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Is CEO Pay Related to Performance in the U.S. Hospitality Industry?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-27)
Due to the unique nature of the hospitality industry that entails higher competition, ease of entry and exit of firms, and geographic diversification, we hypothesize that CEO compensation in the hospitality industry will ...
Steel Industry: Strategic Options
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-11-23)
With the government and the steel industry aiming high to take steel production in the country to about 300 million tonnes per annum by the second half of the coming decade from about 90 million tonnes now, there is a need ...
Old and out? Age, learning and employability
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-10-06)
Workforces across the world are aging, and governments are taking more and more policy actions to encourage aging workers to extend their working lives beyond the usual retirement age. In addition, employers are stimulated ...
Public versus Private Provisioning: Role of Education and Political Participation
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-06-28)
This paper studies the role played by education in the public provision of private ‘merit goods’, such as healthcare, schooling, security and so on. Corruption is endemic in public provision. Better educated individuals ...
Choice of IT Governance Mode:Effect of IT infrastructure Agglomeration
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-06-17)
Information technologies have enabled growth of large firms with multiple business units spread across geographies and markets. Governance of IT infrastructure is a key strategic priority for managing digitally-enabled ...
When Near is Far and Far is Near:FDI, Geographic Location and Connectivity
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-02-01)
Building on sociology theories that separate physical geography from its metaphorical connotations, we offer reconciliation for the theoretical ambiguity and conflicting empirical findings regarding the impact of countries’ ...
An Analysis of Multivariate final-offer arbitration
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-29)
First proposed in 1966, in the United States Final-Offer Arbitration has been adopted by Major League Baseball as well as in the public sector in many states as a means or resolving negotiation impasses. We will discuss ...
Supply Allocation under Sequential Advance Demand Information
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-03-08)
We study the problem of allocating supply under advance demand information (ADI). We consider a company that must allocate limited inventory to different markets that open sequentially. To reduce uncertainty, the company ...
Citius, Altius, Fortius: A History of How the World Became Efficient
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-03-09)
The talk is derived from an early stage, multi-year book project that investigates the historical political economy of the idea of efficiency. The history and political economy of the spread of
efficiency to distant corners ...
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 ...