• Optimal stack layout in a sea container terminal with automated lifting vehicles 

  Roy, Debjit; Parhi, Sampanna; Gupta, A.; Parhi, S. (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 

  Roy, Debjit; Krishnamurthy, A.; Heragu, S.S.; Malmborg, C. (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)

  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 

  Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Desai, Naman K.; Tripathy, A. (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 

  Shukla, Kathan Dushyant; Konold, T.; Cornell, D.; Huang, F. (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 

  Gujarathi, Mahendra R.; Comerford, David R. (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 

  Chakrabarti, Anindya Sundar; Lahkar, Ratul (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 

  Garg, Amit; Shah, Arpit (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 

  Dutta, Goutam; Santra, Sumitro (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 

  Aggarwal, Manish (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 

  Shukla, Priyadarshi Ramprasad; Dhar, S.; Pathak, M. (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 ...

• Discriminative aggregation operators for multi criteria decision making 

  Aggarwal, Manish (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)

  A general aggregation formalism for multi criteria decision making (MCDM) applications is presented. Using this formalism, we derive the existing aggregation operators, and also develop some new ones. The proposed general ...

• Evolutionary algorithm for bilevel optimization using approximations of the lower level optimal solution mapping 

  Sinha, Ankur K.; Malo, P.; Deb, K. (Elsevier B.V., 2017)

  Bilevel optimization problems are a class of challenging optimization problems, which contain two levels of optimization tasks. In these problems, the optimal solutions to the lower level problem become possible feasible ...

• Strategic Global Strategy: The Intersection of General Principles, Corporate Responsibility and Economic Value-Added 

  Sud, Mukesh; Hartman, L.P.; Werhane, P.H; Clark, C.E.; Vansandt, C.V. (Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2017)

  An ongoing argument often made by business ethicists is that a singular preoccupation on profitability, will lead, in the long run, to disvalue for all the stakeholders and the communities it affects, and often (but alas ...

• Black money and politics in India 

  Chhokar, Jagdeep S. (Economic and Political Weekly, 2017)

  The issue of black money in politics in India is multifaceted. A number of questions about its role in politics, how it is generated, its volume, its ill effects, and how it can be eliminated do not have answers that are ...

• Diamond Foods, Inc.: A comprehensive case in financial auditing 

  Gujarathi, Mahendra R. (American Accounting Association, 2017)

  Diamond Foods is a comprehensive case that provides an opportunity for students to apply several financial auditing concepts and professional auditing standards to a real-world context. Diamond overstated its earnings of ...

• Estimating performance in a Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System 

  Roy, Debjit; Lamballais, T.; De Koster, M.B.M. (Elsevier B.V., 2017)

  This paper models Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems and analyzes their performance. A Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System is an automated, parts-to-picker storage system where robots bring pods with products to a workstation. ...

• Productivity differences and inter-state migration in the U.S.: A multilateral gravity approach 

  Chakrabarti, Anindya Sundar; Sengupta, A. (Elsevier B.V., 2017)

  In this paper, we study the quantitative role of productivity differences in explaining migration in presence of multiple destination choices. We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with multi-region, multi-sector ...

• Optimal management of naturally regenerating uneven-aged forests 

  Sinha, Ankur K.; Rämö, J.; Malo, P.; Kallio, M.; Tahvonen, O. (Elsevier B.V., 2017)

  A shift from even-aged forest management to uneven-aged management practices leads to a problem rather different from the existing straightforward practice that follows a rotation cycle of artificial regeneration, thinning ...

• Addressing the agrarian crisis in Punjab: Role of agro-markets and policy 

  Singh, Sukhpal R K (Economic and Political Weekly, 2017)

  The state of agricultural markets, the agricultural market policy and regulatory reforms in Punjab are reviewed in the context of the agrarian crisis. The farmer and farm worker manifesto of the Aam Aadmi Party is critically ...

• Identifying a typology of organizational transformations in India 

  Khokle, Pradyumana W.; Sharma, Supriya (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2017)

  Purpose: This paper aims to develop a comprehensive typology of organizational transformations that is based on both content and process characteristics of transformations, and it is relevant to organizations in India. ...

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