One of the foremost requirements of corporate governance is transparency in the system, which ensures that individuals making decisions for and on behalf of a company do so in the best interest of the company and clearly avoid conflict of interest. It is the crux of fiduciary duty – the duty...

Quality of decisions in inventory management problems depends on accuracy of parameter estimates used for decision making. In many situations, error in decision making is unavoidable. In such cases, understanding sensitivity of objective function to sub-optimal decisions is necessary for better...

A railway passenger faces a dilemma of choosing the best train among several alternatives available in a particular route. A relative comparison of competing railways helps the passenger to make an informed choice before the actual travel. In this paper we develop a utility model for railway...

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), was established in 1961 as an autonomous institution by the Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Gujarat and Indian industry. IIMA’s involvement in the health sector started with the establishment of the Public...

The social innovation space that tries to marry the pursuit of profits and social impact is at interesting cross-roads in developing countries like India. Among other things, the euphoria and subsequent deflation around microfinance, points to the need for a continuous critical examination of...

Synthesizing the ideas of high-performance Human Resource Management (HRM), positive psychological capital, and componential theory of creativity, the present study develops a multi-level causal framework linking high-performance work practices (HPWP), positive psychological capital, employee...

The present study investigates the association between R&D-specific leadership approach developed in the Indian context using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data analyses, employee autonomous motivation, psychological capital, fairness perceptions and creativity. Creativity...

The paper examines the market timing ability of Indian firms engaged in open market repur- chases. The study is primarily motivated by the unique disclosure feature of repurchases in India, where the disclosures are far more frequent than in any other market. We find that the repurchasing firms...

Hub-and-spoke systems have wide applications ranging in airline transportation, freight transportation, urban traffic, postal delivery, telecommunications and distribution in supply chains. These systems are usually characterized by stochastic demand and congestion, which adversely affect the...

The advent of Just-in-Time (JIT) and Group Technology philosophies has popularized U- shaped assembly lines, which help overcome many of the disadvantages, like line inflexibility, job monotony, large inventories, etc., typically associated with straight assembly lines. Al- though U-shaped...