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Journal Articles | 2021

Risk-sensitive Basel regulations and firms’ access to credit: Direct and indirect effects

Balagopal Gopalakrishnan, Joshy Jacob, and Sanket Mohapatra

Journal of Banking & Finance

This paper examines the impact of risk-sensitive Basel regulations on debt financing of firms around the world. It investigates how firms cope with the impact through adjustments to their financing sources and capital investments. We find that the implementation of Basel II regulations is associated with reduced credit availability for lower-rated firms. Such firms mitigate the shortage in bank credit through increased reliance on accounts payable, lower payouts to shareholders, and reduced capital investments. The impact of the capital regulation is lower in countries that rely on the internal ratings-based approach. The key results are robust to controls for banking crises, bank-specific controls, and the inclusion of loan-level information. The findings of this paper substantially contribute to the understanding of the real effects of risk-sensitive bank capital regulations.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Passively wait for gridlock, or proactively invest in service? Strategies to promote car-to-transit switches among aspirational urbanites in rapidly developing contexts

Sandip Chakrabarti

Transport Policy

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Journal Articles | 2021

Influence of endogenous reference points on the selling decisions of retail investors

Avijit Bansal, Joshy Jacob, and Ajay Pandey

European Financial Management

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Journal Articles | 2021

Actions in phygital space: Work solidarity and collective action among app-based cab drivers in India

Shalini Parth, Dharma Raju Bathini, and George Kandathil

New Technology, Work and Employment

This study delineates the microprocesses of solidarity development and the subsequent collective actions of gig workers in India amidst multiple structural constraints. Using netnography, semi-structured interviews and direct observation, we show how digitally naive app-based cab drivers amalgamate physical and digital spaces, construct a phygital space free of managerial gaze and leverage it to bond and bridge, create webs of care and share and resist multiple oppressive forces, individually and collectively. Thus, we broaden the conceptualisation of worker agency beyond labour-management antagonism and extend the extant literature on solidarity development and resistance in gig work by identifying a spatial enabler, phygital free space and the expansive role of relationship-based commitment. Relationship-based commitment not only functions as a membership mobiliser but also helps mobilise collective resistance when interwoven with an external threat-based identity created through injustice framing.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Infection testing at scale: An examination of pooled testing diagnostics

Tarun Jain and Bijendra Nath Jain

Vikalpa: The Journal of Decision Makers

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Journal Articles | 2021

Lab-in-the-field experiments: Perspectives from research on gender

Lata Gangadharan, Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra, and Joseph Vecci

The Japanese Economic Review

This paper highlights the contributions made by lab-in-the-field experiments, which are also known as artefactual, framed and extra-lab experiments. We present a curated sample of lab-in-the-field experiments and discuss how they can be conducted on their own or combined with conventional laboratory experiments, natural experiments, randomised control trials and surveys to provide unique insights into the behaviour of a diverse population. Using our recent research on gender and leadership, we demonstrate how lab-in-the-field experiments have offered new perspectives about gender differences in decision-making. Finally, we outline the ethical and implementational challenges researchers may face while conducting these experiments and share some of the strategies we employed to address them.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Performance implications of outsourcing: A meta-analysis

Somnath Lahiri, Amit Karna, Sai Chttaranjan Kalubandi, and Saneesh Edacherian

Journal of Business Research

Although outsourcing remains a dominant strategic choice for managers, the understanding of its implications on the firm remains inconclusive. In this paper we focus on empirical evidence around contingencies that determine whether and how outsourcing impacts firm performance. Specifically, we examine how type of value chain activity (core vs. non-core), industrial nature of activity (manufacturing vs. services), and provider’s location (domestic vs. international) impact performance. We conduct a meta-analysis of 121 samples from 106 primary studies spanning over 28 years (1992–2019). We find that outsourcing–firm performance relationship is positive. But more importantly, our results demonstrate that the association is stronger for non-core outsourcing than core outsourcing. Interestingly the outsourcing–firm performance relationship does not meaningfully vary across manufacturing and services outsourcing. Our results further indicate that the positive relationship is stronger for international outsourcing than domestic outsourcing. We discuss implications of our findings and present opportunities for future research.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Interfirm collaboration and exchange relationships: An agenda for future research

Sourav Bikash Borah, Girish Mallapragada, Raghu Bommaraju, Rajkumar Venkatesan, and Narongsak Thongpapanl

International Journal of Research in Marketing

Interfirm collaboration and exchange relationships are fundamental to how value is created, managed, and exchanged between firms. In this paper we first identify three major research themes (nature, governance, and outcomes) that existing research has focused on and then propose three structural shifts (technology, platforms, and globalization) that might influence nature, governance, and outcomes associated with interfirm collaboration. We also synthesize a research agenda for the future and develop multiple research propositions that might become the foundation to integrate the structural shifts into research on interfirm collaboration. We provide guidance on how existing theories can help scholars address new research questions arising due to the structural shifts. Finally, we provide insights to managers on the type of data that they need to access to make more effective decisions related to interfirm collaboration in a dynamic business environment.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Two’s company, three’s a crowd: The interplay between collective versus solo anthropomorphic brand appeals and gender

Marina Puzakova and Hyokjin Kwak

Journal of Advertising

Anthropomorphism in advertising has been shown to create positive advertising and branding outcomes. In this research, we introduce an important internal variation in this ad strategy—advertising a brand as collective- versus solo-anthropomorphized (i.e., the presence of multiple anthropomorphized entities versus one entity). Four studies overall demonstrate that advertising a brand as collective- (versus solo-)anthropomorphized decreases advertising effectiveness. We further show that these two types of brand anthropomorphism significantly interact with gender. That is, our research reveals that women develop lower expectations of relationship closeness with a collective- (versus solo-)anthropomorphized brand, thereby resulting in lower effectiveness of collective anthropomorphic ad appeals. In contrast, we find no detrimental effect of this ad strategy for men. Importantly, our work establishes that explicitly incorporating relationship potential cues in collectively anthropomorphized ad copy or inducing no expectations of close relationships with a brand will attenuate the negative impact of a collective- (versus solo-)anthropomorphized ad appeals on advertising effectiveness.

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Journal Articles | 2021

An Asia-centric approach to team innovation: Cultural differences in exploration and exploitation behavior

Sylvia Hubner, Michael Frese, Zhaoli Song, Neha Tripathi, Tamara Kaschner, and Xing Le Kong

Journal of Business Research

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