
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-…


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…


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 …