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{"title":"Individual Freedom Vis-à-Vis Integrity of the State: A Study with Reference to Apple iPhone","authors":"Kumar Mukul, K. N. Rao, Sukanya Kundu","doi":"10.1177/25166042211027425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166042211027425","url":null,"abstract":"Advancement in telecommunication and networking, especially the mobile-based communication systems, has contributed enormously towards the integration of nations and societies in the form of a ‘global village’. While the technological advancements have made connectivity across the globe so much easier, they have also raised concerns of comprising our privacy and security in the process. The case illustrates the conflict between a technology giant (Apple) versus a superpower country (United States) on sensitive issues of terrorism and national security. The business firm in the case decides to put its commitment to customers ahead of the government’s demands of unlocking the phone of a terrorist in question. The conflicting stands of the two parties highlight the issues of privacy (of a customer—who happens to be a terrorist in this case) versus national security. The government was of the opinion that the security of the nation is paramount and must be given precedence over anything else. Apple viewed the demand from the government as a breach of security assurances given to its customers at the time of product sale. The case raises sensitive issues like responsibility of a business firm to various stakeholders, the obligations of a firm to the customers, the obligations of the democratic government to its citizens, the value systems of a company, the privacy concerns of the citizens and so on. The case raises pertinent questions as to which concern is most urgent and paramount or which one should get preference—privacy of individuals, promises made by the companies or security of the nation? It also makes us ponder regarding the issues we may confront in future—Will incidents like these be more frequent in future? Can we sacrifice freedom of the citizens in the name of security? Can a government sneak into anyone’s private life at will? Are citizens being over-cautious and finicky? Do companies need to join the fight against terrorism rather than worrying about their company policies, protocols or impact on profits? The case provides a context for raising diverse perspectives on these issues and helps facilitate deliberations in focused manner.","PeriodicalId":297054,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Economies Cases Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129490536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Paisley Coatings Limited","authors":"A. Jha, A. Chauhan","doi":"10.1177/2516604220988221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516604220988221","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":297054,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Economies Cases Journal","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133124746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DuPont Decomposition for Fertilizer Companies","authors":"Rohit Bansal, Sanjay Kumar Kar, Manminder Kaur","doi":"10.1177/2516604221996483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516604221996483","url":null,"abstract":"The case focuses on analysing the top two Indian fertilizer companies’ performance in terms of revenue and income for 2019–2020, Coromandel International Limited (CIL) and Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (GSFC). Based on performance appraisal, students are expected to select the better company for investment to get a better return. To make such a decision, students must analyse DuPont decomposition, modified (also known as additive or alternate) DuPont approach and Altman Z-score. The case aims to teach analysis of companies’ financial statements using financial ratios. It explains how the DuPont method and Altman Z-score can recognize the factors that affect a company’s performance through assessment of profitability, efficiency and leverage. The case is appropriate for financial accounting courses, audit and assurance, financial modelling, accounting practice and regulations. After studying the issues, students should analyse the business models of CIL and GSFC by reviewing their history since incorporation, product and service offerings, revenue, margins, assets, borrowings and market capitalization (Bodie & Merton, 2000, Finance, Prentice-Hall). We are particularly interested in assessing the current financial position, market position and strategies of the companies and their peer group and evaluating the role of gatekeepers, such as business analysts, audit committees, external auditors, institutional investors and regulators, in enhancing the quality of financial reporting.","PeriodicalId":297054,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Economies Cases Journal","volume":"37 5-6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114035601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Clarion: A Social Enterprise Disrupting School Stationary Industry for Sustainability","authors":"A. V. B. Acharyulu, Vaishali Agarwal, M. Prabhakar","doi":"10.1177/2516604221995156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516604221995156","url":null,"abstract":"Clarion Education and Skills Private Limited Patna, is a start-up promoted to address the school stationery demand–supply gap in the rural elementary education delivery system and cater to the needs of the rural school children in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. This case documents the way Clarion pursued disrupting the school notebooks market, with a goal of making a notebook affordable at one-sixth the existing cost of a notebook in the marketplace in 2016. Clarion was promoted by The Better World Foundation (BWF), Patna, a social enterprise working in the area of rural elementary education in Bihar. BWF was of the view that the challenges of school stationery supply chain need to be addressed through a commercial enterprise only, so as to drive changes in the sector, so that BWF could focus on its core objective of creating and developing meaningful elementary educational institutions in the remote rural villages in Bihar, India. This case study details the strategy of Clarion in developing a business model to break the shackles of high-priced branded notebooks by linking the advertising of social marketing campaigns with insertions in the notebook covers, and thus converting the notebook into an advertising medium, and meticulously campaigning for supply of affordable notebooks through various governmental and non-governmental institutions. Clarion challenged the competitive forces on one side and pursued building a cost leadership position for itself through cost-value trade-off initiatives on the other.","PeriodicalId":297054,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Economies Cases Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126893594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lifeline Express: Hospital Train in Rural India","authors":"J. Ahmed, S. Siddiqui, Asma Ahmed, Kazi Pushpita Mim","doi":"10.1177/2516604220977243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516604220977243","url":null,"abstract":"India’s medical service industry is an emerging force in Southeast Asia, which should be recognized. A large portion of the country’s GDP is being earned through this sector. Paradoxically, India’s rural sphere has always been highly deprived of medical facilities even in rudimentary level. This huge imbalance was previously an issue for India to reach to a footing through innovation. India still being a developing country has majority of people living in rural areas where quality healthcare is not only difficult to avail but sometimes even hard to access. In such circumstances, an initiative like Lifeline Express (LLE) has provided the people with access to quality healthcare which has been crucially needed. It is a very simple idea but incredibly complex in terms of execution throughout the whole region. The LLE is a hospital which moves throughout rural India in a form of a fully equipped train. Since 1991, this initiative in India has generated some commendable projects through which it has served many rural Indians. Through this case, it will be comprehensible of how the train and the medical team function and will show the limitations and challenges healthcare in India is facing and how LLE has proved its fantastic ability to fight with the constraints and make healthcare reach the doorsteps of the rural people. Despite the challenges and limitations, it is also been revealed how the journey of LLE has grown from a three-coach train to seven-coach train where patients get treatment of many diseases from the early 1990s to this day.","PeriodicalId":297054,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Economies Cases Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133351215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the Desire of Conquering East African Supermarket Business: What Went Wrong in Nakumatt Supermarket","authors":"F. Nandonde","doi":"10.1177/2516604221999224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516604221999224","url":null,"abstract":"By October 2017, the East African Community’s (EAC) largest retailer was declared bankrupt. All stores within and outside Kenya, namely Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania were closed. Many suppliers in EAC took the retail company to court after having suffered huge losses. Some few suppliers looted the stores with the aim of compensating themselves for the incurred losses. Simply put, Nakumatt’s reputation was in the mire and the company headed for a total collapse. Everyone in the region was asking himself/herself, what might have gone wrong to Nakumatt supermarket. In general, the current case is a lesson that sheds light on the rise and collapse of one of the largest household names of retail stores in EAC.","PeriodicalId":297054,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Economies Cases Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127308939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bollywood in Transition: Chiragdeep’s Reflection of the Film Industry","authors":"Soumya Sarkar, Ami Shah, S. Dutta","doi":"10.1177/2516604220968537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516604220968537","url":null,"abstract":"This case illustrates Bollywood, the Hindi film industry, operating out of Mumbai. As an industry, Bollywood is at crossroads today, trying to create a sustainable business model. The case dives deep into the structure of the industry, the conduct of its existing players and its performance. The case stands out as a means for understanding industry-level competitiveness and the unique profitability patterns. It addresses the concerns of the incumbents of Bollywood and how they can draw lessons from its peer—the Tamil film industry in Chennai—in terms of a regulated sustainable business model.","PeriodicalId":297054,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Economies Cases Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122021789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"BankBuddy.ai—Business Expansion and Marketing Dilemma: A Case Study to Discuss the Ansoff Growth Matrix Concepts Combined with Business Expansion Strategies for Expanding into Emerging Markets","authors":"Srikrishna Chintalapati","doi":"10.1177/2516604220929994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516604220929994","url":null,"abstract":"Five more days to go until the new year, it was a warm, pleasant and busy morning in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. As the clock ticked 10 times, Aditya Bhagat (Aditya), a young, ambitious, passionate entrepreneur, is seemingly intrigued and curious. Exactly 30 minutes from now, he is scheduled to meet Surya Prasad (Surya), his friend, counterpart and co-founder of BankBuddy (www.bankbuddy.ai). Half the office is already empty as most of the associates had left for the year-end holidays, Aditya wanted to use this time to carefully brainstorm, methodically plan and articulate his business strategies and get them ready for execution in the new year. Marketing strategy is of particular importance, arguably the most critical and complex element that also needs the most attention in the overall exercise. He clearly understands that their current business strategy of being headquartered in Dubai and staying focused on artificial intelligence 1 (AI) powered solutions for the banking industry has paid off so well in their current geographical focus—Middle Eastern and African countries. The time now to look at next wave of business expansion. This inadvertently raises the decision dilemma of choosing the most productive and promising growth path—where and what to expand? Should they expand into more geographies? Or should they diversify the product line and add more offerings? In which country and city should they set up the new base (centroid) and which countries do they target for expansion? Which are the other promising products/offerings they should be adding to their existing lines of business? Aditya knows that today is the time to address the ‘elephant in the room’—where to invest my marketing money?","PeriodicalId":297054,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Economies Cases Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129303514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shoppers Stop: Leveraging Social Media for Employer Branding","authors":"Gordhan K. Saini","doi":"10.1177/2516604220930394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516604220930394","url":null,"abstract":"Shoppers Stop had a significant presence on social media platforms—LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. However, a large number of Shoppers Stop’s customers posted complaints about deficiency in customer service on these social media platforms, mainly on Facebook. The complaints and ratings were also seen by other stakeholders such as potential employees who form a perception about the company’s employer brand based on these ratings. While Shoppers Stop promptly responded to disgruntled customers on Facebook to redress their complaints, Shoppers Stop was uncertain about the possible adverse impact of these customer reviews on the company’s employer brand. Further, Shoppers Stop wanted to leverage its presence on various social media platforms to promote and manage its employer brand.","PeriodicalId":297054,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Economies Cases Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115054696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Air India on Sale","authors":"Arjuni Jain Agarwal, I. L. Reddy","doi":"10.1177/2516604220942971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516604220942971","url":null,"abstract":"This case study is based on the epic divestment of Air India which eventually did not take off. Post ill-conceived merger without any synergies, the losses began to enlarge exponentially. This led the carrier to financial losses, apart from that enormous order of 110 fleets without having the capacity to pay, crippled the financial status of the airline substantially. All the government’s effort to restructure and turn around the airline proved to be a failure. The plot for this case is set as, considering the government’s inability to cope with its debts and meet day-to-day expenses in this extremely competitive industry, the Union Cabinet gave its ‘in-principle’ nod to divest holdings in Air India, but had not formally announced for the bidding process, a group of ministers are still working on terms of divestment. Meanwhile the news created a buzz and potential bidders have started informally expressing their interest in Air India. The government is expecting more and more bidders to participate to derive maximum out of the auction. When more and more bidders participate in a bid, the bid amount always ascends and a situation of winner’s curse is created where the winning bidder has a feeling of regret by over-paying the amount in order to win the bid. The subject that this case will fit into is Game Theory and Strategic Management courses and central theme or concept to be taught through this case is situation of winner’s curse and some more concepts related to Auctions and Strategy.","PeriodicalId":297054,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Economies Cases Journal","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131952883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}