Browsing Open Access Journal Articles by Subject "India"
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Adapting the Women's empowerment in agriculture index to specific country context: Insights and critiques from fieldwork in India
(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 ... -
Assessing policy options for sustainable water use in India's cereal production system
(IOP Publishing, 2023-10-05)In India, the production of rice and wheat account for more than 80% of its total agricultural water use. As farming is highly dependent on water availability, rapidly receding water levels require urgent measures to ... -
Assessing policy options for sustainable water use in India's cereal production system
(IOP Publishing, 2023-10-05)In India, the production of rice and wheat account for more than 80% of its total agricultural water use. As farming is highly dependent on water availability, rapidly receding water levels require urgent measures to manage ... -
Assessment of Tobacco Control Policy in India: An Evaluation using the World Health Organization MPOWER Framework
(WOLTERS KLUWER MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS, 2020)Background: Tobacco consumption is considered to be one of the most avertable causes of premature mortality and morbidity. In 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) successfully negotiated the Framework Convention on ... -
Choosing beyond compliance over dormancy: corporate response to India's mandatory CSR expenditure law
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-03-10)This article examines whether firms engaged in high levels of voluntary CSR (corporate social responsibility) alter their strategic choices in response to detrimental public policy – specifically India's Companies Act ... -
Circular value creation through environmental entrepreneurship initiatives: A case-based exploration
(Wiley, 2024-01-12)The present study builds on the domain of circular economy and its subdomain circu-lar value creation to explore the entrepreneurial process of a small business in India.It aims to find how circular entrepreneurship as a ... -
Compliance and cooperation in global value chains: the effects of the better cotton initiative in Pakistan and India
(Elsevier, 2022-03)The Better Cotton Imitative (BCI), the world's largest multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) for sustainable cotton production, is a prime example of a hybrid “cooperation-compliance” model used by some MSIs to engage farmers ... -
Consumer behaviour and climate action: insights from a Randomised Control Trial experiment in India's residential cooling sector
(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 ... -
Credit off-take from formal financial institutions in rural India: quantile regression results
(SpringerOpen, 2014)Extending financial services to unbanked population in India has remained a central part of the policy thrust of the Indian government for decades. To that effect, a widespread formal credit delivery mechanism has been ... -
Digital integration to enhance market efficiency and inclusion of smallholder farmers: A proposed model for fresh fruit and vegetable supply chain
(Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2020)High-value agriculture in India is witnessing a transformation, specifically in fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV). Supply chain stakeholders, mainly small and marginal farmers, receive a very minimal share in consumer rupee ... -
Disability inclusion in Indian workplaces: Mapping the research landscape and exploring new terrains
(Elsevier, 2024-02-29)In this commentary, we reflect upon twenty years of disability research in the Indian workplace and identify possibilities for new conversations and terrains of inquiry. We trace the key frames, theories, and methodological ... -
Do the pre-service education programmes for midwives in India prepare confident 'registered midwives'? A survey from India
(Co-Action Publishing, 2015)Objective: The graduates of the diploma and degree programmes of nursing and midwifery in India are considered skilled birth attendants (SBAs). This paper aimed to assess the confidence of final-year students from pre-service ... -
Does signaling childcare support on job applications reduce the motherhood penalty?
(Springer, 2021)There is substantial evidence that due to perceived childcare obligations, mothers are disadvantaged in labor markets. To what extent can childcare support ameliorate such a disadvantage? To answer this question, we ran a ... -
Doing “Reputation” in the Indian Context: An Employee Perspective
(USC Annenberg Press, 2023-04-29)Corporate reputation has been studied as an aggregate of stakeholder perceptions with some emphasis on distinguishing among the perceptions of different stakeholder groups. This study focuses on the perceptions of ... -
Embodying Change at Work: an autoethnography in the Indian public sector
(TQR Publications, 2020-05-17)Beyond the macro picture of change in the Indian public sector triggered by economic deregulation and restructuration, the variegated experiences of employees exposed to organizational changes remain hidden and masked. ... -
Enhancing performance of participatory water institutions in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic plains: What can we learn from new institutional economics and governance theories?
(MDPI AG, 2020)The paper examines the performance of participatory water institutions in India's Eastern Indo-Gangetic plains region using new institutional economics and management governance fundamentals. Water institutions are of great ... -
Evaluation of Classification Techniques for Land Use Change Mapping of Indian Cities
(Springer Nature, 2020-06-20)This study looks into the development of multi-level classification approach for land use change mapping in Indian cities using Landsat imageries. In this study, we mapped 47 Indian cities at different time frames 1990, ... -
Exploring Linkages between Industrial Innovation and Public Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
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Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured (FISIM): The role of reference rate
(IOS Press, 2017)Adoption of SNA2008 for measurement of financial sector's output has brought about several conceptual issues and practical challenges. The proposed reference rate approach plays a vital role in computation and the choice ... -
Gender perspective in water management: The involvement of women in participatory water institutions of Eastern India
(MDPI AG, 2020)The paper examines the extent, nature, and factors affecting women's involvement in participatory irrigation institutions of eastern India. Effective participatory water institutions are urgently needed to improve water ...