R & P Seminar: Recent submissions
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Management Science & Practice, deployed in providing Technology Enabled Remote Healthcare
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-04)The only way to bridge the ever-increasing urban rural health divide is to use Information & Communication Technology and integrate Telehealth into the healthcare delivery system. This profusely illustrated presentation ... -
An infrastructure investment methodology to risk mitigation from rail hazmat shipments
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-25)A significant majority of hazardous materials (hazmat), including those integral to sustain our industrial lifestyle such as crude oil, are produced and consumed at different locations, and therefore need to be transported ... -
Do Expectations Reflect Information Reliability? Evidence From Odds on Tennis Matches
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-22)We examine whether people form expectations by placing a larger weight on more reliable signals. To test this notion, we analyze subjective probabilities inferred from odds offered on the outcomes of men's tennis matches, ... -
The Contingent Impact of Failing Fast on Salesperson Performance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-18)Sales is a profession that faces an inordinate amount of failure. When salespeople fail and face rejection from the customer, the consequences can be widespread and lasting. Perhaps, however, salespeople should not aim to ... -
Causal inference and finite population sampling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-17)In recent years, there has been a significant interest in causal inference in a potential outcomes framework, with applications to such diverse fields as sociology, behavioral sciences, biomedical sciences, and so on. The ... -
A Model for Enhancing Productivity via Employee Well Being
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-28)The future of a country is dependent on the well-being of the society, in particular, its workforce. A healthy workforce can participate in a globally-competent development of a country. Unfortunately, a growing number of ... -
Inclusive education in Delhi: Understating teachers' perspectives and beliefs
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-21)This study examines the perceptions and beliefs of general education teachers about the inclusion of students with disabilities (SWDs) in regular education classrooms. Using hermeneutic phenomenology as a methodological ... -
Major Determinants of World Agricultural Trade
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-27)Agricultural world trade is heavily impacted by comparative advantage, trade policies, domestic farm policies, gravity factors, and transport costs. Comparative advantage is determined by Ricardian productivity differences ... -
Search: then and now with particular reference to the web
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-10)Nowadays, we take web search engines for granted. For many people, their favourite search engine (Google or some other) is their primary or even sole entry-point to the web. Not only that -- it also, in some sense, _is_ ... -
Rational Choices: An Ecological Foundation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-16)We address the oft-repeated criticism that the demands which the rational choice approach makes on the knowledge and cognition of a decision maker (DM) are way beyond the capabilities of typical human intelligence. Our key ... -
Diffusing Coordination Risk
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-02)Agents face strategic uncertainty in a regime change game that is akin to debt rollover. A mass of agents sequentially decide whether to attack a regime or not, but they do not observe the past actions of other agents. A ... -
Hierarchical decision-making produces persistent differences in learning performance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-02)Human organizations are commonly characterized by a hierarchical chain of command that facilitates division of labor and integration of effort. Higher-level employees set the strategic frame that constrains lower-level ... -
Poverty Index with Time-Varying Consumption and Income Distributions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-01)Poverty is defined as degree of deprivation in consumption of an essential commodity. Employing Ernst Engel’s approach we derive a hierarchy of needs and identify the basic needs. We then use the Engel curve for that ... -
Linking literacy and mobile phone usage among women: Evidence from a women's adult literacy programme in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-16)In this paper we evaluate the impact of a female adult literacy programme (FALP henceforth) on the ownership, access and use of mobile phones among its participants. Using a mixed methods research design, we present both ... -
How long the shadow of the city? The impact of urbanisation on schooling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-16)What is the impact of rapid urbanisation on rural schooling? In this paper we use data from the district of Gautam Buddha Nagar, lying in Uttar Pradesh and bordering Delhi, to answer this question. This district has seen ... -
Cost Management Research
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-14)The traditional view of cost behavior assumes a simple mechanistic relation between cost drivers and costs. In contrast, contemporary cost management research recognizes that costs are caused by managers’ operating decisions ... -
Health communications: Going from aversion to persuasion
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-13)In this talk, I will present a sampling of studies that investigate factors and processes that shape health persuasion. We will examine whether and why people are averse to health persuasion and how these barriers can be ... -
Big Data, Big Promise, Big Challenge: Can Small Area Estimation Play a Role in the Big Data Centric World?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-09)The demand for various socio-economic, transportation, and health statistics for small geographical areas is steadily increasing at a time when survey agencies are desperately looking for ways to reduce costs to meet fixed ... -
Do Families Reduce or Raise Agency Conflicts? The Ratio of Board Control to Ownership
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-08)Large family owners monitor managers, which attenuates principal-agent conflicts and improves firm performance. However, these owners can also appropriate resources, which creates principal-principal conflicts and harms ... -
Cross-market integration and sabotage
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-14)"Sabotage" includes a set of firm-specific, non-price related actions negatively influencing competitor's outcomes. There are a large number of potential sabotage options available to integrated firms in direct competition ...