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    • Macroeconomics, 2e 

      D'Souza, Errol (Pearson Education India, 2012-01-01)
      The revised and updated second edition of Errol D'Souza's Macroeconomics presents the connections between theoretical frameworks and the actual behaviour of the economy in a more comprehensive manner. It enables instructors ...
    • Reshaping adolescents' gender attitudes: evidence from a school-based experiment in India 

      Jain, Tarun; Dhar, Diva; Jayachandran, Seema (American Economic Association, 2022-03)
      This paper evaluates an intervention in India that engaged adolescent girls and boys in classroom discussions about gender equality for two years, aiming to reduce their support for societal norms that restrict women's and ...
    • Actions in phygital space: work solidarity and collective action among app-based cab drivers in India 

      Kandathil, George; Parth, Shalini; Bathini, Dharma Raju (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-11-16)
      This study delineates the microprocesses of solidarity development and the subsequent collective actions of gig workers in India amidst multiple structural constraints. Using netnography, semi-structured interviews and ...
    • Influence of endogenous reference points on the selling decisions of retail investors 

      Joshy, Jacob; Pandey, Ajay; Bansal, Avijit (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-12-03)
      Using trader-level data, we examine the impact of the stock-specific endogenous reference points, the ‘realized-return’ and the ‘peak-return’ of the prior round on the selling propensity in a subsequent investment round ...
    • Outcomes of talent identification in economically liberalized India: does organizational justice matter? 

      Farndale, Elaine; Agarwal, Promila; Budhwar, Pawan (Elsevier, 2022-02-19)
      Organizations in economically liberalized India face substantial challenges regarding the engagement and turnover of talent. By exploring the outcomes of the firm-level management practice of talent identification, we ...
    • Seeds of demand-side legitimacy: when do existing companies procure from B2B startups? 

      Batra, Safal; Gupta, Vishal K.; Sharma, Sunil; Yadav, Rahul (Emerald, 2022-01-27)
      The purpose of this study is to investigate potential lenders of legitimacy for business-to-business (B2B) startups as reflected in the willingness of potential customers to do business with startup firms. This study ...
    • Directed fixed charge multicommodity network design: a cutting plane approach using polar duality 

      Agarwal, Y. K.; Aneja, Y. P.; Jayaswal, Sachin (Elsevier, 2021-09-10)
      We present an efficient cutting-plane based approach to exactly solve a directed fixed charge network design (DFCND) problem, wherein the valid inequalities to the problem are generated using the polar duality approach. ...
    • Experiencing live action of business: reflections on an immersive course in entrepreneurship 

      Vohra, Neharika; Sharma, Supriya; Thomas, Nobin (Sage Publications, 2022-01-26)
      This article describes an experiential, immersive course in teaching for entrepreneurship in a business school. The course requires the students to set up and operate a business, build on their experiences, reflect upon ...
    • Gravity and depth of social media networks 

      Guha, Pritha; Bansal, Avijit; Guha, Apratim; Chakrabarti, Anindya S. (Oxford University Press, 2021-05-27)
      Structures of social media networks provide a composite view of dyadic connectivity across social actors, which reveals the spread of local and global influences of those actors in the network. Although social media network ...
    • Statutory inconsistency and jurisdictional conflict between the Controller of Patents and the Competition Commission of India 

      Gupta, Aditya (Oxford University Press, 2021-12-09)
      The Indian regulatory system has long been plagued with statutory overlaps and jurisdictional conflicts, particularly between the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and other sectoral regulators. The Supreme Court in ...
    • Limited foresight equilibrium 

      Rampal, Jeevant (Elsevier, 2022-01-10)
      This paper models a scenario where finite perfect-information games are distorted in two ways. First, each player can have different possible levels of foresight, where foresight is a particular number of future stages ...
    • Participation dynamics in multiple-peril agricultural insurance: insights from India 

      Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Patil, Vikram; Tank, Nikita (Elsevier, 2022-01-05)
      Multiple-peril agricultural insurance, although operational in many developing countries, evokes mixed responses among smallholder farmers. In this context, we analyse the farmer-specific characteristics that are most ...
    • Maternal health in Gujarat, India: A case study 

      Mavalankar D.V.; Vora K.S.; Ramani K.V.; Raman P.; Sharma B.; Upadhyaya M. (International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
      Gujarat state of India has come a long way in improving the health indicators since independence, but progress in reducing maternal mortality has been slow and largely unmeasured or documented. This case study identified ...
    • Innovations and challenges in reducing maternal mortality in Tamil nadu, India 

      Padmanaban, P.; Raman, Parvathy; Mavalankar, Dileep (International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
      Although India has made slow progress in reducing maternal mortality, progress in Tamil Nadu has been rapid. This case study documents how Tamil Nadu has taken initiatives to improve maternal health services leading to ...
    • Maternal health situation in India: A case study 

      Vora, Kranti S.; Mavalankar, Dileep; Ramani, K. V.; Upadhyaya, Mudita; Sharma, Bharati; Iyengar, Sharad; Gupta, Vikram; Iyengar, Kirti (International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
      Since the beginning of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, India has accounted for at least a quarter of maternal deaths reported globally. India's goal is to lower maternal mortality to less than 100 per 100,000 livebirths ...
    • Maternal healthcare financing: Gujarat's Chiranjeevi scheme and its beneficiaries 

      Bhat, R.; Mavalankar, D.V.; Singh, P.V.; Singh, N. (International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
      Maternal mortality is an important public-health issue in India, specifically in Gujarat. Contributing factors are the Government's inability to operationalize the First Referral Units and to provide an adequate level of ...
    • Rational repricing of risk during COVID-19: Evidence from Indian single stock options market 

      Agarwalla, S. K.; Varma, J. R.; Virmani, V. (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2021)
      Could the COVID-19 related market crash and subsequent rebound be explained as a rational response to evolving conditions? Our results using multiple forward-looking measures of uncertainty implied from stock option prices ...
    • Covid-19 and Domestic Violence: an Indirect Path to Social and Economic Crisis 

      Sharma, A.; Borah, S. B. (Springer, 2020)
      Purpose: We intend to identify the links between Covid-19 and domestic violence, expose the potential reasons behind an increase in domestic violence cases due to Covid-19, and argue that rising incidence of domestic ...
    • Sales training: A state of the art and contemporary review 

      Singh, V. L.; Manrai, A. K.; Manrai, L. A. (Elsevier Doyma, 2015)
      Organizations of today face numerous challenges, and training their sales force is definitely high on its agenda. This paper endeavors to contribute to the sales training field by providing a comprehensive state-of-the art ...
    • Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency across the spectrum of glucose intolerance 

      Modi, K. D.; Ahmed, Md Ishaq; Chandwani, Rajesh; Hari Kumar, K. V. S. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)
      Background: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is inversely associated with insulin resistance. We studied the prevalence of VDD across the spectrum of glucose intolerance, including normal glucose tolerance (NGT), prediabetes ...