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The study investigates the positive relationship between abusive supervision and employee burnout. It also explores the mediating role of problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies in explaining the relationship between abusive supervision and burnout. The article studies the influence of individual power distance orientation on employees’ burnout. Cross-sectional data of 294 responses were collected from Indian employees and analysed using Smart PLS. Results confirm that abusive supervision is positively related to burnout. Also, only avoidance of contact and social support mediated the effect of abusive supervision on burnout; the multi-group analysis revealed no significant difference in terms of power distance orientation.

Adopting a new product depends on consumers’ product perceptions, psychographics, and cultural contexts. This study combines stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) and two-factor models to develop a comprehensive model for consumers’ intention to adopt artificial intelligence-powered personal service robots. Data were collected from 400 consumers in India, using existing validated scales from the literature. Structural equation modelling and path analysis were used to test the model fit. Findings suggest that consumers’ intention to adopt a personal service robot is based on perceived usefulness and risk, mediated by resistance bias. Contributions to the extant academic knowledge and marketing applications are discussed.

The study advances stress and daydreaming (mind wandering) literature by exploring the relationship between performance pressure and innovative work behaviour. We examine whether problem-orientated daydreams mediate the relationship between performance pressure and innovative work behaviour. We also investigate the mediating role of problem-orientated daydreams between performance pressure and task performance. A cross-sectional survey was conducted amongst academicians in India. A theoretical model was tested using structural equation modelling techniques. The results indicate that problem-orientated daydreams mediate the relationship between performance pressure and innovative work behaviour. Further, results also support the hypothesised relationship between performance pressure and task performance mediated by problem-orientated daydreams. Our results hold while controlling for gender and institutional tenure for our hypothesised model.

In a world where the problem of NPLs is all but ubiquitous, and success stories of markets of distressed debt are rare, the paper establishes design principles for the creation of such markets. It does so by creating a theoretical model for gains to trade between banks, the sellers of non-performing loans (NPLs), and asset reconstruction companies (ARCs), in a context when buyers can pay using a combination of cash and securities issued against the NPL. The theoretical model is used to generate insights for the Indian case, and a new design for NPL auctions is proposed.

Under stress events, most of the asset prices tend to be positively correlated, breaking the diversification benefits. In this study, we explore the performance of different assets particularly during stress events (the 2008 crisis and the COVID-19 crisis) which can come to the rescue of portfolio managers as hedging strategies. Further, the analysis evaluates the performance of different combinations of portfolios with and without including volatility assets. Empirical results indicate that with only an allocation of 5% of the portfolio to volatility asset class, investors with different risk appetites were able to achieve 10% expected returns with reduced uncertainty.

This study aims to investigate the relationship between operant resources, operand resources, and technology and examines the influence on created value from the service-dominant logic perspective. It builds a research model for the impacting path of resources on value. For the empirical study, it adopts proxy variables as observable variables in representing latent or unobservable variables. By collecting aggregate national data, each endogenous and exogenous variable is modelled by a system of equations. The estimation results validate the dual role of technology in bridging the two types of resources between operant and operand resources for actors to create value.

Competency models describe desired behaviours, skills, and attributes to facilitate organisational goals' achievement. The primary focus of a competency model is to align individual behaviours to organisationally expected behaviours. Given that employees’ ethical behaviour has become the sine qua non for organisations, it is surprising to see the absence of ethical competency in organisations’ competency models. Based on two separate studies with the heads of HR in Indian and South-East Asian organisations, the present study identified three core reasons for the absence of ethics in competency models (i.e., ideation, conceptualisation, and implementation challenges). Also, the study proposes a framework for fostering ethical behaviour amongst employees. Implications of the research for theory and practice are discussed.

We propose a new approach to improving student outcomes - the provision of the dream option that allows a student with a job offer to participate in the placement process again. Comparing three different student preference structures, we show that the dream option improves stability; however, it does not always improve student happiness and rank efficiency. Nevertheless, imposing a particular structure on student preferences, namely the sequential preference condition, improves both student happiness and rank efficiency. We recommend when to use the dream option and when not to use it.

This paper deals with the dynamics of market power with processors and retailers in the coffee supply chain in India. We develop an imperfect competition model that allows for the potential oligopoly and/or oligopsony power of retailers and processors with respect to adjacent stakeholders in the supply chain. We also empirically determine the presence/absence of market power among processors and retailers in the coffee supply chain in India. This paper highlights the existence of market power with processors in the coffee industry that plays an important role in the imperfect price transmission and should not be ignored when developing regulatory policies.