Faculty Publications (Bibliographic): Recent submissions
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Productivity dispersion and output fluctuations: an evolutionary model
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)We develop a model of technology choice with search costs. Innovators develop technology of varying quality or productivity. Firms acquire technology after paying a search cost to find high productivity technology. The ... -
Urban commons service generation, delivery, and management: a conceptual framework
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)Urban commons are currently not studied holistically under the rationale used by the ecosystem cascade framework. In this paper, we build on the ecosystem cascade framework to present a conceptual model that provides a ... -
An empirical study of price movements in the airline industry in the Indian market with power divergence statistics
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2017)In this article, we analyze the dynamic price dispersion of the Indian domestic airline industry. We develop the power divergence statistic (PDS) for each route and study the average PDS and average airfare movement. We ... -
Rough information set and its applications in decision making
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)The decision making in the real world is inevitably characterized with vagueness, and imprecision due to incomplete knowledge. To this end, we combine the information set with the rough set theory to represent both the ... -
Electric vehicles and India's low carbon passenger transport: a long-term co-benefits assessment
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)Electric vehicles have attracted the attention of India's policy makers as clean technology alternatives due to their multiple advantages like higher efficiency and lower air pollution in short to medium term and reduced ... -
Discriminative aggregation operators for multi criteria decision making
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)A general aggregation formalism for multi criteria decision making (MCDM) applications is presented. Using this formalism, we derive the existing aggregation operators, and also develop some new ones. The proposed general ... -
Evolutionary algorithm for bilevel optimization using approximations of the lower level optimal solution mapping
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)Bilevel optimization problems are a class of challenging optimization problems, which contain two levels of optimization tasks. In these problems, the optimal solutions to the lower level problem become possible feasible ... -
Strategic global strategy: the intersection of general principles, corporate responsibility and economic value-added
(Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2017)An ongoing argument often made by business ethicists is that a singular preoccupation on profitability, will lead, in the long run, to disvalue for all the stakeholders and the communities it affects, and often (but alas ... -
Black money and politics in India
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2017)The issue of black money in politics in India is multifaceted. A number of questions about its role in politics, how it is generated, its volume, its ill effects, and how it can be eliminated do not have answers that are ... -
Diamond Foods, Inc.: a comprehensive case in financial auditing
(American Accounting Association, 2017)Diamond Foods is a comprehensive case that provides an opportunity for students to apply several financial auditing concepts and professional auditing standards to a real-world context. Diamond overstated its earnings of ... -
Estimating performance in a robotic mobile fulfillment system
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)This paper models Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems and analyzes their performance. A Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System is an automated, parts-to-picker storage system where robots bring pods with products to a workstation. ... -
Productivity differences and inter-state migration in the U.S.: a multilateral gravity approach
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)In this paper, we study the quantitative role of productivity differences in explaining migration in presence of multiple destination choices. We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with multi-region, multi-sector ... -
Optimal management of naturally regenerating uneven-aged forests
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)A shift from even-aged forest management to uneven-aged management practices leads to a problem rather different from the existing straightforward practice that follows a rotation cycle of artificial regeneration, thinning ... -
Addressing the agrarian crisis in Punjab: role of agro-markets and policy
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2017)The state of agricultural markets, the agricultural market policy and regulatory reforms in Punjab are reviewed in the context of the agrarian crisis. The farmer and farm worker manifesto of the Aam Aadmi Party is critically ... -
Identifying a typology of organizational transformations in India
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2017)Purpose: This paper aims to develop a comprehensive typology of organizational transformations that is based on both content and process characteristics of transformations, and it is relevant to organizations in India. ... -
Urban transportation: innovations in infrastructure planning and development
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2017)Purpose - New services design and development are difficult to plan, execute, measure and evaluate. Particularly, new services that are capital-intensive and involve a long gestation and development time are considered ... -
Customer dependence and customer loyalty in traditional and modern format stores
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2017)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between customer loyalty and customer dependence in the context of modern format and traditional format stores. In the process, the role of switching cost ... -
Influence of media context on humorous advertising effectiveness
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2017)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of three dimensions of media context – program type, break type, and pod position – on two types of humorous advertisements: incongruity resolution (IR) and arousal ... -
Is loss-aversion magnitude-dependent? measuring prospective affective judgments regarding gains and losses
(Society for Judgment and Decision making, 2017)Prospect Theory proposed that the (dis)utility of losses is always more than gains due to a phenomena called ‘loss-aversion’, a result obtained in multiple later studies over the years. However, some researchers found ... -
A cutting plane approach to combinatorial bandwidth packing problem with queuing delays
(Springer Verlag, 2017)The combinatorial bandwidth packing problem (CBPP), arising in a telecommunication network with limited bandwidth, is defined as follows. Given a set of requests, each with its potential revenue, and each consisting of ...