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Journal Articles | 2024

Supply base concentration and firm innovation performance: A contingency study of supply base breadth, depth, dispersion, and collaboration

Amalesh Sharma, Anirban Adhikary, Sourav Bikash Borah, Surya Pathak

To survive in the current business environment, a firm must embrace ‘innovation’ in its overall business strategies. While scholars have investigated drivers of firms’ innovation performance, the concentration of a firm’s supply base and its potential link to innovation performance remains unexplored. We draw on the Knowledge-Based View (KBV) and the power asymmetry literature to propose that supply base concentration influences a firm’s innovation performance non-linearly, and that structure of the supply base in terms of breadth, depth, and geographical dispersion, and nature of the supply base in terms of collaboration moderate this relationship. Using data from 185 firms spanning six years and eleven industry sectors and implementing a robust empirical procedure that accounts for endogeneity and unobserved firm-level heterogeneity, we find that supply base concentration has an inverted U-shaped relationship with innovation performance. Moreover, breadth positively and geographical dispersion negatively influence this relationship. The results also show that supply base collaboration strengthens the relationship between concentration and innovation performance. Through multiple post hoc analyses, we also show partial empirical evidence of the theoretical mechanisms we propose. We contribute to the extant literature on supplier management, innovation performance, and the structure of the supply base.

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Journal Articles | 2024

Examining the relationships between instructional leadership, teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a study of primary schools in India

Furkan Khan, Preeti, Vishal Gupta

Building on the social cognitive theory, a mediation model was examined to understand the role of teacher self-efficacy as the underlying mechanism for the relationship between instructional leadership and teacher job satisfaction.

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Journal Articles | 2024

Inequality and income mobility: The case of targeted and universal interventions in India

Anindya S. Chakrabarti, Abhinash Mishra, Mohsen Mohaghegh

Income interventions with pro-poor targeting is a common fiscal policy around the world. However their distributional effects on consumption and savings are not well understood. Motivated by the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), we use longitudinal data on income and consumption of Indian households to estimate distributional effects of such interventions in a model with endogenous consumption and savings distribution, where households face uninsured income risks. In the model, a standard scheme of interventions that consistently targets low-income cohorts, has small distributional impacts on targeted and non-targeted cohorts alike. In contrast, a fiscally-equivalent scheme that changes the expected income profile of the targeted households in the same initial cohort irrespective of their future incomes, generates larger effects by changing income mobility for both the targeted and non-targeted cohorts. This mobility-based channel generates consumption responses even though the magnitude of the shock is lesser for the initially targeted cohort, as it more than offsets the effect from permanent income shock. Quantitatively, such an intervention in the order of 0.6 percent of output, approximating the Indian scenario, increases consumption share of the targeted cohort by nearly 2.5 percent, five times as large as the effect of standard interventions. The distributional effects are similar to those arising from a counterfactual policy of universal basic income.

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Journal Articles | 2024

Role of resource investment management and strategic resource deployment capabilities in internationalization-performance relationship

Anish Purkayastha, Amit Karna, Sunil Sharma, Dhiman Badra

The performance implications of internationalization have been a matter of debate in management literature for decades. Similar to developed market multinational enterprises (DMNEs), scholars found that emerging-market internationalizing firms (EMIFs) have initial costs and subsequent benefits of internationalization such that internationalization-performance (I-P) relationship is U-shaped. Emergingness of EMIFs gives us the opportunity to theorize how these internationalizing firms develop novel capabilities relevant to their state of evolution and resource conditions. Relying on resource management theory, we propose two capabilities – management of R&D investments (RIM) to balance between market and resource seeking motivations and re-deployment of strategic resources (SRD) to catch-up with the competitors. We use 20 years data from 837 Indian firms to empirically test whether the proposed capabilities steepen the I-P relationship and shift the turning point of the U-shaped curve to left. We find empirical support for our hypotheses, and thereby contribute to the literature on resource management in EMIFs and empirical analysis of non-linear relationship.

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Journal Articles | 2024

Social media “stars” vs “the ordinary” me: influencer marketing and the role of self-discrepancies, perceived homophily, authenticity, self-acceptance and mindfulness

Shehzala, Anand Kumar Jaiswal, Vidya Vemireddy, Federica Angeli

Social media influencers have become constant companions of a large audience of young consumers, but a crucial yet underexplored area of examination relates to the implications of exposure to influencers for an individual’s self-concept. This study aims to examine if and how individuals experience self-discrepancies when exposed to influencers and the impact of such discrepancies on their affect, cognition and behaviors toward the influencers and the brands they endorse.

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Journal Articles | 2024

An analysis of the dual burden of childhood stunting and wasting in Myanmar: a copula geoadditive modelling approach

Dhiman Badra

To analyse the spatial variation and risk factors of the dual burden of childhood stunting and wasting in Myanmar.

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Journal Articles | 2024

Have a Nice Flight! Understanding the Interplay Between Topics and Emotions in Reviews of Luxury Airlines in the Pre- and Post-Covid-19 Periods

Masoud Shayganmehr, Indranil Bose

Few studies assessed the impact of Covid-19 on the aviation industry from the passengers’ perspective. This study examined how airline passengers’ emotions (positive and negative) and sub-emotions (joy, trust, surprise, anticipation, fear, sadness, anger, and disgust) changed in the pre-and post-Covid-19 periods. 21,463 reviews from 2014–2022 of top 10 luxury airlines were extracted from Skytrax. Using the lens of the Appraisal Theory of Emotion, the analysis revealed an increase in negative emotion and related sub-emotions after the pandemic. Using topic modeling seven similar topics (namely food, staff, customer service, board, flight, crew, and luggage) and four dissimilar topics (entertainment and drink for pre-Covid-19 and wait and Covid-19 for post-Covid-19) were identified. Regression analysis showed that the topics food and entertainment generated significant positive emotion whereas wait and customer service generated significant negative emotion. The results would help the luxury airlines to identify offerings to improve during the recovery after Covid-19.

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Journal Articles | 2024

Does centralization of online content regulation affect political hate speech in a country? A public choice perspective

Jithesh Arayankalam, Prakriti Soral, Anupriya Khan, Satish Krishnan, Indranil Bose

This study primarily examines how the centralization of online content regulation increases political hate speech in a country. It also explores the roles of the government's social media surveillance and disinformation in this relationship. Calhoun's public choice theory is used as a theoretical foundation to examine relationships. Data from 179 nations are analyzed using a mixed-method approach (i.e., path analysis and fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis), and the findings reveal how centralization of online content regulation results in higher levels of political hate speech by increasing social media surveillance of political content and disinformation through social media by the government.

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Journal Articles | 2024

Proprietary algorithmic traders and liquidity supply during the pandemic

Anirban Banerjee, Samarpan Nawn

This study documents the liquidity-supplying behavior of proprietary algorithmic traders during the abrupt and sustained market decline caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. The findings suggest that these endogenous liquidity providers reduced their supply of liquidity during sustained market stress that lasted several days. Proprietary algorithmic traders showed a greater propensity to trade via market orders, reduced the fraction of contrarian trades, and reduced their share of order book depth compared to other traders during the in-COVID period. Our work provides the first direct evidence of the behavior of proprietary algorithmic traders during the pandemic.

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Journal Articles | 2024

Circular value creation through environmental entrepreneurship initiatives: A case-based exploration

Subhalaxmi Mohapatra, Subhadip Roy, Arvind Upadhyay, Anil Kumar

The present study builds on the domain of circular economy and its subdomain circular value creation to explore the entrepreneurial process of a small business in India. It aims to find how circular entrepreneurship as a process may unfold and how it may lead to value creation at different levels. The case study method is used to address the research objectives and a case study of a small entrepreneur based in India is selected for the same purpose. The analysis of the case and within case patterns (three subcases) illustrates circular entrepreneurship as a process with motivation, action and value creation as three main stages. The motivation of the entrepreneur leads to several actions related to business processes that are aimed at circular value creation. Subsequently, this leads to value creation at multiple levels such as the economy, business and society. Hence, the findings support the circular economy concept and its role in the creation of value at the small business level. The findings support the theoretical tenets of circular value creation and circular entrepreneurship using an interpretive approach.

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