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    • Self-organization in a distributed coordination game through heuristic rules 

      Agarwal, Shubham; Ghosh, Diptesh; Chakrabarti, Anindya (Springer, 2016)
      In this paper, we consider a distributed coordination game played by a large number of agents with finite information sets, which characterizes emergence of a single dominant attribute out of a large number of competitors. ...
    • High-performance work systems and creativity implementation: the role of psychological capital and psychological safety 

      Agarwal, Promila (Wiley, 2017)
      Unimplemented creative ideas are potentially wasted opportunities for organisations. Although it is largely understood how to encourage creativity among employees, how to ensure this creativity is implemented remains ...
    • Role of personality in the formation of psychological contract 

      Agarwal, Promila (Sage, 2017)
      The current research is aimed to investigate the association between personality and the formation of the psychological contract (PC) in India. A sample of 262 employees was used to test the hypotheses. The study provides ...
    • Law of sale, lease and mortgage 

      Pathak, Akhileshwar (LexisNexis, 2017)
      The Law on Sale, Lease and Mortgage of immovable property are put in the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, along with several other themes. There is a separate Act on sale of goods but none for these important subjects, ...
    • Mathematical advances towards sustainable environmental systems 

      Furze, J.N; Swing, K; Gupta, Anil K; McClatchey, R; Reynolds, D. (Springer, 2017)
      This edited volume focuses on how we can protect our environment and enhance environmental sustainability when faced with changes and pressures imposed by our expansive needs. The volume unites multiple subject areas within ...
    • Psychological contract: managing employee-employer relationship 

      Agarwal, Promila (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016)
      This book presents a comprehensive framework of the psychological contract. The exhaustive synthesis of review of literature promises to provide a holistic picture of psychological contract to the scholars interested in ...
    • Organizational behavior 

      Robbins, Stephen P.; Judge, Timothy A.; Vohra, Neharika (Pearson, 2013)
      Long considered the standard for all organizational behavior textbooks, the fifteenth edition of Organizational Behavior continues its tradition of making current, relevant research come alive for students and instructors. This ...
    • Towards a safer world of banking: bank regulation after the subprime crisis 

      Ram Mohan, T. T. (Business Expert Press, 2017)
      In 2007, the world economy was hit by a banking crisis which originated in the US. It is yet to recover fully from the impact of the crisis. This book seeks to address issues thrown up by the banking crisis, better known ...
    • Grassroots innovation: minds on the margin are not marginal minds 

      Gupta, Anil K. (Penguin Random House, 2016)
      A moral dilemma gripped Professor Gupta when he was invited by the Bangladeshi government to help restructure their agricultural sector in 1985. He noticed how the marginalized farmers were being paid poorly for their ...
    • Business leadership and law 

      Agarwal, Anurag K. (Springer, 2017)
      This book discusses doing business and making profit on the right side of the law. It explores the role of aligning business and legal strategies, and using the law as a powerful tool in making businesses successful. In ...
    • The impact of perceived temperature on responses to Psa Ads 

      Vijayalakshmi, Akshaya; Lin, Meng-Hsien; Kordrostami, Melika (Association for Consumer Research, 2017)
      This working paper finds that the affiliative sensations triggered through priming of warm/cold touch can increase the effectiveness of public service announcement (PSA) by increasing empathy, threat perceptions and donations ...
    • This place is not the same anymore; temps are coming in 

      Chakraborty, Saikat (SSRN, 2017)
      As organisations increasingly rely on temporary work arrangements, there is a significant rise in the proportion of workers in part-time, contractual, fixed tenure, and other such labour engagements. Due to the difference ...
    • Through the looking Glass: role of construal level on description-intensive reviews 

      Chatterjee, Swagato; T., Aruna Divya (Association for Consumer Research, 2017)
      Focus on consumer engagement has led service providers to explore contextual factors influencing consumers’ satisfaction. In this paper, we draw insights from Construal Level Theory to identify the conditions when own vs. ...
    • Technology non-affordances: The political interactions in the designer-user- technology trio in a developing country 

      Kandathil, George; Wagner, Erica L. (ACM Digital Library, 2017)
      The introduction of a new enterprise system to an organization often necessitates the accommodation of standardized practices, which may be in conflict with local users’ practices and their work culture. We ...
    • Nuclear energy: A nuclear safety 

      Ram Mohan, M. P. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      As of March 2016, there are seventy-eight contracting parties and sixty-five signatories to the CNS. Paraguay submitted its instrument of accession on 9 January 2014, which entered into force on 9 April 2014, and Montenegro ...
    • Constitutional mandate and judicial initiatives influencing Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programmes in India 

      Ram Mohan, M. P.; Dulluri, Anvita (IWA Publishing, 2017)
      This paper undertakes a thorough review of the legislative and policy framework of water supply and sanitation in India within the larger backdrop of the universal affirmation of right to water and sanitation under the ...
    • Implementing the Right to Education: creation of “knowdents” 

      Sarin, Ankur; Ranjan, Ashish (NORRAG, 2018)
      This article describes the implementation challenges of admissions and inclusion of children from disadvantaged and economically weaker sections mandated under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education ...
    • Constitution, Supreme Court and Regulation of Coal Sector in India 

      Ram Mohan, M. P.; Yadav, Shashikant (Eastern Book company, 2018)
      The paper maps four decades of coal sector litigation before the Supreme Court of India and draws a narrative on the constitutional contestation and the legal position as it stands today. Coal is one of the most ...
    • An empirical study of Latitude of Quantity Acceptance (LQA) in an emerging economy: India 

      Saini, Gordhan; Sahay, Arvind; Kalyanaram, Gurumurthy (Routledge, 2018)
      This study examines three important research questions. First, is there a latitude of acceptance with respect to small quantity changes? Second, is there an asymmetric effect of quantity changes? Third, is there a ...
    • The1.5°C target and coal sector transition: at the limits of societal feasibility 

      Spencer, Thomas; Colombiera, Michel; Sartor, Oliver; Garg, Amit; Tiwari, Vineet; Burton, Jesse; Caetano, Tara; Green, Fergus; F., Fei Teng; Wisemang, John (Taylor and Francis, 2018)
      National and global mitigation scenarios consistent with 1.5°C require an early phaseout of coal in major coal-dependent countries, compared to standard technical and economic lifetimes. This appears particularly apparent ...