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Shiv Nadar University

Economics and Public Policy

One plausible way to assess empirically the impact of reforms in globalization on an industry is by evaluation of its performance under these reforms in the input-output framework. © 2013 Springer India. All rights are reserved.

(SME) School of Management and Entrepreneurship

World University root node

Development and Sustainability: India in a Global Perspective

Performance evaluation techniques: An application to Indian garments industry

The Hindu, February 1, 2012 Reprinted in Special edition Decentralization, Local Development and Women’s Empowerment: Innovating Knowledge and Practice in UNIVERSITAS FORUM: Journal on Human Development and International Cooperation.

Journal on Human Development and International Cooperation

From food security to food justice

Chemistry

(SoNS) School of Natural Sciences

A Matter of Density: Exploring the Electron Density Concept in the Chemical, Biological, and Materials Sciences

Preface

The paper assesses the difference in the nature of relationship between efficiency and its determinants of Indian cement producing firms in the presence and absence of environmental regulation. It provides an intuitive construct to identify the determinants of efficiency, which is followed by an empirical verification using a two-stage stochastic data envelopment analysis. Important quantitative determinants of efficiency include factor intensities of outputs, levels of pollution abatements, gross value added, whereas size, age, ownership type, development indicators of the place of location of a firm are among the qualitative determinants. An initial phase and a matured phase of regulation are considered in the paper. The main results suggest that capital intensity of output plays a positive role in increasing efficiency under regulation in the initial phase, material intensity in both phases and labour intensity, a negative role, in the subsequent phase. Higher levels of pollution abatements cause higher efficiency under regulation, while in the initial phase private firms report higher efficiencies under regulation; it is just the reverse in the subsequent phase. Size, age and development indicator of the state in which a firm is located can play a positive role to achieve higher efficiencies in the matured phase of regulation. © 2011 Operational Research Society Ltd. All rights reserved.

Journal of the Operational Research Society

In search of contextual variables in a stochastic DEA framework: Effect of regulation on efficiency of Indian cement industry

Contemporary South Asia

Corporate capitalism in contemporary South Asia: Realities and interpretations

Judge School of Business, Cambridge University, UK, May 11, invited lecture

Whose Merit? Whose Justice? Forging social (in)equality in Global India

The main objective of the paper is to analyze the impact of environmental regulation on technical efficiencies of Indian cement producing firms. It derives the technical efficiency (TE) scores of firms in the presence and absence of regulation and brings out the differences in their magnitudes in two scenarios: one in which the firms take initiatives to comply with the set standards by investing additional resources for pollution abatement and the other in which the firms do not take the necessary initiatives. The paper uses establishment level data from Annual Survey of Industries on cement for two years, the most recent data published for 2003-2004 and a previous year for 1999-2000 when the environmental regulations in India were in the initial phases of implementation. A non-parametric deterministic method of data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to derive the TE scores of firms. The traditional DEA framework is modified by introducing weak disposability of bad outputs to characterize 'effective environmental regulation', which ensures that reducing pollution is not costless. For both years it has been found that the TE scores of firms under 'effective regulation' scenario are either higher than or equal to those derived under 'ineffective regulation' scenario resulting in a higher average TE at the industry level in the 'effective regulation' scenario. © 2009 Springer-Verlag.

Central European Journal of Operations Research

Effect of regulation on efficiency: Evidence from Indian cement industry

Human Rights and Human Development: A Social Power Perspective

Businesses now contribute to development through avenues other than the generation of employment and economic growth, such as corporate social responsibility initiatives, corporate accountability movements and alternative business models, using several partnership formats to deliver. A panel with representatives from leading corporations, NGOs, and a public sector bank discussed the changing nature of corporate power, responsibility and ownership, the greater congruence between the goals of business and society, and how their organisations were responding to the changes and opportunities. © 2010.