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Purpose Considerable amount of purchases in business-to-business (B2B) markets make through the tendering process. As technology keeps driving B2B procurement, both the supplier/contractor and buyer firms have settled down in their respective roles in the electronic-tendering environment. Researchers have ignored the supplier-side e-tender-driven marketing process that might lead to substantively successful financial performance. The purpose of this study is to improve the performance of an ...

Of late, interested parties have been busy projecting the recent farmers' agitation as a successful Satyagraha. I wonder in this article if the Gandhian tag actually fits in.

In this paper we have re-examined the relationship between public debt and economic growth for 32 emerging economies and modelled the nonlinear impact of debt on growth using a dynamic panel. We found that, for emerging economics a large debt, if used efficiently can lead to significant positive economic growth. This relationship remains unchanged even when we control for other macroeconomic variables. We have also identified three different threshold debt-GDP ratios (48.03%, 36.88% and 11.8%...

The impact of overall bank credit on the economic growth is extensively studied by way of cross-country analysis. This article is a country-specific study on the role of long-term bank credit, rather than total bank credit, on the economic growth of India, using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model with control variables. Further, this article examines sector-specific impact of long-term industrial credit on the industrial output. The results support the existence of long-run relations...

The use of children in armed conflicts as soldiers is a persisting issue globally, and India is not an exception. India is a signatory to the 2002 Optional Protocol and thus should not employ soldiers under the age of eighteen; however, non-governmental factions are using children within India as soldiers. This paper intends to discuss the use of children in armed conflicts and the life of children as ex-soldiers.

Similar to other services, healthcare is also experiencing an evolution of patients into sophisticated customers with high expectations from the service providers. This has led to the application of operations research tools such as discrete event simulation modelling in delivering improved healthcare services. The present study is conducted in an obstetrics and gynaecology out-patient department of a multi-specialty hospital. Process related data is collected from the department and is used ...

Automation is a major issue facing the global economy and its negative impacts will be most acute in developing countries. Every country should emphasizes that it is their shared responsibility to ensure the future of work and workers, as the impacts of automation has now been well acknowledged, it is high time we took action and tailor our policies to these inevitable changes.

The present study performs the bibliometric analysis of the social commerce (s-commerce) literature, highlights the major research themes, and suggests future research directions. The HistCite software has been used for bibliometric analysis on a sample of 660 s-commerce papers obtained from the ISI Web of Science database. This study analyses these papers to present the details about the influential journals, authors, and universities regarding s-commerce research. Following research themes ...

This study substantiates the usefulness of a systemic approach to investigate the multi-dimensional challenges regarding environmental, economic, and social impacts facing the sustainable development of unconventional energy resources, particularly oil sands (OS) in Canada. This research uses the system dynamics (SD) methodology to examine the impact of shocks in oil demand using real and theoretical scenarios. This was done by identifying leading indicators critical to OS resource developmen...

Indian MSMEs must respond quickly to the fast-changing requirements using dynamic capabilities gained while adopting strategic changes like flexibility and a lean management system (LMS). The present research aims to review the depth and effect of LMS and the understanding of lean philosophy in Indian MSMEs. First, a systematic literature review (SLR) approach using a four-stage process cycle of Plan-Do-Check-Propose (PDCP) applied with a unique integration of Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) in a Pl...

In higher education internationalisation literature, mobility has almost exclusively been analysed with reference to study abroad for academic and professional development purposes. The cost incurred is an impoverishment of frames to guide the exchange student, to converse with the nomad-scholar, and to make sense of knowledge from the borderlands. Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic been a shock to conventional expectations about mobility but it has also presented an opportunity to engage wit...

The present study aims to examine the association between early marriage and experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) among Egyptian women. Data were drawn from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and consisted of 6,286 participants. The unadjusted model indicated a statistically significant association between early marriage and experiencing any form of IPV. However, when adjusted for the type of place of residence, education, and wealth index, the odds of experiencing IPV were not ...

Blended learning is widely adopted by organizations where a blend of online component complements the traditional face-to-face learning. Despite its popularity, research on developing a model for blended learning effectiveness is limited. This paper develops and validates a research model for blended learning effectiveness by investigating the role of engagement on perceived learning effectiveness. Further, the role of internet self-efficacy (personal factor) and interactions (environmental f...

Purpose Limited research efforts have been undertaken despite the pivotal role of employees' voluntary behaviours in the success of organizations' environmental sustainability programs. In this context, the present study examined the association between employee's mindfulness (EM) and voluntary pro-environmental behaviour (VPEB) at the workplace, and also the mediating effect of connectedness to nature (CNS) on this relationship. Design/methodology/approach Grounded in the re-perceiving ...

This article covers the recent trends in climate change litigation in India, capturing the peculiarities of the Indian judicial system that lend it the will, ability, and credibility to accommodate emerging principles of climate change laws within the law of the land. While tracing the historical underpinnings of judicial activism, environmental considerations, and strength of democratic institutions, this article discusses some of the current developments in climate change case law in the co...

The Prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) recently started an investigation regarding the alleged atrocities committed against the Rohingya refugee population, primarily regarding the deportation of around 600,000 - 1,000,000 refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh. On the 14th of November, 2019, the judges of the ICC authorized the investigation, which was to be conducted regarding any crimes committed on or after the 1st of June, 2010, when Bangladesh joined the ICC. An addition...

The problem of social adaptation of students in a multicultural environment has always been a concern of pedagogical science. With the development of telecommunication technologies, educational institutions face with the issue of finding effective forms of interaction between students. The aim of the article is to theoretically and empirically develop an integrated concept of studying the resilience of foreign students in a multicultural environment during distance learning. Methods: survey, ...

India and the world have a long way to go in legislating a practical set of principles on hate speech. Standards of civility are meanwhile under challenge as citizens of even the most stable liberal democracies retreat into narrow ghettos of identity, and respect for the dignity of the “other” disappears.

Historically, nationalism was centred around the Independence movement to fight foreign forces. But now it’s built by instigating animosity against other religions through hate speeches and apps.