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Journal Articles | 2025

Internet of Things in Intralogistics: Applications and Emerging Research

René de Koster, Debjit Roy, Yun Fong Lim and Subodha Kumar

Managing the performance of intralogistics operations, that is logistics operations within facilities such as manufacturing plants, order fulfillment warehouses, ports and terminals, and retail stores, is critical in fulfilling customer expectations. Traditional decision-making for intralogistics operations is based on historical data, typically collected over long-range intervals with significant processing delays. However, nowadays, Internet of Things (IoT) applications are used to gather detailed real-time data to make dynamic decisions. These new data sources provide challenges and opportunities for operations management. We provide an overview of prominent IoT technologies in four domains: Manufacturing, warehousing, ports and terminals, retail, and other emerging areas. We discuss four prominent research questions (cutting across multiple application domains) that can be addressed using new data sources, along with the methodological approach and managerial insights that may result. In particular, IoT can improve the tracking and tracing of objects, equipment, and humans and provide rapid alerts, allowing managers to make real-time decisions and improve asset use, uptime, and profitability.

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Journal Articles | 2025

Police violence as organizational enactment of the state of exception

"Rajnish Rai, Srinath Jagannathan, Raza Mir"

One of the important themes in contemporary global issues is police violence directed against ethnic minorities in resource-rich and industrially underdeveloped border zones and conflict areas. This study explores how Giorgio Agamben’s concept of the state of exception throws new light on arbitrary killings enacted by police and security forces. We draw on narrative vignettes based on the first author’s experience in a national security organization in the border zone of Assam in India to identify three indistinguishable organizational thresholds: ordinary/extraordinary, potentiality/actuality, and celebration/intimidation, which blur the boundaries between legal and extra-legal violence. The narrative account indicates that organizational enactments within state security agencies enabling arbitrary violence include the demonization of minorities, proliferation of security agencies, emergence of new organizational forms that dilute accountability, informal celebrations of violence, construction of fictional narratives of gallantry, awards to personnel committing arbitrary killings, and the institutional disempowerment of resistors. These enactments operate within the indistinguishable organizational thresholds, entrenching the normalization of state violence. We show that the narrative vignettes are productive in revealing the complex interplay between individual experiences, organizational practices, and broader structures of the state in the context of arbitrary killings.

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Working Papers | 2025

Virtual Digital Assets Service Providers under Indian Insolvency Framework

Prerna Seerwani, M P Ram Mohan

Crypto trading is emerging as a prominent investment avenue within India’s financial landscape. The Indian legal regime has recognized crypto assets as “virtual digital assets” only for limited purposes of taxation and anti-money laundering obligations. The loss of crypto assets following the hack of Indian crypto exchange WazirX, remains an evolving legal controversy, with Indian courts continuing to struggle with the complexities of disputes involving crypto assets. As crypto markets remain largely underregulated globally, crypto platforms engage in regulatory arbitrage by relocating to jurisdictions with favourable legal system, thereby complicating the determination of applicable law, jurisdiction, and the identity of the debtor entity. A review of literature on failed crypto exchanges shows that their collapse is frequently linked to two factors: the absence of regulatory oversight and their susceptibility to cyberattacks. In this context, this paper undertakes a foundational enquiry into the need to adapt the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 to address insolvency proceedings involving crypto platforms. Drawing from comparative regulatory and judicial developments, it examines issues of classification, ownership, valuation, and cross-border implications of crypto assets. We contend that crypto assets qualify as “property” under the IBC and that targeted statutory interventions are essential to safeguard crypto exchange users’ rights in the event of insolvency.

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Journal Articles | 2025

Impact through being bottom-up in multi-fold realms: Lessons from journeying to subsistence marketplaces and marketplace literacy

"Madhubalan Viswanathan, Ashley Goreczny, Arun Sreekumar, Xiuying Sophy Cai"

This paper presents a unique approach to impact through being bottom-up in multi-fold realms. The insights were developed through extensive research into subsistence marketplaces, social enterprise developed in parallel through marketplace literacy education for communities, as well as curricular innovations for students. This paper aims to bring out distinctly different lessons about impact that are closely tied to our unique bottom-up orientation and experience.

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Journal Articles | 2025

Ownership, hegemony, and resistance in Ethiopia’s rural drinking water governance

"Linda Annala Tesfaye, Ankur Sarin, Yewondwossen Tesfaye"

This paper explores how Ethiopia’s One Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) national program seeks to reproduce hegemonic state-society relations within rural drinking water governance. Using insights from Gramscian hegemony literatures, this paper analyzes the interconnectedness of ownership, hegemony, and resistance in the WASH program in relation to wider state-society relations. The paper draws on extensive qualitative research from the Amhara region of Ethiopia and examines different service delivery modalities in rural drinking water governance. The findings suggest that end users’ resistance to the WASH program’s efforts to create ownership is not only program induced, but also an expression of wider repressive state-society relations.

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Journal Articles | 2025

SITS: An efficient tabu search algorithm for the tool indexing problem without tool duplication

"Deepti Mohan, Diptesh Ghosh"

CNC machining centers store multiple tools required for completing operations on jobs in a tool changer. The tool indexing problem is one of assigning tools to slots in the tool changer so that tool changeover time is minimised, thus making the overall processing of jobs efficient. We present a characterisation of optimal tool assignments to slots in practical situations when the number of tools to be assigned is smaller than the number of available slots. We use this characterisation to prove that the tool indexing problem is 𝒩𝒫-complete. We then present a tabu search algorithm called SITS to solve the tool indexing problem. This algorithm is efficient, as it uses a larger neighbourhood than common tabu search algorithms and makes use of techniques that significantly speed up neighbourhood search for this problem. Statistical analysis of results from our computational experiments show that SITS is better than the present state of the art in terms of solution costs, especially for large instances. It is thus a serious contender for solving practical tool indexing problems.

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Journal Articles | 2025

Pay inequality and firm performance

"Neerav Nagar, Avinash Arya"

The rising pay inequality between CEO and rank and file employees has attracted considerable attention from the public, activists, regulators, and academic researchers. Using a large sample of 1,581 Indian firms during 2017–2023 period, we find that pay inequality leads to better future performance as measured by the ROA, providing prima facie support for tournaments and talent assignment. However, an analysis of drivers of ROA using extended DuPont decomposition reveals that the source of ROA improvement is better profit margins (PM) and asset utilization (ATO). Further decomposition of ATO reveals that pay inequality leads to a significant decrease in labor productivity consistent with inequity aversion. The decline in productivity is more pronounced in poorly governed firms facing low competition. On the other hand, labor intensity increases significantly and is the sole driver of gains in asset utilization. In other words, at least a portion of the gains observed in ROA can be ascribed to the act of hiring more employees

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Journal Articles | 2025

Vehicle routing problem with time windows—New valid inequalities from polar duality

"Yogesh Kumar Agarwal, Prahalad Venkateshan"

The vehicle routing problem with time windows is a well-researched problem in literature. We study the 2-index flow formulation for the problem and propose a relatively little-used approach of polar duality/local cuts to compute new general valid inequalities for the problem. Our method of applying polar duality is quite distinct from and complimentary to an earlier attempt of applying the same idea to this problem and produces significantly better results on instances with tight time windows. On almost all 25-customer Solomon instances with tight time windows, our approach is capable of producing very strong lower bounds that are close to 100% of the optimal solution within reasonable computing time. On larger instances too the lower bounds are significantly better than those reported in the literature. We also present a new version of the previously proposed -path inequalities that are easy to compute as well as effective. These inequalities also lead to a substantial improvement in lower bounds and solution times for some classes of instances. Computational tests performed on benchmark instances indicate significant improvement in computing time and decrease in the number of nodes in the branch-and-bound tree as compared to extant methods that employ the flow formulation for the problem.

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Journal Articles | 2025

Public sector motivation: Construct definition, measurement, and validation

"Samet Kuril, Vishal Gupta, Shiva Kakkar, Rajneesh Gupta"

An individual’s decision to pursue a career in the public sector is likely to be influenced by a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. While the widely studied concept of Public Service Motivation (PSM) emphasizes altruistic and prosocial values, it does not fully capture the diverse motivations that may influence entry into, and performance within the public sector—particularly in developing country contexts where economic constraints, political dynamics, and cultural hierarchies are prominent. The present study addresses this limitation by conceptualizing and validating a novel instrument to measure Public Sector Motivation (PSecM) which encompasses both intrinsic and extrinsic dimensions of motivation specific to a public sector employment. Through three studies involving diverse samples from the Indian civil services, this research conceptualizes PSecM as a construct having three key dimensions: power to bring change, job security, and social respect, thereby highlighting that PSecM in India is driven by mixed motives, combining intrinsic aspirations for societal impact and extrinsic incentives tied to the unique characteristics of public sector jobs. Next, through a sequence of rigorous psychometric analysis, the study presents a valid measure of PSecM scale that has adequate psychometric properties as well as predictive validity. By providing a conceptual understanding of PSecM and developing a valid instrument to measure it, this study contributes to the broader discourse on public sector management and national development in resource-constrained environments.

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Journal Articles | 2025

Navigating “AI-powered immersiveness” in healthcare delivery: A case of Indian doctors

"Ritu Raj, Rajesh Chandwani"

AI-powered immersive technologies integrate into physical and digital workspaces, disrupting traditional professional roles. We address two research questions. First, what factors specific to immersive technology usage impact healthcare professionals' perceptions, leading to its adoption? Second, how does this adoption impact the professional identity of healthcare professionals? Through a qualitative study of 84 doctors, our study identifies key factors related to ICT, individuals, and organizations associated with AI-powered immersive technologies that influence adoption. ICT factors include enhanced surgical planning, real-time data integration, training, and ethical and privacy concerns. Individual factors include the perception of self and social presence within virtual environments. Organizational factors comprise how institutions design collaborative ecosystems, define accountability structures, and promote skill expansion. Based on the adoption of these technologies, we highlight four identities of adopters: Risk-Averse Adopters, Pragmatic Adopters, Informed Enthusiasts, and Technology Champions. Our study contributes to Immersive technology adoption literature by highlighting how different factors impact perceptions that drive doctors' adoption of these technologies. We also contribute to the literature on IS and Professional identity by highlighting that these technologies redefine professional identities. Our study offers practical insights for designing targeted training programs, inclusive adoption strategies, accountability frameworks, and data governance policies.

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