Faculty Publications (Bibliographic): Recent submissions
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Non-optimality of state by state monopoly pricing with demand uncertainty: an example
(Economics Letters, 2019)This paper considers a monopoly’s profit maximizing problem, where there is a continuum of consumers with unit demand, and valuations are given by one of two possible demand distributions/states. The firm’s problem is to ... -
Strategizing in small informal retailers in India: home delivery as a strategic practice
(Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2020)Small informally organized family-owned grocery retailers—kiranas—are ubiquitous in India and have retained market dominance while facing increasing competition from large formally organized retailers (FORs). Yet, strategy ... -
Positive religious coping as a mechanism for enhancing job satisfaction and reducing work-family conflict: a moderated mediation analysis
(Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 2019)This paper examines the influence of religious coping on work–family conflict and job satisfaction. Moreover, how religious coping moderates the relationship between work–family conflict and job satisfaction has also been ... -
On robust estimates of correlated risk in cyber-insured IT firms: a first look at optimal AI-based estimates under “small” data
(ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 2019)In this article, we comment on the drawbacks of the existing AI-based Bayesian network (BN) cyber-vulnerability analysis (C-VA) model proposed in Mukhopadhyay et al. (2013) to assess cyber-risk in IT firms, where this ... -
Utility function for airline travel in Nepal and its comparison with India
(International Journal of Revenue Management, 2019)The competition in the airline market provides an airline passenger with ample open choices to evaluate before finalising a travel decision. The final travel decision is an outcome of a consideration of multiple parameters. ... -
Optimal allocation of rolling stock in scheduled transportation services
(International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2019)Passenger railway transportation services are operated in cyclic periodicities for urban and long distance traffic. Cabins and locomotives (rakes) are assigned to each service for specified time duration to operationalise ... -
Understanding the government’s attempt to transform attitudes towards a critical resource: gold monetization in India
(Resources Policy, 2020)We examine the Indian government's attempts to transform consumer attitudes towards a critical mineral asset in order to bring a part of 25,000 tonnes of privately held gold back into economic circulation through the Gold ... -
Security management at the National Institute of Management: to outsource or insource? cases (A) and (B)
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2019)In April 2014, Swati Bhargava, Dean of the National Institute of Management (NIM), suggested to Col S R Rao, VSM (Retd.), the Administrative Officer (AO) of NIM that a comprehensive review of security contracts of the last ... -
What drives human resource acquisition and retention in social enterprises?: an empirical investigation in the healthcare industry in an emerging market
(Journal of Business Research, 2020)Although healthcare is one of the fastest growing sectors in the world, it faces crucial shortages in human resource (HR) availability and retention. This challenge is worsened in social enterprises. In this research, we ... -
Psychological containment of organisational toxicity and its spillovers
(Organisational & Social Dynamics, 2020)Organisational toxicity can thwart creation and sharing of knowledge necessary for collaborations. Psychological phenomena lurking in covert processes affect dynamics of containment and spillovers of organisational toxicity. ... -
Do tweets create value?: a multi-period analysis of Twitter use and content of tweets for manufacturing firms
(International Journal of Production Economics, 2019)In this research we enquire if adoption of Twitter by manufacturing firms creates any value for the firm. We conduct two studies to examine the relationship between Twitter related activities of manufacturing firms and the ... -
A robust sharpe ratio
(Sankhya B : The Indian Journal of Statistics, 2019)Sharpe ratio is one of the widely used measures in the financial literature to compare two or more investment strategies. Since it is a ratio of the excess expected return of a portfolio to its standard deviation of returns, ... -
Emergence of frustration signals systemic risk
(Physical Review E-Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, 2019)We show that the emergence of systemic risk in complex systems can be understood from the evolution of functional networks representing interactions inferred from fluctuation correlations between macroscopic observables. ... -
Restoration work: responding to everyday challenges of HIV outreach
(Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2019)There has been a growing commitment across the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D) towards investigating the design and deployment of technologies in ... -
“Context” in healthcare information technology resistance: a systematic review of extant literature and agenda for future research
(International Journal of Information Management, 2020)Resistance to Healthcare Information Technologies (HIT) continues to be a major challenge that hampers the realization of benefits. Attending to the noted significance of “context” in IT resistance, we carried out this ... -
An utility-based storage assignment strategy for e-commerce warehouse management
(2019 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2019)Order picking is one of the most labor intensive and time consuming parts of e-commerce warehouse order management. An effective solution to the item storage assignment problem can significantly improve the efficiency of ... -
Post internationalization strategies of born global service firms
(Competitiveness Review, 2019)Extant literature suggests that post-entry internationalization strategies and performance implications of born globals are an under-researched area. This paper aims to examine the internationalization strategies of born ... -
Improving the measurement of school climate using item response theory
(Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2019)The U.S. government has become increasingly focused on school climate, as recently evidenced by its inclusion as an accountability indicator in the Every Student Succeeds Act. Yet, there remains considerable variability ... -
Restricted and unrestricted fiscal grants and tax effort of panchayats in India
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2019)The impact of restricted and unrestricted fiscal grants on tax effort of panchayats is examined using nationally representative panel data on finances. Three pathways are proposed through which these impacts accrue: wages, ... -
Jati, local public goods and village governance: private actions and public outcomes
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2019)Whether voting along narrow parochial lines in socially and ethnically fragmented societies has measurable gains is explored. Using data from rural India, it is established that identity-based voting, driven by membership ...