Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

About: Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli is a education organization based out in Tiruchchirappalli, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Emerging markets & Information technology. The organization has 47 authors who have published 105 publications receiving 1694 citations. The organization is also known as: IIM Trichy.

Beyond institutional voids: Business groups, incomplete markets, and organizational form

Abstract: We extend the “institutional voids” perspective on business groups by examining the value-adding potential of two of the characteristic features of business groups: their diverse portfolio and multi-entity organizational form. We maintain that portfolio diversity affords affiliates privileged access to opportunities hidden by incomplete strategic factor markets. We hypothesize that the multi-entity organizational form enables superior sensing and seizing of these growth opportunities by affiliate firms. We further suggest that, in the context of institutional reforms, these characteristics strengthen business group affiliates' ability to capitalize on the expanded set of opportunities made available by the reform program. Empirical analyses on a sample of Indian firms over the period 1994–2010 support our hypotheses. Implications for theory and future directions are discussed

A robust hybrid multi-criteria decision making methodology for contractor evaluation and selection in third-party reverse logistics

Abstract: Due to green legislations, industries track the used products through reverse logistics contractors. A reverse logistics programme offers significant cost savings in procurement, transportation, disposal and inventory carrying. Since reverse logistics operations and the supply chains they support are considerably more complex than traditional manufacturing supply chains, it can be offered to third party contractors. But availability of more number of contractors make evaluating and selecting the most efficient Reverse Logistics Contractor (RLC) a challenging task and treated as a multi-criteria decision making problem. In this paper, a hybrid method using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solutions (TOPSIS) is proposed. AHP is used to obtain the initial weights and Fuzzy TOPSIS is used to get the final ranking. A case study demonstrates the application of the proposed method. Finally sensitivity analysis is carried out to confirm the robustness.