Faculty Publications (Bibliographic): Recent submissions

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    • An extensive evaluation of CONWIP-card controlled and scheduled start time based production system designs 

      Roy, Debjit; Ravikumaran, Vasudha (Elsevier, 2019-01)
      Order release policies such as a card-controlled CONWIP policy aim to improve system responsiveness and minimize system-wide inventory levels. It is not clear if order release policies (without card control) can be equally ...

    • Robot-storage zone assignment strategies in mobile fulfillment systems 

      Roy, Debjit; Nigam, Shobhit; Koster, Rene de; Adan, Ivon; Resing, Jacques (Elsevier, 2019-02)
      The robotic mobile fulfillment system (MFS) is widely used for automating storage pick and pack activities in e-commerce distribution centers. In this system, the items are stored on movable storage shelves, also known as ...

    • A new playbook for diversified companies 

      Karna, Amit; Pidun, Ulrich; Richter, Ansgar; Schommer, Monika (MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 2018)
      A wave of corporate breakups has rippled through industry after industry over the past several years. This has happened in consumer goods, for instance, with Kraft Foods' spin-off of its North American grocery business; ...

    • Food waste due to retail power in supply chains: evidence from Sweden 

      Ghosh, Ranjan; Erikkson, Mattias (Elsevier, 2018-11-17)
      Trading practices such as the take-back agreement (TBA) can become a tool for retailers to exert coercive power over suppliers when market concentration is high. We explore the implications of TBAs for the Swedish bread ...

    • Generalized attitudinal Choquet integral 

      Agarwal, Manish (John Wiley, 2018-11)
      Attitudinal Choquet integral (ACI) extends Choquetintegral (CI) through a consideration of a decision‐maker’s (DM’s) attitudinal character. In this paper, wegeneralize ACI, and the resulting operator is termed asgeneralized ...

    • Hesitant information sets and application in group decision making 

      Agarwal, Manish (Elsevier, 2018-11)
      The recent information set theory provides a useful mechanism to represent an agent’s perceived information values. However, often a decision-maker (DM) considers multiple evaluations for the same information source value. ...

    • Indian equity options: smile, risk premiums, and efficiency 

      Jain, Sonali; Varma, Jayanth R.; Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar (John Wiley & Sons, 2018-09-15)
      We study the pricing of equity options in India which is one of the world's largest options markets. Our findings are supportive of market efficiency: A parsimonious smile‐adjusted Black model fits option prices well, and ...

    • Integrated storage-order picking systems: technology, performance models, and design insights 

      Roy, Debjit; Tappia, Elena; Melacini, Marco; Koster, ReneDe (Elsevier, 2018-11)
      In many warehouses shuttle-based technologies have replaced the traditional AS/R system based storage technologies. The impact these systems have on downstream order picking performance is largely unknown. To study the ...

    • Gross profit manipulation through classification shifting 

      Nagar, Neerav; Poonawala, Sakina (Elsevier, 2018-09-29)
      The existing research on classification shifting has examined the manipulation of core earnings through shifting of core expenses to special items keeping the GAAP earnings constant. We examine the manipulation of gross ...

    • Asset liability management model with decision support system for life insurance companies: computational results 

      Dutta, Goutam; Rao, Harish V.; Basu, Sankarshan; Tiwar, Manoj Kr. (Elsevier, 2018-07-02)
      Big Data Analytics is an important and flexible tool available for data analysis and informed decision making. In this paper, we look at the use of Big Data Analytics in asset liability management and asset allocation in ...

    • New decision support system for strategic planning in process industries: computational results 

      Dutta, Goutam; Gupta, Narain; Mandal, Jasashwi; Tiwarid, Manoj Kr. (Elsevier, 2018-10)
      The impact of a Stochastic Linear Programming (SLP) based Decision Support System in a manufacturing company, such as an integrated aluminum plant, is measured by two important parameters, the VSS and EVPI. With the real ...

    • Internet search engines and two-sided markets 

      Pingali, Viswanath (Economic and Political Weekly, 2018-09-22)
      The author thanks the anonymous referee for useful comments. The author gratefully acknowledges research support from Google. The opinions and analyses in this paper are entirely of the author’s. He would also like to thank ...

    • When the big one came: a natural experiment on demand shock and market structure in India’s influenza vaccine markets 

      Chatterjee, Chirantan; Adbi, Arzi; Drev, Matej; Mishra, Anant (John Wiley, 2018-08)
      This paper examines the relationship between exogenous demand shock and market structure in India’s influenza vaccine markets. Using a novel dataset of detailed purchasing information for vaccines ...

    • Farmer producer organizations as farmer collectives: a case study from India 

      Turaga, Ram Mohana; Bikkina, Nalini; Bhamoriya, Vaibhav (John Wiley, 2018-08-20)
      Small and marginal farmers in India have been vulnerable to risks in agricultural production. Several organizational prototypes are emerging to integrate them into the value chain with the objective of enhancing incomes ...

    • Decision aiding model with Entropy-based subjective utility 

      Aggarwal, Manish (Elsevier, 2018-08-27)
      An entropy-based method is presented to model a decision-maker’s (DM’s) subjective utility for a criterion value. The proposed method considers distribution of all the values that the criterion takes for the given set of ...

    • Stewardship value of income statement classification: an empirical examination 

      Nagar, Neerav; Arya, Avinash (Sage Publications, 2018-08-16)
      This study investigates the use of earnings components in setting CEO compensation and explores how persistence and controllability affect it. The results indicate that compensation committees do accord differential treatment ...

    • Doing dignity work: Indian security guards interface with precariousness 

      Noronha, Ernesto; Chakraborty, Saikat; D'Cruz, Premilla (Springer, 2018-08-22)
      Increasing global competition has intensified the use of informal sector workforce worldwide. This phenomenon is true with regard to India, where 92% of the workers hold precarious jobs. Our study examines the dynamics ...

    • Workplace bullying across the globe: a cross-cultural comparison 

      D'Cruz, Premilla; Salin, Denise; Cowan, Renee; Adewumi, Oluwakemi; Apospori, Eleni; Bochantin, Jaime; Djurkovic, Nikola; Durniat, Katarzyna; Escartín, Jordi; Guo, Jing; Išik, Idil; Koeszegi, Sabine T.; McCormack, Darcy; Monserrat, Silvia Ines; Zedlacher, Eva (Emerald insight, 2018-08-02)
      Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze cross-national and cross-cultural similarities and differences in perceptions and conceptualizations of workplace bullying among human resource professionals (HRPs). ...

    • Relationships between job characteristics, work engagement, conscientiousness and managers’ turnover intentions: a moderated-mediation analysis 

      Gupta, Vishal; Agarwal, Upasna A. (Emerald insight, 2018-03-02)
      Purpose – Integrating the job demands-resources theory and the conservation of resources theory, the purpose of this paper is to develop and test a moderated-mediation model examining the relationships between motivating ...

    • Learning of a decision-maker’s preference zone with an evolutionary approach 

      Aggarwal, Manish (IEEE, 2018-05-30)
      A new evolutionary-learning algorithm is proposed to learn a decision maker (DM)’s best solution on a conflicting multiobjective space. Given the exemplary pairwise comparisons of solutions by a DM, we learn an ideal point ...