Faculty Publications (Bibliographic): Recent submissions
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Tests of independence for a 2 × 2 contingency table with random margins
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2017)Fisher’s exact test is commonly used for testing the hypothesis of independence between the row and column variables in a r c contingency table. It is a “small-sample” test since it is used when the sample size is not ... -
Winning the ‘trust’ of the employees, ethically or strategically?
(Inderscience, 2016)Research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has indicated that even though CSR activities are found to be positively influencing employees’ trust, there is lack of clarity regarding the underlying mechanisms of ... -
Problem of plenty: managing employee surplus
(IGI Global, 2016)The article deals with understanding the phenomena of employee rationalisation in firms especially the ones operating in dynamic environments. In this paper the authors do an extensive review of literature to understand ... -
Techniques of job crafting: an exploratory study on management consultants
(2016)The job crafting perspective considers the ways in which employees proactively alter their tasks, relationships and perceptions at work in order to achieve a personalized fit to their work environment. Studies confirm ... -
Tenancy reforms a critique of NITI Aayog’s model law
(2017)There is no doubt that the agricultural land leasing laws in India need to be amended to make land leasing legal and easier. The Niti Aayog report (2016) proposes a formal model law on land leasing. Critically examining ... -
Institutional innovations for smallholder development: a case study of agri-franchising in Bihar
(ABI/INFORM Collection, 2016)The low crop yields, increasing costs of cultivation, and the low price realisation have been important concerns in smallholder agriculture like that of India. Institutional innovations are important for inclusive ... -
Does plant size matter? differential effects of foreign direct investment on wages and employment in Indian manufacturing
(Asian Development Bank, 2017)This paper examines the differential effects, based on the size of the plant, of industry-level foreign direct investment (FDI) on plant-level employment and the wages of skilled and unskilled workers in India’s manufacturing ... -
Opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship: a comparative study of India and China
(2016)Prior research on opportunity and necessity based entrepreneurship has largely been confined to contexts prevailing in either high or low-income countries. Our study examines individual level antecedents of entrepreneurial ... -
Rethinking management theory and practice for the Indian context: an international management perspective
(Wiley, 2016)The Indian economy characterized variously as a slumbering giant, powerful tiger, and the most promising market has witnessed a slowdown, occasional disturbances in the industrial relations space, and attention of the ... -
HR transformation for the new generation in the work force
(2016)This paper examines the transition in the workplace where the baby boomers retire and the new generation (also called Generation Y) enters the workforce. Since the Millennial generation is often labeled as the ... -
India’s national food security act (NFSA): fiscal assessment and implementation challenges
(2016)National Food Security Act, 2013 aimed at providing food security to rural and urban poor has been criticized for its high fiscal burden, anticipated problems associated with enhanced requirement of food-grain procurement ... -
Competition law in india: perspectives
(Sage, 2016)In 2002, the Parliament of India enacted the Competition Act, replacing the archaic Monopoly and Restrictive Trade Practices Act (popularly referred to as the MRTP Act) of 1969. The primary goal of the Act, as stated in ... -
Survey on revenue management in media and broadcasting
(INFORMS, 2017)Advertisements are a key source of revenue for companies in the broadcasting and web industries. However, because of increasing competition, advertisers and web publishers have been forced to find innovative ways to ... -
Structural& psychological empowerment in rural India
(2017)Rural women can be effectively utilized if empowerment can be used as a strategy for working women in rural settings. The author deciphers the transformation of structural empowerment to psychological empowerment ... -
Imperatives and challenges in using e-government to combat corruption: a systematic review of literature and a holistic model
(2017)Corruption, both bureaucratic and political, exists in various forms. Causes and effects of corruption have been documented in various academic and practitioner forums. Developing countries are plagued by rampant corruption ... -
Do financially distressed firms misclassify core expenses?
(Emerald Publishing, 2017)Purpose – This paper aims to examine whether financially distressed firms manipulate core or operating income through the misclassification of operating expenses as income-decreasing special items. Design/methodology/approach ... -
A stochastic model for interterminal container transportation
(INFORMS, 2017)We propose a novel semiopen queuing network (SOQN) model for the interterminal transportation (ITT) problem where multiple container terminals use a common fleet of vehicles (automated lift vehicles, automated guided ... -
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 ... -
SB-robust estimation of mean direction for some new circular distributions
(Springer, 2016)The most often used distribution for modelling directional data has been the circular normal (CN) (a.k.a. von-Mises) distribution. Recently Kato and Jones (K–J) introduced a family of distribution which includes the CN ... -
Distribution of traffic accident times in India - some insights using circular data analysis
(2017)Traffic accidents are a major hazard for travellers on Indian roads. These are caused by a variety of reasons including the bad condition of roads, traffic density, lack of proper training of drivers, slack in enforcement ...