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...

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...

Based on a recent survey of Analytics Adoption in Indian business organization, the author makes a claim that for most organizations grappling with the problem of incomplete and unorganized data, the tools of data science are mostly unhelpful in providing impactful information for decision...

Agribusiness or agricultural franchising is quite new in India, though it is quite commonly used in other businesses like fast food, hotel and other service industries where service quality is crucial to maintain brand equity. There have been only a few experiments in this field in the recent...

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...

Employees’ presence and associated visibility in a central workplace facilitate direct surveillance and exercise of normative controls through their participation in various organizational activities and discourses. Scholars argue that lack of such visibility and presence in telework...

With the advent of TRIPS, the IP regimes have changed in most WTO member countries. India also came up with its own version of TRIPS compatible IP regime which has been hailed by some as a ‘model’ regime for developing countries, while others are not convinced that it will provide the right...

We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers. We model the prob- lem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under uncertainty. The problem is unconventional in that the uncertainty is in the number and period of availability of doctors. We use a minmax...

This paper supersedes the work presented in WP.No.2014-02-06. We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers (PHC). We model the problem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under uncertainty. The problem is unconventional in that the uncertainty is in...

This study explores the link between telehomeworking and work intensification in the Information Technology sector in India. We adopted an interpretive approach and used in-depth interviews, supplemented with secondary data. Our analysis shows dominance of two shared interpretations among...