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Rational Choices: An Ecological Foundation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-16)
We address the oft-repeated criticism that the demands which the rational choice approach makes on the knowledge and cognition of a decision maker (DM) are way beyond the capabilities of typical human intelligence. Our key ...
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 ...
Health communications: Going from aversion to persuasion
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-13)
In this talk, I will present a sampling of studies that investigate factors and processes that shape health persuasion. We will examine whether and why people are averse to health persuasion and how these barriers can be ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hierarchical decision-making produces persistent differences in learning performance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-02)
Human organizations are commonly characterized by a hierarchical chain of command that facilitates division of labor and integration of effort. Higher-level employees set the strategic frame that constrains lower-level ...
Growth out of the blue: nightlight and economic activity
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-14)
Measuring GDP is especially challenging in developing countries, where the informal sector is large and institutional constraints can be severe. As a result, GDP growth estimates are often met with skepticism. But new ...
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 ...