By:  Prof. Praveen Sugathan, Assistant Professor, IIM Kozhikode After trying a host of writing tools such as word (Microsoft as well as open source versions), LaTeX and Lyx, He had settled on Scrivener as his default writing tool. He had shaped his entire thesis (three complete essays) as well as other 5-6 papers using Scrivener. It works on the principle …Read more »

By: Prof. Pradip Sadarangani, Associate Professor, IIM Shillong. Abstract of the talk:  Power is an important construct in retailing and channel management. The paper focused on the interrelation dynamics among sources of social power as well as the relationship among behavior of channel members and sources of social power. Trust, agent dependence, affective commitment and environmental munificence behavior of channel members …Read more »

By: Prof. Praveen Sugathan, Assistant Professor, IIM Kozhikode. Abstract Of the Talk: “Enlisting unpaid workers to co-produce the products and services, which are converted to money in the market often by selling to the same people whose labor helped to produce them, corresponds to the expropriation of surplus value from consumer labor. From a Marxian perspective, therefore, co-creation also signifies the exploitation …Read more »

By: Prof. Sheri Markose & Prof. Thankom Arun Abstract of the Talk:  In the seminar, Sheri Markose  talked about digital mapping of the Indian Financial System for purposes of systemic risk management. She has been demonstrated the need to model financial systems and macro-economics in terms of interconnectedness and granularity to give causal relationships that are overlooked while using reduced …Read more »

By: Prof. Rachana Shah, Associate Professor, Carlson School of Management Abstract of the Talk: In that seminar, She  shared their most current research on product recalls, and went through a series of papers in that stream.  In developing that research stream, she leveraged her knowledge of lean and waste-eliminating, problem-solving culture in identifying effectiveness of inspections and causes of quality failures, …Read more »