Volume 12
Predictive Ability of Operating Cash Flow and Earnings on Future Cash Flow of Nse-Listed Firms
Mwila J. Mulenga, Meena Bhatia
ABSTRACT The study examines the predictive ability of current operating cash flow and earnings on the future operating cash flow of the National Stock Exchange-100 listed firms in India. It is a 15 years (2001 to 2015) study and has 1,120 firm-year observations. The ordinary least squares method is used to improve the accuracy fixed effect model and a Random effect model are used. Evidence suggests that the current operating cash flows explain future cash flow better than current earnings, which contr...
Volume 12
Tax Provision by International Subsidiaries of Indian Extractive Industry Multinationals: Do Environmental Pollution and Corruption Matter?
Khanindra Ch Das, Mantu Kumar , Mahalik , Perry Sadorsky
ABSTRACT Outward foreign direct investment in the extractive industry increases the availability of metals and minerals that run the economic engine in the home country. It is unclear, however, whether tax provision by subsidiaries of emerging multinationals in extractive sectors respond to environmental pollution and corruption in the host country. In this paper we examine the tax provision in the host countries by subsidiaries of private sector based emerging multinationals in the extract...
Volume 12
Analyzing the Impact of Covid-19 on Indian Stock Market Efficiency: Sectoral Behaviour
Shailu Singh, Ashutosh Yadav , Madhavi Moni K , Avnish Agarwal , Sandhya Pradhan
ABSTRACT The study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Indian stock market, providing insights for informed investment decisions. It analyses efficiency and behavior across eight crucial sectors during two distinct periods: prepandemic (Period 1: February 15th, 2018 to February 14th, 2020) and pandemic (Period 2: February 17th, 2020 to February 15th, 2022). Addressing a literature gap on sector-wise pandemic effects, the study contributes valuable knowledge to investors and policymaker...
Volume 12
Analysing Delhi’s Prosperity: A Brief Commentary
Kanupriya
ABSTRACT Delhi is a historical hub for regional, national and international commerce and a place for the socio-political elites. The city is widely considered to be prosperous. This study is an attempt at understanding Delhi’s affluence using both existing literature and data from Aspirational India, Consumer Pyramids Household Survey, 2024, Economic Survey of Delhi, 2023–2024 and Multiple Indicator Survey, 2020–2021. The city of Delhi faces significant challenges in terms of housing quality, ac...
Volume 12
Revisiting the Interest Rate-Investment Nexus in India: Fresh Perspective from Non-Parametric Analysis
Riya Bindra, Amrendra Pandey , Pooja Misra , Jagdish Shettigar
It is generally believed that business spending on capital expenditure tends to decrease as interest rates rise, and vice versa, this is not always the case. The previous literature produces inconclusive results vis-à-vis the interest rate and investment nexus. This study analyzes the responsiveness of investment to changes in high and low levels of interest rates in India through a quantile-based, non-parametric method utilizing annual data from 1980 to 2022.This study uses Quantile-on-quantile (QQ) te...
Volume 12
Well-being among health care professionals: A hybrid review, integrative framework, and research agenda
Sachin Tyagi, Shreya Mishra , Ajoy K Dey
High levels of stress and burnout are common mental health issues among health care professionals (HCPs), which were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. These issues hinder the well-being of HCPs, resulting in failures in health care systems. Despite being a crucial phenomenon, there is a lack of comprehensive and consolidated review of well-being among HCPs. This study addresses this research gap by conducting a hybrid systematic review of well-being in healthcare research. By employing the Prefer...
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 ...
Volume 11
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...
Volume 11
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...
Volume 11
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...