The aim of the current study is to understand impulsivity, reward and loss sensitivity in decision making using Iowa Gambling Task and investigate how impulsivity affects decision- making using BIS/BAS scale. We investigate how the personality trait determines decision making using NEOFFI scale....

For sustaining healthy and active life only satisfaction of hunger is not sufficient. Balanced diet is necessary. Nutritional deficiencies may cause serious health implications. The main objectives of this paper are (a) to evaluate the elasticity of nutrients and compare them across different...

Gold loan is currently an emerging trend which is seen in the cities as it is available at much more cheaper rate of interest and with simplicity of getting it than the other financing options. So this research work is focussing on the determinant factors of the gold loan market in Indore city....

The concept of productivity has widely been used to assess the economic performance of firms, industries and countries. Productivity growth is usually calculated as the growth of outputs relative to the growth of inputs. However, simply observing productivity growth does not allow us how this is...

We present a review of research studies that deal with personalization. We synthesize current knowledge about these areas, and identify issues that we envision will be of interest to researchers working in the management sciences. We take an interdisciplinary approach that spans the areas of...

The existing literature suggests that an incumbent monopolist supplier of a network good can successfully deter entry by increasing its installed base, which plays a role similar to that of the commitment value of investment in capacity. In this paper, we consider a market with network...

In a corporate bankruptcy auction in India, the financial creditors choose the winner based on the bids and the share of bankruptcy surplus (bid value minus liquidation value) offered towards their claim settlement. We show that self-interested bidders allocate the entire bankruptcy surplus to...

Market mechanism may or may not throw up compatibility in markets for systems where network effect arises due to complementarity of component parts of a system. We consider a game, where, in stage 1, the firms decide whether to standardise on a single technological platform or not and at the...

In Web-based environments, a site has the ability to recommend multiple items to a customer in each interaction. Traditionally, rules used to make recommendations either have single items in their consequents or have conjunctions of items in their consequents. Such rules may be of limited use...