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{"title":"Emotional Disorders, Dispositional Mindfulness, and Mediating Role of Acceptance in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students","authors":"Vibhuti Gupta, Nishita Sinha","doi":"10.1177/02560909231166498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02560909231166498","url":null,"abstract":"‘For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is, let it rain.’ (Longfellow, 1906) Mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and stress, affect a sizable proportion of university students. Yet, little is known regarding the incidence of mental health issues among Indian university students. These mental health issues are generally caused by a range of factors, including academic demands, interpersonal connections (Steptoe, 2007), future prospects, competitive exams, peer pressure, and professional considerations (Beiter et al., 2015). One of the most important mental health problems impacting a large population across India and the world is depression, leading to physical diseases, suicidal thoughts, and suicide, among other negative outcomes (Gururaj et al., 2016). According to the NCRB Report, 2021, the two age groups most susceptible to suicide were between 18 and 30 and 30 and 44. Suicide rates in both age categories were 34.5% and 31.7%, respectively. Family issues (3,233 victims), romantic relationships (1,495 victims), and illness (1,408 victims) were the three leading factors in suicides below 18 years of age, while the victims that were either students or unemployed made up 8.0% (13,089 victims) and 8.4% (13,714 victims) of all suicides, respectively. The objectives of this study were to understand and add to the body of knowledge on the role of mindfulness concerning depression, anxiety, and stress amongst university students; the role of mindfulness concerning avoidant behaviours amongst university students; and the mediating role of acceptance in the relationship between mindfulness and depression, anxiety, and stress amongst university students. The results of the study revealed that depression, experiential avoidance, and mindfulness are all strongly and negatively connected. The study discovered a strong correlation between experiential avoidance and depression, anxiety, and stress (psychological distress). Mindfulness had a considerable impact on the mediator, experiential avoidance, which was postulated.","PeriodicalId":35878,"journal":{"name":"Vikalpa","volume":"13 1","pages":"206 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88691270","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":"Impact of Work from Home and Family Support on Indian Women’s Work Productivity During COVID-19","authors":"S. Kundra, Naman Sreen, R. Dwivedi","doi":"10.1177/02560909231162918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02560909231162918","url":null,"abstract":"The work-from-home practices initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic have caused a paradigmatic shift in how we work. Work from home (WFH) led to an intermingling of the domestic and professional spaces, and the WFH phenomenon has asymmetrically impacted women’s work. In such a scenario, women professionals experience a greater work–life conflict, and the significance of family support comes to the fore. Studying this phenomenon in the Indian context is interesting because the primary responsibility for Indian women lies in the domestic arena. Female Indian professionals are expected to seamlessly fulfil their domestic duties no matter how demanding their job is. The multiplicity of challenges that affect women professionals’ productivity at work only gets compounded when women are expected to work from the domestic sphere where the demand of domestic duties constantly confronts them. Several global scholars have indicated that the burden of domestic duties was greater for women during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the burden of child-care, elderly care and cooking activities increased as outsourcing such activities was not an easily available option during the lockdowns which led to reduced work productivity amongst women. However, this study revealed that Indian female professionals reported better work productivity than female professionals working from their workspace. Indian women are used to fulfilling domestic and professional duties even prior to the pandemic, and Indians perceive greater satisfaction in interpersonal relational experiences rather than individualistic career goals. The study also revealed that family support did not increase when women were working from home, but the increase in family support increased women’s work productivity. Findings also indicate that female professionals with children showed significantly lower work productivity than female professionals (married and unmarried) without children.","PeriodicalId":35878,"journal":{"name":"Vikalpa","volume":"72 1","pages":"39 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86278499","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":"Gyan Shala Model: The Lucknow Challenge","authors":"Saripalli Bhavani Shankar","doi":"10.1177/02560909231162974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02560909231162974","url":null,"abstract":"VIKALPA • VOLUME 48 • ISSUE 1 • JANUARY-MARCH 2023 Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-Commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub. com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Gyan Shala Model: The Lucknow Challenge VIKALPA The Journal for Decision Makers 48(1) 72 –74, 2023 © The Author(s) 2023 Reprints and permissions: in.sagepub.com/journalspermissions-india DOI: 10.1177/02560909231162974 journals.sagepub.com/home/vik","PeriodicalId":35878,"journal":{"name":"Vikalpa","volume":"58 1","pages":"72 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91291408","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":"For Brand’s Sake: Marketing Lessons for Young Brand Managers","authors":"Abhishek","doi":"10.1177/02560909231162895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02560909231162895","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35878,"journal":{"name":"Vikalpa","volume":"37 1","pages":"75 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81381397","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":"Long-run Stock Return of IPO Firms in India: Examining Investment and Profitability Hypothesis","authors":"A. Shukla, T. Shaw","doi":"10.1177/02560909231157976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02560909231157976","url":null,"abstract":"The finance literature has analysed several aspects of the IPO market, namely, hot issue market, initial under-pricing, and long-run underperformance. Among them, findings of long-run underperformance are particularly significant as it indicates that investors incur losses on a perpetual basis by investing in a portfolio of IPO firms. According to the OECD (2019), during 2009–2019, the number of IPO issuances by non-financial firms in India were the third-highest globally. In the case of India, only a few studies have investigated the long-run performance of IPO firms. Accordingly, the present study fills a void in this arena. The study, along with the conventional event study techniques, deploys the Fama-French Five-Factor model for analysis of long-run underperformance. The study estimates investment and profitbility factors for India following the methodology illustrated by Fama-French (2015). The study finds that long-run underperformance by the IPO firms is not absolute but specific to the sample and methodology used for analysis. It also finds that underperformance is prevalent in high IPO volume years. The regression results for IPO firms as portfolios in the capital asset pricing framework do not show any long-run underperformance. This finding supports the conclusion that the long-run underperformance by IPOs reported in the previous studies results suffers from sample and methodology bias. The analyses in the five-factor framework show the plausibility of higher investment by IPO firms resulting in lower market return. IPO firms make above-industry-average capital expenditure, and their profitability converges with the industry after issue.","PeriodicalId":35878,"journal":{"name":"Vikalpa","volume":"1 1","pages":"21 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90054837","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":"A Critique of the Initiative for Public–Private Partnership in Passenger Train Operations","authors":"Rachna Gangwar G Raghuram, Charu Rastogi, Rachna Gangwar, G Raghuram","doi":"10.1177/02560909231162955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02560909231162955","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we critique the initiative for public private partnership in passenger train operations, started by the Ministry of Railways in July 2020. First, we examine each of the clusters in terms of parameters having implications on market and design coherence. The parameters include category of service (based on running time), train kms per week, train hours per week and average speed. Second, we present the salient features of bid parameters and conditions as per the documents released by the Ministry of Railways. Third, we assess the public private partnership initiative and bid conditions on parameters such as drivers for the initiative, market coherence, design coherence, bidding process and timeline, bid criteria, concession period, issues of competition, financial capacity, entry costs, train set features, fare and ticketing, terminals, schedule and stoppages, haulage and other charges and operations & maintenance. We also draw lessons from our understanding of the public private partnership experience of container train operators, where applicable. Finally, we suggest a way forward for the stakeholders in this public private partnership initiative.","PeriodicalId":35878,"journal":{"name":"Vikalpa","volume":"339 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136131353","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":"Gyan Shala Model: The Lucknow Challenge","authors":"Rajesh K. Aithal","doi":"10.1177/02560909231155304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02560909231155304","url":null,"abstract":"VIKALPA • VOLUME 48 • ISSUE 1 • JANUARY-MARCH 2023 Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-Commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub. com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Gyan Shala Model: The Lucknow Challenge","PeriodicalId":35878,"journal":{"name":"Vikalpa","volume":"21 1","pages":"62 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83295724","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":"Outsourcing in a Large-scale Temporary Hospital for COVID Care Services in India","authors":"Anuj Aggarwal, Saroj Patnaik, Chandrasekhara T, Kushagra Patel, Akshay Jain","doi":"10.1177/02560909221148555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02560909221148555","url":null,"abstract":"VIKALPA • VOLUME 48 • ISSUE 1 • JANUARY-MARCH 2023 Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-Commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub. com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Outsourcing in a Large-scale Temporary Hospital for COVID Care Services in India","PeriodicalId":35878,"journal":{"name":"Vikalpa","volume":"89 1","pages":"54 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73548583","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":"Interim Finance in Creditor-Oriented Bankruptcy Codes: A Study in the Context of Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, India","authors":"Amol Baxi","doi":"10.1177/02560909221150689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02560909221150689","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines interim financing with specific reference to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) in India. Interim financing is recognized as relevant to the successful outcome of the bankruptcy process. Internationally, bankruptcy regimes are considered robust if they contain enabling provisions allowing interim financing. IBC, hailed as creditor-friendly legislation, authorizes the insolvency professional (IP) to raise interim finance during bankruptcy. However, despite enabling legislation, the segment remains challenging. This study, through a qualitative methodology, examines the issues of mobilizing interim finance under the IBC. First, through a theoretical lens, this article discusses the importance of recognizing the distinct dimensions of interim financing under creditor-oriented regimes, like IBC, relative to the more established debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing model in the US (a debtor-friendly bankruptcy regime). This article argues that interim financing under creditor-oriented bankruptcy regimes faces certain inherent limitations (like lower lender motivation due to a lack of relationship banking or control/governance opportunities) relative to DIP financing, which primarily stems from who controls the firm during bankruptcy (IP or the corporate debtor). Through an interview method, this article then examines some specific issues in raising interim finance under the IBC. This research finds a lack of repayment visibility (quantum & timelines), narrow perception of interim finance and subtle differences between the objectives of the IP and lenders (resolution vs. recovery) are some practical impediments. From a normative perspective, this article suggests that improvements in IBC efficiency would improve takeout visibility to lenders. Greater stakeholder engagement will help alleviate conflicts and broaden the perspectives on the ultimate objectives of interim finance. Additionally, this article suggests learnings from the DIP model include a more early (ex-ante) consideration of interim finance (including potential sources). This article also calls for regulatory clarification on the inclusion of funding from the CoC in the technical definition of interim finance.","PeriodicalId":35878,"journal":{"name":"Vikalpa","volume":"1 1","pages":"189 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82984167","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":"A Reformist Thought to Fiscal Reform and Budget Management","authors":"Anshuman Kamila, Ritika Bansal, Rajiv K. Mishra","doi":"10.1177/02560909221144502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02560909221144502","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35878,"journal":{"name":"Vikalpa","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72670593","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}