Faculty Publications (Bibliographic): Recent submissions
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Price and lead time differentiation, capacity strategy and market competition
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2016)We study a duopoly market in which customers are heterogeneous, and can be segmented as price or time sensitive. Each firm tailors (differentiates) its products/services for the two customer classes solely based on guaranteed ... -
Do time constraint and emergency purchase situation exert same influence on shopping? a study under haptic touch influence
(Elsevier Ltd, 2016)Marketing literature has identified emergency purchase situation and time constraint as important situational influences. However, both of them are often equated with each other as both require shopping to be done in a ... -
Co-benefits of low-carbon passenger transport actions in Indian cities: case study of Ahmedabad
(Elsevier Ltd, 2016)Rising population, income and urbanization are increasing urban passenger transport demand in India. Energy and emissions intensities associated with conventional transport are no longer sustainable vis-a-vis energy security, ... -
Near optimal design of wavelength routed optical networks
(Elsevier, 2016)The problem of designing a wavelength routed optical transport network without wavelength conversion at intermediate nodes is considered. A class of valid inequalities for wavelength routing and assignment is reported and ... -
Low carbon urban transport scenarios for China and India: a comparative assessment
(Elsevier Ltd, 2016)This paper assesses comparable urban transport scenarios for China and India. The assessment methodology uses AIM/End-use model with a detailed characterization of technologies to analyze two scenarios for India and China ... -
Arthiyas in Punjab's APMC mandis: inadequate analysis and solutions
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2016)A critique of "Commission Agent System: Significance in Contemporary Agricultural Economy of Punjab" by Sukhpal Singh and Shruti Bhogal (EPW, 7 November 2015). -
Seeking attention: an investigation of salesperson influence strategies used while selling to small retailers
(Routledge, 2016)The use of influence strategies is an integral component of the salesperson's role, while selling to retailers. However, it remains a chronically under-researched area, particularly so in emerging markets, which are distinct ... -
Adoption of sensor based communication for mobile marketing in India
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2016)Purpose – This paper aims to explain the applications of sensor-based communication in mobile marketing and how understanding its fast growth is important for marketers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws from ... -
The changing face of Indian banking
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2016)Indian banking is passing through its most severe period of stress in over a decade. It is important, however, not to draw conclusions for banking policy from a snapshot of the most recent period-the totality of the ... -
Computational finance using QuantLib-Python
(IEEE Computer Society, 2016)Given the complexity of over-the-counter derivatives and structured products, almost all derivatives pricing today is based on numerical methods. Large financial institutions typically have their own teams of developers ... -
Predicted satisfaction from simultaneous evaluation of prosocial and pro-self employee bonus schemes: towards a new form of management strategy for corporate social spending
(Springer India, 2016)A prosocial bonus is money given to people with a condition that the amount needs to be spent on others. This article suggests a new way of implementing corporate social spending by involving ‘prosocial bonuses’. Such a ... -
Does relationship marketing matter in online retailing? a meta-analytic approach
(Springer New York LLC, 2016)Building on the meta-analytic model suggested by Palmatier et al. Journal of Marketing, 70, 136–153, (2006), this study extends the relationship marketing framework to the domain of online retailing to identify what ... -
What determines performance gap index of health care in Gujarat?
(Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2016)The health performance of Gujarat viewed in terms of the Human Development Index (HDI) portrays it as a medium performer in the country. However, the index of health component for Gujarat is found to be positively contributing ... -
Analysis of an order-up-to-level policy for perishables with random issuing
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2016)Much of the research in perishable items inventory management has focused on the first-in-first-out issue process. However, motivated by the technical characteristics of the blood unit issue process, we model an order-up-to-level ... -
Probabilistic variable precision fuzzy rough sets
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)In the real world, we often encounter varying membership grades due to varying information source values. The fuzzy rough set model is refurbished to develop probabilistic variable precision fuzzy rough set (P-VP-FRS) to ... -
Representing uncertainty with information sets
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)We develop new methods for the representation of uncertainty in the granularized information source values by making use of the entropy framework in the possibilistic domain. An information-theoretic entropy function is ... -
Institutional leverage capability: creating and using institutional advantages for internationalization
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)Plain language summary: Home country institutions, for instance chambers of commerce and educational systems, can support firms' efforts to expand into foreign markets. However, only some firms utilize this support and ... -
Reading into 25,000 crore loss: all India trade union strike
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2016)The 2 September strike called by almost all the major central trade unions garnered the usual, frenzied media attention. It was touted as one of the biggest ever in the country (The Hindu Business Line 2015). The strike ... -
Stochastic Lotka-Volterra equations: a model of lagged diffusion of technology in an interconnected world
(Elsevier, 2016)We present a model of technological evolution due to interaction between multiple countries and the resultant effects on the corresponding macro variables. The world consists of a set of economies where some countries are ... -
Invariant features of spatial inequality in consumption: the case of India
(Elsevier, 2016)We study the distributional features and inequality of consumption expenditure across India, for different states, castes, religion and urban-rural divide. We find that even though the aggregate measures of inequality are ...