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Gold monetization in India as a transformative policy: a mixed method analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)India is the second largest consumer of gold in the world and gold is a major contributor to the current account deficit. Much of the gold goes out of circulation and is not available to support economic activity. To ... -
Global risk and demand for gold by central banks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)This paper examines the influence of global risk on the holding of gold by central banks based on annual data for 100 countries during 1990-2015. We use a dynamic panel generalized method of moments (GMM) model to estimate ... -
Optimization of customized pricing with multiple overlapping competing bids
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016)In this paper, we consider the case of project procurement where there is a single buyer and multiple sellers who are bidding. We consider one seller having one or more competitors. We formulate the pricing problem from ... -
Electricity consumption scheduling with energy storage, home-based renewable energy production and a customized dynamic pricing scheme
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016)In this paper we propose a scheduling model for electrical appliances in a dynamic pricing environment. Initially we have given a vector of price points for the next twenty four hours. We have developed an optimization ... -
Speeding up neighborhood search for the tool indexing problem
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016)The arrangement of tools in tool holding pockets of a tool magazine in a CNC machining center plays an important role in reducing processing times of complex job processes in automated machining environments. This problem ... -
Ownership structure and internationalization of Indian firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)This paper examines the relationship between ownership structure and the firm internationalization, in a longitudinal sample of Indian firms. Drawing from principal-principal (PP) agency theory and the resource-based view ... -
Simulation of expected value method in project risk management in two different construction projects
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)In this paper, we discuss the application of the expected value method of risk management. In the expected value method, there are two possible state of activity - as planned and risky. In a risky state, an activity will ... -
Intention to participate in cause related marketing: influence of cause
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)The most widely accepted definition for CRM is provided by Varadarajan and Menon (1988) and it defines CRM as “a process of formulating and implementing marketing activities that are characterized by an offer from the firm ... -
Open innovation at different levels for higher climate risk resilience
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)As climate variability is increasing, creating knowledge networks is becoming more and more important for bringing in, or leveraging the embedded resilience in the communities through cross-pollination of ideas, resources ... -
Antecedents and consequences of brand equity: a meta analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Brand equity provides the firms, a competitive, financial and strategic advantage over other firms in the market. Over the past few decades, brand equity has received increasing attention from various domains. However a ... -
E-commerce selling in an emerging economy context
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Different studies have specified different definitions of Ecommerce. However most of these definitions concur and summarize that Ecommerce is constituted by buying and selling online. This study focusses on the Selling ... -
Marketing channels for e-commerce in emerging markets
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)This work intends to sensitize the readers about the importance and relevance of making right channel strategy for e-commerce businesses, especially in emerging markets. We have tried to provide the guidelines by motivating ... -
Is conspicuous consumption of business leaders justified and morally defensible?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)In this paper, we first discuss the concept of conspicuous consumption of the business leaders. Next, we argue that the conspicuous consumption of corporate leaders can be justified from economics, marketing, and philosophical ... -
Pricing for e-commerce in emerging economies
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)With the increasing use of the internet and the subsequent greater avenues for information search, consumers have shifted from being mere “price takers” to “price determiners”, either explicitly or implicitly. Consumers ... -
Classification shifting: do managers’ real actions matter?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)McVay (2006) presents evidence that managers inflate core earnings by shifting operating expenses to special items. In this paper, we improve her model to estimate core earnings by controlling for a firm’s fundamental ... -
Stewardship value of income statement classifications: an empirical examination
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)A classified income statement has up to four distinct components of earnings - income from continuing operations, special items, discontinued operations, and extraordinary items. This study investigates how persistence and ... -
Do managers manipulate gross profits? role of product market competition
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Gross profits being a part of the sustainable profits of the firm are monitored by investors and analysts. This study examines whether managers manipulate gross profits by misclassifying costs of goods sold as other operating ... -
Cash flow manipulation in state-owned enterprises
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: We examine whether the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are more likely to manipulate operating cash flows than private-owned enterprises (POEs). We also test whether the ... -
Earnings management in the construction industry
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)We find that the existing accounting standards, which mandate the firms in the Construction Industry to follow the Percentage of Completion Method in order to recognize revenue, aid the management in managing earnings. We ... -
Does good corporate governance constrain cash flow manipulation? evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Accounting frauds like Enron in the United States and Satyam in India are likely to have occurred due to the failure of firm-level corporate governance mechanisms in constraining unethical financial reporting practices. ...