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Urbanization in the Global South: Perspectives and Challenges Vikalpa Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Abhisek Verma, Prashant Das
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Venturing into a New Business: Do Selfefficacy and Risk-taking Propensity Help? Vikalpa Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Shalini Shukla, Rakesh Kumar
India, the most populated country, faces the challenges of providing jobs to eligible candidates. Therefore, the promotion of entrepreneurship and the development of an ecosystem of start-ups are highly required. For any country, start-ups and new business ventures are important pillars of economic development. Therefore, college students must be encouraged and trained to become job-givers rather than
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Emotional Disorders, Dispositional Mindfulness, and Mediating Role of Acceptance in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students Vikalpa Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Vibhuti Gupta, Nishit Kumar Sinha
‘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 ...
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Impact of Work from Home and Family Support on Indian Women’s Work Productivity During COVID-19 Vikalpa Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Shradha Kundra, Naman Sreen, Rohit Dwivedi
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 sp...
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Long-run Stock Return of IPO Firms in India: Examining Investment and Profitability Hypothesis Vikalpa Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Avdhesh Kumar Shukla, Tara Shankar Shaw
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 underperforma...
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Interim Finance in Creditor-Oriented Bankruptcy Codes: A Study in the Context of Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, India* Vikalpa Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Amol Baxi
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 th...
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The Mediating Role of Relational and Transactional Psychological Contract Fulfilment on the Relationship between Strength of the HR Signals and Job Satisfaction Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Chiradip Bandyopadhyay, Kailash B. L. Srivastava
The article is an employee-level, quantitative survey-based study investigating the relationship between HR signals and job satisfaction through the intermediary role of psychological contract (PC)...
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To Rx or Not: Mainstreaming Informal Providers Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Althaf Shajahan, Arnab Mukherji
On a hot summer afternoon, there is a huge commotion around the Jawnpore District Hospital. There is passionate sloganeering by the ruling party supporters competing with protests by the opposition...
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The Quest for Competitive Advantage: The Role of Technology Depth and Breadth at the Customer Interface Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Arvind Sahay, Arunaditya Sahay
Technology is becoming pivotal for firms while interacting with customers. While extensive research exists on how deployment of firm resources, such as technology, leads to competitive advantage (C...
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Scale Purification and Validation: A Methodological Approach to Sustainable Online Retailing Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Suhail Ahmad Bhat, Ajaz Akbar Mir, Sheikh Basharul Islam
Sustainability in the e-commerce business has created an overwhelming interest among practitioners and researchers. The different business models adopted by the e-retailers in India lack sustainabl...
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Health Expenditures, Health Infrastructure and Health Status in SAARC Countries: A Panel Data Analysis Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Subhalaxmi Mohapatra
Scholars in health economics have been studying the relationship between healthcare expenditure and health outcomes for the last half-century. Researchers emphasized the increase of public health e...
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The Role of Reasonable User Charges in Financing the National Infrastructure Pipeline Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Kumar V. Pratap, Manshi Gupta
Infrastructure is necessary for broad-based growth and development, as also for achieving and maintaining the delivery of public goods (water supply, rural roads, primary education and healthcare, etc.) and social well-being. To give an organized thrust to infrastructure, the Government of India, in April 2020, released the first-ever National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) with details of 6,847 projects
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Managing Adversity: Brands and COVID-19 Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Anirban Cahakraborty, Swapan Deep Arora
As the unseasonal rain lashed at the picture window of his 42nd-floor apartment in Kolkata, Srimaan Ashit thought that the overcast sky aptly reflected the mood all around. He was brooding over the media updates about the dreaded virus named COVID-19. It was spreading fast and wide (Exhibit 1). The only countries that had not reported COVID-19 were Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, North
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Case Analysis for ‘Managing Adversity: Brands and COVID-19’ Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Priya Narayanan
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Gendered Impact of the COVID-19: Insights from an Interpretative Phenomenological Perspective Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Supreet Kaur
COVID-19 pandemic has turned the lives of people upside down across all walks of life. The COVID-19 driven partial/full lockdowns across the globe confined millions behind the walls restricting the...
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Exploring Relationship Between Workplace Bullying and Healthcare Organization’s Well-being: Mechanism of Psychological Contract Violation and Forgiveness Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Ritika Sharma, Asha Prasad
The article is an investigative study drawn on the grounded theory approach, envisaging the relation between workplace bullying and employee behavioural outcomes among resident doctors in Indian he...
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Social Compact: Co-creating Socially Responsible Businesses the Indian Way Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Ernesto Noronha, (Coordinator), Priyansha Jain, Divya Puri, Ami Misra, Pankhuri Shah, Minaxi Patel, Nisarg Joshi, Arvind Khuman, Premila, Anusha R, Anahita S, Pradeep Bhargava, Farhad Forbes, Titus James, Tanay Gandhi, Gagan Sethi, Sonvi Khanna, Divya Varma, Kavya Bharadkar, Swapnil Shukla, Rati Forbes, Forbes Marshall, Sustainability Team, Meher Pudumjee, Namrata Mehra, Mitali M. Nag, Aasiya Tejani
Ernesto Noronha
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What Helps Me Cope With Work–Family Conflict at My High-Performance Work System in India: A Thematic Analysis of Sociocultural Factors Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Anjni Anand, Veena Vohra
Executive SummaryThis study is located in the context of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in India. Extant literature indicates that the darker side of HPWS and work intensification impact empl...
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CEO Overconfidence and Capital Structure Decisions: Evidence from India Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Hardeep Singh Mundi, Parmjit Kaur
Executive SummaryCapital structure decisions are vital for firms. Existing theories on capital structure partially explain the difference in capital structure decisions of identical firms. Research...
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Implications of Policy Initiatives for MSMES amid Economic Disruptions Caused by COVID-19 Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Akhilesh K. Sharma
The world is facing an unprecedented health crisis—the COVID-19 pandemic—which has caused global economic disruptions, affecting almost all economic activities across countries. To curb the spread of the virus, containment measures such as lockdown, social distancing and quarantine were adopted in almost all countries, which resulted in the shutting down of the majority of the economic activities and
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Diagnoses: Bajaj Electricals—Lighting Up the Future Case Analysis Vikalpa Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Apalak Khatua
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Service Experience at Passport Seva Kendra: Case Analysis Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-12-12 Anita Goyal
This section presents a brief of the case to highlight and analyse the particular happenings of the case. The case illustrates the experience of Ridhima in the re-issuance of the passport for her eight-year-old minor daughter, Anukriti. Passports in India are issued by the Consular, Passport and Visa, Division of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India. Since 2010, the MEA, Government
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First Among Equals: T-R-E-A-T Leadership For L-E-A-P in a Knowledge-Based World Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-12-12 Kapil Verma
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Does Organizational Trust Mediate the CSR–OCB Relationship? A PLS-SEM Analysis Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Dimple Dhiman, Himani Sharma
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Importance of Machine Learning in Making Investment Decision in Stock Market Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Akhilesh Prasad, Arumugam Seetharaman
Executive Summary Predicting stock trends in the financial market is always demanding but satisfying as well. With the growing power of computing and the recent development of graphics processing unit and tensor processing unit, analysts and researchers are applying advanced techniques such as machine learning techniques more and more to predict stock price trends. In recent years, researchers have
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Service Experience at Passport Seva Kendra Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Richa Saxena, Sapna Popli, Abhishek
Ridhima was on her way back home from the Passport Seva Kendra (PSK), that is, a passport service centre. She had recently applied for the re-issue of passport for her minor daughter Anukriti. After filling out all the forms online, she visited the local PSK for verification of documents and submission of forms. Having invested one and a half working days and her experience at the PSK during that time
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Pursuing Digital Marketing and Sales Transformation in an Emerging Market: Lessons from India’s Tata Steel Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Peeyush Gupta, Michelle Steward, Jim Narus, D.V.R. Seshadri
Many articles on digital transformation report on the successes of born-digital pioneers (a.k.a. digital natives) in new, high-tech industries in developed countries (Sebastian et al., 2017). These frequently cited initiatives have critical advantages from the start. Their founders and employees understand, possess, and are passionate about emerging technologies. They are not burdened by significant
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Communicating Through a Pandemic: Insights on Crisis Communication from Steel Authority of India Limited, Rourkela Steel Plant Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-09-26 Dipak Chattaraj, Seemita Mohanty, Archana Satpathy
Executive Summary The year 2020 will go down in the annals of history as the year of COVID-19, the year the whole world was left devastated. Even in 2021, countries are being ravaged by the virus, with no immediate end in sight. In fast-moving and uncertain situations, leaders face many questions for which they might not have any answers (Argenti, 2020). Therefore, the question is how leaders can manage
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Tata Nano: Case of Repositioning: Case Analysis Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-09-26 Jaydeep Mukherjee
This case tracks Tata Nano, one of the favourite projects of Ratan Tata, Chairman of the $100 Billion Tata Group of India. Conceptualized initially as the people’s car by Tata Motors, it was unveiled in the prestigious Delhi Auto Expo in 2008. It was the first ₹100,000 car globally, showcasing India’s design, manufacturing and technological ability. It was launched in 2009 to upgrade the aspirational
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Tata Nano: Case of Repositioning Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Chandan Parsad, Sanjeev Prashar, Vinita S. Saha
All was not well for Tata Motors’ most ambitious product, Nano. There were rumours floating in the media about the discontinuation of the brand (Kumar, 2015). Pushing aside all the speculations, Girish Wagh, Senior Vice President, Tata Motors, said,
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Intellectual Property Rights-based Debt Financing to Startups: Need for a Changing Role of Indian Banks Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Bibekananda Panda,Sara Joy
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Online Healthcare Practices and Associated Stakeholders: Review of Literature for Future Research Agenda Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-07-28 Amaresh Panda, Sanjay Mohapatra
The rise of online platforms for health information exchange is changing the traditional healthcare delivery practices. With Internet technologies, online healthcare practices are continuously growing through their diversified delivery functionalities with better and faster reachability. Participants use such forums for various purposes, for instance, to gather information, seek medical assistance
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Stakeholders in the Indian Healthcare Sector Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-07-28 Rajesh Chandwani
This special issue of Vikalpa was conceptualized to extend the scholarship on stakeholders in healthcare, specifically in the Indian context. Healthcare is a complex system. Multiple stakeholders pursue diverse interests, and this complexity is enhanced in the emerging economies context, where resource constraints are significant (Nicolini et al., 2008).
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Health Insurance as a Healthcare Financing Mechanism in India: Key Strategic Insights and a Business Model Perspective Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Rohit Kumar, Aditya Duggirala
This study provides strategic insights and a business model perspective on health insurance as a vehicle for financing healthcare. It uses both primary (expert interview) and secondary data to investigate the overall disease burden and healthcare industry trends and track healthcare financing through the health insurance mechanism in India. To identify the critical success factors and to gain a business
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Role of Communication, Influence, and Satisfaction in Patient Recommendations of a Physician Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Payal Mehra, Anubhav Mishra
As per the India Brand Equity Foundation, by 2022, India’s healthcare market is expected to reach US$372 billion. While exponential growth in the availability of private hospitals has been recorded in the past few years, many hospitals are not able to attract enough patients due to poor quality of services, unavailability of skilled healthcare workers, and unethical medical practices. These issues
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Looking for Medical Advice in Everyday Digital Spaces: A Qualitative Study of Indians Connecting with Physicians on Facebook Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Smeeta Mishra
In a world afflicted by COVID-19, many people consult doctors through a digital interface or over the phone, as face-to-face consultations are almost impossible during a lockdown. The Medical Council of India and the NITI Aayog, a policy think tank, formulated new guidelines to empower medical practitioners to practice telemedicine in India in March 2020. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the
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Rare Diseases Require Support Too Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-06-14 Viswanath Pingali, Neelima Das
Currently, the world has come to a complete standstill as it battles the pandemic caused by the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Given the global efforts, one is hopeful that a solution to this problem would be found sooner than later. Whenever the world has seen the possibility of an epidemic of this proportion, the reaction has been similar: pump in huge resources; develop solutions faster;
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Hospital Management Text and Cases Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-06-04 Abhishek Singh, Santosh Rangnekar
K. V. Ramani (Pearson India Education Services, 2013), 308 pp., ₹559, ISBN 9788131794012.
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COVID-19 Impact on Buying Behaviour Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Meghna Verma, B. R. Naveen
Executive Summary Pandemics like COVID-19 result in a disruption in the lifestyle and buying pattern of a consumer and adversely impact the global economy. Consumer purchase of country’s own brand and the products manufactured in their own country plays a vital role in the GDP of that country and help in revival of the country’s economy. This study focuses on understanding the factors that influence
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Infection Testing at Scale: An Examination of Pooled Testing Diagnostics Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Tarun Jain, Bijendra Nath Jain
Executive Summary In pandemics or epidemics, public health authorities need to rapidly test a large number of individuals without adequate testing kits. We propose a testing protocol to accelerate infection diagnostics by combining multiple samples, and in case of positive results, re-test individual samples. The key insight is that a negative result in the first stage implies negative infection for
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Social Transformation of Indian Tribal Community: Unlocking the Potential by providing Access to Healthcare Case Analysis Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Kshitij Awasthi
The case accounts for the activities and objectives of a social enterprise named Tejas1 Eye Hospital (TEH) in Gujarat, India. The case also documents the achievements and challenges before Dr Uday Gajiwala, the co-founder of the Divyajyoti Trust, which runs the TEH. The case provides a short overview of ophthalmology care in India, details on objectives, operations and related activities of Divyajyoti2
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BHEL Smart Wall Blowing System: New Product Development in Manufacturing Industry: Case Analysis Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-05-28 Anshuman Tripathy
BHEL had been facing lower than expected heat transfer in its boilers that were installed at various customer locations. This low heat transfer affected the quantity and quality of steam that was produced, resulting in loss of efficiency of the plant, leading to significant revenue losses. Investigating the causes led to the identification of coal ash deposits over the wall panels as a key factor.
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Time Discount Rate of Forest-Dependent Communities: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-05-20 Sundar Balakrishna, Vineet Virmani
Executive Summary This study presents evidence on time discount rate of forest-dependent communities (FDCs) in the backdrop of the joint forest management program launched by the Government of India in 1990. The study uses data from two regions of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh—Rayalaseema (a relatively dry forest region with low income) and the coastal region (relatively fertile forest and with
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Book Review Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Ramya T. Venkateswaran
Murali Patibandla, International Trade and Investment Behaviour of Firms (Oxford University Press, 2020), 241 pp. ₹1,495, ISBN 13: 9780190126865.
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BHEL Smart Wall Blowing System: New Product Development in Manufacturing Industry Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Abhishek Kumar, R. Dhanuskodi, R. Kaliappan, K. Nandakumar
The head of Research and Development (R&D), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Trichy, India was pensive. He looked at the colourful plumage of the peacock that had strayed toward his window and wondered at the stark contrast between the industrial R&D centre and the magnificent bird. He wondered if the presence of the bird was a possible source of creativity necessary to deliver advanced research
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Social Transformation of Indian Tribal Community: Unlocking the Potential by providing Access to Healthcare Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Ravichandran Narasimhan, Malay Patel
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life- Think of it, Dream of it, Live on that idea.
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A Decision-making Approach for Choosing a Reliable Product under the Hesitant Fuzzy Environment via a Novel Distance Measure Vikalpa Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Palash Dutta, Rupjit Saikia
Executive Summary In the contemporary time, the reliability of any product has become a big issue from the customer’s perspective due to exponentially mushrooming markets of electronics and digital gadgets. Since the use of digital equipment is tremendously increasing, as a consequence, the production and availability of products are also increasing rampantly. Due to the flooding of digital products
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Tata Sons and the Mystery of Mistry Vikalpa Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Shital Jhunjhunwala
The board of Tata Sons shocked corporate India by sacking their chairperson, Cyrus Mistry, on 24 October 2016 (a little less than four years after he was made chairperson), and replacing him with his predecessor, Ratan Tata, as an interim chairperson. The Tatas are the biggest private business group in India, comprising over 100 operating companies spread across six continents. Twenty-nine of these
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Project Management At Champaran: Revisiting Gandhi’s Satyagraha Vikalpa Pub Date : 2020-12-29 C. Gopinath
When Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in 1915, he first undertook a year’s wandering to get acquainted with the country on the advice of his mentor Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Towards the end of that period, he was drawn into the problems faced by the peasants at Champaran with the English planters for whom they cultivated the indigo plant. Historiography has firmly established his efforts at
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Deshelling the Shell Companies Using Benford’s Law: An Emerging Market Study Vikalpa Pub Date : 2020-12-20 Venuka Aggarwal, Khushdeep Dharni
Benford’s Law is viewed as an interesting phenomenon for studying naturally occurring digits. Benford discovered that naturally occurring numbers tend to follow a specified logarithmic probability distribution function. Benford’s Law, specifically in the field of accounting and finance, has been used as a tool to detect patterns in reported earnings. Its applications include detecting dubious digits
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Cross-border Corporate Insolvency Law in India: Dealing with Insolvency in Multinational Group Companies—Determining Jurisdiction for Group Insolvencies Vikalpa Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Priya Misra
The Indian insolvency regime has undergone a sea change in the last three years resulting in a more conducive creditor-friendly environment in the context of distressed companies. The change in the regime has led to an increased presence of multinational companies (MNCs) in the country. Such MNCs have existence across borders, resulting in an array of creditors, both domestic and foreign. But when
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The Need for Implementing a Cross-Border Insolvency Regime within the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 Vikalpa Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Ishita Das
The research article has been divided into three sections to achieve the core aim. The first section provides a background to the paper. The second section compares the essential provisions in the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law with the relevant provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). The third section explores the challenges and opportunities
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Insolvency and Bankruptcy Reforms: The Way Forward Vikalpa Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Abhiman Das, Anurag K. Agarwal, Joshy Jacob, Sanket Mohapatra, Saket Hishikar, Saakshi Bangar, Sandeep Parekh, Sudarshana Basu, U. K. Sinha
A Concise History of Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Debt Restructuring Laws in India
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Introduction to the Special Issue on ‘Financial Distress, Bankruptcy, and Corporate Finance’ Vikalpa Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Anurag K. Agarwal, Abhiman Das, Joshy Jacob, Sanket Mohapatra
Note: Author names appear in alphabetical order and Sanket Mohapatra acknowledges funding from the UTI Asset Management Company.
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‘Under Pressure’: Integrating Online Dispute Resolution Platforms into Preinsolvency Processes and Early Warning Tools to Save Distressed Small Businesses Vikalpa Pub Date : 2020-08-23 Antonia Menezes, Nina Mocheva, Sagar Siva Shankar
Pressure pushing down on me
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Ola Acquired TaxiForSure: Post-takeover Dilemma Vikalpa Pub Date : 2020-05-10 T. Sai Vijay, Sanjeev Prashar, Vinita Sahay
With nearly 250 million internet and 173 million smartphone users, the Indian online industry touched US$13.5 billion (INR 865 billion) in 2014 (Bhargava, 2015; Bose, 2015; Vardhan 2014). After the acquisition of online fashion store Myntra by Flipkart in May 2014, Ola created ripples in the Indian taxi industry on 2 March 2015. It acquired its competitor TaxiForSure (TFS) for US$200 million (INR 12