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Do Big 4 auditors limit classification shifting? evidence from India
(Elsevier, 2021-01-20)
Extant research suggests that Big 4 auditors compared to non-Big 4 auditors act as a superior deterrent to accrual-based earnings management. We extend this research to another form of earnings management, classification ...
Influence of endogenous reference points on the selling decisions of retail investors
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-12-03)
Using trader-level data, we examine the impact of the stock-specific endogenous reference points, the ‘realized-return’ and the ‘peak-return’ of the prior round on the selling propensity in a subsequent investment round ...
Impacts of changes in commercial non-coking coal grading system and other coal policies towards estimation of CO2 emission in Indian power sector
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-02-02)
In India, coal-based electricity is a leading cause for greenhouse gas emissions. However, many uncertainties prevail in the emissions estimation from coal-fired plants due to the dynamics of varying net calorific values ...
How does regulation impact strategic repositioning by firms across submarkets? evidence from the Indian pharmaceutical industry
(INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2021-02-09)
We study coercive institutional pressures as an impetus for firms to reposition across intraindustry boundaries. Integrating the literatures on strategic repositioning and submarkets, we predict that firms respond to ...
Passively wait for gridlock, or proactively invest in service? Strategies to promote car-to-transit switches among aspirational urbanites in rapidly developing contexts
(Elsevier, 2021-11-23)
As planners and policymakers in cities around the world struggle to attract and retain public transit users, this
paper explores strategies to promote transit adoption in contexts where the odds are stacked against ...
Place matters: (dis)embeddedness and child labourers’ experiences of depersonalized bullying in Indian Bt cottonseed global production networks
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2021-01-04)
Engaging Polanyi’s embeddedness–disembeddedness framework, this study explored the work experiences of Bhil children employed in Indian Bt cottonseed GPNs. The innovative visual technique of drawings followed by interviews ...
Women’s disempowerment and preferences for skin lightening products that reinforce Colorism: experimental evidence from India
(SAGE Publications, 2021-02-25)
Global racism and colorism, the preference for fairer skin even within ethnic and racial groups, leads millions of women of African, Asian, and Latin descent to use products with chemical ingredients intended to lighten ...
‘Too central to fail’ firms in bi-layered financial networks: linkages in the US corporate bond and stock markets
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-12-09)
Several measures have been recently developed in the financial networks literature to quantify the vulnerabilities of firms in specific markets for risk management. However, firms are often active in multiple asset markets ...
Actions in phygital space: work solidarity and collective action among app-based cab drivers in India
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-11-16)
This study delineates the microprocesses of solidarity development and the subsequent collective actions of gig workers in India amidst multiple structural constraints. Using netnography, semi-structured interviews and ...
Reverse the Lens, Set Focus on the Followers: A Theoretical Framework of Resource Dependence, Upward Influence, and Leadership
(Frontiers Media, 2021-09-24)
Leadership theories predominantly focus on the top-down managerial influence on
employees. Recent theoretical developments, however, have accentuated the call for
scholarly attention on holistic models comprising both ...