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2024-03-29T05:12:16ZCareer decision making: cops in the head a case based experiential activity to facilitate authentic career crafting
https://repository.iimb.ac.in/handle/123456789/10976
Title: Career decision making: cops in the head a case based experiential activity to facilitate authentic career crafting
Authors: Rakesh, Supriya; Ranganathan, Ramya
Abstract: This is a write up of a case that can be used to conduct an experiential theatre activity in a class on the subject of career decision making. The exercise involves three stages. In the first stage where students have to identify the voices in the head of the protagonist in the case. In the second stage students (with help from the instructor), act out these voices theatrically. In the third stage the students reflect on the stakeholders present in their own lives and process the voices related to them. A detailed teaching note is appended to the case that can be used to conduct this exercise in class.2016-01-01T00:00:00ZMilk production in India rises by a historic 6.25% in 2014-15: a boon or a bane?
https://repository.iimb.ac.in/handle/123456789/10975
Title: Milk production in India rises by a historic 6.25% in 2014-15: a boon or a bane?
Authors: Rajeshwaran, S; Naik, Gopal
Abstract: Milk production in India has risen by a historic 6.25% in 2014-15, reaching 146 million tonne. This increase is indeed a boon if it can be sustained as there is an urgent need to increase the growth rate in milk production, to meet the growing domestic market for milk and milk products and ensure that India remains self-sufficient in milk. However, this high incremental growth rate was limited to only three states while the largest milk producing state Uttar Pradesh showed a constant but below the national level of growth. Further, growth in population of adult female bovines seems to be tapering off with a very low increase in productivity per animal. Hence, this is a good time and opportunity to analyse the growth in milk production. We analyse the growth in terms of supply, demand and price of milk as well price and buffer stock of skim milk powder and its role in maintaining the price at consumer and farmer end. In the short-term, with no immediate market for the incremental quantity within or outside India, much of the incremental quantity is being processed and stored as skim milk powder and butter. This is causing financial strain on the milk purchasers forcing them to reduce their demand and price for fresh milk. As a result, this high growth may be only strengthening the oligopolic market power of milk processors and/or marketers the market structure gives them, over both consumers and milk producers. The constant increase in consumer price is also not expected to be transmitted to the producer, as in a perfectly competitive market. Therefore, this high rate of growth in milk production is boon in the long term helping India remain self-sufficient in milk. However, as the farm gate prices have not only reduced but also become highly volatile making dairy animal rearing high risk venture with uncertain, it is a bane in the short term.2016-01-01T00:00:00ZBusiness strategy and systemic risk: evidence from Indian banks
https://repository.iimb.ac.in/handle/123456789/10973
Title: Business strategy and systemic risk: evidence from Indian banks
Authors: Gupta, Rohit; Jayadev, M
Abstract: This study examines the impact of business strategic choices on systemic risk using unique panel data from banks in India, for a 29-quarter period. Based on the publicly available quarterly revenue information on business segments, the study will associate the revenue segment information with choices related to business strategies of banks and allow equity prices to predict systemic risk associated with strategic choices related to focus, diversification and differentiation. The results of panel data analysis show that systemic risk is reduced if state-owned banks focus less on corporate segments, consistent with prior empirical evidence. The study also find that diversifying across business segments by a private sector bank, reduces systemic risk, which is in contrast to the international evidence. Further, this study do not find any impact of differentiation strategy on systemic risk, which is also in contrast to international evidence.2016-01-01T00:00:00ZDiscipline in disorder: does party discipline drive disruptions in the Indian parliament?
https://repository.iimb.ac.in/handle/123456789/10974
Title: Discipline in disorder: does party discipline drive disruptions in the Indian parliament?
Authors: Phadnis, Ajit
Abstract: The paper examines an unexplored form of legislative obstruction, parliamentary disruptions, in the context of the Indian parliament. We offer a two-fold explanation for why parliamentary disruptions are frequent in India. Firstly, we argue that political and institutional developments after the 1980s have led to very high concentration of power in the hands of the leadership of parliamentary parties. This has empowered party leaders to exert party discipline over legislators for the conduct of disruptions, an act that breaks the norms and rules of parliamentary functioning. Secondly, we empirically show that party discipline is exerted by presenting legislative and electoral incentives to legislators for being active in disruptions: (a) Legislators, who participate visibly in disruptions, are favored with more opportunities to represent the party in parliamentary debates as well as higher likelihood of party re-nomination in the next elections. (b) Among legislators that participate in disruptions, those that incur high private costs, in the act of disruption, are likely to receive higher payoffs and (c) The magnitude of legislator payoffs is contingent on the party s position in parliament. For the empirical analysis, we use primary data on disruptions in the Indian parliament during the five year tenure of the 15th Lok Sabha.2016-01-01T00:00:00Z