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Logistics, the human factor
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-16)
As every manager knows, people are important to achieve operational excellence. The decisions and behavior of leaders impact the behaviors of employees which are instrumental in obtaining high performance. Still, in ...
Batching Decisions for E-Commerce Order Fulfilment: Technology, Models, and Data Insights
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-01)
Due to today’s customer expectations of fast delivery of a wide-range of products, companies are under pressure to reduce the order fulfilment time, i.e., the time from receiving an order to the time it takes to get an ...
A mixed integer linear programming model for optimal sovereign debt issuance
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-02)
Governments borrow funds to finance the excess of cash payments or interest payments over receipts, usually by issuing fixed income debt and index-linked debt. The goal of this work is to propose a stochastic optimization-based ...
A Framework Model on MNE's Impact on Global Development Challenges in Emerging Markets
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-15)
MNEmerge is a three-year (2014–2016) collaborative research project funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under Grant Agreement No. 612889. The project ...
Homeownership and the American Dream - An Analysis of Intergenerational Mobility Effects
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-30)
The benefits of homeownership feature prominently in the academic literature and policy discussion alike. Increasing homeownership has been a major policy goal in the US for decades, especially in low-income areas. We show ...
High-Cost Debt and Borrower Reputation: Evidence from the U.K
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-14)
When taking up high-cost debt signals poor credit risk to lenders, consumers must trade off alleviating credit constraints today with exacerbating them in the future. We document this trade-off by exploiting the random ...
Achieving social objectives using sponsorship-endorser portfolios
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-11-10)
Increasingly, nonprofits are utilizing social partnerships, such as celebrity endorsements or commercial sponsorships, to realize their social objectives and donation goals. The impact of corporate sponsorship on consumer ...
New Technology Innovations, Rise of Start-Ups and Design of Competitive Business Models
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-09)
Business models are a current hot topic, and their design has become a key to achieving high performance of the companies big or small. New Technologies: Mobile Internet, IOT, Social media, Cloud, Algorithmic Governance, ...
Assessing recent Social Security Programs in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-12)
There has been a major expansion of social security programmes in India during the last fifteen years or so, along with wider recognition of economic and social rights. This paper discusses five programmes of interest: ...
Large Population Aggregative Potential Games
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-08)
We consider population games in which payoff depends upon the aggregate strategy level and which admit a potential function. Examples of such aggregative potential games include the tragedy of the commons and the Cournot ...