IIMA Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Institutional innovations for smallholder development: a case study of agri-franchising in Bihar
(ABI/INFORM Collection, 2016)The low crop yields, increasing costs of cultivation, and the low price realisation have been important concerns in smallholder agriculture like that of India. Institutional innovations are important for inclusive ... -
Does plant size matter? differential effects of foreign direct investment on wages and employment in Indian manufacturing
(Asian Development Bank, 2017)This paper examines the differential effects, based on the size of the plant, of industry-level foreign direct investment (FDI) on plant-level employment and the wages of skilled and unskilled workers in India’s manufacturing ... -
Opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship: a comparative study of India and china
(2016)Prior research on opportunity and necessity based entrepreneurship has largely been confined to contexts prevailing in either high or low-income countries. Our study examines individual level antecedents of entrepreneurial ... -
Rethinking management theory and practice for the Indian context: an international management perspective
(Wiley, 2016)The Indian economy characterized variously as a slumbering giant, powerful tiger, and the most promising market has witnessed a slowdown, occasional disturbances in the industrial relations space, and attention of the ... -
HR transformation for the new generation in the work force
(2016)This paper examines the transition in the workplace where the baby boomers retire and the new generation (also called Generation Y) enters the workforce. Since the Millennial generation is often labeled as the ... -
India’s national food security act (NFSA): fiscal assessment and implementation challenges
(2016)National Food Security Act, 2013 aimed at providing food security to rural and urban poor has been criticized for its high fiscal burden, anticipated problems associated with enhanced requirement of food-grain procurement ... -
Competition law in india: perspectives
(Sage, 2016)In 2002, the Parliament of India enacted the Competition Act, replacing the archaic Monopoly and Restrictive Trade Practices Act (popularly referred to as the MRTP Act) of 1969. The primary goal of the Act, as stated in ... -
Survey on revenue management in media and broadcasting
(INFORMS, 2017)Advertisements are a key source of revenue for companies in the broadcasting andweb industries. However, because of increasing competition, advertisers andweb publishers have been forced to find innovative ways to increase ... -
Structural& psychological empowerment in rural India
(2017)Rural women can be effectively utilized if empowerment can be used as a strategy for working women in rural settings. The author deciphers the transformation of structural empowerment to psychological empowerment ... -
Imperatives and challenges in using e-government to combat corruption: a systematic review of literature and a holistic model
(2017)Corruption, both bureaucratic and political, exists in various forms. Causes and effects of corruption have been documented in various academic and practitioner forums. Developing countries are plagued by rampant corruption ... -
Do financially distressed firms misclassify core expenses?
(Emerald Publishing, 2017)Purpose – This paper aims to examine whether financially distressed firms manipulate core or operating income through the misclassification of operating expenses as income-decreasing special items. Design/methodology/approach ... -
A stochastic model for interterminal container transportation
(INFORMS, 2017)We propose a novel semiopen queuing network (SOQN) model for the interterminal transportation (ITT) problem where multiple container terminals use a common fleet of vehicles (automated lift vehicles, automated guided ... -
Does multiple borrowing necessarily mean over-borrowing?
(Practical Action Publishing, 2016)Using a survey dataset collected from Andhra Pradesh, India, we test if multiple borrowing is equivalent to over-borrowing. Results suggest that over-borrowing and multiple loans are not necessarily synonymous. As the ... -
SB-robust estimation of mean direction for some new circular distributions
(Springer, 2016)The most often used distribution for modelling directional data has been the circular normal (CN) (a.k.a. von-Mises) distribution. Recently Kato and Jones (K–J) introduced a family of distribution which includes the CN ... -
Distribution of traffic accident times in India - some insights using circular data analysis
(2017)Traffic accidents are a major hazard for travellers on Indian roads. These are caused by a variety of reasons including the bad condition of roads, traffic density, lack of proper training of drivers, slack in enforcement ... -
Online education worldwide: current status and emerging trends
(Taylor and Francis, 2017)The ubiquity of information technology has impacted every aspect of our lives; it has changed the way we work, interact with others, process, analyze, and share information. E-evolution or e-revolution (Palvia, 2013) has ... -
Making the most of a crisis: the take away for corporate India from the successful handling of the fani crisis
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Employee interpretations of change: exploring the other side of the resistance story
(2016)This study examines change resistance in Indian organizations by departing from change-agent perspective, and focusing on the employee interpretation o f change. Change ‘resistors ’ were identified based on inputs ... -
Apple, apps and monopoly
(DNA India, 2019-05-20) -
Agenda for first 3 months of new govt
(DNA India, 2019-05-20)