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Understanding digitally enabled complex networks: a plural granulation based hybrid community detection approach
(Emerald Publishing, 2021-05-05)
Purpose
Communities representing groups of agents with similar interests or functions are one of the essential features of complex networks. Finding communities in real-world networks is critical for analyzing complex ...
Modelling driver's reactive strategies in e-hailing platforms: an agent-based simulation model and an approximate analytical model
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-10-26)
For an e-hailing taxi operation, we analyse a driver's profit-maximising reactive strategy (to either accept or refuse a ride request) in response to the ride request broadcast by the platform. We analyse four operating ...
How does the adoption of digital payment technologies influence unorganized retailers' performance? an investigation in an emerging market
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2021-03-30)
Unorganized retail dominates the retail landscape across emerging markets (EMs) and is undergoing rapid digitalization. However, the extant literature has not explored the impact of digital payment system adoption on ...
A novel method of market segmentation and market study for dynamic pricing of retail electricity in India: an experimental approach in a university setup
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-03-21)
Dynamic pricing with automation and option to sell in-house-generated renewable energy to the grid attract consumers to the future retail electricity market. Real-time pricing of electricity in the Indian context has not ...
Intellectual property regimes and wage inequality
(Elsevier, 2021-07-19)
We use The Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002 in India as a quasi-natural experiment to identify the causal effect of higher incentives for innovation on a firm’s compensation structure. We find that stronger intellectual ...
Strategic Connections in a hierarchical society: wedge between observed and fundamental valuations
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2021-01-01)
In an interconnected society, social networks grow through formation of strategic connections based on the hierarchy within the social network. Often, the hierarchy becomes self-reinforcing and the observed valuations of ...
Reinventing the universal structure of human values: development of a new holistic values scale to measure Indian values
(SAGE Publications, 2021-04-21)
This article investigates the universal values scale, Schwartz Value Survey (SVS) for its applicability to measure cultural context-specific values. The study establishes a need to construct a new scale by identifying and ...
How implicit self-theories and dual-brand personalities enhance word of mouth
(Emerald Publishing, 2021-01-11)
Purpose
Consumers subscribe to different mindsets or implicit theories of personality malleability, namely, fixed and growth mindsets. This study aims to investigate how and why consumers’ mindsets can influence their ...
Stochastic modeling of multiline orders in integrated storage-order picking system
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-02-19)
Due to demanding service levels in e-commerce order fulfillment, modeling and analysis of integrated storage and order picking processes in warehouses deserve special attention. The upstream storage system can have a ...
Psychometric properties and correlates of precarious manhood beliefs in 62 nations
(SAGE Publications, 2021-03-04)
Precarious manhood beliefs portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard to earn, easy to lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on a brief measure of precarious ...