisfaction and Behavioural Intentions in Fast Food Restaurants R.Srinivasan and H.S.Srivatsa Innovation and Value Drivers in Finance Industry Rajneesh B.Sharma Telecommunications: Boon or Bane in Indian Perspective H.Peeru Mohamed Performance excellence through CRM in the Airline Industry of India: A Study Based on Service User's Perceptions
Mahmood A. Khan Internationalization of Services:  The Global Impact of US Franchise Restaurants Tabasum Nazir & Mohi-ud-Din Sangmi
Customer Satisfaction in Banks: An Empirical Analysis                                           K. Chitra Critical Success Factors Determining Product Adoptability in Telecommunication Industry : A Study With Respect to Cell Phone Tayyab S. Shaikh Customer Services at Airports – A Relentless Pursuit in Excellence: A Case Study of Airports Authority of India

D. Kandar, A. R. Sardar, R. Bera, S.S. Singh, S. Dogra and S. K. Sarkar  Code Division Multiple Access - Modern Trends in Multimedia Mobile Communication
Best Paper Awards Function           DINNER      7:30 PM RADISSON HOTEL, POOLSIDE-Dress Code Formal