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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 ... -
Diffusing Coordination Risk
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-02)Agents face strategic uncertainty in a regime change game that is akin to debt rollover. A mass of agents sequentially decide whether to attack a regime or not, but they do not observe the past actions of other agents. A ... -
Digital Solutions in Manufacturing Industry and the way forward
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-11-12)The Speaker Series Committee of PGPX Class of 2017 has organized a Speaker Series Session on Digital Solutions in Manufacturing Industry and the way forward by Masayoshi Tamura, General Manager, Digital Solutions and ... -
Discovery and Development of SIRTURO - A new drug for drug-resistant tuberculosis - Harnessing value of Innovation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-07)The CMHS seminar held at Wing 11 Committee Room, Old Campus, IIMA on February 7, 2018 by Dr. Anil Koul, Director, CSIR-IMTech on Discovery and Development of SIRTURO - A new drug for drug-resistant tuberculosis - Harnessing ... -
Disruption and Resilience Issues in Freight Transportation
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-08)Freight transportation is crucial to the lifeline of modern society because it connects the producers to geographically dispersed consumers. In North America, this connection is facilitated by an extensive freight ... -
Do Activity-Based Incentive Plans Work? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-03-29)Despite theory-based expectations, and actual usage in practice, we lack any evidence about sales productivity gains from activity-based incentive (ABI) pay. Such plans incorporate activity scores from salespersons’ call ... -
Do Expectations Reflect Information Reliability? Evidence From Odds on Tennis Matches
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-22)We examine whether people form expectations by placing a larger weight on more reliable signals. To test this notion, we analyze subjective probabilities inferred from odds offered on the outcomes of men's tennis matches, ... -
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 ... -
Do Programs Mandating Small Business Lending Disincentivize Growth? Evidence from a Policy Experiment
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-07-04)Exploiting discontinuities in program eligibility, we show that small-firm lending mandates inhibit firm growth. Firms newly qualified under lending mandates near the upper threshold for treatment have lower growth in ... -
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Does Health Influence Risk Preference?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-16)This paper investigates whether self-assessed health (SAH) status—a measure of health stock—influences the risk preference of an individual. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we ... -
Does Learning from Inspections Affect Environmental Performance? - Evidence from Unconventional Well Development in Pennsylvania
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-22)With the growing awareness that operations can affect the environment, regulators increasingly use facility inspections to assess a firm’s environmental performance: whether its operations comply with or violate environmental ... -
Doing Good Research
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-01-06)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on January 06, 2015 by Prof. Suresh Radhakrishnan, The University of Texas, Dallas -
Dr Sumit Chowdhury in PGPX Speaker Series 2014-15
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-07-20)PGPX Speaker Series 2014-15 by Dr Sumit Chowdhury (President, Reliance Jio Infocomm) on 12th July, 2014 at New Campus, IIM Ahmedabad -
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in PGPX Speaker Series 2014-15
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-05-24)PGPX Speaker Series 2014-15 by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Former President of India) on 24th May, 2014 at CR-1, New Campus, IIM Ahmedabad -
Dynamic Tax Competition, Home Bias and the gain from Non-preferential Taxation Regimes: A case for unilateral commitment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-10-27)In a dynamic two-period model of tax competition between two symmetric countries, where an investor has home bias for the country where he/she invests in the initial period, we show that a country has an incentive to ... -
E-GOVERNMENT TO COMBAT CORRUPTION IN INDIA & JOURNAL OF IT CASE AND APPLICATION RESEARCH (JITCAR)
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-18)Corruption in varying degrees exists in almost all countries. But its alarmingly high levels and persistence in developing countries such as India is a cause for deep concern. Indeed, international agencies and governments ... -
E-store Attributes and Website Usage: Exploring the Differences between Maximizers and Satisficers
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014-12-22)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on December 22, 2014 by Prof. Prithwiraj Nath, University of East Anglia, UK -
Econometric Identification of Causal Effects: Graphical Causal Models in Practice
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-23)It is well known that causal inference relies on untestable a-priori causal assumptions. Identification refers to whether a causal relationship can be inferred from observed statistical associations; it requires an ... -
The Economic Impact of First's Corporate Social Responsibility Activities: A Review and Synthesis of the Research Evidence
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014-10-21)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on October 21, 2014 by Prof. Shahrokh M, Saudagaran University of Washington Tacoma