It is my pleasure to present Volume 32, Issue 3, September 2020, of the journal. We regret the delay in bringing out this issue, which has been on account of the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic. The issue carries its regular complement of research articles. The IMR Doctoral Conference (IMRDC) is scheduled on 4, 5 and 6 February, 2021 and we look forward to conducting an interesting conference with takeaways for the research community. I provide below a brief summary of the papers included in this issue.
Koon Vui-Yee and Tee Yen-Hwa, in “When does ostracism lead to turnover intention? The moderated mediation model of job stress and job autonomy”, explore the mediating and moderating processes through which social exclusion causes employee behavioural outcomes in a workplace.
Binita Tiwari and Usha Lenka, in “Employee engagement: A study of survivors in Indian IT/ITES sector”, develop a conceptual framework of employee engagement and employer branding of downsized organisations. Drawing inference from previous studies, certain enablers, namely, resonant leadership, internal corporate communication, knowledge sharing, continuous learning, intrapreneurship, and perceived communication satisfaction, have been identified to develop the framework of employee engagement.
Jaslene Kaur Bawa and Sankarshan Basu, in their paper, “Restructuring assets reform, 2013: Impact of operational ability, liquidity, bank capital, profitability, and capital on bank credit risk”, study the inter-temporal relationship between operational ability (which includes restructured assets), capital, liquidity, and profitability on bank credit risk through a dataset of 45 public and private sector Indian banks from the period 2005 to 2016. Their findings suggest that banks with higher restructured assets levels witness higher risk and lower profits.
In “Analysis and estimation of India’s foreign exchange reserves using soft computing techniques”, Mriganka Mohan Chanda, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, and Neelotpaul Banerjee forecast the year-wise estimated quantum of India’s foreign exchange reserves based on the past data of various relevant parameters using a back propagation type of artificial neural networks.
In “Risk management in small hydro power projects of Uttarakhand: An innovative approach”, Neha Chhabra Roy and N G Roy identify and assess the risk factors and estimate the risk index of various small hydro power projects in the state of Uttarakhand, and venture to provide risk transfer measures for projects based on risk classes. Risk index assessment was performed using the fuzzy logic approach and risk distribution methods were suggested to enable investors to manage risk better.
Global warming and the depletion of natural resources have motivated calls for changes in the way organisations produce and deliver products and services. Greening the supply chain has now become a significant issue. In “Green supply chain management and corporate performance using a mixed method approach: Developing a roadmap for future research”, Hassan Younis, Balan Sundarakani, and Barry O'Mahony examine the impact of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices using mixed methodology to see how the critical dimensions of GSCM impact overall corporate performance.
In recent years, innovative measures have been proposed that use consumers’ social media usage patterns and Internet search-based data to examine the underlying beliefs of populations directly, and the data are extremely useful in financial applications. In “Google search based sentiment indexes”, Ana Brochado seeks to answer the following research question: Can positive and negative retail investor sentiment be directly measured through the Internet search behaviour of households?
In the Round Table on “Spot and futures markets – Scope for integration”, Sankarshan Basu provides the context note tracing the evolution of the markets, their inter-relationship and the issues with regard to integration of the spot and futures markets. The second part of the Round Table article carries a panel discussion on the benefits and challenges of integrating the spot and futures markets. The panel, moderated by Professor Gopal Naik, had members from regulatory agencies, exchanges and market participants. The discussion covered key issues with respect to integration between spot and futures markets.
I hope you will find the articles interesting. Looking forward to your continued support,
With best wishes,
Ashok Thampy
Editor-in-Chief
IIMB Management Review
E-mail address: eic@iimb.ac.in
