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Journal Articles | 2021

Locating resistance to healthcare information technology: A Bourdieusian analysis of doctors' symbolic capital conservation

Mayank Kumar, Jang Bahadur Singh, Rajesh Chandwani, and Agam Gupta

Information Systems Journal

This research examines the socially significant issue of doctors' resistance to healthcare information technology (HIT) from the radical power perspective. It adopts Bourdieu's social practice theory to examine the interaction of HIT with the reproduction of doctors' historically rooted social standing through the doctor-patient-interaction (D-P-I) practice. Findings from our ethnographic enquiry at a large corporate healthcare organisation in India link doctors' historically rooted social standing to the symbolic recognition of their embodied emotional capital existing in tandem with their habitus. The symbolic recognition of emotional capital provided a better valorisation of clinical capital and allowed the accumulation of other forms of capital—institutionalised capital, social capital and economic capital—that formed doctors' capital structure and contributed to their social status. Doctors produced emotional capital by putting their habitus into practice and, in the process, reproduced its symbolic status and their social status linked to it. HIT challenged doctors to put their habitus into practice, thereby creating a perception of threat to emotional capital. Doctors' HIT resistance was a conservation strategy to reproduce their historically rooted higher social status. Findings from this study contribute to the literature on Power and IT resistance.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Evaluating and investigating knowledge management practices and ICT in health care: an emerging economies perspective

Vijay Pereira, Cary L. Cooper, Rajesh Chandwani, Arup Varma, and Shlomo Yedidia Y. Tarba

Journal of Knowledge Management

The Covid-19 pandemic hit the world with almost zero notice and spread so fast that even the most advanced economies are still struggling to deal with it. The pandemic upended all parts of society (Zhang and Varma, 2020), but especially hit the health care sector the hardest, as governments and health-care professionals did not know enough about it to protect the populace (Pereira et al., 2021). Indeed, as Tovstiga and Tovstiga (2020) noted “the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has produced a perfect knowledge storm [...] The pandemic has painfully exposed how ‘we do not know what we do not know’.”

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Journal Articles | 2021

Mindfulness Attenuates Both Emotional and Behavioral Reactions Following Psychological Contract Breach: A Two-Stage Moderated Mediation Model

Samah Shaffakat, Lilian Otaye-Ebede, Jochen Reb, Rajesh Chandwani, and Pisitta Vongswasdi

Journal of Applied Psychology

Breach of the psychological contract between organization and employee often evokes employee hostility, which in turn can instigate deviant behaviors. We examine whether employee mindfulness attenuates these reactions to psychological contract breach. Specifically, we develop and test a two-stage moderated mediation model in which employee mindfulness moderates the mediational path from psychological contract breach via hostility to deviance by attenuating both emotional and behavioral reactions. Findings across four studies (with 872 employee participants) both measuring and manipulating breach and mindfulness demonstrate substantial support for the proposed model. Further analyses including alternative moderators, mediators, and dependent variables provide evidence for discriminatory and incremental validity. We discuss theoretical and practical implications as well as future research avenues.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Food waste and out-of-home-dining: antecedents and consequents of the decision to take away leftovers after dining at restaurants

Shalini Talwar, Puneet Kaur, Rambalak Yadav, Rajat Sharma, and Amandeep Dhir

Journal of Applied Psychology

The rising trend of eating out has contributed noticeably to the increase in food waste generated by the hospitality sector. Therefore, it is essential to understand the drivers of food waste generation and the mitigation intentions of diners. Academic research in the area so far is fragmented, with particularly limited insights regarding the intentions to take away leftovers after dining out. The present study addresses this gap by using the theoretical lens of Behavioural Reasoning Theory (BRT) to examine the antecedents of diners' intentions to take away leftovers and how these are associated with their food over-ordering and leftover reuse routine. The hypothesised associations are tested by analysing data collected from 426 diners using a mixed-method approach. The findings suggest that moral norms are associated with reasons for and attitude towards taking away leftovers; these are further associated with intentions, which, in turn, associate positively with over-ordering behaviour. In comparison, the reasons against are negatively associated with attitude. The results also confirm the mediation effect of reasons for, attitude, and intentions on the proposed relationships and moderation effect of leftover reuse routine.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Determinants of psychological well-being duringthe Covid-19 pandemic among “people living with HIV/AIDS” in India

Namrata Chindarkar, Vaibhavi Kulkarni, and Rajesh Chandwani

AIDS Care

Using survey data on 647 “people living with HIV/AIDS” (PLHIV) respondents from India, we examine the association between human, economic, and social capital and psychological well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic, and whether pandemic-induced job and financial insecurity are significant stressors. We find that among human capital indicators, family health status results in a more positive mental state and fewer personal conflicts among PLHIV while having more working-age adults in the household results in more conflict. With regards to economic capital, PLHIV in salaried jobs and self-employment have a less positive mental state compared to those in daily wage work. Compared to daily wage workers, those in salaried jobs and self-employment exhibit lower addictive behavior. Self-employed PLHIV respondents also engage in fewer conflicts with their significant other. We do not find any correlation between social capital and psychological well-being. Job and financial insecurity are negatively associated with psychological well-being. While job insecurity is associated with an increase in addictive behavior, financial insecurity increases the likelihood of more frequent personal conflicts. We conclude that there is a need for greater economic and psychological support from institutions, community, and family to assuage the pandemic-induced psychological distress among PLHIV.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Energy access for marginalized communities: Evidence from rural North India, 2015–2018

Setu Pelz,Namrata Chindarkar, and Johannes Urpelainen

World Development

Rural energy access in India has improved steadily over the last decade. This progress is attributed to national energy reforms that aim to not only expand access to grid electricity and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) but also to improve quality of access. Considering the historical caste-based energy access disparities unique to the Indian context, how equitable have recent improvements been? Using panel data representative of rural areas in six of India’s poorest states, we apply a linear regression model with caste and year interactions to quantify changes in energy access for historically marginalized Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) households relative to the all others between 2015–2018. We find that overall, inequities in an SC/ST household’s likelihood to obtain an LPG connection reduced (by 4.6%-points [95% CI: 0.7 to 7.7]). In contrast, overall inequities in grid connection likelihoods remained consistent. Looking beyond binary connection rates, we find that an SC/ST household’s supply improved less in terms of daily supply hours (by 1.42 h [CI: 1 to 1.83]) and monthly outage days (by 1 day [CI: 0.7 to 1.3]). Disaggregate analyses indicate that these broader trends are composed of distinct state-level trends modified by differences in baselines, marginalised population distributions, institutional capacity and accountability. Energy policy reform in India must consider caste-based inequities and take advantage of multi-dimensional supply measurement to encourage equitable and just progress towards sustainable energy access for all sections of the population.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Examining the willingness-to-pay for exclusive use of LPG for cooking among rural households in India

Abhishek Jain,Namrata Chindarkar, and Sunil Mani

Energy Policy

Using unique household-level data from rural areas of six energy-access-deprived states in India, we examine the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for exclusive use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking. We find that awareness about LPG's health benefits and diffusion of LPG within the community are the strongest determinants of WTP for exclusive use of LPG. Among demographic characteristics, only household size is correlated with WTP. Importantly, households exhibit significant price elasticity with regards to exclusive use of LPG. Households with irregular cash flows are less likely to pay for exclusive use of LPG. We find limited evidence supporting a negative association between availability of free biomass and the WTP for exclusive use of LPG. In contrast, higher household expenditure on purchased biomass is positively associated with WTP. Our estimates of mean WTP suggest that they are higher than the current effective monthly cost of subsidized LPG across households. However, they mask variation, and disaggregated estimates suggest that about 40–45 per cent of the households not using LPG as their primary fuel have a lower WTP than the current effective monthly cost of subsidized LPG and hence would need additional support to enable their cooking energy transition.

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Journal Articles | 2021

The hedonic treadmill: Electricity access in India has increased, but so have expectations

Michaël Aklin, Namrata Chindarkar, Johannes Urpelainen, Abhishek Jain, and Karthik Ganesan

Energy Policy

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Journal Articles | 2021

Seeking strategic assets within cross-border acquisition waves: a study of Indian firms

Faisal Mohammad Ashan, Mohammad Fuad, and Ashutosh Kumar Sinha

Journal of International Management

There is evidence to suggest that cross-border acquisitions by emerging market firms exhibit a wave-like pattern. In this paper, we examine the timing of cross-border acquisitions with a strategic asset-seeking motive within cross-border acquisition waves. Our findings suggest that emerging market firms are more likely to pursue acquisitions with a strategic asset-seeking motive during the early and decline phases of the wave, and lower during the wave peak. Further, we show that business group affiliation and foreign institutional shareholding moderate the relationship, thereby strengthening the propensity to pursue strategic asset-seeking acquisitions during the early phase of the wave. Our study based on a sample of 312 cross-border acquisitions conducted by Indian firms, provides support for our hypotheses.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Dynamic policies for resource reallocation in a robotic mobile fulfillment system with time-varying demand

Tim Lamballais, Marius Merschformann, Debjit Roy, René B.M. De Koster, Kaveh Azadeh, and Leena Suhl

European Journal of Operational Research

A Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System (RMFS) is an automated parts-to-picker material handling system, in which robots carry pods with products to the order pickers. It is particularly suitable for e-commerce order fulfillment and can quickly and frequently reallocate workers and robots across the picking and replenishment processes to respond to strong demand fluctuations. More resources for the picking process means lower customer wait times, whereas more resources for the replenishment process means a higher inventory level and product availability. This paper models the RMFS as a queuing network and integrates it within a Markov decision process (MDP), that aims to allocate robots across the pick and replenishment processes during both high and low demand periods, based on the workloads in these processes. We extend existing MDP models with one resource type and one process to an MDP model for two resources types and two processes. The policies derived from the model are compared with benchmark policies from practice. The results show that the length of the peak demand phase and the height of the peak affects the optimal policy choice. In addition, policies that continually reallocate resources based on the workload outperform benchmark policies from practice. Moreover, if the number of robots is limited, continual resource reallocation can reduce costs sharply. The results show that optimal dynamic policies can reduce the cost by up to 52.18% on average compared to optimal fixed policies.

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