Poverty and earning compulsions for the family have pushed children out of schools: A study in dropouts in basic education level in North-East India

Arindam Banik And Debasis Neogi

Children dropout of school is affected by number of factors such as earning compulsions, household work, access to school, school time not suitable and parental unawareness. GoI has launched mid-…

Predictors of employee engagement: a public sector unit experience

Soni Agrawal

Employee engagement is an area of interest for researchers to understand whether employee engagement is a repackaging of similar constructs such as job satisfaction, job involvement, motivation and…

Retail supply chain management practices in India: A business intelligence perspective

Mohua Banerjee And Manit Mishra

The study surveyed executives of a major food retailer in India and explored their perspectives on supply chain management practices, competitive advantage and firm performance; to assess the impor…

Technology and outsourcing: An explanation to the rising wage gap

Sahana Roy Chowdhury

The recent phenomenon of widening skilled–unskilled wage gap in both North and South has been either explained by a technological change or by increasing trade or globalization. The paper provide…

The Interrelationship of Personal Variables, Website Characteristics and Trust in Online Travel Portals

Boudhayan Ganguly And Satya Bhushan Dash, Dianne Cyr

Lack of trust in online transactions has been cited, by scholars in the past, as the main reason for the dislike of online shopping. The objective of this paper is to develop a framework for studyi…

What Drives the Stock Market Return in India? An Exploration with Dynamic Factor Model

Paramita Mukherjee And Malabika Roy

In this article, we examine the role of the institutional investors, both domestic and foreign, in driving the return on the Indian equity market in the last decade. An attempt is made to identify …

An Empirical Analysis of Purchase Behaviour for Football Ancillaries: An Emerging Market Perspective

Rituparna Basu And Neena Sondhi

Marketers in the modern times are increasingly viewing globalization of the sports market as a huge opportunity to enter unchartered territories by riding on the popularity of a game. The enduring …

Anomalous Price Behaviour around Open Market Stock Repurchase Announcements in India

Chanchal Chatterjee And Paromita Dutta

This article examines the impact of open market share repurchase announcements on stock returns in the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The main objective is to examine whether share repurchase announc…

Bivariate doubly inflated Poisson models with applications

Pooja Sengupta And N. Rao Chaganty, Roy T. Saboo

The bivariate Poisson distribution given by Kocherlakota and Kocherlakota is a natural choice for modeling paired count data. For situations where counts of (0, 0) are inflated beyond expectation, …

Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in India: Exploring Linkages with Firm Performance

Tirthankar Nag And Ashish K. Bhattacharya

The study examines the corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies and activities of firms as disclosed in annual reports, and explores its linkages to accounting and market performance of fir…

Performance Appraisal based on a forced distribution system: its drawbacks and remedies

Rachana Chattopadhyay And Anil Kumar Ghosh

Performance appraisal based on a forced distribution system (FDS) is widely used in large corporate sectors around the globe. Though many researchers have pointed out several drawbacks in FDS, due …