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Popular Press | 2020

The hunger challenge of the lockdown

Jeevant Rampal

Hindu BusinessLine

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Popular Press | 2020

Pharma, telecom gained during crisis?(with Prof Balagopal Gopalakrishnan)

Joshy Jacob

Times of India

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Journal Articles | 2020

What motivates members to transact on social C2C communities? A theoretical explanation

Deepak Trehan and Rajat Sharma

Journal of Consumer Marketing

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the consumer motivation to buy products on consumer-to-consumer (C2C) communities on social networking sites (SNSs). These transactions involve no intermediation or payment of fees by any party. The phenomenon is in contrast with the traditional C2C transactions, on websites such as eBay, where the company website facilitates the transaction between consumers, charges a fee to sellers and provides limited information about buyers and sellers.

Design/methodology/approach – Drawing from media richness theory and social capital theory, this paper thus proposes and empirically tests a theoretical model developed using data collected from people making transactions on these communities that synthesize the motivations behind consumers’ intention to buy.

Findings – The results indicate that the media richness of the Facebook platform increases the social capital and sense of virtual community among users, which further impacts the purchase intentions of users. Social capital alone does not lead to purchase intention and indirectly impacts purchase intentions through the trust dimension.

Research limitations/implications – This study contributes to theorizing the role of the platform, social capital and sense of virtual community in buying behavior on SNSs and provides valuable new insights into these constructs for the brand managers on social media sites.

Originality/value – Existing research on social commerce does not hold true for C2C communities on SNSs. This paper provides a new perspective into these communities through the lens of media richness and social capital constructs as antecedents of purchase intentions on these communities.

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Journal Articles | 2020

Lifelong Reading for a Billion People

Brij Kothari and Tathagata Bandyopadhyay

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Same language subtitling (SLS) on India’s major TV channels went from concept in 1996 to national broadcast policy in 2019. This is the story of how we did it.

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Journal Articles | 2020

Religious influences in unrestrained consumer behaviour

Jaskaran Singh, Gurbir Singh, Satinder Kumar, and Ajeet N.Mathur

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

Religion is known for transforming human behaviour in many ways. This research investigates the influence of religiosity on two unrestrained buying constructs; impulsive and compulsive buying. The focus of this paper is on both intrinsic and extrinsic dimensions of religiosity. The first study provides important insights into the differential impact of these two dimensions of religiosity on unrestrained buying constructs. The second study explores the underlying mechanism of the relationship between extrinsic religiosity and unrestrained buying behaviours. Results show a negative relationship of intrinsic religiosity and a positive relationship of extrinsic relationship with unrestrained buying constructs. We also found that this relationship for extrinsic religiosity is mediated by susceptibility to interpersonal influence and moderated by long-term orientation. This research explains the differential impact of religion on unrestrained buying behaviour.

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Journal Articles | 2020

A scoping review of the contributions of farmers' organizations to smallholder agriculture

Livia Bizikova, Ephraim Nkonya, Margitta Minah, Markus Hanisch, Rama Mohana Rao Turaga, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Muthumariappan Karthikeyan, Lixia Tang, Kate Ghezzi-Kopel, Julie Kelly, Ashley Casandra Celestin, and Beth Timmers

Nature Food

Farmers’ organizations (FOs), such as associations, cooperatives, self-help and women’s groups, are common in developing countries and provide services that are widely viewed as contributing to income and productivity for small-scale producers. Here, we conducted a scoping review of the literature on FO services and their impacts on small-scale producers in sub-Saharan Africa and India. Most reviewed studies (57%) reported positive FO impacts on farmer income, but much fewer reported positive impacts on crop yield (19%) and production quality (20%). Environmental benefits, such as resilience-building and improved water quality and quantity were documented in 24% of the studies. Our analysis indicates that having access to markets through information, infrastructure, and logistical support at the centre of FO design could help integrate FOs into policy. Natural resource management should also be more widely incorporated in the services provided by FOs to mitigate risks associated with environmental degradation and climate change. Finally, farmers who are already marginalized because of poor education, land access, social status and market accessibility may require additional support systems to improve their capacities, skills and resources before they are able to benefit from FO membership.

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Journal Articles | 2020

Analyzing the role of national culture on content creation and user engagement on Twitter: The case of Indian Premier League cricket franchises

C. Deep Prakash and Adrija Majumdar

International Journal of Information Management

The content generation strategy of a sports franchise determines whether the user engagement increases or decreases on social media platforms. Thus, the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) is profound who generally decides and governs social media policies of the franchises. We show that the cultural differences between local-COO vis-à-vis foreign-COO-governed sports franchises reflect in their content generation strategy and are also associated with user engagement. We use Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory and extract relevant features from the tweets. Overall, the results show that user engagement is more when the content generation strategy is in alignment with fans’ national culture. The first contribution of our work is towards showing the incremental impact of power distance, individualism and collectivism on user engagement. The second contribution of our work is towards feature construction, feature selection and building authorship attribution classifiers to understand the content generation strategy. Prior literature shows that national culture impacts writing of online reviews. We investigate the role of national culture in social media content generation and user engagement and extend the literature. Our study is useful for organizations to understand the role of national culture in content generation and how it is related to user engagement.

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Journal Articles | 2020

Demand for Crop Insurance in Developing Countries: New Evidence from India

Ranjan Kumar Ghosh, Shweta Gupta, Vartika Singh, and Patrick S. Ward

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Determining farmers’ real demand for crop insurance is difficult, especially in developing countries, where there is a lack of formal financial sector integration and a high reliance on informal risk mitigation options. We provide some new estimates of farmers’ willingness-to-pay for insurance in the context of a large-scale subsidised programme in India. We conducted a discrete choice experiment with agricultural households across four states in India, enabling us to estimate preferences for specific insurance policy attributes such as coverage period, method of loss assessment, timing of indemnity payments and the cost of insurance. Our results suggest that farmers do value crop insurance under certain conditions and some are willing to pay a premium for such coverage in excess of the subsidised rates they are currently required to pay under this programme. In particular, farmers value the assurances that they will receive timely payouts when they incur losses, and may not have a strong preference for the method with which losses are assessed. On the other hand, farmers are quite sensitive to coverage periods. Our baseline assessment shows that when optimised to farmer requirements, there can be a sizeable demand for crop insurance by developing country farmers.

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Journal Articles | 2020

Does negative teacher behavior influence student self-efficacy and mastery goal orientation?

Kathan D. Shukla, Samvet Kuril, and Vijaya Sherry Chand

Learning and Motivation

In a hierarchical society such as India’s, negative teacher behaviors are often part of the routine. However, there is a gap in the literature investigating the influence of negative teacher behaviors (specifically admonishing and dissatisfied behaviors) on students’ mastery goal orientation (MGO) and self-efficacy for learning which are important for student success. Accordingly, we examined these associations in Indian middle schoolers (N = 6423) after controlling for prior year outcomes and demographics. The data were collected through paper and pencil-based surveys at the beginning and the end of the 2015−16 academic session. Teacher behavior was measured using the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) whereas self-efficacy and MGO were measured using the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ). The analysis involved structural equation modelling of admonishing and dissatisfaction behaviors and student self-efficacy and MGO where we controlled for students’ prior outcomes and demographics. The independent variables collectively explained 27.4 % and 22 % of the variation in MGO and self-efficacy. Higher levels of teachers’ dissatisfied behaviors reduced self-efficacy and MGO within one year. Teachers’ admonishing behavior was linked with lower self-efficacy. Implications for policymakers, administrators and teachers are discussed.

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Journal Articles | 2020

Does financial reporting quality vary across firm life cycle?

Gopal V. Krishnan, Emma-Riikka Myllymaki, and Neerav Nagar

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting

This study provides empirical evidence that across firm life cycle there is considerable variation in financial reporting quality. Specifically, the focus is on matching quality captured by the contemporaneous correlation between revenues and expenses and on the likelihood of material misstatements in financial statements. On balance, we observe an inverted U-shaped pattern of financial reporting quality, that is, lower quality during the introduction, growth, and decline stages, compared to the mature stage of firm life cycle. First, we find poor matching of expenses with revenues in the introduction, growth, and decline stages. This implies conservative or aggressive recognition of expenses, leading to less informative earnings, and hence lower financial reporting quality. Then, we examine the likelihood of material misstatements, measured by weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting, financial statement restatements, Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) accounting and auditing enforcement releases (AAER), and financial statement divergence (FSD) scores. We find clear indications that firms in the introduction, growth, and decline stages are significantly more likely to have misstatements in their financial statements compared to firms in the mature stage. Overall, the findings of this study enhance our understanding of the role of life-cycle stages in causing variation in financial reporting quality.

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