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Combining lifelines to thrive: a stage-based need fulfilment network of international assignees
(Emerald Publishing, 2021-03-11)
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The paper tries to understand the needs of the international assignees across the different stages of expatriation and how different developers in the professional and non-professional sphere render support and ...
Solving bilevel optimization problems using Kriging approximations
(IEEE, 2021-03-21)
Bilevel optimization involves two levels of optimization, where one optimization problem is nested within the other. The structure of the problem often requires solving a large number of inner optimization problems that ...
Residential education for disadvantaged girls: an alternate field?
(SAGE Publications, 2021-03-15)
In this article, we engage with the experiences of students in a government-run residential secondary school that enrols girls primarily from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. Through an exploration of the history ...
Optimal monopoly mechanisms with demand uncertainty
(INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2021-03-10)
This paper analyzes a monopoly firm’s profit-maximizing mechanism in the following context. There is a continuum of consumers with a unit demand for a good. The distribution of the consumers’ valuations is given by one of ...
Connecting smallholders' marketplace decisions to agricultural market reform policy in India - an empirical exploration
(SAGE Publications, 2021-03-03)
Governments in developing countries have attempted to reform inefficient agricultural markets through direct interventions, market-oriented approaches, and institutional mechanisms, with one of the aims being improving the ...
Global value chains and intermediaries in multi-stakeholder initiatives in Pakistan and India
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2021-04-14)
In this article, we analyse the role of regulatory intermediaries of the Better Cotton Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) in the global cotton value chain, with a regional focus on India and Pakistan. We ...
Space between products on display: the impact of interspace on consumer estimation of product size
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2021-03-30)
This research examines the effect that leaving space between products has on consumers’ estimation of product size. We theorize and empirically confirm that when space is left between products (i.e., the display is ...
Chief marketing officers' discretion and firms' internationalization: an empirical investigation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-01-04)
The role of key individuals, such as the chief marketing officer (CMO), in the internationalization process has largely been ignored in the international business literature. Given the importance of the CMO in internationalization ...
The necropolitics of neoliberal state response to the Covid-19 pandemic in India
(SAGE Publications, 2021-05-29)
We draw from the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in India to outline that the neoliberal consolidation of the state is enabled by precariousness, violence, and inequality in overlapping planes of marginality. The ...
Implementation gaps in minimum wages: comparison of eight Asian countries
(Shri Ram Centre for IR & HR, 2021-01)
Minimum Wages (MW) have been an important policy instrument used by governments for labor market stabilization and also to improve the worki ng conditions. While the re have been ongoing debates about the impact of MW, ...