Journal Publications

Value of Information Sharing and Lead Time Reduction in a Supply Chain with Autocorrelated Demand

We consider the two level supply chain of Lee et al. (Manage Sci 46(5):626-643, 2000) with nonstationary demand that follows an AR(1) process. Without information sharing in the supply chain, the retailer only conveys his order.

Author(s) Name: 
Siddharth Mahajan & Venu Venugopal
Journal Name: 
Technology Operation Management
Published Date: 
Vol. 2(1), PP 39-49, January-June 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

Assessment of Aggregate Interaction Effect and Aggregate Presistence Effect in Market Share Analysis

The paper proposes an alternative conceptualization to decision variable interaction in market share analysis, by isolating the interaction free market share. The multicollinearity problem would thus be reduced. Further a method to correct for autocorrelation is proposed. Persistence which is the long term impact of current marketing action is identified.

Author(s) Name: 
Dr. Nagasimha Balakrishna Kanagal
Journal Name: 
Academy of Taiwan Business Management Review
Published Date: 
Vol. 7, No. 3, PP 64-70, April 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

Analysis of competition and market power in the wholesale electricity market in India

The electricity reforms were initiated in India with the objective of promoting competition in the electricity market. In order to promote competition, the Electricity Act 2003 was enacted and various policy initiatives were taken by the Government of India.

Author(s) Name: 
Ashok Thampy, Umesh Kumar Shukla
Journal Name: 
Energy Policy
Published Date: 
Vol. 39, No. 5, PP 2699-2710, May 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

Severity effect on compensation and imprisonment recommendations: Deterrence as a mediator in Singapore

Sever, compared to mild, harm results in harsher punishment. According to the model of people as intuitive prosecutors, the severity effect is a deterrence message. The authors tested this hypothesis in two studies in Singapore.

Author(s) Name: 
Ramadhar Singh & Xiangbin Lin
Journal Name: 
Asian Journal of Social Psychology
Published Date: 
Vol. 14, No. 1, PP 36-49, March 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

Enfranchisement from a political perspective

This paper presents an alternative theoretical perspective on democratization. Various models of democratization have been proposed in the literature, like enfranchisement in response to threats of revolution, threats of war, and split of interests among elites. However, there seems to be instances of democratization that do not follow any of these patterns.

Author(s) Name: 
Soumyanetra Munshi
Journal Name: 
Constitutional Political Economy
Published Date: 
Vol. 22, No. 1, PP 21-57, March 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

Work Family Balance of Indian Women Software Professionals: A qualitative study

One of the significant changes witnessed in the labour markets in India has been the entry of women IT professionals in the rapidly growing software services sector. As the women take on the role of working professional in addition to their traditional role of the homemaker, they are under great pressure to balance their work and personal lives.

Author(s) Name: 
Valk R & Srinivasan V
Journal Name: 
IIMB Management Review
Published Date: 
Vol. 23, No. 1, PP 39-50, March 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

CavinKare Privated Limited (A): The Entrepreneurial Innovation

Case A on CavinKare describes the entrepreneurial journey of the founder, C.K. Ranganathan. As the enterprise outperformed expectations, the organization set itself an incredible vision. This case traces the history of the entrepreneur and the growth story of the enterprise.

Author(s) Name: 
R Srinivasan (CSP)
Journal Name: 
Asian Journal of Management Cases
Published Date: 
Vol. 8, No. 1, PP 29-40, 25 March 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

CavinKare Privated Limited (B): Vision and Strategy

Case B on CavinKare describes the incredible vision the organization has set for itself. This case is set at a time when the company had achieved significant progress towards its incredible vision, but needed a quantum jump in performance to sustain its growth.

Author(s) Name: 
R Srinivasan (CSP)
Journal Name: 
Asian Journal of Management Cases
Published Date: 
Vol. 8, No. 1, PP 41-60, 25 March 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

Joint modeling of longitudinal data and informative dropout time in the presence of multiple change points

In longitudinal studies of patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), objectives of interest often include modeling of individual-level trajectories of HIV ribonucleic acid (RNA) as a function of time. Such models can be used to predict the effects of different treatment regimens or to classify subjects into subgroups with similar trajectories.

Author(s) Name: 
Pulak Ghosh, Kaushik Ghosh & Ram C Tiwari`
Journal Name: 
Statistics in Medicine
Published Date: 
Vol. 30, No. 6, PP 611-626, 15 March 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

A dimensionally consistent aggregation framework for biophysical metrics

We develop a formal representation of the economy-ecosystem interaction problem by distinguishing between stock-flow, and fund-flux spaces (Georgescu-Rogen, 1971). We then define dimensionless quantities in both the cardinal stock-flow space and the ordinal fund-flux space.

Author(s) Name: 
Deepak Malghan
Journal Name: 
Ecological Economics
Published Date: 
Vol. 70, No. 5, PP 900-909, 15 March 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011