Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

About: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta is a education organization based out in Kolkata, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Supply chain & Context (language use). The organization has 415 authors who have published 1354 publications receiving 21725 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMC & IIM Calcutta.

Framework for Using New Age Technology to Increase Effectiveness of Project Communication for Outsourced IT Projects Executed from Offshore

Abstract: Effective project communication involves interaction with diverse stakeholders having varied organizational and personal backgrounds. For offshore IT projects, cultural, language, time and geographic gap poses challenge in communication. Extending use of new technology in marketing communication, this paper proposes a conceptual framework to use new technology to increase effectiveness of project communication for remotely executed projects. It posits that social media powered by ubiquitous access using mobile and cloud computing, enriched by data analytics helps assuage communication challenges experienced by IT projects executed from offshore.

The impact of resilience and recovery among the survivors of domestic violence: A perspective study of women in the Indian context

Abstract: Research on domestic violence on women extensively documents the harm caused by such violence as a result it is a fact that battered women experience increased levels of stress , trauma ,depression and lower self esteem added with higher levels of psychological distress when compared to non battered women. The present study tries to highlight on the psychological, emotional, social and physical effects of domestic violence on Indian women and the impact of resilience and recovery from the trauma caused by it. In-depth interviews were conducted with 12 women belonging to the city of Kolkata, subjected to domestic violence for a period of 3-15 years. The results highlighted on the condition of women living with domestic violence and how they directed themselves towards the use of resilience and recovery, to put an end to the trauma caused by it. Future implications of the study highlight on the intervention programs and generation of resources to incentivize these traumatized women to face the hardships and adversity in the Indian context.

Providing Information Feedback to Bidders in Online Multi-unit Combinatorial Auctions

Abstract: Bidders in online multi-unit combinatorial auctions face the acute problem of estimating the valuations of an immense number of packages. Can the seller guide the bidders to avoid placing bids that are too high or too low? In the single unit case, fast methods are now available for incrementally computing, for each package at each time instant, the recommended lower bound (Deadness Level) and upper bound (Winning Level) on the next bid. But when there are multiple units of items, it becomes difficult to compute the Deadness Level of a package accurately. An upper bound on this quantity can be derived however, and a bid that stays within this bound and the Winning Level is “safe”, in the sense that it is not wasted and has the potential to become a winning bid. What is now needed is an incremental procedure for speeding up the computation of this bound.

The Economic and Environmental Benefits of VMI Adoption in Multi-Retailer Systems

Abstract: There is an increasing push towards integrating environmental considerations in decision making in organizations. Rethinking and realigning existing business processes has been touted to offer significant potential in reducing the ecological footprint. Specifically, the role of logistics and supply chain has come into prominence in this regard. In this chapter, a supply chain with a single vendor and multiple retailers has been considered. Initially, we assume that the retailers take care of their respective replenishment decisions. Then, it is shown that by adopting vendor managed inventory, the organizations involved can benefit through cost reduction, and at the same time reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, thereby highlighting the role of supply chain coordination in meeting the twin objectives. Managerial and policy insights based on our numerical analysis have also been provided.

Mobile agent based message communication in large ad hoc networks through co-operative routing using inter-agent negotiation at rendezvous points

Abstract: The wide availability of mobile devices together with the technical possibility to form ad-hoc networks paves the way for building highly dynamic communicating communities of mobile users. A challenge is how to deliver messages in such networks incurring least routing overhead. Cooperative routing is a mobile-agent assisted team approach, which utilizes a set of fixed cluster head nodes to provide proper coordination and cooperation for exchanges and sharing of messages in the team. Our routing strategy aims at reducing routing overheads, message traffic and unnecessary random node visits in the network for delivering data. The main benefit provided by cooperative routing is considerable network traffic reduction at high load. We highlight the main components of the system and discuss the agent life cycle in detail together with the parameters and strategies governing the migration of agents, their merging and termination.