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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 ... -
Employment relations in India
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2021-03)Established as the standard reference for a worldwide readership of students, scholars and practitioners in international agencies, governments, companies and unions, this text offers a systematic overview of international ... -
The Evolving Financial Landscape in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
(Springer Nature, 2020-11-26)Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) have been a significant driver of global growth in the twenty-first century. This paper analyses the changing contours of the financial sector and the challenges faced by ... -
Emotions, emotional intelligence and conflict management: A conceptual framework to optimize Soft Skills in the workplace
(Routledge, 2021)This book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series. HCM books are pioneering transformation from the traditional humans-as-a-resource approach of ... -
L-E-A-P: A New Organizational Culture Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Organizations
(Routledge, 2021)This book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series. HCM books are pioneering transformation from the traditional humans-as-a-resource approach of ... -
Social Health Insurance Schemes
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press., 2020)Health crises plague most economies irrespective of their average per capita income levels, and this is largely due to chronic and repeated illnesses. Contextualizing this paradigm in India, the India Public Finance and ... -
Global monetary policies and implications for financial flows to India and other emerging markets
(Springer, 2022)This chapter reviews the experience of monetary easing by the central banks of advanced economies, which included large-scale purchases of financial assets and close to zero or negative policy interest rates, to counter ... -
A Women-Inclusive Emancipatory Alternative to Corporate Capitalism? The Case of Kerala’s State-Instituted Kudumbashree Programme
(Cambridge University Press, 2022)With the ongoing advancement of capitalism, corporate capitalism – a specific variety of capitalism that is grounded in neoliberal ideology (Harvey, 2007) – has been engulfing economic and social relations worldwide ... -
Frugal innovation: a structured literature review of antecedents, enablers, implications and directions for future research
(Routledge, 2022)Frugal Innovation (FI), a growing field in innovation and management literature, is at the forefront of economic development and growth, more importantly for developing economies. Moreover, the volatile and uncertain times ...