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Estimation of Poisson mean with under-reported counts: a double sampling approach
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-02-21)Count data arising in various fields of applications are often under-reported. Ignoring undercount naturally leads to biased estimators and inaccurate confidence intervals. In the presence of undercount, in this paper, we ... -
Understanding digitally enabled complex networks: a plural granulation based hybrid community detection approach
(Emerald Publishing, 2021-05-05)Purpose Communities representing groups of agents with similar interests or functions are one of the essential features of complex networks. Finding communities in real-world networks is critical for analyzing complex ... -
Social mechanisms in crowdsourcing contests: a literature review
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-01-28)Crowdsourcing contests allow organisations to engage with an external workforce. Over the years, the phenomenon has attracted considerable research interest. In the present review, we synthesise the crowdsourcing contest ... -
Different eyes on the same prize: implications of entry timing heterogeneity and incentives for contestant effort in innovation tournament
(Information Technology & People, 2020-06-10)Purpose This paper examines an apparent contrast in organizing innovation tournaments; seekers offer contestant-agnostic incentives to elicit greater effort from a heterogeneous pool of contestants. Specifically, the study ... -
Combining lifelines to thrive: a stage-based need fulfilment network of international assignees
(Emerald Publishing, 2021-03-11)Purpose The paper tries to understand the needs of the international assignees across the different stages of expatriation and how different developers in the professional and non-professional sphere render support and ... -
Exploring the mediating role of work engagement between the linkages of job characteristics with organizational engagement and job satisfaction
(Management Research Review, 2020-07-17)Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically test a hypothesized model establishing job characteristics as an antecedent of work engagement leading to job satisfaction and organizational engagement of employees ... -
The mediating role of self-efficacy between job challenges and work engagement: evidence from Indian power sector employees
(Journal of Public Affairs, 2020-10-15)The study involves testing a mediation model wherein self-efficacy is proposed as a mediator between challenging job demands and work engagement. The respondents (n = 107) were executives employed in the Indian public ... -
Global value chains and intermediaries in multi-stakeholder initiatives in Pakistan and India
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2021-04-14)In this article, we analyse the role of regulatory intermediaries of the Better Cotton Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) in the global cotton value chain, with a regional focus on India and Pakistan. We ... -
Construction, validation and generalization of SERVSTRESS: a measure for service induced customer stress
(European Journal of Marketing, 2020-09-22)Purpose The purpose of this study is to construct and validate a generalizable scale to measure service induced perceived stress for customers of personal services with a high level of intangibles having both online and ... -
Celebrity endorsements in destination marketing: a three country investigation
(Tourism Management, 2020-09-07)The present study extends research on the role of celebrity endorsements in destination marketing by exploring various facets of the effect of celebrity endorsements in destination marketing on the consumer. More specifically, ... -
A prescriptive analytics framework for efficient E-commerce order delivery
(Elsevier, 2021-04-30)Achieving timely last-mile order delivery is often the most challenging part of an e-commerce order fulfillment. Effective management of last-mile operations can result in significant cost savings and lead to increased ... -
How does the adoption of digital payment technologies influence unorganized retailers' performance? an investigation in an emerging market
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2021-03-30)Unorganized retail dominates the retail landscape across emerging markets (EMs) and is undergoing rapid digitalization. However, the extant literature has not explored the impact of digital payment system adoption on ... -
Chief marketing officers' discretion and firms' internationalization: an empirical investigation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-01-04)The role of key individuals, such as the chief marketing officer (CMO), in the internationalization process has largely been ignored in the international business literature. Given the importance of the CMO in internationalization ... -
Covid-19's impact on supply chain decisions: strategic insights from NASDAQ 100 firms using Twitter data
(Journal of Business Research, 2020-06-12)The coronavirus pandemic is having a clear impact on the supply chains of virtually all manufacturers, retailers, and wholesalers. As the world attempts to navigate through this difficult time, most companies are struggling ... -
Sovereign credit ratings, relative risk ratings and private capital flows: evidence from emerging and frontier markets
(Emerald Publishing, 2021-05-13)Purpose Relative risk ratings measure the degree by which a country’s sovereign rating is better or worse than other countries (Basu et al., 2013). However, the literature on the impacts of sovereign ratings on capital ... -
Foreign currency borrowing and firm financing constraints in emerging markets: evidence from India
(Managerial Finance, 2020-08-23)Purpose First, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between foreign-currency debt and firms' financing constraints for India, the second-largest emerging market economy after China. Second, this study ... -
Insolvency regimes and firms' default risk under economic uncertainty and shocks
(Economic Modelling, 2020-06-18)One of the arguments often advanced for implementing a stronger insolvency and bankruptcy framework is that it enhances credit discipline among firms. Using a large cross-country firm-level dataset, we empirically test ... -
A time-use perspective of out-of-home activity participation by older people in Hong Kong
(Asian Geographer, 2020-08-18)Promoting active aging has emerged as a key objective of urban planning and policymaking globally. Our study aims to provide new insights from a time-use perspective. In this paper, we use Hong Kong as a case study to ... -
Analyzing intra-metropolitan variation in highway traffic performance in Los Angeles using archived real-time data
(Transportation Planning and Technology, 2020-10-27)We conduct a case study of highway system performance in Los Angeles County. We use the Los Angeles Archived Data Management System, a comprehensive archive of regional real-time multi-modal transportation system data, to ... -
Capacitated multi-period maximal covering location problem with server uncertainty
(European Journal of Operational Research, 2020-08-07)We study the problem of assigning doctors to existing, non-operational Primary Health Centers (PHCs). We do this in the presence of clear guidelines on the maximum population that can be served by any PHC, and uncertainties ...