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    • Mindfulness: nurturing global mind-set and leadership 

      Chandwani, Rajesh; Agrawal, Narendra M.; Kedia, Ben L. (Thunderbird International Business Review, 2015)
      In this article, we attempt to explore global leadership and global mind-set from the perspective of mindfulness. Through a synthesis of the literature on mindfulness and scholarship on global mind-set and global leadership, ...
    • Work from home: a boon or a bane? the missing piece of employee cost 

      Bathini, Dharma Raju; Kandathil, George (Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015-04)
      This paper examines the discourse on work from home in global and Indian contexts. It shows a long-held excessive focus on employee benefits which deflected the attention away from employee costs. Even though there was ...
    • Consumer behavior: a managerial perspective 

      Sharma, Dheeraj; Sheth, Jagdish; Mittal, Banwari (Cengage, 2015)
      Consumer Behavior goes beyond the conventional subject matter of most consumer behavior textbooks, focusing not only on the role of consumers as buyers, but also on their roles as users and payers. This book primarily ...
    • Trucking business management: cases and concepts 

      Roy, Debjit; Raghuram, G.; Jain, Rekha; Tripathi, Sanjeev; Sharda, Kirti (McGraw Hill Education, 2016)
      Trucking Business Management is a compilation of cases authored by professors and researchers of IIM Ahmedabad in the field of road transportation. It is an attempt to fill the business-practice gap and impart a professional ...
    • How to make the right decision 

      Laha, Arnab Kumar (Random House India, 2015)
      Business analytics, the method by which data around a business is analysed to better determine the choices we make, is your answer. In this accessible, user-friendly book, Professor Arnab Laha explains the relevance of ...
    • Operations research in India: the past, present and the future 

      Ravichandran, N. (Annals of Management Science, 2017-11)
      The purpose of this perspective article is to review the development of Operation Research (OR) as a discipline in the Indian context. Based on this review, we suggest a plan to re-energize the discipline.
    • High impact opportunities for energy efficiency in India 

      Garg, Amit; Shukla, S.; Mohan, P.; Kankal, B.; Vishwanathan, S. S. (Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency, UNEP DTU Partnership, 2017-07)
      This report on High Impact Opportunities for Energy Efficiency in India describes four High Impact Opportunities (HIOs) for making improvements in energy efficiency in India in the residential, industrial and agricultural ...
    • Competing for space and making a difference? an assessment of sustainability standards in the Indian cotton sector 

      Singh, Sukhpal (Springer, 2019-05-29)
      Multi-stakeholder initiatives for sustainability in agribusiness are an emerging research, policy and practice issue in India. This chapter examines the issue of sustainability in the cotton sector and the role and performance ...
    • Impact of Aadhaar on Welfare 

      Khera, Reetika (Orient BlackSwan Hyderabad, 2018)
      Pope aptly describes the origins and evolution of the unique identity project, that was initiated to provide each resident of India a unique number linked to his or her biometrics. Among other things, it was meant to lead ...
    • Bullying and school climate in the United States and India 

      Cornell, Dewey; Shukla, Kathan (Cambridge University Press, 2018-05)
    • Whistleblowing and bullying at work: the role of leaders 

      Bjorkelo, Brita; Thorsen, Cecilie; D'Cruz, Premilla; Mikkelsen, Eva Gemzoe (Springer, 2018-04-20)
      This chapter discusses the role of leaders in regard to whistleblowing and workplace bullying with some examples from clinical practice. In whistleblowing research, the role of leaders has been described from the earliest ...
    • Design weighted quadratic inference function estimators of superpopulation parameters 

      Banerjee, Tathagata; Bhattacharjee, Debanjan; Adhya, Sumanta (Springer, 2018-08-17)
      Using information from multiple surveys to produce better pooled estimators is an active research area in recent days. Multiple surveys from same target population is common in many socioeconomic and health surveys. Often ...
    • Disparity in the wages of agricultural labourers in India: an interval-valued data analysis 

      Yashavanth, B. S.; Laha, Arnab Kumar (Indian council of agricultural research, 2018-03-27)
      This study explores the interval-valued data analysis techniques to witness the spatial disparity in the wage rates of farm labourers in India. Farm labourers constitute more than half of the total workforce engaged in ...
    • Spirituality at workplace: as seen by Indian managers 

      Yadav, Rama Shankar; Maheshwari, Sunil (Publishing India, 2019)
      The purpose of this article is to explore how spirituality is perceived by the managers in India.Thus, attributes of spiritual individuals and its impact at workplace are also explored. Qualitative thematic analysisof ...
    • Energy system transitions and macroeconomic assessment of the Indian building sector 

      Vishwanathan, Saritha S.; Fragkos, Panagiotis; Fragkiadakis, Kostas; Paroussos, Leonidas; Garg, Amit (Taylor and Francis, 2018-10-03)
      India’s energy sector has grown rapidly in recent years with buildings playing a major role as they constitute about 40% of India’s final energy demand. This paper provides a quantitative model-based assessment of the ...
    • Land and livelihoods in rural India: does farm size matter? 

      Sukhpal, Singh (Indian Journal, 2019-05-15)
      This paper examines the question of role of land in rural livelihoods and that of small farms in the Indian smallholder and large landlessness context by focusing on the issue of size of the farm. It reviews evidence on ...
    • Food value chain investments and the small farmer linkage: Indian experience, potential and policy 

      Singh, Sukhpal (Policy Student Organization, 2018-03)
      The agri-food value chains in the developing world are evolving fast due to many changes in policy and practice. In India, modern domestic food supermarkets have been present for more than 15 years now. Furthermore, in ...
    • Job points model: an open source tool to determine the comparable worth of jobs 

      Varkkey, Biju; Singh, Manjari; Pandey, Jatin; Sohani, Shrihari S.; Jha, Jatinder (i-scholar, 2018-04-01)
      Comparable worth of jobs is very critical while taking compensation related decisions in any organization. Ascertaining the comparable worth of different jobs having varied levels of responsibility, decision-making, etc. ...
    • Estimation of log‐odds ratio from group testing data using firth correction 

      Roy, Surupa; Banerjee, Tathagata (Wiley, 2019-01-15)
      We consider the estimation of the prevalence of a rare disease, and the log‐odds ratio for two specified groups of individuals from group testing data. For a low‐prevalence disease, the maximum likelihood estimate of the ...
    • Turning over a golden leaf? global liquidity and emerging market central banks’ demand for gold after the financial crisis Mohapatra 

      Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Mohapatra, Sanket (ScienceDirect, 2018-11)
      The quantity of gold reserves held by central banks in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has risen sharply in the years following the global financial crisis of 2008. EMDE central banks’ gold holdings rose ...