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Hindu economic ethics
(Oxford University Press, 2024-01-23)This Handbook presents what world and regional religions teach about economic morality. It also compares the major religions, especially the Abrahamic faiths, in their positions on various social, business, and policy ... -
Lessons from pre-packaged insolvency cases in India: a long road ahead
(Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI), 2023-11-13)Introduced in April 2021, pre-packaged insolvency was heralded as the next frontier of insolvency reforms in India. However, in the 2 year period since, we have only seen one resolved case, and a total of 8 filings. ... -
Is insurance a solution to address environmental considerations in insolvency? a conceptual exploration
(INSOL Yearbook, 2023-11-29)The prioritisation of some types of creditors within insolvency makes it challenging to balance environmental considerations during insolvency. In India, under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (IBC), environmental ... -
Customer-centric support services in the digital era
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023-12-31)The chapter presents key discussions about customer-centric services – a key focus area for most organisations intending to acquire a competitive advantage in the digital era. This chapter elaborates upon the key dynamics ... -
Bullying
(Edward Elagr, 2024-07-23)Workplace bullying is a multi-faceted phenomenon whose various types— interpersonal bullying, depersonalized bullying, internal bullying, external bullying, face-to-face bullying, cyberbullying, compounded bullying, ... -
Compassion
(Edward Elagr, 2024-07-23)Compassion, an empathic dynamic response to suffering, is associated with kindness, care and support and provides key resources which facilitate connectedness, recovery and healing. Aligned with positive organizational ... -
Whistleblowing at work
(Edward Elagr, 2024-07-23)The human phenomenon of speaking up about issues of critical concern, termed parrhesia, is often dated back to Socrates (Mansbach, 2009). Since the 1960s, this phenomenon has been labelled whistleblowing, when conducted ... -
Private equity real estate funds: unlocking opportunities
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023-12-20)Private equity real estate (PERE) refers to a specific type of private equity (PE) fund that invests in real estate. Although PERE derives its structure and functioning from generic PE, it has its idiosyncrasies. PERE funds ... -
Impostor phenomenon in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
(2024)The impostor phenomenon (IP) is experienced widely in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Women and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) individuals are disproportionately underrepresented ... -
Impostor phenomenon in medicine
(2024)The impostor phenomenon (IP) is widely experienced among students, physicians, physician–scientists, and faculty members, including those who are well advanced in their career. Those with impostor feelings, either episodically ... -
Governance and Performance of Producer Organisations in India: A Case Study of NDDB’s Milk Producers’ Companies
(Springer, 2023-01-01)Many of the explanations of poor or superior performance of the cooperatives lie in their governance and management. In the search for a better legal form of organisation of small producers, the Producer Company (PC) was ... -
The human-centred approach to increasing workplace productivity: Evidence from India
(International Labour Organization, 2023-12-11)India’s economy is currently the fifth largest in the world with a nominal GDP of US$2.94 trillion, having overtaken the United Kingdom and France in 2019. Its GDP in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms is US$10.51 ... -
The Economic History of Pandemics
(World Scientific Publishing, 2023-06-13)COVID-19 has brought the attention to the study of past pandemics to ascertain if there are common trends across pandemics and what one might anticipate in the future. This chapter reviews pandemics through the lens of ... -
TREAT Leadership Framework: A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Global Firm
(Springer, 2023-06-17)Knowledge work is defined as anything where the acquisition and exploitation of knowledge is central to an organization’s competitive advantage. The study proposes a new model of leadership—TREAT—for knowledge-based ... -
India's platform economy: A site for the commodification-decommodification dynamic
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-12-22)The platform economy is perceived to hold enormous potential to address some of the existing economic disparities. This chapter suggests that precariousness was a complex experience with process of both commodification and ... -
Migration and Industry: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Diaspora Networks
(Oxford University Press, 2023-10-23)This chapter discusses the role of immigration in fostering entrepreneurship, innovation, and diaspora networks from a historical perspective, with specific case studies drawn from four sectors—textiles, construction, ... -
Whisper Networks and Workarounds: Negotiating Urban Company’s Interface
(Amsterdam University Press, 2023-05-16)Most scholarship on digital labor platforms focuses on the unfair practices of platforms and the exploitation of workers. This paper foregrounds the difficulties workers face in dealing with middle-class customers. Drawing ... -
Opportunities for start-ups in agri warehousing and cold chain management
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-12-14)The warehousing companies in India are valued at 1501 billion INR in 2019 and are expected to grow at a rate of 13% CAGR to reach 2821 billion INR by 2024. Agricultural warehousing accounts for about 15% of the warehousing ... -
India's platform economy experience
(Taylor & Francis, 2022)The platform economy is perceived to hold enormous potential to address some of the existing economic disparities. This chapter suggests that precariousness was a complex experience with process of both commodification and ... -
Ownership Versus Control: The Changing Dynamics of Land Use in Liberalised Agricultural Context of India
(Springer, 2020-05-29)This chapter examines the question of ownership versus control of land in the Indian smallholder and significant landlessness context by focusing on the land lease market which facilitates various new interventions in the ...
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