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Journal Articles | 2022

Women’s labor force participation and household technology adoption

Gautam Bose, Tarun Jain, and Sarah Walker

European Economic Review

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Journal Articles | 2022

Collaboration strategies in buyer-supplier relational (BSR) networks and sustainable firm performance: A trade-off story

Amalesh Sharma, Surya Pathak, Sourav Bikash Borah, and Anirban Adhikary

International Journal of Production Economics

A buyer firm can increase collaboration in its buyer-supplier relational (BSR) network by focussing on supplier-to-supplier interconnectivity (i.e., network density) or alternatively, by enabling supplier clustering. While the extant literature has considered the effects of these two strategies on firm financial performance, it has not shown whether a focal firm's buyer-supply network collaboration strategy affects its sustainable firm performance (SFP), specifically its environmental and economic performance. This paper investigates three key questions: (a) How do collaboration strategies influence SFP? (b) Is there an optimal mix of these two network strategies for fostering collaboration in a firm's BSR network? (c) Can a manager win on both environmental and economic frontiers by pursuing either strategy? Leveraging extant research on BSR networks, ambidexterity, and network theory, we propose a model linking collaboration strategies to SFP. We construct 330 multi-tier BSR networks and find strong support for the non-linear effects of both collaboration strategies on SFP. A response function analysis identifies the combination of strategies yielding the best outcome for SFP. We also find strong evidence for trade-offs between the performance variables. The results show that managers should focus on density as a lever while developing a minimal level of supplier clustering. We discuss academic and managerial implications of our findings for managing buyer-supplier relationships and enhancing a firm's performance.

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Journal Articles | 2022

I “showroom” but “webroom” too: investigating cross-shopping behaviour in a developing nation

Subhadip Roy, Kirti Sharma, and Sharuti Choudhary

International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management

Purpose

The concepts of showrooming and webrooming have been well researched but majorly from the marketing/economic perspectives. The present study explores the socio-psychological motivations and different types of satisfaction derived from “cross-shopping” behaviour namely, showrooming and webrooming in a developing nation.

Design/methodology/approach

The study is exploratory and is conducted using an interpretive approach. The researchers conducted 52 in-depth interviews and the collected data were subjected to open and axial coding to generate the conceptual model.

Findings

The findings indicate various motivations of cross-shopping such a habit and the joy of discovery while novel aspects of satisfaction emerge such as process satisfaction and social satisfaction. The findings also revealed contextual moderators of the cross-shopping process.

Research limitations/implications

The present study contributes to the domain of cross shopping behaviour by illustrating the social motivators behind the same and novel satisfaction outcomes because of the cross-shopping process.

Practical implications

The present study has multiple implications that would enable managers to effectively utilize cross shopping behaviour such understanding of satisfaction beyond those derived from the product only.

Originality/value

This is one of the first studies to investigate consumer behaviour related to cross shopping based on psycho-social dimensions.

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Journal Articles | 2022

Section 29A of India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code: An instance of hard cases making bad law?

M. P Ram Mohan and Vishakha Raj

Journal of Corporate Law Studies

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) of India which offers a mode of reorganisation for distressed corporations prevents promoters and directors with non-performing assets from submitting plans to rescue their company. This provision is contained under section 29A of the IBC. Judicial interpretation has required corporate reorganisations under India's Companies Act to give effect to the limitations under section 29A as well. The introduction and application of section 29A is reflective of a broader scepticism towards allowing promoters and directors whose companies entered financial distress from regaining control. This article evaluates whether section 29A has addressed the problems it had set out to and finds that some ineligibilities prescribed for the incumbent management under section 29A can be relaxed. It also uses the example of the United Kingdom's insolvency regime (with which India bears similarities) to explain why resolution plans from the incumbent management should not be disallowed.

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Journal Articles | 2022

COVID mortality in India: National survey data and health facility deaths

Prabhat Jha, Yashwant Deshmukh, Chinmay Tumbe, Wilson Suraweera, Aditi Bhowmick, Sankalp Sharma, Paul Novosad, Sze Hang Fu, Leslie Newcombe, Hellen Gelband, and Patrick Brown

Science

India’s national COVID death totals remain undetermined. Using an independent nationally representative survey of 0.14 million (M) adults, we compared COVID mortality during the 2020 and 2021 viral waves to expected all-cause mortality. COVID constituted 29% (95% confidence interval, 28 to 31%) of deaths from June 2020 to July 2021, corresponding to 3.2 M (3.1 to 3.4) deaths, of which 2.7 M (2.6 to 2.9) occurred in April to July 2021 (when COVID doubled all-cause mortality). A subsurvey of 57,000 adults showed similar temporal increases in mortality, with COVID and non-COVID deaths peaking similarly. Two government data sources found that, when compared to prepandemic periods, all-cause mortality was 27% (23 to 32%) higher in 0.2 M health facilities and 26% (21 to 31%) higher in civil registration deaths in 10 states; both increases occurred mostly in 2021. The analyses find that India’s cumulative COVID deaths by September 2021 were six to seven times higher than reported officially.

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Journal Articles | 2022

Limited Foresight Equilibrium

Jeevant Rampal

Games and Economic Behavior

This paper models a scenario where finite perfect-information games are distorted in two ways. First, each player can have different possible levels of foresight, where foresight is a particular number of future stages that the player can observe/understand from each of her moves. In particular, each player's foresight is allowed to be “limited” or insufficient to observe the entire game from each move. Second, there is uncertainty about each opponent's foresight. I define the Limited Foresight Equilibrium (LFE) for this model. An LFE specifies how limited-foresight players' strategies and beliefs about opponents' foresight evolve as they move through the stages of the game. I show the existence of LFE and describe its other properties. I show that in LFE limited-foresight players follow simple heuristics for beliefs and actions. As applications, LFE is shown to rationalize experimental findings on Sequential Bargaining and the Centipede game.

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Journal Articles | 2022

Damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t: The interactive effects of gender and agreeableness on performance evaluation

Amit K.Nandkeolyar, Jessica Bagger, and Srinivas Ekkirala

Journal of Business Research

The role congruity theory and research on gender stereotypes suggest that communion and agency tendencies explain gender discrimination in performance evaluations. We propose that high agreeableness, a Big Five personality trait, captures the communal dimension of an individual’s concern for others. Across two studies conducted in India and the United States, we found evidence that the relationship between agreeableness and performance evaluations is nonlinear for female employees. Women are rated as high performers when they exhibit moderate levels of agreeableness. For male employees, we find a communal bonus effect in which they benefit from being agreeable in the workplace. Our findings demonstrate the stability of these findings across Indian and North American cultures. Our findings contribute to the literature on role congruity, personality theories, and job performance.

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Journal Articles | 2022

How COVID-19 lockdown has impacted the sanitary pads distribution among adolescent girls and women in India

Karan Babbar, Niharika Rustagi, and Pritha Dev

Journal of Social Issues

This paper empirically explores the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying lockdown on adolescent girls’ and women's access to sanitary pads in India. We have used the National Health Mission's Health Management Information System (NHM-HMIS) data for the study, which provides data on pads' distribution on a district level. The empirical strategy used in the study exploits the variation of districts into red, orange, and green zones as announced by the Indian Government. To understand how lockdown severity impacts access to sanitary pads, we used a difference-in-difference (DID) empirical strategy to study sanitary pads' access in red and orange zones compared to green zones. We find clear evidence of the impact of lockdown intensity on the provision of sanitary pads, with districts with the strictest lockdown restrictions suffering the most. Our study highlights how sanitary pads distribution was overlooked during the pandemic, leaving girls and women vulnerable to managing their menstrual needs. Thus, there is a requirement for strong policy to focus on the need to keep sanitary pads as part of the essential goods to ensure the needs of the girls and women are met even in the midst of a pandemic, central to an inclusive response.

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Journal Articles | 2022

Participation dynamics in multiple-peril agricultural insurance: Insights from India

Ranjan Kumar Ghosh, Vikram Patil, and Nikita Tank

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Multiple-peril agricultural insurance, although operational in many developing countries, evokes mixed responses among smallholder farmers. In this context, we analyse the farmer-specific characteristics that are most amenable for participation in India's revamped federal agricultural insurance program. A sequential logit model is applied to a primary survey-based dataset of 1332 farmers in order to examine the factors influencing various transitions across categories. Age, female as gender and previous insurance experiences turn out to positively influence participation. Engagement in non-farm occupation and higher access to irrigation reduce the likelihood of participation. In the event that the insurance product is delinked from state supported farm credit, the more educated farmers want to move out while female farmers prefer to stay. These results offer important policy insights amidst the persistent efforts to establish a self-sustaining market for agricultural insurance in developing countries.

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Journal Articles | 2022

The olfactory experience (in retail) scale: Construction, validation and generalization

Subhadip Roy and Priyanka Singh

Journal of Service Management

Purpose – Measurement scales for sensory experience in retailing exist for sight, touch and sound. In the present study, the authors aim to develop the olfactory experience (OEX) scale in the context of retailing.

Design/methodology/approach – Based on literature review and six studies that follow standard scale development protocols (combined n 5 1,203), the authors develop and validate a three-dimensional OEX scale. The scale is further validated in the final study in a different market set-up than the first five.

Findings – The authors found the three dimensions of OEX as (scent) company, congeniality and congruity. The OEX scale is found to be generalizable and valid across different cultural and market set-ups. In addition, the OEX (i.e. the scale) was found to effect psychological and behavioral outcomes of the consumer in a significant manner.

Research limitations/implications – The present study contributes to the domain of sensory experience in retailing with the OEX scale and provides three new dimensions of OEX for the academicians to further explore.

Practical implications – The OEX scale provides a ready to use tool for the retailer to gauge the level of OEX in the store and to predict consumer attitudes and behavior.

Originality/value –The study is the first to develop a scale for OEX in retailing or for that matter in consumer behavior.

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