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Journal Articles | 2023

Beyond the technology-centric and citizen-centric binary: Ontological politics of organizing in translation of the smart city discourse in India

Harsh Mittal, George Kandathil, and Navdeep Mathur

Organization

Smart city (SC) experts in India often center-stage citizens as an alternative to a technology-led transformation. A substantial body of literature on smart cities sustains this resultant binary between techno-centrism and citizen-centrism. Mobilizing ANT sensibilities, we generate an ethnographic narrative on how the smart city discourse has translated into everyday processes of city administration and urban governance in India. Our account unmutes more-and-other-than-human actants—event-stage, glossy publications, ceremonial awards, conference producers, and decision-makers—in the translation of SC discourse, with following effects: the uncertainties in the translation process are foregrounded which potentially destabilize center-staged actor identities; and the work of heterogeneous actants in articulating the citizen as the center of their efforts is revealed, thereby de-naturalizing the binarized reality. Furthermore, when unmuted, more-and-other-than-humans spell out their ongoing collaborations and negotiations and generate a nuanced reading of the clashes and accommodations made in the process of translating SC discourse in everyday settings of city administrations. These effects lead us to emphasize the translation of SC discourse as an uncertain socio-material process proceeding through episodic clashes and tentative accommodations. They also invite a conceptual expansion of translation as constitutive of the ontological politics of organizing, which insists on attending to ongoing collaborations and negotiations among more-and-other-than-humans that compose organizational realities. Thus, we address critical organization and management studies’ concerns regarding ANT’s alignment with its objectives by locating politics in the performance of, and interference into, the multiple realities that are being enacted through practices that assemble experts, decision-makers and non-humans.

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Journal Articles | 2023

Debunking fake ad claims: The moderating role of gender

Somak Banerjee, Joseph F. Rocereto, Hyokjin Kwak, and Arpita Pandey

International Journal of Advertising

Countering ads with fake claims represent a significant challenge for marketers and policymakers. We show how gender can help better target debunking efforts toward fake ads. First, we find that females (vs. males) show higher sensitivity to debunking efforts toward fake ads, leading to less favorable attitudes toward the brand and, consequently, lower purchase intentions. We then further probe these effects by introducing processing variables from the tenets of perceived risk (perceived health risk) and information processing confidence (skepticism toward the ad). We find that debunking information induces higher levels of skepticism among females owing to their lower information processing confidence than males, leading to downstream effects of higher perceptions of health risk, less favorable attitudes toward the brand, and lower purchase intentions among females than males. Our findings provide implications for advertisers and policymakers to battle the ongoing proliferation of fake ads.

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Journal Articles | 2023

Brand affiliation and the hotel asset market

Peng Liu, Julia Freybote, and Prashant Das

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Brand affiliation represents a signal about the future operating performance of a hotel that reduces information asymmetries between hotel buyers and sellers. However, information asymmetries vary across property-level and locational characteristics of hotels. We hypothesize that hotel brand affiliation as a signal is most valuable to investors when information asymmetries are higher due to hotel characteristics such as a lower-tier hotel class, suburban location, or poorer building condition. Using a sample of 23,323 hotel transactions from 1986 to 2021, we provide evidence that branded hotels with characteristics indicating higher information asymmetries achieve a higher transaction price and shorter marketing time than similar independent hotels. Transaction price and marketing time do not differ between branded and independent hotels with characteristics indicating lower information asymmetries.

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Journal Articles | 2023

Voting on auditor ratification by shareholder type: Impact of institutional shareholder dissent on NAS fees and audit quality

Siddharth Purohit, and Naman Desai

Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance

Institutional investors have a better understanding of corporate performance than non-institutional investors, and their presence tends to improve the overall governance mechanism of a company and discipline top management against taking self-serving or myopic decisions. In this study, we examine shareholder voting patterns on auditor reappointments in Indian companies and examine whether institutional shareholder dissent on auditor reappointment acts as a disciplining mechanism on subsequent auditor actions and leads to improvement in audit quality. Our results indicate that institutional shareholder dissent on auditor reappointment is positively related to relative magnitude of non-audit services (NAS) fees in the previous year. More importantly, we observe that auditors are sensitive to institutional dissent and respond by charging a lower amount of NAS fees and providing superior audit quality in the subsequent year to signal increased independence and objectivity. Similar results are not observed in the case of retail shareholders. Our findings reinforce the role of institutional shareholders as important monitors in the corporate governance process and call for regulation to mandate the participation of shareholders in the auditor appointment process.

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Journal Articles | 2023

A market value analysis of buyer–supplier relationship building awards

Nishant Kumar Verma, Ashish Kumar Jha, Indranil Bose, and Eric W. T. Ngai

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Journal Articles | 2022

The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses

Chitra Singla and Ludvig Levasseur

Small Business Economics

The extant literature argues that small family firms with higher family ownership have a lower proclivity toward external corporate venturing (ECV) activities. We contend that this is not true for all small family firms. Some family firms with higher family ownership can have a higher proclivity toward ECV. Focusing on small family firms with 100% family ownership (highest ownership), we argue that there is heterogeneity in terms of the family’s goals (potential gains) and resources among small family firms that can impact these firms’ engagement in the ECV process. On this basis, we present a conceptual model and some propositions that explain why some small family firms pursue ECV opportunities. In particular, we highlight the role of the family in small family firms’ (100% family-owned) engagement in the three stages of the ECV process: motivation, recognition, and evaluation of ECV opportunities. Specifically, we propose that the “potential long-term socioemotional wealth (SEW) gains” (employment of family members and family harmony) and the family’s resources (social capital and reputation) can impact the motivation for—and identification (including recognition and evaluation/assessment) of—ECV opportunities. In sum, we argue that the families that own small family firms might engage in ECV activities with the hope that their potential SEW gains will be realized via ECV. Availability and exploitability of family resources can help the family to move forward in the ECV process.

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Journal Articles | 2022

"Integrating poverty alleviation and environmental protection efforts: A socio-ecological perspective on menstrual health management"

Federica Angeli, Anand Kumar Jaiswal, and Saumya Shrivastava

Social Science & Medicine

Apt menstrual health management is crucial to the livelihood of low-income, bottom of the pyramid (BOP) women as well as to environmental conservation. However, knowledge is still scant about the factors underpinning women's preferences towards menstrual products, and whether and how the environmental impact of different solutions matter to women's choices. We address this gap by proposing a socio-ecological perspective to understand whether a product's low environmental impact enhances low-income women's uptake of sanitary napkins, thereby supporting poverty alleviation objectives but also efforts geared towards environmental protection. Results from a discrete-choice experiment involving 164 women (n = 1148) in two Indian slums in Delhi and Ahmedabad show that sanitary products' biodegradability is the most important attribute affecting women's preferences towards menstrual hygiene management solutions, which also significantly interacts with women's socio-economic and socio-cultural characteristics. Our findings highlight the potential for business models to find positive synergies between environmental protection and poverty alleviation goals and to situate solutions within the larger socio-ecological context of receiving communities.

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Journal Articles | 2022

Electronic marketplaces under conditions of oligopsony and relational marketing – an empirical exploration of electronic agricultural markets in India

Aashish Argade Arnab Kumar Laha Anand Kumar Jaiswal

Electronic Markets

Benefits of electronic marketplaces across diverse, largely consumer-facing, competitive industries have been in the form of lower transaction costs, transparent price discovery, and improved coordination. This article explores the benefits of electronic marketplaces under oligopsony, which generally encompasses relational marketing as well. With producer – first handler agricultural markets as the context, the article draws from literature on electronic marketplaces, transaction costs, and seller-buyer dependence. Based on survey data, an exploratory factor analysis is conducted to understand the elements of relational marketing between farmers and traders. Subsequently, transaction costs of marketing in a physical agricultural marketplace are compared with those in its electronic counterpart. Results did not indicate significant reduction in transaction costs in the e-marketplaces. Reasons for such findings are logically deduced to be a consequence of opportunistic traders not sharing marketing-related information with farmers, notwithstanding dependence of the latter on traders for such informational needs. Implications for policymakers, third-party electronic marketplace providers are discussed for the specific context, besides indicators for similar other market structures.

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Journal Articles | 2022

A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry

Lukas Hermwille, Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Max Åhman, Harro van Asselt, Chris Bataille, Stefan Kronshage, Annika Tönjes, Manfred Fischedick, Sebastian Oberthür, Amit Garg, Catherine Hall, Patrick Jochem, Clemens Schneider, Ryna Cui, Wolfgang Obergassel, Pan

Nature Climate Change

Decarbonizing global steel production requires a fundamental transformation. A sectoral climate club, which goes beyond tariffs and involves deep transnational cooperation, can facilitate this transformation by addressing technical, economic and political uncertainties.

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Journal Articles | 2022

Inequality of opportunity in health among urban, rural, and migrant children: Evidence from China

Namrata Chindarkar, Maki Nakajima, and Alfred M. Wu

Journal of Social Policy

Rural-urban migrants, though facing unique social and institutional constraints, remain a largely overlooked population in research on health inequality in China. This study applies the inequality of opportunity (IOp) framework to investigate health inequality among children in China. Instead of comparing only urban and rural children, we include rural-urban migrants. Drawing upon three waves of a nation-wide survey, we find that migrant children in China remain disadvantaged in terms of health when compared to urban and rural children. The decomposition of the determinants indicates that while the direct influence of hukou, China’s household registration system, on IOp in health is low and has decreased, particularly between 2007 and 2013, one’s province of residence still matters. Parental health contributes substantially to IOp in health, which likely is an indirect effect of hukou that creates barriers for migrant parents in regard to accessing healthcare. The policy implication of these findings is that although the direct influence of hukou has decreased, when coupled with the continued lack of local government support for the welfare of migrant workers, it perpetuates health inequalities.

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