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Blowing Smoke: The Management of Moral Illegitimacy by the U.S. Tobacco Industry
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-13)U.S. corporations have had a remarkable history of overcoming challenges to their moral legitimacy. While a number of established theoretical positions have argued that organizational wrongdoing is likely to be a tremendous ... -
Partisan Politics and the Tragedy of the Commons: Groundwater Depletion in India’s Breadbasket
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-08)India's agriculture depends on groundwater irrigation, but this critical resource is depleting. Abundant supply of heavily subsidized electricity plays a key role in this depletion by allowing farmers to operate powerful ... -
Challenges in Creating a Premier Institute of Higher Technological Education in a Remote Area: A Case Study of IIT Mandi
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-07)In 2009, a picturesque 500-acre campus in a remote Himalayan river valley was selected for an IIT. With a population of barely 200, beset by landslides and bitterly cold winters, the village of Kamand is 45 minutes from ... -
Creating knowledge networks for inclusive, empathetic innovations : insights from honey bee network
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MNCs and Global Foreign Policy: A trend we may have missed in the last 5 Years
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-05)On the international stage, the multinational corporation has been sneaking up on traditional prerogatives of the state, with surprisingly little mainstream commentary on the trend. The talk singles out news stories from ... -
Open source initiatives for promoting Economics Research - A case study from ZbW, Germany
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Changing Character of Business Librarianship: An Indian Perspective
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Why strategic plans fail: can libraries "future proof" their relevance to their constituents?
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How does point-of-purchase advertising influence sales? A randomized field study
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-11)Point of Purchase (POP) advertising is ubiquitous; it is hard to find a retail store, fast food restaurant, or convenience store that does not have signs and banners advertising various brands. Despite its frequent use, ... -
Bayesian Nonparametrics - Dirichlet Process and application
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-12-15)This talk would present a brief overview of some popular priors studied in Bayesian nonparametrics. Starting with Dirichlet process, we will explore mixture models hierarchical models and indicate some applications. If ... -
Access, Agenda Constraint and Informational Lobbying
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-21)We develop a model of informational lobbying in which a policymaker must decide which issues to implement reforms on. On each issue there is an informed interest group that always favour the adoption of reform, and which ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility Report Narratives and Analyst Forecast Accuracy
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-16)Standalone corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports vary considerably in content due in part to their voluntary nature and the lack of an accountability framework in CSR reporting. In this study, we develop a CSR ... -
Corporate Debt Restructuring, Bank Competition and Stability: Evidence from creditors’ perspective
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-14)This paper estimates the causal effect of a unique programme of corporate debt restructuring (CDR) on stability of Indian banks over the period 1992-2012. The banks who participated in the programme were extended regulatory ... -
Identifying the most and least promising customers through similarity kernels
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-11)Research has demonstrated that identifying profitable customers and acquiring them is far more expensive than retaining existing customers. The higher cost emerges because firms are unable to identify the truly profitable ... -
Economic Inequality from Statistical Physics Point of View
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-02)Similarly to the probability distribution of energy in physics, the probability distribution of money among the agents in a closed economic system is also expected to follow the exponential Boltzmann-Gibbs law, as a ... -
Missing Men, Migration and Labour Markets:Evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-02)How do labor markets function when a large part of the able-bodied male workforce is absent due to out-migration? This question holds great significance as it affects regions covering over 200 million people in India and ... -
Role of Enterprise IT in a Consumerized World
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-11-27)PGPX Speaker Series 2015 (Role of Enterprise IT in a Consumerized World) by Mr. Vijayanand Vadrevu, Head – Global IT Services, Novartis Pharma AG on Monday 27th Nov, 2015 at IMDC Block New Campus, IIMA -
The Indian Pharmaceutical Sector
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-10-16)Currently valued at USD 14.7 bn the domestic Pharmaceutical Market is growing at 14%. It is a highly fragmented market with over 3,000 companies (of which 550 are covered by IMS) and over 30,000 brands. Indian companies ... -
The touch of Midas or the curse of Bhasmasura? Learning from failures of Indian investments in Finland
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-11-23)This seminar presentation contributes to expanding the conversations around investments of multinational companies from emerging economies (EMNCs) in developed countries. The purpose is to invite attention to management ... -
The Fallacy of National Culture
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-10-30)The international business and management literature is dominated by the national culture perspective pioneered by Hofstede (1980) with his national culture dimensions and scores, and extended by Gelfand et al. (2011), ...