Faculty Publications (Bibliographic): Recent submissions
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APML drives a culture of ownership and innovation: open-door policy makes employees feel part of the family
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2015)Purpose – Discusses the key dimensions of organizational culture at Agarwal Packers and Movers Ltd (APML), India. Design/methodology/approach – Describes the role of human resource management (HRM) practices in building ... -
Amending the consumer protection act, 1986
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2015)A proposed amendment to the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, gives the right to a consumer to set aside an unfair contract, and cancel, at will, a contract within 30 days of receiving the goods or services. A proposed Consumer ... -
Why do firms locate across multiple clusters? cluster density, capabilities and ethnic ties
(Routledge, 2015)It is well-accepted that firms locate in clusters to benefit from spillover effects from similar firms in the location. However, some firms choose to locate in multiple clusters. In this paper, we focus on the phenomenon ... -
Diamond foods, Inc.: anatomy and motivations of earnings manipulation
(American Accounting Association, 2015)Diamond Foods is America’s largest walnut processor specializing in processing, marketing, and distributing nuts and snack products. This real-world case presents financial reporting issues around the commodities cost ... -
Development of network measures for knowledge processes: a relational framework
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2015)Organizational learning has received increasing attention from scholars for mainly three reasons - debate about the level of analysis, questions about existing organizational theories, and concerns over a robust methodology ... -
Understanding food policy change in Ghana
(Development in Practice, 2015)Evidence-based policy-making has become a critical aspect of development strategy in developing countries. Yet the assumption that policymakers will automatically use available evidence may not be valid in all contexts. ... -
Balancing affordability and availability in a drug patent regime
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2015)India needs to fi nd an optimal patenting regime that will safeguard incentives for innovation while simultaneously ensuring that medicines are available at reasonable prices. -
Telemedicine in India: current state, challenges and opportunities
(Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 2015)Purpose – The purpose of this conceptual paper is to present the scope of telemedicine, current state of telemedicine in India, challenges in its diffusion and suggest the way forward for implementation of such initiatives. ... -
Doing social good on a sustainable basis: competitive advantage of social businesses
(Management Decision, 2015)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the capabilities of social entrepreneurship (SE) firms and how they achieve competitive advantage while engaging in social value creation. The authors employ a business ... -
A heuristic for the multisource weber problem with service level constraints
(Transportation Science, 2015)In this paper we develop a column-generation-based heuristic procedure to solve a generalized version of the multisource Weber problem where in addition to the transportation cost we also consider staffing level costs that ... -
Celebrity endorsements and branding strategies: event study from India
(Journal of Product and Brand Management, 2015)Purpose – The purpose of this study is to evaluate the economic value of celebrity endorsements to Indian firms based on their branding strategy – corporate or house-of-brands – and their “congruence” or “fit” with the ... -
The institutional dynamics perspective of ICT for health initiatives in India
(Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South, 2015)As there has been a considerable investment in ICT for development (ICT4D) initiatives, policymakers, practitioners and academics are calling for a more comprehensive and meaningful assessment of the impact of such ... -
Two paths to diversification performance implications of related diversification across two dimensions in professional service firms
(International Journal of Emerging Markets, 2015)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of related diversification across service offerings and industry domains for professional service firms (PSFs) in emerging economies by integrating the reputational ... -
Queuing models to analyze dwell-point and cross-aisle location in autonomous vehicle-based warehouse systems
(European Journal of Operational Research, 2015)Technological innovations in warehouse automation systems, such as Autonomous Vehicle based Storage and Retrieval System (AVS/RS), are geared towards achieving greater operational efficiency and flexibility that would be ... -
Probabilistic selling in quality-differentiated markets
(Management Science, 2015)Probabilistic selling-the sale of synthetic products consisting of a lottery between two distinct goods-has been extensively analyzed in horizontal markets. In this research, we investigate probabilistic selling in ... -
A logarithmic goal programming approach to develop the utility function for a railway travel
(International Journal of Revenue Management, 2015)Railway passengers are in a dilemma to choose the best train among several alternatives available in a particular route. A relative comparison of competing railways helps the passenger to make an informed choice before the ... -
Exploring TED talks as linked data for education
(British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015)In this paper, we present the TED Talks dataset which exposes all metadata and the actual transcripts of available TED talks as structured Linked Data. The TED talks collection is composed of more than 1800 talks, along ... -
Strategic investment in merchant transmission: the impact of capacity utilization rules
(Energy Policy, 2015)In this paper we look at the relative merits of two capacity utilization regimes in the merchant electricity transmission network: Must offer (Mo) where the entire capacity installed has to be made available for transmission ... -
The influence of governance infrastructure and corporate governance on profit shifting
(Journal of International Business Studies, 2015)In this article we develop a conceptual model to examine the influence of quality of country-level governance infrastructure and corporate governance effectiveness on profit shifting. We empirically test propositions derived ... -
Time series characterization of gaming workload for runtime power management
(IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2015)Runtime power management using dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) has been extensively studied for video processing applications. But there is only a little work on game power management although gaming applications ...