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Volume 10

External Commercial Borrowings by Indian Firms: A Blessing or Curse

External Commercial Borrowings by Indian Firms: A Blessing or Curse

Pooja Misra, Jagdish Shettigar , Sahil Oberoi

In the first half of FY19, ECBs touched a high of $25.17 billion in the April – September period, which was 53 per cent higher than the $16.48 billion raised by Indian entities in the same period last year; it was $42 billion for FY19. Taking Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) as a case point, the researchers analysed the advantages of borrowing by a firm through an ECB and its impact on the company's net profit and shareholder's returns vis-à-vis borrowing the same money through a premium domestic pub...

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Volume 5

COVID-19 and its impact on global virtual teams: exploring the unexplored

COVID-19 and its impact on global virtual teams: exploring the unexplored

Archana Shrivastava, Pooja Misra

Based on our understanding, most of the research related to a pandemic focus on the health sector and economy. Our research article examines how internationally disruptive events like COVID-19 pandemic influence global virtual teams, particularly those in which team members have never met in person. Research also explored the participants' perception of higher education institutions towards online learning and attitude of corporate organisations towards remote working in the coming years. Results of the ...

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Volume 5

Exchange Rate Volatility and Financial Stress: Evidence from Developing Asia

Exchange Rate Volatility and Financial Stress: Evidence from Developing Asia

Daitri Tiwary, Khanindra Ch. Das , Pooja Misra

The study investigates the role of financial stress in triggering exchange rate volatility in developing Asia, where instability in financial markets contributes to the extent of exogenous shocks. We investigate volatility clustering in nominal exchange rate (NER) of dollar-denominated domestic currencies of developing Asia. Using country-level monthly time series data from 2006 to 2019 of NER and financial stress for seven representative economies of developing Asia, namely, Philippines, Indonesia, Mala...

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Volume 4

Mixed method research on lifelong learning: capturing its dynamics in a multi-generational workforce in the wake of COVID 19

Mixed method research on lifelong learning: capturing its dynamics in a multi-generational workforce in the wake of COVID 19

Jaya Gupta, Pooja Misra

The coronavirus outbreak has ignited significant disruptions across industries. An agile mindset to assimilate learning into life is mandatory to be able to perform in the redesigned workplace. The pandemic is disrupting the workforce of all the generations. The present mixed-method study seeks to examine the differences in lifelong learning attribute of the prominent generations in the Indian workforce through qualitative, in-depth interviews followed by a more generalisable, quantitative survey. The qu...

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Volume 3

Impact of COVID 19 on Indian Migrant Workers: Decoding Twitter Data by Text Mining

Impact of COVID 19 on Indian Migrant Workers: Decoding Twitter Data by Text Mining

Pooja Misra, Jaya Gupta

The Coronavirus pandemic has induced a huge economic crisis. The norms of social distancing and consequent lockdown to flatten the curve of this infection has brought economic activity across the globe to a standstill. A mass exodus of workers from major urban centres of India to their native villages started. Mental, financial and emotional agony inflicted due to job-loss, lack of job and livelihood opportunities led to this. A massive macroeconomic crisis for the country with serious ramifications has ...

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Volume 3

Customer satisfaction: impact of hedonic shopping in Delhi and National Capital Region

Customer satisfaction: impact of hedonic shopping in Delhi and National Capital Region

Pooja Misra, Prachi Deepak Patil , Aparna Gupta

With the Indian retail industry in a boom phase, it is anticipated that the Indian retail market will increase by approximately 60% and be at USD1.1 trillion by 2020. Interestingly, along with the changing environment in the retail space, customer preferences and expectations have also been changing at a very fast pace. In the past researchers explained two dimensions of customers on the basis of their purchase intent - hedonic, who relate to the feelings of sensation and utilitarian whose primary intent...

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