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Understanding Schizophrenia Through Cultural Lenses in India: A Case Study Using the Cultural Formulation Interview
No full textThe DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) is a person-centred tool that systematically evaluates the influence of sociocultural factors in mental health assessment. It is practical, acceptable, and applicable across diverse clinical contexts. Patients and clinicians differing sociocultural views of illness can cause miscommunications that impact clinical communication, diagnosis, and the creation of culturally relevant treatment strategies. This single-case study used the CFI to explore the perspectives of a woman with schizophrenia and her caregiver, focusing on cultural influences. The patient, diagnosed per ICD-10 criteria at a tertiary care facility, underwent CFI and clinical interviews to assess cultural impacts on her illness experience. Her family attributed symptoms such as disrupted sleep, self-talk, and unusual behaviour to supernatural causes like black magic, reflecting community beliefs. Initially, they sought help from faith healers, with limited relief, before turning to psychiatric care, which improved her symptoms. Despite this, religious practices continued alongside treatment. The patient’s limited understanding of her illness led to poor medication adherence. This case highlights the value of incorporating cultural perspectives into clinical practice to enhance adherence and outcomes. CFI aids in gaining a comprehensive understanding of illness and integrating cultural insights into care. Further research should explore its clinical relevance
The End of the ‘Brain Drain’ Argument
No full textThe concept of ‘brain drain’ has long dominated various discourses on migration of skilled individuals and professionals. Conventionally, policymakers and scholars have warned that emigration of educated talent diminishes the developmental prospects of the originating country. This study highlights the growing critique of the very foundation of the ‘brain drain’ concept by contesting the premise that people’s talent constitutes a monolithic national resource. It argues that all individuals possess inherent rights to free mobility and job autonomy, and their skills and talents should neither be owned, nor controlled by state authorities. With universalization of these rights and principles the concept of brain drain becomes obsolete and untenable, instead countries may adopt policies that incentivize the return of skilled emigrants back home. The article has a clear red-thread, helping readers to follow a well-structured convincing argument. It starts with manifesting the universality and inviolability of human rights and freedom of movement, including the right to leave own country, as a central foundation of the critique of ‘brain drain’. The article continues with an argument to stop using ‘brain drain’ discourse and utilize instead ‘brain circulation’, presenting representative examples of policies in both origin and destination countries, encouraging skilled migration for the benefit of all. It also addresses the sports migration as an example of win-win enterprise. The article presents the case study of India as an excellent illustration how to end the ‘brain drain’ excuses. Finally, some conclusions and recommendations for future research are listed
Responsible restructuring: a comparative analysis of employment practices from crisis to stable business conditions
No full textPurpose: This study explores responsible employment restructuring practices during crises and under normal business conditions.
Design/methodology/approach: This study employs the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) method, to systematically assess various alternative factors and their relative importance in responsible employment restructuring. A mixed-methods approach was adopted to integrate the quantitative and qualitative techniques. The respondents were selected using purposive sampling. Primary data were gathered through semi-structured interviews and a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed using AHP's 1–9 scale to enable pairwise comparisons of the restructuring criteria.
Findings: This study offers valuable insights into organisational restructuring decisions that navigate the complex balance between economic imperatives and employee well-being during crises and in stable business conditions.
Research limitations/implications: This study contributes to Human Resource Management (HRM) theory by advancing the understanding of responsible HRM, crisis-responsive HR strategies, responsible employment restructuring, and the application of decision science methods in HRM.
Practical implications: This study offers practical guidance for policymakers and HR practitioners on ethical, regulation-compliant restructuring decisions that protect employees while sustaining organisational interests. HR should adopt a balanced and empathetic approach, using transparent communication and trust-building to enhance organisational resilience. When applying robust decision-making tools such as AHP, HR must prioritise employee well-being through counselling, redeployment, and upskilling initiatives. Policymakers, strategists, and HR professionals should develop context-specific restructuring checklists, process models, and decision flowcharts. In stable conditions, HR decisions should emphasise long-term goals and employee development, whereas in crisis situations, HR must focus on critical operations while providing ethical and emotional support to employees.
Social implications: The study has greater social implications as the consequences of the restructuring decisions can affect mental health perception of fairness, leading to extreme emotional consequences. Hence, organisations with accountability must design the restructuring strategies contributing to healthy workplaces with sustainable employment practices.
Originality/value: The originality of the paper lies in its application of AHP for HR decision-making in restructuring, particularly in crisis periods and stable business conditions. It offers a novel contribution to HR theory by demonstrating how AHP can support decision-makers in systematically navigating the trade-offs involved in employee restructuring across diverse organisational contexts in different business situations
Barriers in the adoption of cold supply chain – a contextual parameter analysis
No full textPurpose: The cold chain (CC) is critical in preserving perishable goods across multiple industries. Insufficient infrastructure, along with other challenges, contributes to extensive food wastage. Although numerous studies have focused on the challenges of the CC, an integrated framework is required to prioritize and tackle these challenges.
Design/methodology/approach: The empirical research utilizes a conscious capitalism perspective and employs multi-criteria decision-making methods, specifically fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, Fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution and the best-worst method to analyse various factors affecting the cold supply chain (CSC).
Findings: The findings of this research emphasize that implementing best practices, forming partnerships and alliances and government initiatives are significant non-information technology (IT)solutions. Automating data collection, integrating logistics management systems and creating integrated platforms are notable ITsolutions for addressing CSC challenges. These findings align with the recent focus on sustainability in the CCs.
Originality/value: The currentstudy contributes a novel integrated framework and seeksto fill the existing gap by analysing issues and proposing solutions to mitigate the adverse effects of these issues on the CC. The study attempts to further build upon prior research by extending it through the utilization of a unified model with a focus on sustainabilit
Paying Musk, irrational exuberance and inequality
No full textDespite the headlines, Elon Musk might never make a trillion dollars. The Tesla CEO would only receive this astronomical amount if he were to meet a set of incredibly ambitious goals, which includes increasing the stock value of the company to $8.5 trillion, selling 20 million vehicles and one million robots. It seems the stuff of science fiction, and perhaps it is. But the fact that Tesla shareholders see it fit to reward this vision should make us re-assess the place of shareholder capitalism in our economy, as it has shown itself unable to tackle two significant problems: irrational exuberance and inequality
Customized Product Design and Cybersecurity Under a Nash Game-Enabled Dual-Channel Supply Chain Network
Full text linkDual-channel retailing empowers the manufacturer to benefit from market opportunities by producing customized items that fulfill client requirements. The manufacturer and retailer sell customized products, which allow customers to express their chosen style to increase both the likelihood of customers making a purchase and their level of satisfaction with the product. This trend is demonstrated by the current study, in which customized consumer items are considered through online and offline channels. On the other hand, cybersecurity has become a crucial aspect of the digital era, ensuring the protection of sensitive data, networks, and systems from cyberattacks and unauthorized access. This study develops with a modern cybersecurity framework to protect against cyberattacks and increase customer trust. This model is based on customized product design, cybersecurity investment, advertisement investment, and increasing the green level of customized products. The model is solved using both centralized policy and vertical Nash policy. Numerical results indicate that centralized profit is 2.37 more than the decentralized profit. Without investing in customized products and cybersecurity, the profit of the supply chain decreases by 2.33 and 1.99 for the centralized method, 1.28 and 1.15 for the vertical Nash method for the retailer, and 1.85 and 1.38 for the vertical Nash method for the manufacturer
The sustainability mindset with Blockchain technology in Industry 5.0: towards a framework for sustainable supply chain management
No full textIn an industrial context, different industries today face several constraints in managing their supply chains, especially after the COVID-19 crisis, which has given rise to a new generation of industry known as ‘Industry 5.0’. This new era introduces several concepts and aspects within each supply chain that focus on key factors such as sustainability, resilience, and, most importantly, the centric human. Our study is based in a framework that aims to integrate sustainability into supply chain management to establish a sustainable approach to supply chain management. This framework is based on three dimensions aligned with the triple bottom line (TBL) perspective, namely ‘knowing’, ‘doing’, and ‘being’. Subsequently, we apply qualitative and exploratory research through an extensive literature review. Using the ‘doing’ and ‘being’ dimensions, we then develop a framework that represents a model for sustainable supply chain management. Additionally, we provide an application pathway for two types of industries. Copyright © 2026 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Theory and Practice of Imperialism 3.0
No full textAdeclaration for recolonisation could not get more explicit than the United States’ (US) Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech to the European leaders during this year’s annual Munich Security Conference (13 February 2026). This speech follows sustained actions by the US exercising global dominance in strategic areas. The recent targets have been Cuba and Iran. In his speech, Rubio extolled five centuries of colonial expansionism, colonial settlements, “superior” culture, “vast empires,” and lamented the West’s “terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings…”1 He proposed imperial resurrection led by the US and asked Europe to follow the imperial cause of this “common interest.
Our Work Will Be Far, and the Roads Are Unsafe: Housing Insecurity through an Intersectional Lens
No full textHousing insecurity has implications for the lives of Muslim migrant domestic workers not only in the context of shelter and economic distress but also in relation to care, violence, religious freedom, and labour rights. Drawing on data from focus group discussions and interviews with domestic workers living under the threat of eviction in the Indian city of Gurugram, the chapter aims to understand how gender, migrant status, religious identity, and class intersect to create distinct patterns of vulnerability and resilience in the context of housing insecurity. Actors such as the state and the employers exercise power in varied ways in these women's lives as they navigate the eviction process. Our findings highlight four themes: Working class women see housing as gendered safety for themselves and their loved ones. Domestic workers see housing as central to their right to rest. For migrant Muslim women, housing security also offers protection for their religious freedom. Finally, housing security offers women the ability to foster community. These micro level insights about domestic workers' experiences of housing insecurity point to larger systemic issues such as hostile working conditions, absence of legislative protection, lack of state accountability and gendered and casteist violence in an environment where care is increasingly privatized. The chapter discusses the implications and potential interventions to promote equitable and inclusive urban development, specifically for vulnerable groups. © 2026 selection and editorial matter, Hebatallah Adam and Abul Hasnat Monjurul Kabir; individual chapters, the contributors. All rights reserved