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Still a distance to go: social upgrading in the Indian ITO-BPO-KPO Sector
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)
India is the worldwide offshore services market leader, with a share of 58 per cent of the global outsourcing industry. The aggregate revenues in FY 2013 were about $108 billion with exports contributing 75.8 billion of ...
Does multiple borrowing necessarily mean over-borrowing?
(Practical Action Publishing, 2016)
Using a survey dataset collected from Andhra Pradesh, India, we test if multiple borrowing
is equivalent to over-borrowing. Results suggest that over-borrowing and multiple loans
are not necessarily synonymous. As the ...
Invariant features of spatial inequality in consumption: the case of India
(Elsevier, 2016)
We study the distributional features and inequality of consumption expenditure across India, for different states, castes, religion and urban-rural divide. We find that even though the aggregate measures of inequality are ...
Positives outweighing negatives: the experiences of Indian crowd sourced workers
(2016)
This article reports on an empirical study of Indian freelancers working via
Elance-oDesk (now renamed Upwork). In a qualitative approach, data were
gathered from 24 freelancers across India through in-depth telephone ...
Cyberbullying: an emergent phenomenon in contemporary workplaces
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
The emerging world of virtual work is not tied to physical workplaces or particular locations, but is dispersed and footloose. It is frequently precarious, and blurs the boundaries between work and non-work, production and ...
Organizational governance: a promising Solution for varieties of workplace bullying
(Emerald, 2016)
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The chapter elaborates how organizational governance can optimally address workplace bullying, a synergy possible because organizational governance seeks to promote ethical functioning while workplace bullying is ...
Creating space: the role of the state in the Indian IT-related offshoring sector
(Springer, 2016)
By facilitating the separation of the production and consumption of services, the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution has transformed the way companies do business (Fernández-Stark et al. 2011). The ...
Leveraging correlates of innovative teacher behaviour for educational development in developing societies
(Science and Education Publishing, 2016)
The public system of elementary education in developing countries is often criticized for its poor performance, but a better understanding of the innovative teachers in this system who achieve their educational goals might ...
Narrative methodologies in information systems literature: illuminating interconnectivity and change over time
(Association for Information Systems, 2016)
This tutorial presents an action net-based narrative research methodology that is particularly useful for describing, undertaking, and understanding process-oriented field research related to IT-enabled change. We use work ...
Subordinate debt, deposit insurance and market oriented monitoring of banks
(Elsevier Ltd, 2016)
We present a model of a bank with endogenous risk choices, where delegated monitoring by an active market in subordinate debt helps in containing the bank's risk shifting in the presence of deposit insurance. In comparison ...