In order to survive in the global volatile market place, supply chain analysts’ are brainstorming to arrive at robust inventory control policies that prevents inventory worth of millions of dollars to get tied up in the chain and at the same time ensures to achieve the differentiated customer...

The present study presents a qualitative study of the process through which creative ideas are converted into new products. Based on a grounded-theoretic investigation of 52 interviews conducted with scientists working in 5 Indian R&D laboratories, the study explores the socio-psychological...

New products are often bundled with strong brands as an introduction strategy. This study helps to understand the scenarios which will be most beneficial to both the products in the bundle. The enhancement effect and categorisation theory is used to explain that the new product's quality...

Helpfulness of online reviews plays an important role in customer purchase decision making process. However, the review helpfulness prediction problem is considered to be quite challenging and hard. This paper aims to explore this problem and build a helpfulness pre- diction model. Our model...

Online promotion has been employed by e-marketers to influence the shoppers during online shopping. In recent years, it has emerged as one of the promising tool in marketer’s arsenal to sway potential customers in Indian online shopping environment. In this paper, we examine the phenomena of...

Futures markets are known to be vulnerable to manipulation, and despite the presence of a variety of mechanisms to prevent such manipulation, instances of market manipulation have been found in some of the largest and most liquid futures markets worldwide. In 2013, the Securities and Exchange...

Stories have been recognized for their power of communication & persuasion for centuries and we need to operate at that intersection of data, visual and stories to fully harness the power of data. Online journalism has already started to show the path but we need to develop the science of...

Meeting the profit target is often preferred over maximizing expected profit in uncertain business environments. Research into the newsboy problem with satiation objective started quite early. However, the progress has been slow, particularly in the multi-product setting. We study the genral...

Traditional concept of the Sacrifice Ratio measures the loss of potential output sustained by the society in the medium term to achieve reduction in the long-run inflation by one percentage point. This concept is critically examined and generalized to include episodes increasing the long-run...

The objective of the present study was to explore how infection rates in study hospitals were affected by an intervention in six intervention hospitals in Gujarat, India. Infection control practices, human resource management, infrastructure, supplies and associated health system factors were...