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Essays on banking and fintech in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
"India is amongst the fastest-growing major economies in the world today. Financing from the organized sector, particularly banking, remains the fulcrum for supporting and sustaining India’s growth. Three aspects, inter ...
Examining the impact of discretionary human resource practices on workplace loneliness implication during home-based telework
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
"The advancement of information and communication technologies has revolutionized work–
life balance in the 21st century by migrating work from traditional office spaces to remote
locations. For many, employees, this ...
Smallholder output market participation, channel choice and its impacts: empirical evidence from paddy markets in Uttar Pradesh, India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
Market access for smallholders is a key policy issue in developing economies. Smallholders face considerable challenges in accessing farm and allied output markets due to poor access to credit and output markets, high ...
Welfare programs and household behaviour: the case of MGNREGS
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
"The welfare effects of workfare programs like India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have been identified and measured extensively in the literature. I hypothesize that both the temporal ...
‘Gaining clarity on ambiguity’: vague versus precise temporal framing in marketing communications
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
Extant research based on temporal construal theory has employed only specifically defined time frames for near versus distant future but has not examined the case where a future event’s time of occurrence is stated in a ...
Non-euclidean analytics: inference, learning and applications
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
"Several classical statistical approaches assume that the data lives in a Euclidean space. However, such methods do not apply to
non-Euclidean data. In this dissertation, we develop methods and theory to analyse certain ...
Investigating the ‘private’ in the educational technology field: imaginaries and precarity in educational provisioning in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
"Globally, the rise of the Educational Technology (EdTech) field has been accompanied by the growth of the market in education. Working alongside the dispersed policy networks and the discourse of ‘disruption’, the interests ...
Job satisfaction of frontline enforcement officers: a study of job demands, resources, stressors (JDRS) among officers of Indian Customs
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
"The enforcement and regulatory public services, operating in a highly sensitive context with national security implications, display high job demands relative to resources. This study examines it through Frontline Customs ...
Peer mentoring of school-based mentors: an exploratory study of mentoring relationships in public schools in urban Delhi
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
"Peer mentoring of mentors, as a mechanism for the job-embedded professional development of mentors, provides opportunities for more competent mentors to guide the development of their mentor colleagues. The mentoring ...
Overcoming institutional voids in the agricultural product market: analysing the role of farmer organizations
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
"In this thesis, we analyse the ability of farmer organizations to overcome institutional voids in the agricultural product markets. We further look at the impact of membership to one such farmer organization i.e., farmer ...