Volume 11
Neutralizing Concerns and Mapping the Trade Competitiveness and Potential of Indian Export with Rcep Countries
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 reveale...
Volume 11
Reappraising the Relationship Between Interview Anxiety and Performance Outcome in A Computer-Mediated Setting
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 moderatin...
Volume 10
Exploring Future Research Agenda for Rural Mother’s Empowerment: A Study at The Intersection of Bibliometric and Systematic Literature Review
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 ...
Volume 10
External Commercial Borrowings by Indian Firms: A Blessing or Curse
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 advanta...
Volume 10
Geographical Indications in India: A Case of Handicraft Industry in Uttar Pradesh
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 eme...
Volume 10
Impact of Carbon Tax and Environmental Regulation On Inbound Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Volume: An Evidence from India
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 ...
Volume 10
Investigating The Role of Consumer Personality Orientations and Use of Threat in Social Cause Advertising During Covid 19
The purpose of the study is to understand how threat as a message appeal in social cause advertising impacts consumer behavior. The study extends the protection motivation theory by involving threat as a message appeal and agency and communal orientation as possible moderators between social cause messages, consumers’ behavior, ...
Volume 10
Issues in Liquidity Management in Banking System: An Empirical Evidence From Indian Commercial Banks
Maintaining the optimal level of liquidity in the banking system has always been a challenge for banks globally. Liquidity deficit Indian Banks turned to liquidity surplus due to the demonetization of higher denomination currencies in November 2016. The liquidity deficit has the potential to trigger systemic risk whereas a surplus...
Volume 9
Ashas in India – The Unsung Corona Warriors
This case study outlines the struggle that Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) encountered at the grassroots level in India while combating the spread of the corona virus. Due to misinformation and a lack of specific knowledge, rural communities began to mistrust government workers attempting to track the spread of the pand...
Volume 9
Distributed Hashing Based Group Management Scheme for The Peer to Peer Trust Model
In recent days, computing and communication environments are extensively more difficult and disorganized than classically distributed systems over the internet, lacking any centralized organization or hierarchical control. In such case the emerging technology peer to peer overlay network is the answerable one. The peer to peer net...