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Demand for crop insurance in developing countries: new evidence from India
(Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020-09-29)
Determining farmers’ real demand for crop insurance is difficult, especially in developing countries, where there is a lack of formal financial sector integration and a high reliance on informal risk mitigation options. ...
Alternate solution approaches for competitive hub location problems
(European Journal of Operational Research, 2020-08-08)
In this paper, we study the hub location problem of an entrant airline that tries to maximize its share in a market with already existing competing players. The problem is modeled as a non-linear integer program, which is ...
Analyzing intra-metropolitan variation in highway traffic performance in Los Angeles using archived real-time data
(Transportation Planning and Technology, 2020-10-27)
We conduct a case study of highway system performance in Los Angeles County. We use the Los Angeles Archived Data Management System, a comprehensive archive of regional real-time multi-modal transportation system data, to ...
Insolvency regimes and firms' default risk under economic uncertainty and shocks
(Economic Modelling, 2020-06-18)
One of the arguments often advanced for implementing a stronger insolvency and bankruptcy framework is that it enhances credit discipline among firms. Using a large cross-country firm-level dataset, we empirically test ...
Oliver Williamson: the man who reduced the transaction cost of economics
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2020-07-11)
On 21 May 2020, one of the most cited economists of all time and a key contributor to organisational studies, Oliver E Williamson passed away. His intellectual apparatus of transaction cost economics is a powerful tool to ...
Construction, validation and generalization of SERVSTRESS: a measure for service induced customer stress
(European Journal of Marketing, 2020-09-22)
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to construct and validate a generalizable scale to measure service induced perceived stress for customers of personal services with a high level of intangibles having both online and ...
Covid-19's impact on supply chain decisions: strategic insights from NASDAQ 100 firms using Twitter data
(Journal of Business Research, 2020-06-12)
The coronavirus pandemic is having a clear impact on the supply chains of virtually all manufacturers, retailers, and wholesalers. As the world attempts to navigate through this difficult time, most companies are struggling ...
Celebrity endorsements in destination marketing: a three country investigation
(Tourism Management, 2020-09-07)
The present study extends research on the role of celebrity endorsements in destination marketing by exploring various facets of the effect of celebrity endorsements in destination marketing on the consumer. More specifically, ...
Exploring the mediating role of work engagement between the linkages of job characteristics with organizational engagement and job satisfaction
(Management Research Review, 2020-07-17)
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to empirically test a hypothesized model establishing job characteristics as an antecedent of work engagement leading to job satisfaction and organizational engagement of employees ...
Different eyes on the same prize: implications of entry timing heterogeneity and incentives for contestant effort in innovation tournament
(Information Technology & People, 2020-06-10)
Purpose
This paper examines an apparent contrast in organizing innovation tournaments; seekers offer contestant-agnostic incentives to elicit greater effort from a heterogeneous pool of contestants. Specifically, the study ...