Volume 11
Impact of Economic Freedom Distance on India’s Inbound Cross-Border Acquisition Volume: Moderating Role of Economic Distance
Chandrika Raghavendra, Mahesh Rampilla , Venkata Ramana Thanikella , Isha gupta
Cross-border acquisitions (CBA) are a form of foreign direct investments and have been dramatically increasing over the last three decades. India has been one of the top CBA destinations among emerging economies, making it interesting to explore the determinants. Even though the CBA research is voluminous, the role of economic freedom is understudied. In this background, by extending the knowledge of distance measures impacting cross-border acquisition (CBA) activities, we examine the impact of economic ...
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Integrated Care with Digital Health Innovation: Pressing Challenges
Kanchan Pant, Meena Bhatia , Ranjan Pant
Digital health care has emerged as one of the most important means to deliver integrated care by care providers in recent years. As the use of digital health increases, there are some pressing issues such as interoperability of data across different healthcare information systems, regulatory environment and security and privacy of patient’s information which need to be discussed and addressed in order to reduce information silos and to ensure efficient and seamless use of digital health technologies. T...
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Managing the Dark Side of Digitalization in the Future of Work: A Fuzzy Tism Approach
Nisha Bamel, Umesh Bamel , Satish Kumar , Weng Marc Lim , Natanya Meyer
The rise of new-age technologies has spurred a new industrial revolution, resulting in a digital transformation in the way we work. The global COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated the digitalization of work. While digitalization has many positive outcomes, its darker side should be proactively managed, not neglected. In this regard, this paper aims to identify and investigate human resource (HR) practices that can enable employees to manage the challenges caused by digitalization in the future of wo...
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Maruti Suzuki India Limited: Towards Cleaner Mobility
Santosh Kumar, Arunaditya Sahay
Maruti Suzuki, a leader in Indian automotive market with around 50% market share in passenger cars, was likely to face intense competition because of disruption by electric vehicles. As electric vehicles adoption was increasing globally in developed countries, automotive companies shaped their strategy accordingly to stay relevant. Maruti Suzuki was yet to be ready with electric vehicles and approached this space differently than other competitors. However, with Indian Government pushing toward cleaner m...
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Neutralizing Concerns and Mapping the Trade Competitiveness and Potential of Indian Export with Rcep Countries
Monika Jain
Much debate has surrounded India’s lack of interest in plurilateral regional trade agreements (RTAs) and its decision to opt out of the regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP). Against this backdrop, the article attempt to analyse the competitiveness and potential of Indian export items in the RCEP region. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index has been employed to study India’s trade competitiveness among RCEP nations between 2010 and 2019 using the WITS (World Integrated Trade So...
Volume 11
Reappraising the Relationship Between Interview Anxiety and Performance Outcome in A Computer-Mediated Setting
Archana Shrivastava, Meera Kapoor , Shradha Kabra
By adapting methods used to measure anxiety in physical employment interview, this study in the first stage identifies levels of anxiety induced in a computer-mediated interview setting. In the second stage, the study examines the mediating role of practice interview process in reducing interview anxiety and explores the moderating effects of gender and prior work experience on the relationship between remote interview anxiety and performance outcome. It utilizes partial least squares structural equation...
Volume 10
Exploring Future Research Agenda for Rural Mother’s Empowerment: A Study at The Intersection of Bibliometric and Systematic Literature Review
Ashutosh Kumar, Shreya Mishra
Women’s empowerment of rural mothers is little understood. Through the sequential review approach of systematic literature review (SLR)–Bibliometric–SLR, the study explores and analyses the literature with regards to ‘women-empowerment’, ‘mother’ and ‘rural’. The aim is to identify the future research agendas in the said direction. The literature extracted through the initial SLR process of inclusion and exclusion criteria from the SCOPUS database has been analysed by VOSviewer software...
Volume 10
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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Geographical Indications in India: A Case of Handicraft Industry in Uttar Pradesh
Meghna Chaudhary, Bhawna Agarwal , Meena Bhatia
The Handicraft industry plays a significant and pivotal role in the country's economy. It employs a significant number of artisans in rural and semiurban areas and generates significant foreign exchange for the country, all while preserving the cultural heritage. In the Indian context, geographical indication (GI) has recently emerged as a substantial form of intellectual property rights. It is a powerful instrument for safeguarding and rewarding not only the commercial potential of exclusive products bu...
Volume 10
Impact of Carbon Tax and Environmental Regulation On Inbound Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Volume: An Evidence from India
Chandrika Raghavendra, Mahesh Rampilla , Venkata Ramana Thanikella , Isha Gupta
Climate change, global warming, and carbon emission are global issues. Countries are strengthening their environmental regulations to mitigate the emission problem. According to the pollution haven hypothesis, rich countries invest in emerging economies where the institutional framework is weak to migrate the emissions. With this background, this study examines the impact of the introduction of the carbon tax in India and environmental regulation restriction distance on India’s inbound cross-border mer...