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India’s e-waste rules and their impact on e-waste management practices: a case study
(Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2017-06-16)India, like many other developed and developing countries, has adopted an extended producer responsibility (EPR) approach for electronic waste (e-waste) management under its E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011. ... -
Unsustainability of sustainability: cognitive frames and tensions in bottom of the pyramid projects
(Journal of Business Ethics, Page. 1-17., 2017-05-29)Existing research posits that decision makers use specific cognitive frames to manage tensions in sustainability. However, we know less about how the cognitive frames of individuals at different levels in organization interact ... -
Multilevel analysis of ambidexterity and tagging of specialised projects in project based information technology firms
(International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 37 Issue: 9, pp.1185-1206., 2017-07-27)The purpose of this paper is to understand the expression of ambidexterity at the “between” projects level as well as the “within” project level in project-based information technology firms (PBITF). The research also ... -
Integrated fleet mix and routing decision for hazmat transportation: a developing country perspective
(European Journal of Operational Research Volume 264, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 225-238, 2018-01-01)In developing countries, truck purchase cost is the dominant criteria for fleet acquisition-related decisions. However, we contend that other cost factors such as loss due to the number of en route truck stoppages based ... -
Determinants of the distance between sovereign credit ratings and sub-sovereign bond ratings: evidence from emerging markets and developing economies
(Applied Economics, 2017-07-05)This article explores factors that affect the distance between sovereign credit ratings and the ratings assigned to new foreign-currency bonds issued by sub-sovereign entities (such as private non-financial corporations, ... -
Negotiating absent practices and dormant features: discourse as a means of shaping the implementation of a global enterprise system to meet local work culture
(Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – Proceedings, May 2017, 2017)The introduction of a new enterprise system to an organization often necessitates the accommodation of standardized practices, which may be in conflict with local users’ practices and their work culture. We explore such a ... -
Adoption of system of rice intensification under information constraints: an analysis for India
(The Journal of Development Studies, 2017-06-15)This study examines the role of information constraints in the adoption of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India by explicitly incorporating information in the adoption model. The results showed that effective ... -
Narrative methodologies in information systems literature: illuminating interconnectivity and change over time
(Communications of the association for information systems, Vol.39 (19), Page.555-575., 2016-11)This tutorial presents an action net-based narrative research methodology that is particularly useful for describing, undertaking, and understanding process-oriented field research related to IT-enabled ... -
A stochastic model for the throughput analysis of passing dual yard cranes
(Computers and Operations Research, Vol.87, November 2017, Pp.40-51., 2017-11-14)New container terminal technologies such as passing dual yard cranes per stack promise increase in stacking throughput capacity. However, dual yard cranes can interfere, which reduces the cranes’ throughput capacity. Using ... -
Competition and intellectual property policies in the Indian pharmaceutical sector
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers (2017) 42(2) 61–79., 2017-06-17) -
Optimal stack layout in a sea container terminal with automated lifting vehicles
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2017)Container terminal performance is largely determined by its design decisions, which include the number and type of quay cranes, stack cranes, transport vehicles, vehicle travel path and stack layout. We investigate the ... -
A multi-tier linking approach to analyze performance of autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval systems
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017-06-23)To improve operational flexibility, throughput capacity, and responsiveness in order fulfillment operations, several distribution centers are implementing autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval system (AVS/RS) in ... -
The impact of self-deception and professional skepticism on perceptions of ethicality
(JAI Press, 2017)This paper examines the impact of two contradictory psychological traits, self-deception (SD) and professional skepticism (PS), on individuals' assessment of ethicality of various earnings management choices. Whereas, SD ... -
Racial/ethnic differences in perceptions of school climate and its association with student engagement and peer aggression
(Springer New York LLC, 2017)Research indicates that a positive school climate is associated with higher levels of student engagement and lower rates of peer aggression. However, less attention has been given to whether such findings are consistent ... -
Acquisition of hutchison essar (India) by vodafone (U.K.): a case in international taxation of indirect transfer of shares
(American Accounting Association, 2017)Vodafone is recognized globally as a seminal case in which the taxation of indirect transfer of shares was litigated before a country’s highest judicial court. Vodafone Group plc, through a web of its directly and indirectly ... -
Productivity dispersion and output fluctuations: an evolutionary model
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)We develop a model of technology choice with search costs. Innovators develop technology of varying quality or productivity. Firms acquire technology after paying a search cost to find high productivity technology. The ... -
Urban commons service generation, delivery, and management: a conceptual framework
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)Urban commons are currently not studied holistically under the rationale used by the ecosystem cascade framework. In this paper, we build on the ecosystem cascade framework to present a conceptual model that provides a ... -
An empirical study of price movements in the airline industry in the Indian market with power divergence statistics
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2017)In this article, we analyze the dynamic price dispersion of the Indian domestic airline industry. We develop the power divergence statistic (PDS) for each route and study the average PDS and average airfare movement. We ... -
Rough information set and its applications in decision making
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)The decision making in the real world is inevitably characterized with vagueness, and imprecision due to incomplete knowledge. To this end, we combine the information set with the rough set theory to represent both the ... -
Electric vehicles and India's low carbon passenger transport: a long-term co-benefits assessment
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)Electric vehicles have attracted the attention of India's policy makers as clean technology alternatives due to their multiple advantages like higher efficiency and lower air pollution in short to medium term and reduced ...
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