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    • Connecting smallholders' marketplace decisions to agricultural market reform policy in India - an empirical exploration 

      Argade, Aashish; Laha, Arnab Kumar; Jaiswal, Anand Kumar (SAGE Publications, 2021-03-03)
      Governments in developing countries have attempted to reform inefficient agricultural markets through direct interventions, market-oriented approaches, and institutional mechanisms, with one of the aims being improving the ...
    • The law of restitution for unjust enrichment in India 

      Ram Mohan, M. P.; Godha, Mridul (Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2020)
      The law of restitution for unjust enrichment is among the most debated private law topics today. It has been invoked to justify the right to restitution in cases which fall outside the scope of contract law. Despite being ...
    • Measuring school climate: invariance across middle and high school students 

      Waasdorp, Tracy Evian; Johnson, Sarah Lindstrom; Shukla, Kathan; Bradshaw, Catherine P. (Children & Schools, 2020)
      Positive school climate has been consistently associated with many desirable student outcomes in both middle and high schools. However, there has been little work comparing the perceptions across these two school settings. ...
    • A cutting plane approach for the multi-machine precedence-constrained scheduling problem 

      Venkateshan, Prahalad; Szmerekovsky, Joseph; Vairaktarakis, George (Springer, 2020)
      A cutting-plane approach is developed for the problem of optimally scheduling jobs with arbitrary precedence constraints on unrelated parallel machines to minimize weighted completion time. While the single machine version ...
    • American MNEs: in search of legitimacy when you’re WEIRD 

      VanSandt, Craig V.; Mitchell, Matthew C.; Sud, Mukesh (Journal of Management Policy and Practice, 2019)
      Presuming that American Multinational Enterprises (AMNEs) prefer to be viewed as legitimate, socially responsible firms in their host countries, we seek to provide answers to the question of how they can best determine ...
    • Exploring the role of urban green spaces in ‘smartening’ cities in India 

      Turaga, Rama Mohana R.; Jha-Thakur, Urmila; Chakrabarti, Sandip; Hossain, Dipita (Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 2019)
      This paper explores the conceptualization of Urban Green Space (UGS) within India’s urban planning process. In doing so, the context of the Smart Cities Mission (SCM), which is a flagship programme for urban transformation ...
    • Corpus linguistics, newspaper archives and historical research methods 

      Tumbe, Chinmay (Journal of Management History, 2019)
      The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the utility of corpus linguistics and digitised newspaper archives in management and organisational history. The paper draws its inferences from Google NGram Viewer and five ...
    • What motivates members to transact on social C2C communities?: a theoretical explanation 

      Trehan, Deepak; Sharma, Rajat (Journal of Consumer Marketing, 2020)
      This paper aims to investigate the consumer motivation to buy products on consumer-to-consumer (C2C) communities on social networking sites (SNSs). These transactions involve no intermediation or payment of fees by any ...
    • 3J the bright side of darkness: the effect of ambient lighting on information search behavior 

      Tomar, Nitisha; Vijayalakshmi, Akshaya (Advances in Consumer Research, 2019)
      Using data from a field study and an M-Turk experiment, we examine how ambient lighting affects preference for information search. Ambient darkness likely activates the concept of uncertainty (‘being in the dark’) that is ...
    • Electronic records of obstetrics and gynecology encounter: beyond professional logics of health care 

      Tandon, Ayushi; Kandathil, George; Deodhar, Swanand J.; Mathur, Navdeep (IndiaHCI '19: Proceedings of the 10th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2019)
      This paper examines how use of electronic medical record (EMR) within professional understanding of medical model have bearings upon the health-care provisions for women. Through a qualitative, empirical study in four ...
    • Efficiency analysis of Indian banking industry over the period 2008-2017 using data envelopment analysis 

      Tamatam, Roopteja; Dutta, Pankaj; Dutta, Goutam; Lessmann, Stefan (Benchmarking: An International Journal, 2019)
      The purpose of this paper is to estimate the relative efficiencies of banks of the Indian domestic banking sector by employing various models of data envelopment analysis (DEA) using the panel data of the recent decade ...
    • Did Indian federalism fail Punjab? 

      Singh, Sukhpal (Global institute of Sikh Studies, 2019)
      The question of federalism has been a constant topic of debate since India’s independence. This continuing debate about centre-state relations in India is dueto the fact that Indian federalism is unlike the American federal ...
    • Updating PowerPoint for the new business classroom 

      Brock, Sabra E.; Joglekar, Yogini; Tandon, Ayushi; Bardwell, Gena (Proceedings of the Informing Science and Information Technology Education Conference, 2019)
      To update a 2010 study that recommended “rules of thumb” for more effective use of PowerPoint in the post-secondary business classroom. The current study expanded the focus to include the business classroom in India as ...
    • Network theory and agent-based modeling in economics and finance 

      Chakrabarti, Anindya S.; Pichl, Lukas; Kaizoji, Taisei (Springer Nature, 2019)
      This book presents the latest findings on network theory and agent-based modeling of economic and financial phenomena. In this context, the economy is depicted as a complex system consisting of heterogeneous agents that ...
    • The constitutional law of Nepal 

      Mathur, Ajeet Narain (Wolters Kluwer, 2020)
      Nepal is bounded on the north by the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China and in the south by the Indian States of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. To its east lie the Indian States of Sikkim and West Bengal ...
    • Downstream electric utility restructuring and upstream generation efficiency: productivity dynamics of Indian coal and gas-based electricity generators 

      Sugathan, Anish; Malghan, Deepak; Chandrashekar, S.; Sinha, Deepak K. (Energy, 2019)
      This paper investigates the producer-level temporal dynamics of total factor productivity and operational performance changes in coal- and gas-based generators during the 2000–20013 period of major structural reforms in ...
    • Broker imposed precarity of Indian technical immigrants 

      Sohani, Shrihari S.; Varkkey, Biju (Industrial Relations Journal, 2019)
      The primary purpose of this article is to investigate the labour supply chain of Indian technical immigrants in the United States. The two important findings that emerge are as follows: First, the study unearths a latent ...
    • Design thinking for improving employee experience: a case of a food tech company 

      Sinha, Anamika; Varkkey, Biju; Meenakshi, N. (Development and Learning in Organizations, 2019)
      The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate applicability of design thinking in creating employee centric HR solutions. This application is studied in the context of a food tech company. A design thinking process for ...
    • Bilevel optimization based on iterative approximation of multiple mappings 

      Sinha, Ankur; Lu, Zhichao; Deb, Kalyanmoy; Malo, Pekka (Journal of Heuristics, 2020)
      A large number of application problems involve two levels of optimization, where one optimization task is nested inside the other. These problems are known as bilevel optimization problems and have been studied by both ...
    • Antecedents of inbound and outbound M&A: industry-level analysis from India 

      Singla, Chitra (Management International Review, 2019)
      Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) allow economic integration across countries and impact industries’ productivity and structure, which has implications for managers, customers, suppliers, and policy-makers. ...