{"title":"Regulation of brands in the Indian pharmaceutical industry in the 1960s: Examination of the Tariff Commission Report, 1968","authors":"Manu Kanchan","doi":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The literature on the Indian pharmaceutical industry has examined the importance of product patents and the attempts policy has made to regulate them. However, it has not done the same for the question of brands. Our study addresses this gap. The Tariff Commission Report of 1968, a turning point in the price control policies of the 1960s, is examined. The examination revealed two important points: first, there were attempts to regulate brands through policies; and second, brands were of high importance to all the major industry players. This became evident in the industry's resistance to the government's regulatory efforts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46337,"journal":{"name":"IIMB Management Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"Pages 83-92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389624000028/pdfft?md5=f1a0757e90ac4b3d0a63f98a96725ca6&pid=1-s2.0-S0970389624000028-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139950779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflecting on management knowledge in India: Urgency to change the paradigm, decolonise and indigenise in the age of Artificial Intelligence","authors":"Abhoy K. Ojha","doi":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Management research in India has been strongly impacted by paradigms from the natural sciences. Further, most research in India is dominated by US-based theories that discourage indigenous research. This is an outcome of British impact on knowledge in India during the colonial era and US-driven neo-colonial influences on management knowledge in the post-colonial era. This is dysfunctional as managerial interventions are likely to be based on knowledge that is unsuitable for the context. There is an urgency to correct the situation as AI based tools are changing the way knowledge is created, disseminated, and learnt, hurting indigenous knowledge.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46337,"journal":{"name":"IIMB Management Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"Pages 7-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389624000065/pdfft?md5=2c28ab8d7495d3d843e3b38458fc8f1e&pid=1-s2.0-S0970389624000065-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140053818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The nexus between financing pattern, firm-specific factors, and financial performance: Panel evidence of listed SMEs in India","authors":"Pratiksha Jha , Satish Kumar Mittal","doi":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study analysed the impact of financing patterns (FPs) on the financial performance of 226 listed small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Firm size, age, liquidity, sales growth (SG), and asset tangibility (AT) are treated as firm-specific control variables. The result indicates that total debt financing (TDF), short-term financing, and trade credit financing have a significant relationship with Return on Asset (ROA), whereas long-term debt financing (LTDF) does not. Further, Return on Equity (ROE) is used to confirm the robustness of the result and demonstrate the same direction of the relationship with financing. Thus, the study provides an illustrative description of relationships and helps in developing an understanding of accessing the future financial needs of SMEs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46337,"journal":{"name":"IIMB Management Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"Pages 71-82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389624000016/pdfft?md5=11d261123b2c4f4eee738a86334fe9f4&pid=1-s2.0-S0970389624000016-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139827090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disability inclusion in Indian workplaces: Mapping the research landscape and exploring new terrains","authors":"Devi Vijay , Mukta Kulkarni , K.V. Gopakumar , Michele Friedner","doi":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this commentary, we reflect upon twenty years of disability research in the Indian workplace and identify possibilities for new conversations and terrains of inquiry. We trace the key frames, theories, and methodological tendencies that demarcate this scholarship. We suggest that researchers can open new terrains of inquiry by situating disability in context, exploring heterogeneous forms of organising and workplace arrangements, and connecting workplace relations and interactions with wider institutional and sociopolitical discourses. We conclude with reflections on disability and inclusion <em>otherwise</em>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46337,"journal":{"name":"IIMB Management Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"Pages 39-47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389624000041/pdfft?md5=df877e58488fbbd96b903be6f5892f2d&pid=1-s2.0-S0970389624000041-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140054218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The future of incubation","authors":"Srivardhini K. Jha , Thillai Rajan A","doi":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.03.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Incubators play an instrumental role in nurturing startups and creating a vibrant ecosystem. But as the ecosystem evolves, incubators also need to reinvent themselves to stay relevant. Against a burgeoning startup ecosystem in India, this roundtable deliberates on the future of incubation. The experts discuss what services incubators should offer, how they should measure their impact and how they can become financially sustainable.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46337,"journal":{"name":"IIMB Management Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"Pages 48-55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389624000090/pdfft?md5=0d7082ee858cc4e7fa8085cafaa4845c&pid=1-s2.0-S0970389624000090-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140276920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charting a sustainable future: Transformative policies for India's energy, agriculture, and transport sectors","authors":"Haritha Saranga , Satyajit Roy , Sayan Chowdhury","doi":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To fulfil its commitments towards sustainable development, India is transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables in the energy sector, trying to shift consumption and cropping practices in the agriculture sector, and promoting alternative fuel vehicles in the transport sector. In this study, we analyse the current state of energy, agriculture, and transport policies using the triple bottom line approach and provide a strategic framework that offers a mechanism and a long-term roadmap for a sustainable future by integrating the synergies between these three key sectors. Decentralised production and consumption of resources holds the key to economic, environmental, and social sustainability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46337,"journal":{"name":"IIMB Management Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"Pages 21-38"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389624000053/pdfft?md5=3c514e89584d04ce47b603cc12b4bc65&pid=1-s2.0-S0970389624000053-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140053819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficiency of financial production process and its dependence on price anchors: Evidence from India","authors":"Sayantan Kundu , Aditya Banerjee","doi":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iimb.2024.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper measures the degree to which disclosed annual financial information assimilates into stock prices through the financial production process (FPP). Since it is established that price anchors impact investor trading decisions, the effect of proximity to chosen price anchors and the historical high and low prices on FPP efficiency is analysed for 611 Indian firms across 11 industries. Results show that a significant number of stocks are FPP inefficient, and the FPP efficiency is mean-reverting. Further, FPP efficiencies depend on proximity to price anchors, implying that FPP efficiency is a proxy measure of behavioural bias in stock prices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46337,"journal":{"name":"IIMB Management Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"Pages 56-70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S097038962400003X/pdfft?md5=96580f7b63a1b687b2c3923b5280ea59&pid=1-s2.0-S097038962400003X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139920911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolving an integrated framework for ambidextrous HRM: A special case of platform-based gig work","authors":"Ekta Johar, Manjari Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.iimb.2023.10.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iimb.2023.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study proposes a conceptual framework emphasising ambidextrous HRM's ability to foster organisational capabilities to survive and succeed in a challenging business environment. We include ambidextrous HRM systems in our discussion on the effectiveness of HRM fit and flexibility. To achieve this, we draw linkages between HRM systems facilitating organisational capabilities in a suitable organisational design, operating within a particular market and corresponding environmental conditions. We further discuss the relevance and operationalisation of ambidextrous HRM systems in the context of the platform-based gig economy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46337,"journal":{"name":"IIMB Management Review","volume":"35 4","pages":"Pages 393-404"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389623001003/pdfft?md5=69c20bcea74400da35cc06c04cbeb0d9&pid=1-s2.0-S0970389623001003-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135411628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}