Open Access Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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A burnout model of job crafting: Multiple mediator effects on job performance
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)Studies establish that job crafting, i.e. the proactive changes made in one's work through balancing available job demands and resources, results in various positive outcomes at the individual, job, and organisational ... -
Spirituality and innovative behaviour in teams: Examining the mediating role of team learning
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)Employees' creative and innovative contributions greatly influence an organisation's success. Drawing on positive affect, adult learning theory, work engagement, and the componential theory of creativity, this study examines ... -
Exploring the mechanisms of influence of ethical leadership on employment relations
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)Alarmed by the frequent recurrence of industrial unrest, scholars in the field of employment relations have started to revisit the factors influencing employees' perception of industrial relations climate. This paper ... -
A Review on Bilevel Optimization: From Classical to Evolutionary Approaches and Applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018)Bilevel optimization is defined as a mathematical program, where an optimization problem contains another optimization problem as a constraint. These problems have received significant attention from the mathematical ... -
Beyond job security and money: Driving factors of motivation for government doctors in India
(2014)Background: Despite many efforts from government to address the shortage of medical officers (MOs) in rural areas, rural health centres continue to suffer from severe shortage of MOs. Lack of motivation to join and continue ... -
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 ... -
Increasing smallholder farmers' market participation through technology adoption in rural Timor-Leste '
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2021)This study examines the role of high-yielding maize varieties as one of the key drivers of smallholder farmers' market participation in a highly subsistence rural economy. The analysis is based on the End-of-Program Survey ... -
Application of pooled testing in estimating the prevalence of COVID-19
(Springer, 2021)Testing at a mass scale has been widely accepted as an effective way to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus. In the initial stages, the shortage of test kits severely restricted mass-scale testing. Pooled testing ... -
Regulating the private health care sector: The case of the Indian Consumer Protection Act
(Oxford University Press, 1996)Private medical provision is an important constituent of health care delivery services in India. The quality of care provided by this sector is a critical issue. Professional organizations such as the Medical Council of ... -
Characteristics of private medical practice in India: A provider perspective
(1999)Supply factors, depicted by input market conditions and government regulations, and demand factors, depicted by financing mechanisms and utilization patterns, are likely to determine the shape and character of private ... -
Good governance and corruption in the health sector: Lessons from the Karnataka experience
(2011)Strengthening good governance and preventing corruption in health care are universal challenges. The Karnataka Lokayukta (KLA), a public complaints agency in Karnataka state (India), was created in 1986 but played a prominent ... -
Coherence between health policy and human resource strategy: Lessons from maternal health in Vietnam, India and China
(Oxford University Press, 2015)The failure to meet health goals such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is partly due to the lack of appropriate resources for the effective implementation of health policies. The lack of coherence between the ... -
Donning the mask: Effects of emotional labour strategies on burnout and job satisfaction in community healthcare
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Emotional labour involves management of one's emotions to match the demands of their roles. This emotion display involves just expression (surface-level emotional labour) or experience in addition to expression (deep-level ... -
The Waiting Game � How Cooperation Between Public and Private Hospitals Can Help Reduce Waiting Lists
(Springer, 2021)Prolonged waiting to access health care is a primary concern for nations aiming for comprehensive effective care, due to its adverse effects on mortality, quality of life, and government approval. Here, we propose two novel ... -
A review of health system infection control measures in developing countries: What can be learned to reduce maternal mortality
(2011)A functional health system is a necessary part of efforts to achieve maternal mortality reduction in developing countries. Puerperal sepsis is an infection contracted during childbirth and one of the commonest causes of ... -
Using 'appreciative inquiry' in India to improve infection control practices in maternity care: A qualitative study
(Co-Action Publishing, 2015)Background: Infections acquired during childbirth are a common cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Changing provider behaviour and organisational settings within the health system is key to reducing ... -
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 ... -
Methods and models for costing carbon mitigation
(2013)Using the results of more than 20 different global models with a particular emphasis on two rapidly growing large countries (China and India), this paper discusses the cost estimation methods that are used in setting up ... -
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 ... -
Ground truthing the cost of achieving the EAT lancet recommended diets: Evidence from rural India
(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 ...