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The new age digital and disruptive business models such as sharing economy is one of the promising sector for employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for the young millennial, both globally as well as in India. Trust is considered as an integral part of such business model. Further, the business model, being in its early stages of development, operates largely in unstructured and under regulated...
Eating out has evolved from being a behavior associated with the mere benefit of functionality to a more hedonic one. It has become an act of socializing with preference of cuisines changing according to various parameters. The purpose of this study was to develop a model to understand the factors affecting the choice of cuisines while Indian consumers eat out. The study was conducted among 172 respondents...
India is a country which possess the world's oldest and most diverse cultures embedded by a set of core values. In spite of this diversity, core values are cherished by the people across the country. Consumer choices are impacted to a good extend by their way of life, qualities and social class, alongside the society they connect with and those they respect. In general, values are held beliefs that...
Financial Inclusion is one of the stated objectives of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) — world's largest Employment Guarantee Scheme. Even though financial inclusion efforts began in India in 2005, large sections of rural India still remain financially excluded. At the time of this work, possessing a bank/ post office account has not been mandated by the Government of India for gaining...
Massive Open Online Courses have been deemedboth as a disruption as well as the biggest experiment of ourtimes in higher education. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)are facing a lot of heat owing to competition and rising costs. This work looks at Massive Open Online courses through the lensof Higher Education and its expected outcomes. Using acomparative framework, we map the expected outcomes...
For any firm, knowledge acquisition happens in either of the two ways. One being internal Innovation and the other one being knowledge transfer which happens as a result of International activities like Exports and imports. This paper studies the relationship between these two methods of knowledge acquisition. Indian Chemical industry in itself is unique because it consists of different sub sectors...
The increasing mobile penetration and improving payment infrastructure have propelled the growth of digital payments in India. But e-tailers are still struggling with declining growth rates contributed by cash on delivery payments. Despite the enormous research done on various factors of payment infrastructure and their influence on the adoption or use of online payments, the studies have not examined...
Tourism is growing to be an important source of income for ASEAN countries. There are many factors that affect the inflow of tourists to a country. Two models, namely, one-way Fixed Effect Model (FEM) and one-way Random Effect Model (REM) are employed to understand the impact of various factors on tourism inflow in ASEAN associated countries. Data from 2007–2014 are analyzed towards this purpose....
Building on existing works that hold ‘learner engagement’ central to learning, this paper seeks to decode the constituents of student engagement in MOOC learning. Specifically we model the impact of preference for learning styles and the different motivations to learn on learner engagement in MOOCs. We propose that an inclination to learn new things, lifelong learning attributes and paying for a course...
“Athithi devo bhava”-is a verse from the Taittiriya Upanishad, and it means “Guest is God”. India is a country well known for its hospitality, culture and attractive destinations. Tourism is the biggest service industry in India in terms of its GDP and as a provider of employment opportunity. In worldwide ranking as well India is ranked highly in tourism and related activities. Changing life style...
The collapse of the housing sector in 2007–2008 offset the global financial crisis which lead to the decoupling of most economies around the world leading to a spillover which affected most countries. India was also impacted by this crisis and especially the trade channel had a greater effect. This study focuses on understanding the impact of the financial crisis on the basic metal industry. A sample...
Integration of India into the global economy and the contagious spread of financial crisis across countries has resulted in the financial restructuring of many industries. Textile industry, one of the major contributors of India's GDP and exports, changed their capital structure post financial crisis. Capital structure theories in the literature explain that the firm characteristics like size, profitability,...
Service sector plays a leading role in Indian economy with largest contribution to exports. Telecommunication, computer software and ITeS are the most high powered service sectors with consistent increase in the export earnings over the last five years. Global economic crisis 2007–08 put the entire world in jeopardy and India is no exception. As the recession deepens, the exports from India has been...
With the remarkable growth in the E-Commerce market and with funds pouring in to various different start-ups, it is apparent that E-Commerce in India is here to stay. Shopping online from e-tailers is an important segment of E-Commerce. The objective of this study is to understand the relationship between consumers and their online shopping portals. It focuses on the perception of online marketplaces...
With India's economy projected to record strong growth in the years to come, the Indian consumer is expected to be endowed with increased spending capacity. With rising income levels, discretionary spending is likely to increase. One such form of discretionary expenditure is eating out. This study is concerned with finding the relationship between frequency of eating out and factors that influence...
Technological innovation has given rise to many internet portals including those that facilitate matrimony. Adoption of this technology has accelerated the growth of online matrimony portals in India. There are several sources of search for proposals and online matrimony is one such medium. The importance given to such portals has impacted the way matrimonial information is available in these portals...
The increasing penetration of the LTE (long term evolution) technology has led to high adoption rates for high speed mobile internet services. Firms across the country are still pondering over the factors that led to these adoption rates. Even with the ongoing evolution of 4G technology, India still lags behind other nations in terms of adoption rates. This study aims to understand the overall attitude...
Technological innovations and advent of e-commerce have given rise to the internet portals in recent times. One such development can be seen in the field of matrimony. The evident cultural shift in the outlook of marriage in India and adoption to new technology has enabled the growth of matrimonial service portals. Dispersed families adapt to online matrimonial services to seek most of the marriage-related...
Indian e-commerce space is experiencing a tremendous growth that India along with China together is expected to cross the US as largest online retail markets in the world, and that the drivers behind the expansion of e-commerce in India and China are almost same. Recent studies reveals that close to one-third of Internet users are already making online purchases, this growth of e-commerce will rely...
With the increasing advent of social media in perpetrating changes in social and political issues, world leaders also find it necessary to be part of a social media platform to communicate with their electorates. There is a lot of information on current affairs, world news, and political propaganda movements on social networking sites (SNS). This study aims to understand how personality traits and...
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