Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

About: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is a education organization based out in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Emerging markets & Context (language use). The organization has 491 authors who have published 1254 publications receiving 23853 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMB.

Multidimensional Poverty: Measurement, Estimation, and Inference

Abstract: Multidimensional poverty measures give rise to a host of statistical hypotheses which are of interest to applied economists and policy-makers alike. In the specific context of the generalized Alkire-Foster (Alkire and Foster 2008) class of measures, we show that many of these hypotheses can be treated in a unified manner and also tested simultaneously using the minimum P-value methodology of Bennett (2010). When applied to study the relative state of poverty among Hindus and Muslims in India, these tests reveal novel insights into the plight of the poor which are not otherwise captured by traditional univariate approaches.

Sustainability of Indian Railways Turnaround: A Stage Theory Perspective

Abstract: Turnarounds are like exciting thrillers which describe dramatic recovery of declining organizations Since such recoveries have great relevance for the economic development particularly of developing countries facing resource scarcity, researchers with increasing interest have enriched the turnaround literature, especially in the last four decades Research has highlighted many facets of turnaround These include turnaround actions, strategies, types, elements, stages etc Though the research covers largely the private sector entities, but effort, though little, is not nonexistent for the public sector The paper examines a large complex departmental commercial organization of the Government of India and its much-talked about turnaround in the theoretical perspective of stage theory The paper not only fills up the gap of research in public sector but also uses the established stage theory model to answer the question of sustainability of the Indian Railways turnaround The analysis goes back to the theoretical propositions which are by and large supported by the analysis of the turnaround of the Indian Railways

Supplier selection model with incomplete cost information

Abstract: We analyze a scenario where a buyer procures capacity from one or more suppliers in the presence of demand uncertainty. The buyer does not have information of suppliers' production cost function but assumes it is sampled from a known probability distribution. The supplier, of course, has knowledge of its own cost function but like the buyer does not have information on other suppliers' cost function. Under this scenario we explicitly derive suppliers' capacity reservation price, which is a function of their capacity, amount of capacity reserved by the buyer and other parameters. The buyer's decisions are how much capacity to reserve and from how many suppliers. Under certain conditions we develop solutions and show that the model is robust to the number of suppliers from whom capacity is procured through reservation. When the parameters of demand distribution changes the supply base is likely to remain more or less the same.

Effect of Education–Occupation Mismatch on Wages in India

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of educational levels on wages across different occupational groups. The existing literature relating to this topic concludes that returns to surplus schooling are less than that of ideal level of schooling required for a job. This observation is not in accordance with the theory of human capital. Many authors observe that workers who are over-educated for a job are paid less than their counterparts (with ideal education level) who are in a job for which they are adequately educated. However, such observations are limited to developed countries and have not been empirically validated in the case of developing countries. Thus, this is an attempt towards analysing the effect of education, especially over-education as regards its bearing on wages in the Indian labour market. This study delves deeper into unfolding the education-wage nexus within each of the seven occupational groups defined for this study. Realised Matches method is used for calculating the over and under-educated for each occupational group. It is found that there is an agreement with human capital theory among all occupational categories in India.