Browsing Open Access Journal Articles by Author "Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India"
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Adapting the Women's empowerment in agriculture index to specific country context: Insights and critiques from fieldwork in India
Gupta S.; Vemireddy V.; Singh D.; Pingali P. (Elsevier B.V., 2019)The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a direct, multi-dimensional measure of women's access to resources and decision-making in various domains of agriculture. However, several challenges characterize its ... -
Alcohol, babies and the death penalty: Saving lives by analysing the shape of the brain
Mardia K.; Bookstein F.; Kent J. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013)Alcohol can damage the brains of unborn babies. Shape analysis can assess the damage in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Kanti Mardia, Fred Bookstein and John Kent explain how it works, and how it can help babies and even ... -
Consumer behaviour and climate action: insights from a Randomised Control Trial experiment in India's residential cooling sector
Chaturvedi V.; Gorthi A.; Bhasin S.; Laha A. (Elsevier Ltd, 2021)Air-conditioning is expected to be the largest consumer of residential energy in India in the future. Good consumer practices related to servicing air-conditioners (ACs) are critical for maintaining high operational ... -
Dialoguing with teacher-educators, valorizing teacher innovations
Chand V.S.; Kuril S.; Shukla A. (UCL IOE Press, 2020)This article describes the educational innovation fairs (EIF), a large-scale collaborative action research initiative undertaken by an academic institution and the teacher-education department of a provincial government ... -
Exploring the role of HRM in service delivery in healthcare organizations: A study of an Indian hospital
Tomar A.; Dhiman A. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013)The new service management school of thought acknowledges a set of new human resource management (HRM) practices, underpinned by the concept of satisfaction mirror between customers and front-line workers. HRM practices ... -
'From boom to where?': The impact of crisis on work and employment in Indian BPO
Taylor P.; D'Cruz P.; Noronha E.; Scholarios D. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014)This article locates Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) within the global supply chains of business services delivery and an international division of service labour. It acknowledges the BPO market's essential ... -
Ground truthing the cost of achieving the EAT lancet recommended diets: Evidence from rural India
Gupta S.; Vemireddy V.; Singh D.K.; Pingali P. (Elsevier B.V., 2021)In this paper, we quantify the divergence in the cost of current diets as compared to EAT Lancet recommendations at the subnational-level in India. We use primary data on food prices and household food purchases, and ... -
Harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to increase wellbeing for all: The case for a new technology diplomacy
Feij髈 C.; Kwon Y.; Bauer J.M.; Bohlin E.; Howell B.; Jain R.; Potgieter P.; Vu K.; Whalley J.; Xia J. (Elsevier Ltd, 2020)The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is experiencing a period of intense progress due to the consolidation of several key technological enablers. AI is already deployed widely and has a high impact on work and daily ... -
Posterior consistency of bayesian quantile regression based on the misspecied asymmetric laplace density
Sriram K.; Ramamoorthi R.V.; Ghosh P. (International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2013)We explore an asymptotic justication for the widely used and em-pirically veried approach of assuming an asymmetric Laplace distribution (ALD) for the response in Bayesian Quantile Regression. Based on empirical ndings, ... -
Seasonal time trade-offs and nutrition outcomes for women in agriculture: Evidence from rural India
Vemireddy V.; Pingali P.L. (Elsevier Ltd, 2021)Women in agriculture are involved in agricultural activities and are solely responsible for household-level unpaid work. They face severe time trade-offs between agricultural and household activities across crop seasons. ... -
State of Inclusive Growth in India: Some Perspectives
Turaga R.M.R.; Chakrabarti M.; Chatterjee M.; Jolad S.; Vaijayanti K.; Sriram M.S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018) -
The changing role of the nation-state and regulation: Workplace bullying legislation in The Netherlands
D'Cruz P.; Mulder R.; Noronha E.; Beerepoot N.; Magala S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)Workplace bullying literature has focused mainly on actions of individual targets of mistreatment, undertaken to address the problem, and on analyses of the effectiveness of responses. Less attention has been paid to the ...