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Prior research shows the importance of trading communities in the Indian economy. We investigate whether these trading communities have an advantage in firm founding and/or firm survival. While prior research suggests that trusted within-community networks enable access to resources and knowledge and help support entrepreneurs from these communities, some scholars show that community ties constrain entrepreneurial options and produce lock-in. We hypothesise that trading communities in India have higher founding and survival rates and we find strong support for our hypotheses. Our research contributes to research on communities and entrepreneurship, and to our understanding of the Indian entrepreneurial context.

Internal capital markets (ICM) are fundamental to conglomerates and business groups across developed and developing economies. ICM can be opportunistic or benevolent, but its efficiency assessment remains a pressing question. We focus on measuring the profit efficiency of giver firms using a novel methodology based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). We also explore heterogeneity across group firms based on ownership and governance. Overall, ICM investments are efficiency-reducing, more so for firms with higher outsider ownership. Monitoring reduces inefficiency. These findings have strong methodological, policy, and financing implications and call for caution from lenders and investors of diversely held group firms.

Undiversifiable market risk is a crucial factor that a risk-averse investor must consider while making any investment decision. We focus on dynamic market risk using time-varying beta for 10 different sectoral indices from the Indian stock market, analyse its movement over volatility regimes, and explore its relationship with market stress. The sectors that are most resilient towards market risk are chosen to construct the best portfolio for a risk-averse investor. Our findings suggest that mere consideration of market risk and not taking its variability into account may leave a large chunk of risk unattended for a risk-averse investor.

During the Covid 19 pandemic, employees experienced fear of uncertainty. We hypothesise that gratitude and mindfulness practices would help reduce the intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and increase employee well-being. Data were collected from 283 working professionals. The partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyse the data. The findings suggest that IU has a negative impact on well-being and there is a mediating effect of gratitude and mindfulness practices between IU and well-being. This study is unique in terms of understanding the role of gratitude and mindfulness in reducing the negative impact of IU on well-being.

This study examines the effect of the Hungry Ghost Festival (HGF) on stock returns and volatility in five Asian stock indices. Shanghai demonstrated the highest average return and dispersion, while Singapore had the lowest. During the HGF, all countries’ kurtosis spiked, except for Philippines and Shanghai, signalling a high-risk investment with high returns. Finally, the current volatility of daily stock returns persists across countries and is influenced by previous shocks. Investment during the HGF may appear riskier and more volatile in some countries, but there is inconclusive evidence to conclude that the HGF had a significant effect on all markets.

Developing a sustainable client–provider relationship in an outsourcing arrangement is important. This study attempts to identify the effects of unexplored antecedents of opportunism in an outsourcing engagement and, subsequently, the significance of opportunism in relation to a sustainable relationship. A structural equation modelling (SEM) approach has been deployed for the empirical evaluation of the hypothesised relationships between the constructs using responses obtained from the executives of the Indian coal mining organisation (ICMO). Results portray the significance of each antecedent, i.e., measurement problem, qualification of service provider, and service provider lock-in in view of undesirable outcomes in an outsourcing relationship.

In this study, we examine investment style, and style consistency and its relationship with risk-adjusted performance of the Indian fixed income mutual funds (MFs) using a sample of 242 funds across 16 categories over a period from April 2015 to March 2020. Our findings indicate that (a) fund managers practice securities selection, but their securities selection ability fails to improve risk-adjusted returns; (b) higher style consistency leads to better risk-adjusted performance; and (c) investment style and style consistency have considerable impact on fund performance. This is possibly the first comprehensive study that analyses investment style and its relationship with the performance of Indian fixed income MFs and contributes to the growing body of research on performance evaluation of fixed income funds.