Author: Chakrabarti, D., Shinde, S., Chaudhry, S.
Teaching non-written communication skills to MBA students through evaluated exercises
Publisher: Journal of Organizational Behavior Education, 2021
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Communication skills are a fundamental requirement to effectively carry out job responsibilities. In this paper, we explain the process by which a course on non-written communication skills for management students in India was designed and delivered. The course objectives, expected learning outcomes, content, pedagogy and evaluation are described. The group and individual exercises for evaluating skills of presentation, listening, group discussion, public speaking and personal interview are also discussed. Through this paper, the importance of a structured pattern of activities, relevant procedure for evaluation, explicit instructions, and a detailed feedback mechanism for an effective learning of non-written communication skills are highlighted. The unique contribution of the paper is in helping faculty plan pedagogy for a basic course on business communication. The course has stood out in terms of its exclusive focus on evaluated exercises, time and attention devoted to feedback and relevance of the content to the management field.
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Author: Pathak, P., Tripathi, A., Shankar, A.
SMART STREETS AND SMART CITY ? A CASE STUDY OF PUNE?S ITI ROAD
Publisher: Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, 2021
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Improving walkability is an important aspect to consider, given growing urbanization in India and globally. Walkability has been studied as an outcome of the built environment and linked with better health outcomes and completeness of transportation network. In India, the Smart City Mission has considered improvement of non-motorized transport via projects like Smart Streets. This study is an attempt to look at one such smart street in Pune where a stretch of road segment was redesigned to facilitate pedestrian movement. This being a pilot attempt for the future street redesigning, a qualitative assessment is presented here depicting pros and cons of the same. Our initial findings indicate that despite its many obvious shortcomings at the moment, a dedicated walkability and Smart Street infrastructure is a welcome step in creating sustainable, equitable and inclusive smart cities of the future.
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Author: Phillot, A., Kale, N., Unhale, A.
Are Sea Turtle Hatcheries in India Following Best Practices?
Publisher: Herpetological Conservation & Biology, 2021
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States and territories of India have long relocated sea turtle eggs to hatcheries for protection against threats including depredation and illegal take. We compared the practices of egg collection, transport, and incubation, and hatchling handling, holding, and release from 36 hatcheries with recognized best practices. Selfreported practices reflected some best practices, including replacing substrate annually and limiting nest density, but other practices, such as time interval between oviposition and reburial of eggs in the hatchery, were outside recommendations. Analysis of data sets showed that clutches incubated in hatcheries have comparable hatching success to unprotected in situ clutches when a higher hatching success would be expected with conservation effort. This finding, in combination with hatchlings being held after emergence and often in conditions that are likely to reduce fitness, indicates that some hatcheries may be limited in their potential effectiveness as an ex situ conservation strategy. Shading and/or watering nests to mitigate potentially high nest temperatures without monitoring temperature is also of concern, and we recommend the two be combined as a best practice. Hatchery personnel would benefit from regular opportunities to ensure ongoing understanding of sea turtle biology in relation to best hatchery practices and resources to ensure best practices can be implemented. Hatchling production would be better assessed by a permit (Non-Governmental Organizations and volunteer groups) and departmental (Forest Department) requirement for annual reporting of hatching and emergence success using accurate protocols. We also encourage that in situ protection of sea turtle eggs be considered in appropriate locations.
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Author: Phillot, A.
Fishers' Ecological Knowledge About Sea Turtles in Coastal Waters: A Case Study in Vengurla, India
Publisher: Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 2021
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Five species of sea turtle—the green (Chelonia mydas), hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), loggerhead (Caretta caretta), and olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea)—feed in the coastal waters of India, nest on the mainland and island beaches, and are an important component of India's natural and sociocultural heritage. Sea turtles spend most of their life cycle at sea, so structured studies of the biology of nonnesting populations are challenging. However, fishers' ecological knowledge (FEK) could indicate sea turtle distribution, abundance, and population trends. Structured interviews with 93 male fishers at Sagareshwar Beach, Vengurla, in the Sindhudurg District of Maharashtra revealed observations of all 5 sea turtle species in local waters. Importantly, this was the first known record of loggerhead turtles for the Sindhudurg District of the state coastline and added to infrequent records of leatherback turtles over the previous 20 yrs. Observations were more common at a time when adult turtles are likely to be courting and mating, although this behavior was not observed. Fishers did not contribute ecological knowledge about sea turtle distribution from the waters they fished, potentially because of the method used to collect information on maps or reluctance to indicate areas fished. Estimates of abundance were widely disparate, but perceived decreases in the size of local populations were common among respondents. Outcomes of our study suggest that the FEK of small-scale coastal fishers operating in even a small area is of value in identifying potential areas for focused investigations on in-water populations of sea turtles.
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Author: Bodhanwala, S., Bodhanwala, R.
Exploring relationship between sustainability and firm performance in travel and tourism industry: a global evidence
Publisher: Social Responsibility Journal, 2019
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"Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine whether sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) outperforms the benchmark index investing across different time frames globally.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on the systematic weighted environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings compiled by Thomson Reuters Asset4, the authors assess the stock market performance and risk of highly compliant firms portfolio in seven different countries; grouped as developed and developing nations over different time frames by adopting the Jensen’s alpha model (CAPM) and the Fama and French three-factor model.
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The study finds that SRI portfolios significantly underperform their benchmark index, in case of, the developing nations, however, enjoy a significantly lower risk. This is contrary to the findings in case of developed nations, where the US SRI portfolio has significantly outperformed the benchmark index and the UK and Australia SRI portfolios have performed in line with the benchmark index. Finally, the study discusses results and implications for regulators, practitioners and investors’ who believe in the SRI investing.
Research limitations/implications
This study provides empirical support for the practitioners, policymakers and investors emphasizing that in the case of developed nations SRI investments generate a significant excess return or at the best perform in line with the broader market index. However, in the case of developing nations, very few firms are consistently rated on ESG parameters. This provides lesser options for investors in developing nations to apply the “impact first” philosophy of investment. The investor’s community and regulators need to make a serious effort in promoting firms to take up sustainability effort seriously.
Originality/value
The unique contribution of this study is that it considers a wider definition of the term “sustainability” and examines the performance of SRI investment in developed vs developing countries. This is one of the few studies at the global level, which highlights whether sustainable investing generates abnormal risk-adjusted returns for the investors."
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Author: Dhadwal, R.
Numerical Study of Effect of Inertia on Stability of Fibre Spinning
Publisher: International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics, 2016
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Author: Thakur, K. and Kamble, A.
Website of State Universities in Maharastra
Publisher: EduSanchar, 2016
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Author: Roy, D. and Saha, A.
Payment systems in India: Opportunities and challenges
Publisher: Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, 2016
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An efficient payment system acts as an enabler for speeding up liquidity flow in the economy, apart from ensuring proper utilization of limited resources it also eliminates systemic risks. Flow of funds across borders demands the security, integrity of the payment system and the harmonization of the systems in the related countries. The paper dwells with the need to modernize the payment system and migrate from paper-based to electronic mode of payment system to enhance efficiency and save cost. It delves in to the core of payment systems in the select countries with a comparative analysis. Benchmarking against the BIS core principles of Systemically Important Payment Systems revised as core principles of Financial Markets Infrastructure has been done to ensure convergence with the international best standards for Governance of Payment systems. The payment system of any country, though advanced and sophisticated, does face various risks, viz. bank failures, frauds, counter-party failures, etc. Such aberrations could trigger a chain-reaction that might ultimately result in disruption and distrust of the payment system. For example, if one large payment transaction cannot be settled, it disturbs other transactions leading to failure of the institutions involved in the process ultimately upsetting the entire payment system in the country. Such systematic and cascading breakdown of the payment system can hinder efficacy of monetary policy and badly impact confidence in the financial system. Minimization of systemic risk is therefore a critical challenge facing the regulators. Like in any ambitious economy, in India too, the fast advances in information technology, changes in regulatory framework, setting up of new institutions have aided to the rise of new payment practices, products and delivery channels for small as well as large value, and urgent payments. The paper shows areas for improvement in the efficiency in existing payment systems in India and the other countries especially in regard to the liquidity risk, operational risks, access criterion, transparency etc. In the end, the paper makes a modest attempt to identify opportunities and challenges for India. Numerous major changes in the payment system would take place at a quicker pace as e-commerce becomes more prevalent in the economic activities in the country.
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Author: Thakur, K.
Handbook of print journalism
Publisher: Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism, 2014
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Author: Kaul, P.
Gender in Post-Liberalisation India: The Complex Trajectories of Gender and (Postcolonial) Nationalism in Hindi Cinema
Publisher: Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman, 2016
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Author: Jha, S.K., and Mankad, N.
Examining Digital Competencies Within?The Entertainment Industry
Publisher: in Adrian Athique, Vibodh Parthasarathi & and S.V. Srinivas (eds), The Indian Media Economy: Volume 2: Market Dynamics and Social Transactions, Oxford University Press, 2018
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Author: Ghatge, B., Chakrabarti, C., and Shinde, S.
Building a High Performance Organization: Anna Bhau Ajara Shetkari Cooperative Spinning Mill
Publisher: South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, 2015
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Author: Mankad, N., and Mal, H.
Case Studies on Entrepreneurship and Strategy - Research and Teaching Cases
Publisher: ET Cases, 2017
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Author: Sarkar, S., and Rawani, M.
Consumers? Responses to Private Labels: Evaluations Extrinsic Cues Imitations
Publisher: In: Martínez-López F., Gázquez-Abad J., Ailawadi K., Yagüe-Guillén M. (eds) Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham, 2017
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Over the past few years, private labels have gained larger share in the organized retail sector. The influence of price similarity and dissimilarity on consumers’ judgments of a private label’s quality and purchase intention is studied using a controlled experiment with a sample of 356 respondents. Hypotheses are derived from relevant literature positing the effects of packaging and price on quality perception and willingness-to-buy. We hypothesize that higher price difference between private labels and national brands positively affect quality perceptions and inversely influence purchase intention. Experiments indicate that similarity of a private label packaging with a national brand has a significant effect on perceived quality and purchase intention. Likewise, the interaction effect of price and packaging strategies (imitation), in turn, positively influences the dependent variables. The results are significant the consumer packaged goods category (cookies). Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed followed by the limitation and future research
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Author: Gandhi, P.
The World of Contemporary Fine Artists: An exploration in Sociology of Art
Publisher: Notion Press, California, 2017
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Author: Mamidi, P.
Aggregation of land for a growing and globalizing economy: the role of small-town lawyers in India
Publisher: In David B. Wilkins, Vikramaditya Khanna, David M. Trubek (eds.), The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The Rise of the Corporate Legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society, Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Author: Saha, A.
Banking Structure, Conduct and Performance: The Indian Reality
Publisher: Indian Accounting Review, 2017
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Author: Kashyap, V. and Rangnekar, S.
The Mediating Role of Trust: Investigating the Relationships among Employer Brand Perception and Turnover Intentions
Publisher: Global Business Review, 2016
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Author: Dhadwal, R., Bainik, S., Doshi, P., and Pol., H
Effect of viscoelastic relaxation modes on stability of extrusion film casting process modeled using multi-mode Phan-Thien-Tanner constitutive equation
Publisher: Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2017
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Author: Kaushik, A. and Rahman, Z.
An empirical investigation of tourist's choice of service delivery optins -SSTSs vs. Service Employees
Publisher: International Journal of Contemporary Hositality Management, 2017
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