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Effect of Information Sharing on Supply Chain Management: A Case Study

Gini Inequality Index: Methods and Applications

Gini's Mean Difference-Based Minimum Risk Point Estimator of Mean

This paper develops a general approach for constructing a confidence interval for a parameter of interest with a specified confidence coefficient and a specified width. This is done assuming known a positive lower bound for the unknown nuisance parameter and independence of suitable statistics. Under mild conditions, we develop a modified two-stage procedure which enjoys attractive optimality properties including a second-order efficiency property and asymptotic consistency property. We extend this work for finding a confidence interval for the location parameter of the inverse Gaussian distribution. As an illustration, we developed a modified mean absolute deviation-based procedure in the supplementary section for finding a fixed-width confidence interval for the normal mean. © 2021 South African Statistical Association

South African Statistical Journal

Estimation of location parameter within pre-specified error bound with second-order efficient two-stage procedure

This paper is a narration on practices of unlimited liability Marwari businesses of a textile town in Western India. Although depicted as an ‘outdated’ form of incorporation, these businesses were surprisingly resilient prompting us to engage in exploration of their ways of doing business. We deployed Mignolo’s concept of colonial-matrix-of-power to anchor our interpretive sense-making of enactments of our participant businessmen. The daily doings of the businessmen and their families enacted a ‘way of life’, Marwaripan. Activities created an intermesh across ‘local’ spaces of family, business and religion, constituting, what we call, a decolonial matrix-of-praxis. It created a ‘local’ form of Marwari governance where circulation and access to capital depended on extensively (and labouriously) negotiated construction of ‘status’ within open spaces of ‘enunciation’. However, preserving Marwaripan also required arduous striving and collective toil to continuously construct subjectivities based on customary dharma through a communitarian pedagogy that could wean away actors from the state driven pedagogy of regular schools. © The Author(s) 2021.

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Governance of Marwari capital: Daily living as a decolonial ‘matrix-of-praxis’ intermeshing commercial, religious and familial spheres

Fostering Meaningful Learning Experiences Through Student Engagement

Student-Centered Approach and Active Learning in Business Education: The Irish Experience

For many years, the public sector has been undergoing digital transformation. Information and communication technologies (ICT) have offered new ways of interaction between governments and their constituents. However, governments face different challenges to migrate users towards digital channels and electronic documents, which are believed to be more cost-efficient for all stakeholders. Despite a plethora of empirical research conducted towards the identification of factors that influence e-government services usage by businesses, there seems to be a lack of 'holistic' understanding in the absence of systematic literature reviews. This paper aims to contribute by hypothesizing a set of mechanisms based on a critical realist process of retroduction. We argue that the factors identified in previous research are a manifestation of mechanisms. Such mechanisms might explain businesses’ usage of ICT when interacting with governments, whether in the context of incidental situations or regular administrative tasks (through online self-service applications) or regular exchange of information (through inter-organizational e-services). © 2021, Department for E-Governance and Administration. All rights reserved.

eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM)

Mechanisms underpinning the usage of e-government services by businesses: A proposal based on previous empirical research

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the entrepreneurial intention (EI) among nascent entrepreneurs in the Indian context by using Shapero’s theory of entrepreneurial event as the research framework. Design/methodology/approach: A 34-item questionnaire was responded to 250 nascent entrepreneurs who are engaged in executing the new business idea or creating new ventures and enroled in the universities in India. The questions measured perceived desirability, perceived feasibility, entrepreneurial educational background, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, perceived social pressure and previous work experience in entrepreneurial activities towards entrepreneurship intention. The data were collected by employing a systematic random sampling method. The sample represents 174 male and 76 female nascent entrepreneurs belonging to various disciplines. Structural equation modelling has been used for data analysis. Findings: The results show that the proposed model in the present study explains 51 per cent of the variance, explaining the entrepreneurship intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy was found to be the strongest predictor of EI (β=0.397 at p<0.001) followed by previous experience in entrepreneurial activities (β=0.285 at p<0.001). Research limitations/implications: More than limitation this research study adds to the existing literature of the EI by using a different set of the sample. Mostly EI studies used student sample to measure intentions. Kolvereid and Isaksen used a sample of entrepreneurs to measure EI and achieved very different results. Therefore, this research study extends the work of Kolvereid and Isaksen by using a sample of nascent social entrepreneurs. Practical implications: The finding of this research study will facilitate policy makers and educators to promote entrepreneurial activities at the university level. Based on the results and findings of the study, the educators may improve upon the support system to help and motivate students to opt for social entrepreneurship as their career choice. Originality/value: Ajzen (1988) emphasised that the relative significance of the antecedents of intention will vary depending on which stage of intention is under scrutiny. This is one of its kinds of research study that used a sample of nascent entrepreneurs in the Indian context. Findings of this research will be helpful in predicting how the intention process of nascent entrepreneurs works especially in developing countries. © 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited.

South Asian Journal of Business Studies

Exploring the factors responsible in predicting entrepreneurial intention among nascent entrepreneurs: A field research

Resistance to Healthcare Information Technologies (HIT) continues to be a major challenge that hampers the realization of benefits. Attending to the noted significance of “context” in IT resistance, we carried out this review to understand how the “context” of healthcare in the extant HIT resistance literature has been studied. Based on a review of HIT resistance across 19 IS journals and 5 major IS conferences we organize and summarize the literature around the interaction of people, practice and technology and provide several significant possibilities for future research.

International Journal of Information Management

“Context” in healthcare information technology resistance: A systematic review of extant literature and agenda for future research

The distinction between the real and the virtual world has become increasingly complex in recent years, especially with the emergence of social media blurring those transitions. The use of social media platforms such as Instagram, which primarily operates with visual language, helps in selective presentation of the Self to the outside world. This exploratory study investigates the formation of an ideal Self on Instagram among millennials. Based on the Instagram profile analysis and ten semi-structured interviews, findings demonstrate that millennials are expressing their identity through brand preference yet exhibit low brand-loyalty. These findings, combined with existing research on the formation of (digital) identity associated with brand usage, suggest that millennials identify with the brands they follow on Instagram but do not extend it, as assumed, to present an ideal version of themselves to the outside world. © Atas da Conferencia da Associacao Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informacao 2020.

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Self-brand Connection in the Digital Age: A Qualitative Exploration of Brand Usage on Instagram for Identity Creation Among Millennials

From its humble origin in 2003, BlaBlaCar has become a preferred ride-sharing platform for the passengers across Europe. BlaBlaCar is an online marketplace that connects drivers and passengers and helps them share the costs of journeys. In so doing, it creates value for both sides of the platform. Drivers save money of the cost of the trip, and passengers get a low-cost option to reach their destination. The case follows the company from the inception to its growth and current challenges. The case helps the students in understanding the business of digital platforms as it relates to value creation for the customers, matching the value proposition for two sides, revenue and pricing strategies, and the crucial role of trust in sharing economy. © Association for Information Technology Trust 2020.