Previous research in advanced economies, especially in the U.S., shows that public concern and support for environmental protection at the expense of economic growth wanes during unfavourable macroeconomic conditions. Since the economic downturn that started in 2010-2011, India has seen a strong...

In this document we discuss some of the most prevalent categories of exclusion, and therefore emergent discourse on inclusion, that have traditionally been studied and examined. Issues around, inclusion of women, persons with disabilities, LGBT employees, and managing generational groups are...

The multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem (MM RCPSP) is a generalization of the well-studied RCPSP. A literature review reveals applications of inexact heuristics or metaheuristics approaches for solving these problems, however, exact approaches are few and do not consider...

The multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem (MM RCPSP) is a NP-hard problem representing a generalization of the well-studied RCPSP. Depth-first tree search approach by Sprecher & Drexl (1998) is the best known exact solution tree search procedure for this problem. In this...

Attempts to develop an integrated framework to examine operations of power have always been challenging yet necessary, particularly in the context of technology-based organizational change. This paper begins with a highlight of the theoretical mismatch in an integrated theoretical framework that...

We study the problem of locating Emergency Medical Service (EMS) facilities in the presence of service level constraints for patients with acuity levels ranging from resuscitation to non-urgent. Each patient arriving at any EMS facility is triaged as either resuscitation/high priority or less...

India is the only country in the world which has now made CSR spending mandatory. Food industry is not an exception to this requirement. In a developing country like India, food industry has a larger social purpose, for food and nutrition are inextricably linked to hunger and health. At the same...

Within the present context of globalization, the design of the IT system usually occurs in one country while its implementation takes place in several other countries. The implementing countries may have long-held time-related practices and understandings that contrast with the IT designing...

Recent developments in HCI affordance literature link the material and the discursive with a relational approach. Building on this, I explore the role of discursive power in the interactions in designer-user-technology trio. Using a year-long interpretive case study, I examine redesigning of a...

The implementation of ERP software into organizations is widely recognized as contentious with different groups often requesting customization of the standard product to meet their particular needs and interests. Various efforts aimed at influencing the discourse and framing related to the ERP...