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Institutional discourses and ascribed disability identities
(Elsevier, 2017)
In the present study we asked: how do institutional discourses, as represented in mass media such as newspapers, confer identities upon a traditionally marginalised collective such as those with a disability? To answer our ...
Parallel systems and human resource management in India's public health services: a view from the front lines
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2015)
There is building evidence in India that the delivery of health services suffers both from an actual shortfall in trained health professionals and from unsatisfactory results of existing service providers working in the ...
Financial literacy among working young in urban India
(Elsevier, 2015)
The working young in urban India exhibit inferior financial knowledge, inferior financial attitude, and superior financial behavior compared to their counterparts elsewhere. While both men and women require intervention ...
Effects of derivatives usage and financial statement items on capital market risk measures of Bank stocks: evidence from India
(Journal of Economics and Finance, 2016-07-01)
This paper examines the impact of off-balance sheet derivatives usage by banks combined with financial statement items on their capital market risk measures. Financial markets liberalization policies in the 1990s, led to ...
Water ATMs of Indian Railways: Causing a silent revolution
(Sage, 2018)
The case discusses the red tape in the installation and operationalising of automatic water vending machines (AWVMs or popularly, water ATMs) in the railway stations on behalf of the Indian Railways (IR) from the perspectives ...
From bazaar to Big Bazaar: Environmental influences and service innovation in the evolution of retailing in India, c. 1850-2015
(Emerald, 2018)
Purpose – This paper aims to understand the factors affecting the evolution of retailing in India since the
mid-nineteenth century.
Design/methodology/approach – This paper compares the trajectories of four distinct ...
The four eras of “marketing” in twentieth century India
(Emerald, 2018)
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to understand the evolution of “marketing” in the public and
corporate discourse of twentieth-century India.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws its inferences from an ...
Mass migration from rural India: A restudy of Kunkeri village in Konkan, Maharashtra, 1961-1987-2017
(Sage, 2018)
This article examines a particular village—Kunkeri—in Konkan, Maharashtra, characterized by persistent mass outmigration for over five decades, by combining a field study in 2017 with detailed ethnographic and statistical ...
Stitching infrastructures to facilitate telemedicine for low-resource environments
(ACM, 2018)
Telemedicine can potentially transform healthcare delivery in
low-resource environments by enabling extension of medical knowledge to remote locations, thus enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the larger healthcare ...
Impact of affirmative action in higher education for the other backward classes in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-07-18)
This paper measures the impact of quota-based affirmative action in higher education (HE) in India for Other Backward Classes (OBC), implemented from 2008. Since the immediate impact would be felt by OBCs who were eligible ...