Journal Publications

Optimal Deployment of Parallel Teams in New Product Development

Speed in product development is the thin line that determines success or failure in many fast growing industries today. Strategies like set-based concurrent engineering and parallel team deployment have been used to accelerate new product introduction by successful companies like Toyota.

Author(s) Name: 
Haritha Saranga
Journal Name: 
International Journal of Operational Research
Published Date: 
Vol. 10, No. 2, PP 137-159, 15 February 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

Attributes of companies making IPOs in India - Some observations

A growing volume of literature on Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) by Indian firms has sought to explain the efficiency of pricing and the post issue performance of companies that make IPOs, in terms of institutional features of the securities market or certain features of the issuers.

Author(s) Name: 
Sabarinathan G
Journal Name: 
South Asian Journal of Management
Published Date: 
PP 83 – 108, Jan – Mar 2011:18, 1
Year of Publication: 
2011

Bayesian approach to cancer-trend analysis using age-stratified Poisson regression models

Annual Percentage Change (APC) summarizes trends in age-adjusted cancer rates over short time-intervals. This measure implicitly assumes linearity of the log-rates over the intervals in question, which may not be valid, especially for relatively longer time-intervals.

Author(s) Name: 
Pulak Ghosh, Kaushik Ghosh & Ram C Tiwari
Journal Name: 
Statistics in Medicine
Published Date: 
Vol. 30, No. 2, PP 127-139, 30 January 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid and Subsistence Markets-A Research Agenda

The concepts of Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) and subsistence markets have attracted substantial academic and managerial attention in recent years.

Author(s) Name: 
Avinash G Mulky
Journal Name: 
Acta Universatitis Agriculturae Et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunesis
Published Date: 
Vol. LIX, No. 2, PP 9-14, 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

Strategic Commitment and Timing of Internationalization from Emerging Markets: Evidence from China, India, Mexico, and South Africa

In a study of 257 new ventures from China, India, Mexico, and South Africa, we find support for the mediating effect of strategic early internationalization on international sales intensity. We argued that when new ventures from emerging markets internationalize early and with commitment, the legitimacy they acquire helps them overcome liabilities of newness and foreignness.

Author(s) Name: 
Eric Wood, Susanna Khavul, Liliana Perez-Nordtvedt, Srinivas Prakhya, Rahul Velarde Dabrowski, Congcong Zheng
Journal Name: 
Journal of Small Business Management
Published Date: 
Vol. 49, No. 2, PP 252-282, 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

India-EU relations in health services: prospects and challenges

India and the EU are currently negotiating a Trade and Investment Agreement which also covers services, This paper examines the opportunities for and constraints to India-EU relations in health services in the context of this agreement, focusing on the EU as a market for India's health services exports and collaboration.

Author(s) Name: 
Rupa Chanda
Journal Name: 
Globalization and Health
Published Date: 
Vol. 7:1, 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

Efficiency and productivity analysis of Indian pharamaceutical industry using data envelopment analysis

In this paper, we have used data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to analyse the relative efficiency and productivity change in Indian pharmaceutical industry (IPI) between 1998 and 2007 which covers the post-TRIPs (1995) and post Indian Patent Act Amendment (2005) period.

Author(s) Name: 
HS Pannu, U Dinesh Kumar, Jamal A Farooquie
Journal Name: 
Int. J. Operational Research
Published Date: 
Vol. 10, No. 1, PP 121-136, 2011
Year of Publication: 
2011

MULTI-BRAND RETAILING FAILURES IN INDIA

The last few years have seen both the boom and bust in multi-brand retailing in India.

Author(s) Name: 
Ganesh N Prabhu and Ashis Mishra
Journal Name: 
Retail Digest (Oxford)
Published Date: 
PP 58-61, 2010
Year of Publication: 
2010

HR and IT capabilities and complementarities in knowledge-intensive services

The main premise of this article is that human resources (HR) and information technologies (IT) are central rather than support functions in knowledge-intensive services. By building management capabilities in both HR and IT, knowledge-intensive services can transform their business processes that, in turn, enable them to provide exemplary services to the customers.

Author(s) Name: 
Naresh Khatri, Alok Baveja, Narendra M Agrawal & Gordon D Brown
Journal Name: 
The International Journal of Human Resource Management
Published Date: 
Vol. 21, No. 15, PP 2889-2909, 15 December 2010
Year of Publication: 
2010

Attitudes and Attraction: Optimism and Weight as Explanations for the Similarity-Dissimilarity Asymmetry

The positive link between attitude similarity and attraction is one of the fundamental outcomes in social psychology. However, attitude dissimilarity seems to be stronger driver of this relatioship than attitude similarity. The authors review the evidence on this similarity-dissimilarity asymmetry, and discuss two explanations.

Author(s) Name: 
Ramadhar Singh & Joseph J P Simons
Journal Name: 
Social and Personality Psychology Compass
Published Date: 
Vol. 4, No. 12, PP 1206-1219, December 2010
Year of Publication: 
2010