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 & Emerging markets. The organization has 415 authors who have published 1354 publications receiving 21725 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMC & IIM Calcutta.

Violence, markets and marketing

Abstract: Despite the ubiquity of violence, marketing theory seldom examines it and its relationship with markets or marketing practices. Moreover, the roles of markets and capitalism are rarely interrogated and are typically either openly endorsed or tacitly accepted as the sine qua non of human welfare. Researchers are encouraged to approach neo-liberal capitalist ideas without a critical lens (Eckhardt, Dholakia, & Varman, 2013; Eckhardt, Varman, & Dholakia, 2018). Therefore, there is no inquiry into how markets are sources of violence and how marketing, as a systemic intervention that furthers markets, contributes to the spread of violence. Similarly, there is a neglect of how marketing theory is a form of epistemic violence that also acts as a camouflage for human sufferings that neoliberalism creates across the world. In marketing, as Evans and Giroux (2015, p. 12) lament,

Is Education the Panacea for Economic Deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from Wage Earners in India, 1987-2004

Abstract: Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the average (log) earnings of Hindu and Muslim wage earners in India, during the 1987-2004 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners, especially differences in the proportion of wage earners with tertiary education, are largely responsible for the differences in the average (log) earnings of the two religious groups across the years. By contrast, differences in the returns to education do not explain the aforementioned difference in average (log) earnings. Citing other evidence about persistence of educational achievements across generations, however, we argue that attempts to narrow this gap using quotas for Muslim households at educational institutions might be counterproductive from the point of view of conflict avoidance.

Feature Significance in Geostatistics

Abstract: Geographically referenced data are routinely smoothed using kriging or spline methodology. Features in the resulting surface such as peaks, inclines, ridges, and valleys are often of interest. This article develops inference for the significance of such features through extension of methodology for univariate features known as SiZer. We work with low rank radial spline smoothers. These allow the handling of sparse designs, large sample sizes, and simulation-based critical value approximation. We illustrate the methodology on two geostatistical datasets.

IT for the informal sector in developing countries: A broader perspective

Abstract: Although the informal sector's presence in the developed world is by no means meagre, the themes and issues related to information technology (IT) for this sector in the developing country contexts seem stark and deeply contrasted with those relating to the informal sector in developed countries. Solutions which attempt to exploit the potential of IT for the informal sector have thus far been either knee‐jerk, ad‐hoc, or have mimicked those targeted at the formal sector. However, technology tools available today can accelerate, catalyze, and go beyond the conventional straight‐jacketed technology, economic, and policy solutions for the informal sector. The papers in this special issue reflect this theme and attempt to present a glimpse of the possibilities for achieving and the challenges in effecting such solutions.