Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

About: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad is a education organization based out in Ahmedabad, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Emerging markets. The organization has 1828 authors who have published 4011 publications receiving 59269 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMA & IIM Ahmedabad.

ICT Adoption and Productivity in Developing Countries: New Firm Level Evidence from Brazil and India

Abstract: This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the determinants of ICT adoption and its impact on performance in both countries. The descriptive evidence shows that Brazilian firms on average use ICT more intensively than their Indian counterparts but changes over time have been rather similar in both places. Within countries ICT intensity is strongly related to size, ownership structure, share of administrative workers and education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even after controlling for several other factors, including firm-specific fixed-effects. The rate of return of ICT investment seems to be much larger than usually found in more developed countries. Specific types of organisational changes matter for the return of ICT, but only for high adopters. Firms report several constraints to ICT investment in both countries and power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of the impact of a cluster of poor institutions and/or infrastructure on performance.

Quantifying bullwhip effect in a closed loop supply chain

Abstract: The issue of sustainability has attracted attention towards closing the traditional supply chain through different reprocessing options. This paper develops an analytical expression for measuring the bullwhip effect in a six echelon closed loop supply chain for recycling of products like paper, plastic. A first order auto regressive end customer demand is assumed with each supply chain participant employing an order-up-to (OUT) policy and Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) forecasting scheme. The model assists the closed loop supply chain entities in anticipating the downstream demand and suggests them to carefully select the value of auto regressive parameter so as to avoid any order-process instability in the closed loop supply chain. Stability analysis helps in determining the combination of degree of segregation at source, yield and auto regressive parameter for maintaining a stable system. Sensitivity analysis of replenishment lead-time combination could be utilized by management for designing an optimal recycling-distribution system, under the condition of constant accumulated lead-time. Further, the segregation analysis reveals that increase in the degree of segregation at the source reduces the bullwhip effect in the closed loop supply chain.

Income Inequality: The Aftermath of Stock Market Liberalization in Emerging Markets

Abstract: Early research has documented that the large scale equity market liberalizations of the last decade led the subsequent rise in aggregate equity indices, investment booms, capital flows and economic growth. An important and unaddressed issue is the normative question of whether and how these reforms shifted the distribution of incomes in the aftermath of equity market liberalization. In careful empirical analysis, we find a pattern indicating that income share growth accrued almost wholly to the top quintile of the income distribution at the expense of a "middle class" that we define as the three middle quintiles of the income distribution. A surprising finding is that the lowest income share remained effectively unchanged in the event of liberalization. These patterns are robust to the inclusion of a wide variety of controls for global shocks, country specific factors, and contemporaneously implemented privatization and stabilization policies.

Level of Formalisation of Human Resource Management in Small and Medium Enterprises in India

Abstract: In this article, the current state of management of human resources in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India is explored. The owner-managers play important roles in managing human resources ...