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Journal Articles | 2023

A market value analysis of buyer–supplier relationship building awards

Nishant Kumar Verma, Ashish Kumar Jha, Indranil Bose, and Eric W. T. Ngai

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Journal Articles | 2022

One-click at a time: Empowering mothers for their adolescent children's educational expenditures through social media usage

Akshaya Vijayalakshmi, Meng-Hsien (Jenny) Lin

Mothers play a significant role in deciding their adolescents' educational expenditures. They increasingly rely on the Internet for information search and building online support networks to enhance their confidence. Thus, we use the psychological empowerment theory in this study to examine the association between social media use and educational expenditures. Through two studies, we show how a mother's use of social media (active/passive use) significantly impacts adolescent children's educational expenses via dimensions of psychological empowerment. We further demonstrate that the two dimensions of psychological empowerment differentially drive this relationship: intrapersonal (relying on the self) and Interactional (leveraging the community) empowerment. We discover that active (passive) social media use increases mother' intrapersonal (interactional) empowerment. We also find that cross-cultural differences play a role in psychological empowerment's effect on educational expenditures, where intrapersonal empowerment is vital in the United States, and interactional empowerment is more relevant in India. Our key contributions to literature are three-fold: we establish the relationship between a mother's social media use and educational expenditures for their adolescent children, identify predictors of different dimensions of psychological empowerment, and present evidence for cross-cultural differences in the empowering role of social media.

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Journal Articles | 2022

The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses

Chitra Singla and Ludvig Levasseur

Small Business Economics

The extant literature argues that small family firms with higher family ownership have a lower proclivity toward external corporate venturing (ECV) activities. We contend that this is not true for all small family firms. Some family firms with higher family ownership can have a higher proclivity toward ECV. Focusing on small family firms with 100% family ownership (highest ownership), we argue that there is heterogeneity in terms of the family’s goals (potential gains) and resources among small family firms that can impact these firms’ engagement in the ECV process. On this basis, we present a conceptual model and some propositions that explain why some small family firms pursue ECV opportunities. In particular, we highlight the role of the family in small family firms’ (100% family-owned) engagement in the three stages of the ECV process: motivation, recognition, and evaluation of ECV opportunities. Specifically, we propose that the “potential long-term socioemotional wealth (SEW) gains” (employment of family members and family harmony) and the family’s resources (social capital and reputation) can impact the motivation for—and identification (including recognition and evaluation/assessment) of—ECV opportunities. In sum, we argue that the families that own small family firms might engage in ECV activities with the hope that their potential SEW gains will be realized via ECV. Availability and exploitability of family resources can help the family to move forward in the ECV process.

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Journal Articles | 2022

"Integrating poverty alleviation and environmental protection efforts: A socio-ecological perspective on menstrual health management"

Federica Angeli, Anand Kumar Jaiswal, and Saumya Shrivastava

Social Science & Medicine

Apt menstrual health management is crucial to the livelihood of low-income, bottom of the pyramid (BOP) women as well as to environmental conservation. However, knowledge is still scant about the factors underpinning women's preferences towards menstrual products, and whether and how the environmental impact of different solutions matter to women's choices. We address this gap by proposing a socio-ecological perspective to understand whether a product's low environmental impact enhances low-income women's uptake of sanitary napkins, thereby supporting poverty alleviation objectives but also efforts geared towards environmental protection. Results from a discrete-choice experiment involving 164 women (n = 1148) in two Indian slums in Delhi and Ahmedabad show that sanitary products' biodegradability is the most important attribute affecting women's preferences towards menstrual hygiene management solutions, which also significantly interacts with women's socio-economic and socio-cultural characteristics. Our findings highlight the potential for business models to find positive synergies between environmental protection and poverty alleviation goals and to situate solutions within the larger socio-ecological context of receiving communities.

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Journal Articles | 2022

Electronic marketplaces under conditions of oligopsony and relational marketing – an empirical exploration of electronic agricultural markets in India

Aashish Argade Arnab Kumar Laha Anand Kumar Jaiswal

Electronic Markets

Benefits of electronic marketplaces across diverse, largely consumer-facing, competitive industries have been in the form of lower transaction costs, transparent price discovery, and improved coordination. This article explores the benefits of electronic marketplaces under oligopsony, which generally encompasses relational marketing as well. With producer – first handler agricultural markets as the context, the article draws from literature on electronic marketplaces, transaction costs, and seller-buyer dependence. Based on survey data, an exploratory factor analysis is conducted to understand the elements of relational marketing between farmers and traders. Subsequently, transaction costs of marketing in a physical agricultural marketplace are compared with those in its electronic counterpart. Results did not indicate significant reduction in transaction costs in the e-marketplaces. Reasons for such findings are logically deduced to be a consequence of opportunistic traders not sharing marketing-related information with farmers, notwithstanding dependence of the latter on traders for such informational needs. Implications for policymakers, third-party electronic marketplace providers are discussed for the specific context, besides indicators for similar other market structures.

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Journal Articles | 2022

A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry

Lukas Hermwille, Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Max Åhman, Harro van Asselt, Chris Bataille, Stefan Kronshage, Annika Tönjes, Manfred Fischedick, Sebastian Oberthür, Amit Garg, Catherine Hall, Patrick Jochem, Clemens Schneider, Ryna Cui, Wolfgang Obergassel, Pan

Nature Climate Change

Decarbonizing global steel production requires a fundamental transformation. A sectoral climate club, which goes beyond tariffs and involves deep transnational cooperation, can facilitate this transformation by addressing technical, economic and political uncertainties.

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Journal Articles | 2022

Inequality of opportunity in health among urban, rural, and migrant children: Evidence from China

Namrata Chindarkar, Maki Nakajima, and Alfred M. Wu

Journal of Social Policy

Rural-urban migrants, though facing unique social and institutional constraints, remain a largely overlooked population in research on health inequality in China. This study applies the inequality of opportunity (IOp) framework to investigate health inequality among children in China. Instead of comparing only urban and rural children, we include rural-urban migrants. Drawing upon three waves of a nation-wide survey, we find that migrant children in China remain disadvantaged in terms of health when compared to urban and rural children. The decomposition of the determinants indicates that while the direct influence of hukou, China’s household registration system, on IOp in health is low and has decreased, particularly between 2007 and 2013, one’s province of residence still matters. Parental health contributes substantially to IOp in health, which likely is an indirect effect of hukou that creates barriers for migrant parents in regard to accessing healthcare. The policy implication of these findings is that although the direct influence of hukou has decreased, when coupled with the continued lack of local government support for the welfare of migrant workers, it perpetuates health inequalities.

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Journal Articles | 2022

Project scheduling under the threat of catastrophic disruption

Joseph G. Szmerekovsky, Prahalad Venkateshan, and Peter D. Simonson

European Journal of Operational Research

We consider the case of scheduling a project under the threat of a catastrophic disruption where the likelihood and timing of the disruption are independent of the project schedule and if the disruption occurs, the project is completely canceled. In such scenarios, there is high managerial interest to know the maximum investment at risk at any time during project execution. This can be answered using the alphorn of uncertainty which maps the maximum and minimum possible project costs during project execution when activity durations and, correspondingly, cash flows are random. We prove the NP-hardness of calculating the alphorn of uncertainty and provide a mixed integer linear program for calculating it. The mixed integer linear program is shown to be able to calculate the alphorn for projects with up to 145 activities efficiently. We also show that using railway scheduling as opposed to roadrunner scheduling can significantly reduce the maximum possible investment at risk without significantly delaying the project.

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Journal Articles | 2022

How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative

Aline Mosnier, and Ranjan Ghosh et al.

Sustainability Science

There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium to reconcile both global and national elements for developing national food and land-use system pathways. This approach includes three key features: (1) global targets, (2) country-driven multi-objective pathways, and (3) multiple iterations of pathway refinement informed by both national and international impacts. This approach strengthens policy coherence and highlights where greater national and international ambition is needed to achieve global goals (e.g., the SDGs). We discuss how this could be used to support future climate and biodiversity negotiations and what further developments would be needed.

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Journal Articles | 2022

Internal corporate governance and cash flow manipulation

Neerav Nagar, and Mehul Raithatha

International Journal of Emerging Markets

Purpose

The authors examine whether internal corporate governance mechanisms are effective in curbing cash flow manipulation through real activities, misclassification, and timing.

Design/methodology/approach

The sample comprises of firms from an emerging market, India with data for years 2004 through 2015. The authors use the methodology given in Roychowdhury (2006).

Findings

The authors find that corporate boards in India play an active role in curbing cash flow manipulation through real activities but fail to control cash flow manipulation through misclassification and timing.

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