How do consumers respond to innovative forms of promotional strategies employed by retailers? This thesis attempts to answer this question across two essays, using experiments as a primary method of inquiry. In Essay 1, ...

In recent years, there is a growing interest about corporate social responsibility (CSR) of firms in both academic literature and business world. Here, the underlying rationale is that since business forms a part of society, ...

Frontline workers constitute a critical part of the implementation cadre within public policies, serving a significant role in the delivery of public goods and services. This dissertation examines frontline workers’ work ...

In three essays, I examine how access to internal markets of business groups impacts affiliate firms’ behavior. In the first essay, I examined the importance of business group affiliation, prior internationalization of ...

"This thesis examines discretionary managerial decisions and investigates their association with the behavioral biases of market participants. We study managerial discretion in the context of repricing employee stock ...

Owing to the e-commerce revolution, food service business is shifting from being the traditional brick-and-mortar dine-in restaurant to being an online food ordering business. Although the online food service delivery ...

Revenue Management (RM) is the process of understanding, anticipating and reacting to consumer behavior in order to maximize expected future revenue from a perishable resource. The challenge here is to sell the right product ...

This dissertation comprises three essays, which empirically examine the influence of investor and managerial irrationality on open market repurchases (OMRs) in the US market. In the first essay, we examine the systematic ...

"The past two decades have witnessed a shift from centrally managed supply chains to decentralized supply chains (Netessine, 2004). In decentralized supply chains, interests of individual members may not be aligned with ...

The newsboy problem is about minimizing the penalty associated with demand-supply mismatch of an item with uncertain demand by suitably deciding the stocking quantity. Newsboy problem arises in a variety of situations ...