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Stochastic models for omnichannel retail order fulfillment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-30)With a massive increase in the number of internet users and rapid urbanization, online retail is on a path of unprecedented growth. The online retail sales in India - with over 600 million internet users - is expected ... -
Exact methods for solving linear and nonlinear max-min problems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)This thesis focuses on developing exact solution methods for mixed-integer linear and nonlinear maxmin problems. The first essay proposes a tri-level min-max-min optimization problem (pM-FLPI) to design a resilient food ... -
Real-time analytics for intelligent systems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-17)Data streams are defined as a sequence of observations arriving continuously at a fast pace. They pose unique computational challenges viz: Single-pass at incoming observations, huge storage requirements, and accounting ... -
Factors influencing the performance of IS megaproject in an emerging economy: the freight operations information system of the Indian railways
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-13)IS megaprojects (ISMPs) are long duration complex ventures that involve extremely largescale investments, are transformational in nature, influence large populations and engage multiple public and private stakeholders. ... -
Essays on consumers’ responses to retail promotions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-24)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, ... -
Unbundling innovation strategies: firms’ technological choices and complementarities-in-performance of innovation inputs and outputs across developing countries
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Innovation is considered a multi-level construct and it takes the form of (i) inputs and (ii) outputs. Based on this, the thesis considers three inter-related questions in the form of three essays: (1) What factors (firm, ... -
Mitigation strategies for transitioning towards ‘Net-zero’ emissions from energy systems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-03-23)Net-zero emissions from energy systems are essential to meet the Paris climate goals. These transitions require intensive efforts from national governments, in addition to deeper climate commitments. As a coal-dependent, ... -
Markets, home country ecosystem partners & value creation: a study of Indian pharmaceutical industry
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Recently scholars have started studying the locus of value creation outside the firm and how various ecosystem partners and stakeholders impact firms and markets. We expand this research agenda in the context of the ... -
Designing for digital: an insight into the technological evolution of work-from-home in the contemporary workplace
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Work-from-home is increasingly becoming more prevalent over the last few decades. Given the recent pandemic, work-from-home has become an essential practice for many organisations across the world. Large-scale implementations ... -
Challenges of saving water: the adoption and impact of micro-irrigation technology in agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-04-06)The large-scale use of traditional irrigation methods has pushed agriculture towards extensive and unsustainable water use. The thesis focuses on the adoption and impact of Micro-Irrigation (MI) technology, considered an ... -
Individual choice decisions for joint consumption in close relationships: the roles of attachment security and relationship power
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-07-30)Consumers are part of multiple relationships which directly or indirectly influence their consumption decisions. We examine a set of consumer decisions in close relationships where they face the conflict of choosing ... -
Governing through problems: public policies as discursive practices
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-01-29)Policies produce ‘problems’ in specific ways (Bacchi, 2009). Following this logic, policies are regarded as an attempt to bring together ‘rules’ for the ‘solving’ of ‘problems’ that occur with respect to specifically ... -
Novel cognitive consequences of product anthropomorphism on consumer judgment and decision making
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Consumers frequently come across anthropomorphic products, i.e., products imbued with human-like features. Marketers may anthropomorphize products by designing them to visually resemble human physical features (e.g., a ... -
Governing by (in)visibilising: a case of waste materials, infrastructure and work
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)India has a long history of condemning Dalits and Bahujans and later Adivasis to waste-work. Intersections and overlays of caste, gender, historic exclusion, and policy neglect are mired in waste-work – work that is essential ... -
Examining entrepreneurial orientation from the lens of CEO characteristics
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The dissertation empirically examines the effects of the characteristics of Chief Executive Officers (CEO) on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of firms with the help of three essays. EO is the strategic posture of firms ... -
Competitive hub location problem
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)I seek to understand the processes of organising that emerges and manifests as food-spaces, where class and gender are constructed and performed. Such spaces may be constituted as 'eating-out' spaces, work-spaces and social ... -
Redefining dignity in the context of precarity: Indian security guards’ interface with their clients, suppliers and unions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)Precarity, marked by uncertainty, instability and insecurity has become a significant feature of contemporary work and employment. This is particularly applicable to India, where 93% of the workforce (which includes those ... -
In the pursuit of international assignment success: role of cultural intelligence
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)International assignments form the backbone of global human resource management. These assignments have been elemental for various business strategies, control, coordination, knowledge transfer, and the development of ... -
Governing subjectivities: investigating employment relations in the Indian information technology (IT) sector
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The objective of this thesis is to study employment relations in the Indian IT industry. Drawing from Foucauldian scholarship on governmentality in organizational studies, employment relations are understood as practices ... -
Determining effects of a web-based teachers’ professional development programme on teaching self-efficacy beliefs and classroom practice
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The design of large-scale professional development (PD) programmes for teachers in the public schooling system faces two challenges. The first is identifying a suitable malleable construct which influences student performance, ...
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