Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Is it too complex?: the curious case of supply network complexity and focal firm innovation
(Journal of Operations Management, 2019)Firms have increasingly relied on their supply network for improving their innovation performance. Although the relationship between the supply network structure and innovation has been investigated, the link between supply ... -
Contestations around water allocation during a climate crisis in India: the case of ‘IPL vs. drought’
(Global Environmental Change, 2019)In this paper, we analyze a major controversy regarding the allocation of water for Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches during a period of extreme drought in the state of Maharashtra in India. We use a discursive ... -
The internationalization of new ventures in an emerging economy: the shifting role of industry concentration
(Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2020)This paper examines the influence of firm rivalry within an industry on the internationalization of new ventures in an emerging economy. Drawing on industrial organization and institutional theories, it was hypothesized ... -
Hydraulic fracturing and groundwater contamination in India: evaluating the need for precautionary action
(Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, 2019)The hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and groundwater contamination debate started as soon as the commercial production of shale gas began in the United States. Since then there have been contrasting studies that have analysed ... -
The doctrine of frustration under section 56 of the Indian Contract Act
(Indian Law Review, 2020)The performance of obligations under a contract may be hindered by unexpected supervening events, leading to contractual uncertainties. The doctrine of frustration paves the way for a just consequence of such an unfortunate ... -
Right of recourse claims based on latent defects in the nuclear energy sector in India: brace yourself for fact-intensive disputes
(Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing, 2020)This paper analyses how a case were to unfold if an operator of a nuclear installation were to exercise its right of recourse against a supplier in the event of supply of equipment or material with latent defects, as ... -
An exploration of public risk perception and governmental engagement of nuclear energy in India
(Journal of Public Affairs, 2020)Public acceptance constitutes an important factor in successfully establishing and operating nuclear power plants. This paper explores public attitudes to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project commissioned in 2013 and ... -
Medical negligence and law: application of the Bolam and Bolitho rules in India
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2019)India has adopted the Bolam rule from the United Kingdom and has been using it to adjudicate cases of medical negligence. The evolution of the Bolam rule in the UK as well as the way the rule is applied in India by the ... -
Narrative worlds of frugal consumers: unmasking romanticized spirituality to reveal responsibilization and de-politicization
(Journal of Business Ethics, 2020)Extant literature romanticizes frugality as a lifestyle trait that helps in the spiritual evolution of consumers, which in turn enables them in overcoming the negative consequences of materialism and over-consumption. ... -
The production of precariousness for the dissenting subject at the intersections of neoliberal and cultural nationalist practice
(DECISION, 2019)In this study, I examine how dissenting subjects become precarious in the context of national security labor. I argue that the intersection of neoliberal and cultural nationalist practices produces a state formation, which ... -
Statistical estimation of time-varying complexity in financial networks
(The European Physical Journal B, 2019)In this paper, we propose a method to characterize the relation between financial market instability and the underlying complexity by identifying structural relationships in dynamics of stock returns. The proposed framework ... -
Non-optimality of state by state monopoly pricing with demand uncertainty: an example
(Economics Letters, 2019)This paper considers a monopoly’s profit maximizing problem, where there is a continuum of consumers with unit demand, and valuations are given by one of two possible demand distributions/states. The firm’s problem is to ... -
Strategizing in small informal retailers in India: home delivery as a strategic practice
(Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2020)Small informally organized family-owned grocery retailers—kiranas—are ubiquitous in India and have retained market dominance while facing increasing competition from large formally organized retailers (FORs). Yet, strategy ... -
Positive religious coping as a mechanism for enhancing job satisfaction and reducing work-family conflict: a moderated mediation analysis
(Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 2019)This paper examines the influence of religious coping on work–family conflict and job satisfaction. Moreover, how religious coping moderates the relationship between work–family conflict and job satisfaction has also been ... -
On robust estimates of correlated risk in cyber-insured IT firms: a first look at optimal AI-based estimates under “small” data
(ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 2019)In this article, we comment on the drawbacks of the existing AI-based Bayesian network (BN) cyber-vulnerability analysis (C-VA) model proposed in Mukhopadhyay et al. (2013) to assess cyber-risk in IT firms, where this ... -
Utility function for airline travel in Nepal and its comparison with India
(International Journal of Revenue Management, 2019)The competition in the airline market provides an airline passenger with ample open choices to evaluate before finalising a travel decision. The final travel decision is an outcome of a consideration of multiple parameters. ... -
Optimal allocation of rolling stock in scheduled transportation services
(International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2019)Passenger railway transportation services are operated in cyclic periodicities for urban and long distance traffic. Cabins and locomotives (rakes) are assigned to each service for specified time duration to operationalise ... -
Understanding the government’s attempt to transform attitudes towards a critical resource: gold monetization in India
(Resources Policy, 2020)We examine the Indian government's attempts to transform consumer attitudes towards a critical mineral asset in order to bring a part of 25,000 tonnes of privately held gold back into economic circulation through the Gold ... -
Security management at the National Institute of Management: to outsource or insource? cases (A) and (B)
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2019)In April 2014, Swati Bhargava, Dean of the National Institute of Management (NIM), suggested to Col S R Rao, VSM (Retd.), the Administrative Officer (AO) of NIM that a comprehensive review of security contracts of the last ... -
What drives human resource acquisition and retention in social enterprises?: an empirical investigation in the healthcare industry in an emerging market
(Journal of Business Research, 2020)Although healthcare is one of the fastest growing sectors in the world, it faces crucial shortages in human resource (HR) availability and retention. This challenge is worsened in social enterprises. In this research, we ...