R & P Seminar: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Building legitimacy in an adverse foreign environment: when the liability of foreignness can become a source of competitive advantage?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-29)Although the banking industry is by nature risk-prone, network-based and subject to strong institutional barriers, banks going international generally operate alone. Within a context of high liability of foreignness, how ... -
Econometric Identification of Causal Effects: Graphical Causal Models in Practice
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-23)It is well known that causal inference relies on untestable a-priori causal assumptions. Identification refers to whether a causal relationship can be inferred from observed statistical associations; it requires an ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Licensing Intellectual Property and the Dissemination of Technology
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-05)While the exclusive rights provided by intellectual property law are touted as promoting the creation and spread of new technologies, equally important is the role of contract law in supporting the dissemination of technology. ... -
Whatever it takes: The Real Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-04)On July 26, 2012 the ECB’s President Mario Draghi announced to do “whatever it takes” to preserve the Euro and subsequently launched the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) Program, which led to a significant increase in ... -
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 ... -
Do Programs Mandating Small Business Lending Disincentivize Growth? Evidence from a Policy Experiment
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-07-04)Exploiting discontinuities in program eligibility, we show that small-firm lending mandates inhibit firm growth. Firms newly qualified under lending mandates near the upper threshold for treatment have lower growth in ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
E-GOVERNMENT TO COMBAT CORRUPTION IN INDIA & JOURNAL OF IT CASE AND APPLICATION RESEARCH (JITCAR)
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-18)Corruption in varying degrees exists in almost all countries. But its alarmingly high levels and persistence in developing countries such as India is a cause for deep concern. Indeed, international agencies and governments ... -
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 ...