Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Exploiting travel sequences to optimise facility layouts with multiple input/output points
(Taylor & Francis, 2024-12-25)The facility layout problem (FLP) involves arranging departments on a shop floor to optimise specific objectives, traditionally focussing on pairwise flows between departments. However, these methods often underestimate ... -
Trade disruptions and reshoring
(American Economic Association, 2025-01-01)Firms are increasingly concerned about the resilience of their sales and sourcing decisions. Using administrative data, we show that a temporary disruption in trade due to state border closures in India led to a persistent ... -
Silencing quiet quitting: crafting a symphony of high-performance work systems and psychological conditions
(Wiley, 2024-12-25)A key question in the literature is how human resource management (HRM) practices influence quiet quitting (QQ), empha-sizing the need for a more nuanced theoretical framework to explain its antecedents. This research ... -
Limits of ethical leadership and the role of ethics-oriented HRM system in managing Machiavellians
(Emerald Insight, 2025-01-08)Purpose: The current study investigates the significance of ethics-oriented HRM systems (EHRMS) and ethical leadership in addressing the unethical behavior of Machiavellians in professional services firms. Design/method ... -
Alternative investment behavior of households during crises: The effects of the COVID-19 shock on gold purchases in India
(Elsevier, 2024-12-28)Gold plays an important role as a hedge and a safe haven for investors. This paper presents new evidence on gold’s role for Indian households during the COVID-19 pandemic. By using panel and cross-sectional household ... -
AI as an inventor debate under the patent law: A post-DABUS comparative analysis
(2025-01-01)Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained momentum during the last decade, achieving narrow intelligence to general intelligence. The Gen AIs can generate original content and create patentable inventions. The key challenge ... -
Digital payments in India - how demonetization and COVID-19 shaped adoption?
(Elsevier, 2024-11-23)In this article, we study the adoption of digital payment technologies in India over the last decade. Using a quasi-experimental design, the study assesses if the demonetization exercise of 2016 led to an enhanced adoption ... -
On measuring Muslim segregation in urban India
(Sage, 2024-12-20)The spatial segregation of Muslims in urban India is central to their social, economic and political marginalisation. However, the quantitative characterisation of Muslim segregation has suffered from the lack of readily ... -
Stochastic vehicle routing with delivery choice
(Wiley, 2024-12-08)We consider the problem of designing delivery routes for vehicles where the vendor has the choice of how much of the demandfrom a customer to fulfill. The customer demand is known a priori only as a probability distribution. ... -
A field experiment on marketplace literacy and self-help group membership in subsistence marketplaces
(Sage, 2024-12-05)We conducted a field experiment to gain marketing insights into low-income, subsistence consumers in emerging markets. We examined two phenomena– marketplace literacy which is knowledge and skills about the marketplace to ... -
The interface between authoritarian innovations and labour: implications for the Indian workforce
(Sage Journals, 2024-10-30)On assuming office in 2014, India's BJP-led government initiated an ambitious plan to facilitate the ease of doing business, aiming to make India an attractive investment destination. Interview data from 20 trade union ... -
“Thriving at the margins”: understanding workplace mistreatment and the impostor phenomenon among Latina faculty in STEM
(Taylor & Francis, 2024-11-13)Impostor phenomenon among Latina faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is understudied. Latinas hold only 1.7% of all STEM related jobs,experiencing both mistreatment (conscious and unconscious; ... -
What explains rice exports? an analysis of major rice-exporting countries
(Wiley, 2024-10-16)This study examines the drivers of rice trade. The analysis uses the standard comparative advantage model, the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) framework, supplemented with a gravity-type equation. Using the Poisson pseudo-maximum ... -
Adoption of agronomic practices and their impact oncrop yield and income: an analysis for black gram andgreen gram in India
(Wiley, 2024-10-24)Black gram and green gram are important pulse cropsin India, but their production has faced fluctuationsand stagnancy in yields over the last few decades. TheGovernment of India has implemented several measuresto enhance ... -
Consumer perspectives on food traceability - a systematic literature review and future research agenda
(Wiley, 2024-10-31)Food traceability is a critical approach that ensures the safety and quality of food. It has garnered significant attention, particularly in the aftermath of multiple food safety incidents reported in various countries. ... -
Creating safe spaces through exclusionary boundaries: examining employers treatment of domestic workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India
(Sage Journals, 2024-09-19)Our study illustrates how boundary mechanisms exacerbated the marginalization of paid domestic workers in India, after they resumed their employment at the end of the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw upon ... -
Problem of plenty? understanding the impact of choice and information overload on Airbnb bookings
(Springer, 2024-10-21)Online sharing platforms offer countless choices and detailed product descriptions to consumers. In this study, we demonstrate the effect of choice and information overload on booking decisions using large-scale field data ... -
Spokesperson effectiveness in B2B advertising: spokesperson characteristics and posture using eye-tracking
(Emerald, 2024-09-26)Purpose – This study aims to investigate the nuances of celebrity spokesperson effectiveness in business-to-business (B2B) advertising. Specifically, the study addresses the question of endorser effectiveness in the ... -
Cut the scrap? The impact of truck age on driver retention, driving safety, and driving productivity
(Springer, 2024-10-02)In many countries, vehicle replacement policies are implemented to reduce the average age of the vehicles on the road. Through these policies, policymakers typically aim to reduce emissions and to stimulate demand for ... -
A machine learning approach to solve the e-commerce box-sizing problem
(Sage Journals, 2024-09-01)E-commerce packages are notorious for their inefficient usage of space. More than one-quarter volume of a typical e-commerce package comprises air and filler material. The inefficient usage of space significantly reduces ...