As the work environment is changing globally, newer trends of work and career mobility are emerging. ‘Return to school’ for the enhancement of career is considered as a means to career mobility. The present study explores what factors spur well-qualified married women professionals to take a...

This paper investigates deploying a village level community-radio application on top of a MANET comprising completely of basic mobile phones. We envision a system, where any user in the network is equally empowered to generate and distribute audio content to the entire network, using his or her...

This working paper confines its scope to performance of National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS). It examines the progress of NAIS in India and in one selected state, Gujarat. The two dimensions considered are coverage over time and across the states. It is further disaggregated for...

This working paper confines its scope to performance of National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS). It examines the progress of NAIS in India and in one selected state, Gujarat. The two dimensions considered are coverage over time and across the states. It is further disaggregated for...

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...