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Preface to Research on Role of Technology in Workforce Management
(Australasian Association for Information Systems, 2019)
Technology has become omnipresent in our lives and workplace is no exception. Recent advancements in human resource management (HRM) and organizational behaviour (OB) are predominantly technology driven that require ...
Nominee representatives of financing institutions in the board of directors: Implications on firm internationalization strategy
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-13)
Extant literature on Corporate Governance predominantly examines the characteristics of Anglo-Saxon system of corporate governance. Characteristics of board of directors, such as board independence are the outcomes of ...
Wealth Distribution, Pattern of Trade and Capital Flows- Role of Credit Market Imperfection
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-21)
This paper explores the impact of wealth distribution on pattern of trade and capital flows with credit rationing. More egalitarian societies may aggravate the impact of credit rationing and that may lead to import of ...
Causal inference and finite population sampling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-17)
In recent years, there has been a significant interest in causal inference in a potential outcomes framework, with applications to such diverse fields as sociology, behavioral sciences, biomedical sciences, and so on. The ...
Do Families Reduce or Raise Agency Conflicts? The Ratio of Board Control to Ownership
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-08)
Large family owners monitor managers, which attenuates principal-agent conflicts and improves firm performance. However, these owners can also appropriate resources, which creates principal-principal conflicts and harms ...
Cost Management Research
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-14)
The traditional view of cost behavior assumes a simple mechanistic relation between cost drivers and costs. In contrast, contemporary cost management research recognizes that costs are caused by managers’ operating decisions ...
Linking literacy and mobile phone usage among women: Evidence from a women's adult literacy programme in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-16)
In this paper we evaluate the impact of a female adult literacy programme (FALP henceforth) on the ownership, access and use of mobile phones among its participants. Using a mixed methods research design, we present both ...
Economic measures of capacity utilization: A nonparametric cost function analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-05)
Cost based measures of capacity utilization and capacity output are important metrics for evaluating firm performance. Understanding where firms are producing on their average cost curve provides information about whether ...
Different Worlds Together: How Researchers and Practitioners Co-create Knowledge
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-05)
The communities of research and practice are embedded in epistemic cultures that favor specific strategies, practices, and apparatus – in other words, ways of knowing. Scholars have investigated the differences between ...
How long the shadow of the city? The impact of urbanisation on schooling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-16)
What is the impact of rapid urbanisation on rural schooling? In this paper we use data from the district of Gautam Buddha Nagar, lying in Uttar Pradesh and bordering Delhi, to answer this question. This district has seen ...