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 & Corporate governance. The organization has 491 authors who have published 1254 publications receiving 23853 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMB.

Engaging with startups: MNC perspectives

Abstract: Through a conceptual note and round table discussion, this article builds upon Buckley and Prashantham's (2016) “division of entrepreneurial labour” notion to consider more closely the perspective of multinational corporations (MNCs) in relation to partnering with startups. First, the capability dimension suggests that there is potential for value creation resulting from complementarity between the strengths of corporations and startups. Second, the connectivity dimension is concerned with how this potential is realised; the rise of corporations’ programmatic initiatives and third-party specialists are highlighted. Third, the contextuality dimension highlights spatial differences, noting MNCs’ unique opportunities and challenges vis-a-vis startup partnering in emerging markets.

Slums and malnourishment: evidence from women in India

Abstract: Objectives. We examined the association between slum residence and nutritional status in women in India by using competing classifications of slum type.Methods. We used nationally representative data from the 2005–2006 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) to create our citywide analysis sample. The data provided us with individual, household, and community information. We used the body mass index data to identify nutritional status, whereas the residential status variable provided slum details. We used a multinomial regression framework to model the 3 nutrition states—undernutrition, normal, and overnutrition.Results. After we controlled for a range of attributes, we found that living in a census slum did not affect nutritional status. By contrast, living in NFHS slums decreased the odds of being overweight by 14% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.79, 0.95) and increased the odds of being underweight by 10% (95% CI = 1.00, 1.22).Conclusions. The association between slum residence and nutritional outcome...

Alarm system for insurance companies: A strategy for capital allocation

Abstract: One possible way of risk management for an insurance company is to develop an early and appropriate alarm system before the possible ruin. The ruin is defined through the status of the aggregate risk process, which in turn is determined by premium accumulation as well as claim settlement outgo for the insurance company. The main purpose of this work is to design an effective alarm system, i.e. to define alarm times and to recommend augmentation of capital of suitable magnitude at those points to reduce the chance of ruin. To draw a fair measure of effectiveness of alarm system, comparison is drawn between an alarm system, with capital being added at the sound of every alarm, and the corresponding system without any alarm, but an equivalently higher initial capital. Analytical results are obtained in general setup and this is backed up by simulated performances with various types of loss severity distributions. This provides a strategy for suitably spreading out the capital and yet addressing survivability concerns at factory level.