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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 ...
Game theory - The Mathematics for Conflict Resolution
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-28)
Game theory can be broadly classified into cooperative and non cooperative games. In non-cooperative games the key solution concept is the notion of a Nash equilibrium. In cooperative games, the key issue is how to split ...
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 ...
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 ...
Skilled Migrants' Relocation Decisions and Resettlement Processes: The Embedded Role of Emotional Labour
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-03-11)
International mobility of skilled migrants involves their agency in shaping their social, cultural, economic, and symbolic capitals. This research emphasises the rationality embedded in skilled migrants’ migration decisions. ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Extraordinary Opportunity for Leading Indian Management Schools in MBA programs
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-07-15)
The dramatic increase in fine grained digital data is pervading functions in organizations that range from from finance and marketing to human relations and supply chain operations. At the highest strategic level it is ...
Disruption and Resilience Issues in Freight Transportation
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-08)
Freight transportation is crucial to the lifeline of modern society because it connects the producers to geographically dispersed consumers. In North America, this connection is facilitated by an extensive freight ...
Taming Wicked Problems in Strategy Wicked Strategies and the Business of Humanity
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-22)
In business, some problems are easy, some problems are hard, and some problems are so complex, so intractable, and so threatening to organizations - or entire industries that they are best described as 'wicked'. These ...