Faculty Publications (Bibliographic): Recent submissions
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Emotional labour of rural women in difficult geographies of an emerging economy: narratives of community healthcare workers of India
(Inderscience, 2018)This study attempts to find the existence, execution and outcome of emotional labour in the work of community healthcare workers. Through a ten-month field study comprising in-depth interviews with 26 accredited social ... -
Functioning of boards in PSBs in India
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Forefather distribution in a variant of Galton–Watson branching process
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-03-07)In this paper, we consider a variant of a discrete time Galton–Watson Branching Process in which an individual is allowed to survive for more than one (but finite) number of generations and may also give birth to offsprings ... -
Does implementing problem-solving projects affect decisional style? developing governance capabilities in school management committees
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-11-29)Faith in the power of local decision-making underpins decentralised democratic governance, but the evidence for its effectiveness is mixed. It is in this context that school management committees (SMCs) were established ... -
Quota-based affirmative action in higher education: Impact on other backward classes in India
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-02-20)While quota-based and other affirmative actions remain on the policy radar of nations faced with social inequalities, there is limited evidence informing policy choices at the national level. This paper estimates the ... -
India in 2°C and well below 2°C worlds: Opportunities and challenges
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)India’s contributions to meeting global mean temperature increases of 2 C or well below 2 C would require transformational changes in its energy systems. A bottom-up model analyzes alternate futures (reference, intended ... -
Mass migration from rural India: A restudy of Kunkeri village in Konkan, Maharashtra, 1961-1987-2017
(Sage, 2018)This article examines a particular village—Kunkeri—in Konkan, Maharashtra, characterized by persistent mass outmigration for over five decades, by combining a field study in 2017 with detailed ethnographic and statistical ... -
Changes in the executive bonus payment patterns in India between 2008-16: Some evidences
(Sage, 2018)This article provides a brief overview of the trends in bonus payment to executives in India. Using data from the voluntary web based survey of Paycheck India, which is a part of WageIndicator Foundation, this article ... -
The four eras of “marketing” in twentieth century India
(Emerald, 2018)Purpose – The purpose of this study is to understand the evolution of “marketing” in the public and corporate discourse of twentieth-century India. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws its inferences from an ... -
From bazaar to Big Bazaar: Environmental influences and service innovation in the evolution of retailing in India, c. 1850-2015
(Emerald, 2018)Purpose – This paper aims to understand the factors affecting the evolution of retailing in India since the mid-nineteenth century. Design/methodology/approach – This paper compares the trajectories of four distinct ... -
How can Indian power plants cost-effectively meet the new sulfur emission standards? Policy evaluation using marginal abatement cost-curves
(ScienceDirect, 2018)The first-ever SO2 emission concentration standards for Indian coal-power plants were notified on December 7, 2015. In light of the new stringent standards, this paper conducts a techno-economic policy evaluation of ... -
Project Nirman: The Way Ahead
(Sage, 2018)Project Nirman by SAATH, a Gujarat-based NGO, aimed at empowering and training migrated workmen as masons, carpenters and electricians as per industry requirements. The project was funded by Bosch India Foundation. Although ... -
Using Karush-Kuhn-Tucker proximity measure for solving bilevel optimization problems
(ScienceDirecrt, 2019-02)A common technique to solve bilevel optimization problems is by reducing the problem to a single level and then solving it as a standard optimization problem. A number of single level reduction formulations exist, but one ... -
A burnout model of job crafting: Multiple mediator effects on job performance
(ScienceDirect, 2018)Studies establish that job crafting, i.e. the proactive changes made in one's work through balancing available job demands and resources, results in various positive outcomes at the individual, job, and organisational ... -
Reforming agricultural markets in India: A tale of two model acts
(Economic and political weekly, 2018)The union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare had prescribed a model Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act in 2003. The state-level adoption of the act has been tardy and varied in terms of both ... -
Internet channel cannibalization and its influence on salesperson performance outcomes in an emerging economy context
(ScienceDirect, 2018-11)Businesses increasingly use internet channels to increase their market penetration. However, empirical studies have shown that salespeople perceive Internet channels to be cannibalistic, effecting other sales—an effect ... -
Supporting and sustaining state-initiated women’s empowerment: Learning from a national programme in India
(Wiley, 2019)State-led women’s empowerment initiatives are usually indifferent to the tensions between the processes of transformation they initiate at the grassroots and the intermediary support structures they create to sustain ... -
Developing an emic scale to measure ad-evoked nostalgia in a collectivist emerging market, India
(Journal of Business Research, 2019-06)Although there has been recent interest in the measurement of advertising-evoked nostalgia, the dimensionality and generalizability of the related scales are restricted to the national/cultural boundaries of Western nations. ... -
Celebrity endorsements in emerging markets: Align endorsers with brands or with consumers?
(Springer, 2019)This paper investigates country-of-origin (CO) effects as they relate to celebrity endorsements. Across multiple studies in emerging markets, the authors show that consumers’ evaluations depend on the match between (1) ... -
Effective feedback for millennials in new organizations
(Emerald, 2018)Purpose This paper aims to understand aspects of feedback given to the millennial generation, particularly in new organizations. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a review of existing literature from ...