Working Papers
Towards Safe and Sensitive Schools: A Participatory Action Research Project
India's schools have been frequently evaluated along parameters that are focused on the quality of their facilities, and less often, the effectiveness of the instruction. There are no published studies that concern the social and emotional environment that envelops a child at school.
Linking Organizational Learning Disabilities, Service Climate and Individual's Organizational Identification: Empirical evidence from Public Sector Banks in India
A conceptual framework was developed in which we proposed: The Stronger the Organizational Learning Disabilities weaker the Service Climate; Stronger the Service Climate stronger the Individual's Organizational Identification; Stronger the Organizational Learning Disabilities AND weaker the Service Climate weaker the Individual's Organizational Identification.
Linking Peripheral Vision, Leadership Orientations and Organisational Identification: A Conceptual Framework
In today's predominantly technology-driven businesses, knowledge workers are the backbone of organisations, and are crucial for their survival, sustenance, and growth.
MFI (Microfinance Institutes) Borrowers: Their loans and Repayments – A study in Ramanagaram, India
The Indian Microfinance Institutes (MFI) Crisis has spawned several debates on the MFI movement. However, the clients' perspectives are sorely missing. Using the financial diary methodology with 90 poor households in Ramanagaram, Karnataka, India, we analyze how the daily household cash flows get impacted with or without MFI loans.
Examining Mode 4 Commitments in India and the EU’s Agreements: Implication for the India-EU BTIA
India and the European Union (EU) are currently negotiating a Broadbased Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) and Mode 4 liberalisation is a key component of the negotiations. India and the EU have different negotiating positions under Mode 4 in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in their bilateral agreements.
Mapping India-EU Tourism Flows
India and the EU have expanded their bilateral economic and investment ties significantly in the last decade or so. As a result of closer ties, the EU has emerged as a very important destination for various types of cross-border flows from India.
Effect of Payment Mechanisms on the Replacement Time of Durable Products Purchase
Replacement timing decisions of durable goods have been studied by scholars from both normative and descriptive perspectives. Normative models are based on the optimization of some utility based objective function which then suggest an optimal time for replacing a durable good.
Facilitating Migration between India and the EU: A Policy Perspective
Global migration to the European Union (EU) has expanded significantly since the 1990s and is being considered as an important tool to resolve domestic labour shortages in many of its Member States. Migration from India to the EU has so far not been significant except in the case of a few Member States and a few sectors.