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	Carbon Footprint Analysis of Pallet Remanufacturing In Journal of Cleaner Production, March 16, 2016 (Online Reference: DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.009) Debjit Roy, Fabiana Tornese, Andres L. Carrano, Brian K. Thorn and Jennifer A. Pazour This research is the first attempt to characterize the carbon equivalent emissions associated with pallet remanufacturing operations for two repositioning scenarios (cross-docking and take-back), and under multiple levels of pallet loading and service conditions. Industry data was acquired through observation and time studies at 12 facilities in North America. Models of pallet component breakdown ... Read More Back to the main page Globalisation of Commodification: Legal Process Outsourcing and Indian Lawyers In Journal of Contemporary Asia, March 9, 2016 (Online Reference: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1157885) Ernesto Noronha, Premilla D’Cruz and Sarosh Kuruvilla Legal process outsourcing (LPO) refers to the contracting of legal work from regions where it is costly to perform, such as the US to areas where it can be performed at a significantly decreased cost. LPO has been made possible by the disaggregation of the legal processes into discrete units, each of which ... Read More Back to the main page Relationship between Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility and Organizational Cynicism: The Role of Employee Volunteering In The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27 (13), August 21, 2016, 1373-1392 (Online Reference 10.1080/09585192.2015.1072102) Neharika Vohra and Rahul Chandra Sheel This study explores the role of positive corporate social responsibility (CSR) perceptions of employees in reducing cynicism toward the organization. As employee involvement in CSR activities through volunteering could influence the perceptions of CSR among employees, the moderating impact of employee volunteering on the relationship between CSR perceptions and cynicism is also tested. Considering ... Read More Back to the main page Pricing to Market Behaviour of Indias High Value Agri-Food Exporters: An Empirical Analysis of Major Destination Markets In Agricultural Economics, 47 (1), December 24, 2015, 129-137 (Online Reference: DOI: 10.1111/agec.12215) Poornima Varma and Akash Issar The pricing behaviour of India's high value agricultural and food exporters in their major destination markets is examined using a pricing-to-market (PTM) model for noncompetitive and exchange rate related pricing behaviour. The analysis was undertaken in a context where India is showing high commodity concentration in agricultural trade. The econometric analysis employed is panel ... Read More Back to the main page Quantitative Easing and the Post-Crisis Surge in Financial Flows to Developing Countries In Journal of International Money and Finance, February 19, 2016 (Online Reference: DOI:10.1016/j.jimonfin.2016.02.009) Jamus Jerome Lim and Sanket Mohapatra This paper examines gross financial inflows to developing countries between 2000 and 2013, with a focus on the potential effects of quantitative easing (QE) policies in the United States and other high-income countries. We find evidence for potential transmission of QE along observable liquidity, portfolio balancing, and confidence channels. Moreover, we find that QE ... Read More Back to the main page Doctor-patient Interaction in Telemedicine: Logic of Choice and Logic of Care Perspectives In Information Systems Frontiers, March 23, 2016, 1-14 Rajesh Chandwani and Rahul Dey This paper focuses on telemedicine implementation, which can be used to extend modern medical knowledge to remote areas in developing countries. By examining doctor- patient interactions in the context of a telemedicine program in India, we posit how the behaviour of the actors interacting over virtual media is determined by interplay between two dominant ... Read More Back to the main page Strategic Investment in Merchant Transmission: The Impact of Capacity Utilization Rules In Energy Policy, 85, October 2015, 455–463 (Online Reference: DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.03.027) Viswanath Pingali, Federico Boffa and Francesca Sala In this paper we look at the relative merits of two capacity utilization regimes in the merchant electricity transmission network: Must offer (Mo) where the entire capacity installed has to be made available for transmission and Non Must Offer (NMo) where some capacity could be withheld. We look at two specific cases: (i) ... Read More Back to the main page The Risk of Impoverishment in Urban Development-induced Displacement and Resettlement in Ahmedabad In Environment and Urbanization, 27(1), April 2015, 231-256, (Online Reference: DOI: 10.1177/0956247815569128 Navdeep Mathur, Sejal Patel and Richard Sliuzas Processes of globalization and neoliberal reforms of local governance in Indian cities have created distinct patterns by reshaping the physical and social landscapes of India’s cities, triggering contestations between the privileged and the dispossessed. This paper addresses the consequences for poor households of mega-urban renewal and infrastructure projects and the processes of displacement and ... Read More Back to the main page Conspicuous Consumption and Income Inequality in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from India In Marketing Letters, 26(3), February 4, 2015, 279-292 Ankur Sarin and Saravana Jaikumar The impact of income inequality on conspicuous consumption has been a topic of much discussion, but little empirical examination in the emerging market context. In this paper, using data from the India Human Development Survey (2004–2005) and employing simple regression framework, we examine the effect of income inequality on conspicuous consumption in Indian households. ... Read More Back to the main page Bandwidth Packing Problem with Queuing Delays: Modeling and Exact Solution Approach In Journal of Global Optimization, January 16, 2016, 1-32 Sachin Jayaswal, Navneet Vidyarthi and Vikranth Babu Tirumala Chetty We present a more generalized model for the bandwidth packing problem with queuing delays under congestion than available in the extant literature. The problem, under Poison call arrivals and general service times, is set up as a network of spatially distributed independent M/G/1 queues. We further present two exact solution approaches to solve the ... Read More Back to the main page Expansion and Welfare in Microfinance: A Screening Model In Economic Modelling, 53, December 4, 2015, 1-7 (Online Reference: DOI:10.1016/j.econmod.2015.11.012) Viswanath Pingali and Ratul Lahkar The expansion of microfinance has triggered concerns of rising indebtedness, and higher default and interest rates. Using a screening model, we show that even if interest and default rates increase due to expansion, borrower welfare may improve. This is because: (i) all borrowers previously denied credit can obtain loans, and (ii) screening costs ... Read More Back to the main page Business Model Adaptation for Emerging Markets: A Case Study of a German Automobile Manufacturer in India In R&D Management, 46(3), January 21, 2016, 480–503 (Online Reference: DOI: 10.1111/radm.12201) Amit Karna, Christian Landau and Miriam Sailer Emerging markets offer a wide range of opportunities for firms from developed markets, especially in terms of high growth potential. However, business models that enable firms to achieve competitive advantage in their home markets are often challenged by the different nature of emerging markets. Firms, therefore, have to innovate and adapt their business ... Read More Back to the main page Probabilistic Variable Precision Fuzzy Rough Sets In IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 24(1), February 2016, 29 – 39, (Online Reference: DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2015.2426204) Manish Aggarwal In the real world, we often encounter varying membership grades due to varying information source values. The fuzzy rough set model is refurbished to develop probabilistic variable precision fuzzy rough set (P-VP-FRS) to deal with this imprecision. The main inspiration behind the proposed P-VP-FRS is our inability to precisely represent the imprecision, which necessitates ... Read More Back to the main page Representing Uncertainty with Information Sets In IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 24(1), February 2016, 1-15(Online Reference: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2015.2417593) Manish Aggarwal and Madasu Hanmandlu We develop new methods for the representation of uncertainty in the granularized information source values by making use of the entropy framework in the possibilistic domain. An information-theoretic entropy function is used to map the information source values to information (entropy) values. We term a collection of such information values as an information set. ... Read More Back to the main page

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