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Transit-oriented development and residential location in Hong Kong: from economic and social spatial perspectives
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-07-16)Transit development is being placed as a priority in many world cities’ transportation master plan to improve connectivity and urban mobility. With new rail lines and bus routes, residents can enjoy higher accessibility ... -
Geographical dissimilarity and team member influence: do emotions experienced in the initial team meeting matter?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-07-26)It is both important and challenging to gain influence within geographically diverse teams. In the present study, we argue that the emotions team members experience in their initial team meetings moderate the effect of ... -
Mobile targeting using customer trajectory patterns
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Women on boards in India: numbers, composition, experiences and inclusion of women directors
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-09-29)Research and practice over the last two decades have established beyond doubt the impact that diversity of workforce has on productivity and profitability. In line with various countries taking the initiative to have more ... -
The takeoff of open source software: a signaling perspective based on community activities
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-10-05)A few open-source software (OSS) products exhibit an abrupt and significant increase in downloads. However, the majority of OSS products fail to gain much interest. Identifying early success is important for catalyzing ... -
Census, national sample surveys and historical research methods
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Mixed methods research
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Integrating anticipative replenishment-allocation with reactive fulfillment for online retailing using robust optimization
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-05-12)The aggressive expansion in e-commerce sales significantly escalates online retailers' operating costs. Typically, in each period of a planning horizon, an online retailer decides on how much to replenish each product and ... -
Counterfeit avastin in India: punish the criminals, not the patients
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-01-10)In December, 2015, 15 cases of intraocular inflammation following injections of counterfeit bevacizumab occurred in Gujarat, India. CDSCO reacted by prohibiting the use of intraocular bevacizumab throughout the country. ... -
Morality and humanoid robots: revisiting different ethical theories
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-11-26)Uniformity in human actions and attitudes incumbent with the ceteris paribus clause of folk psychology lucidly transits moral thoughts into the domain of subject-centric exploration. Morality could be identified in terms ... -
Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood: evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-12-02)Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the ... -
Effect of international marketing alliance dissolution on the shareholder's value of emerging market partner firm
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-09-19)As part of their global growth strategy, multinational corporations headquartered in developed markets (DMs) are increasingly entering emerging markets (EMs) such as India and China by forming international marketing joint ... -
Text mining for financial and non-financial information from SEC filings, and textual analysis for predictive models and risk assessment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-09-17)The recent developments in information technology in terms of text mining tools and search engines like Google is not only changing the way we gather information and conduct research, but also changing the kinds of questions ... -
Women’s adverse incorporation into party politics: political labour in India and Indonesia
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-08-28)Despite policies and initiatives to address women’s under-representation in formal politics across Asia, the problem remains entrenched (Paxton and Hughes 2014). Significant scholarly work has examined the extent of, and ... -
Help or hindrance? Implications of fully automated vehicles
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-05-30)Experts predict that new automobiles will be capable of driving themselves under limited conditions within 5-10 years, and under most conditions within 10-20 years. Automation may affect road vehicle energy consumption and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Can academic integration reduce the economic divide: An Analysis of the RTE Act in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-18)The Right to Education (RtE) Act enforced in 2009 requires all private schools in India to admit 25% children from economically weaker sections. If successful, the act may play a key role in reducing the widening social ... -
Minimum distance model checking in Berkson measurement error models with validation data
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-12)This talk will present a class of tests for fitting a parametric model to the regression function in the presence of Berkson measurement error in the covariates without specifying the measurement error density but when ...
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