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Migration and educational assortative mating in India: how geographic mobility shapes marriage markets
No full textThis paper examines how internal migration influences educational assortative mating patterns in India using Periodic Labour Force Survey data (2020-21). We analyze the association of migrant status and type of assortative mating, that is whether migrants are more likely to engage in homogamous (similar education) or heterogamous (different education) marriages compared to non-migrants. Results show migrants are significantly more likely to form educationally heterogamous marriages, with urban-to-urban migrants particularly prone to hypogamy (marrying higher-educated partners). These findings are validated using instrumental variables including crime rates, migrant networks, and unemployment rates. Family structure and marriage pool composition emerge as key mechanisms driving educational heterogamy among migrants, suggesting migration fundamentally alters marital formation preferences away from traditional educational homogamy patterns
Tribunal’s Dilemma: The Interpretive Burdens of Madras Bar Association v. Union of India
No full textOn 19th November 2025, the Supreme Court delivered its latest and sixth iteration of the Madras Bar Association series of cases. The matter specifically pertained to the constitutional status and configuration of tribunals in the judicial system. This long-standing dispute spans across ten major case laws, separate judicial opinions, and intervening legislative proposals. This case note sketches the interpretive style (doctrinal propositions) and its contextual limits (burdens) in tribunal reforms. It can be read as a general remark upon the nature of constitutional interpretation, administrative law, and judicial process
Wearable technology in health care: a privacy-centric perspective
No full textWearable technology in the health care sector is evolving into a game-changer instrument for monitoring and improving individual’s well-being. Technologically advanced devices, such as wearable health monitoring devices, fitness trackers, smart rings, and smartwatches, are now considered vital in promoting proactive health care management. However, grave concerns for the privacy of sensitive information emerge as these devices are increasingly integrated into health care environments. Consequently, this chapter critically analyzes the privacy implications of wearable technology in addressing concerns such as data security, consent, and potential misuse of sensitive data. The chapter assesses the interplay between theoretical and ethical underpinnings such as Privacy Calculus Theory, Health Belief Model, Technology Acceptance Model, Kantian ethics, and Utilitarianism. The chapter further assess the utility of such devices in patient’s care, the storage of sensitive data, security breaches, and privacy challenges. Thus, by proposing the best practices to enhance the privacy of data, the chapter seeks to advance the debate on how innovation can be balanced with proper data protection controls so that wearable technology enhances health care without violating personal privacy
Reinforcing financial and accounting resilience in digital circular platforms: The strategic role of digital governance and organizational culture
No full textDigital circular platforms are a new form of socio-technical ecosystems integrating digital technologies, financial innovation and organizational sustainability practices designed to build resilience and regenerative value. This research studied the effect of digital platform functionality, digital governance maturity and platform-based financial mechanism on financial and accounting resilience through the mediating impact of organisational culture for sustainability and circular business model innovation. Using dynamic capabilities view and socio-technical systems theory as a theoretical foundation, the current research develops and tests a serial mediation model using data from 297 professionals. Digital governance maturity and platform-based financial mechanism improve financial and accounting resilience significantly to a considerable degree. Organisational culture for sustainability and circular business model innovation exhibit serial mediating effects. Thus, it confirms that a mechanism exists between digital and financial enablers leading to resilience outcomes. The considerable variance in financial and accounting resilience can be explained by the model. Therefore, it can be inferred that adaptive governance and innovation-driven culture are critical to sustaining circular digital ecosystems. This study enhances the understanding of how digital governance and circular innovation are linked through organizational culture-based mediating pathways. Practically, it provides actionable guidance for platform managers and policymakers to facilitate their establishment of integrative digital financial and accounting systems that generate resilience, adaptability, and long-term sustainability for circular business systems
Cruising as Methodology: Toward the Ethnographic Viability of Fleeting Encounters
No full textThis article presents “cruising” as a methodological model that responds to the challenge of thin data. Organizational ethnographic norms idealize projects that produce “rich” data and “thick” description collected from long-term, committed fieldwork relations. Yet, this norm precludes research questions that may address those of minorities whose organizational exclusion is manifest in the erasure of their experiences. As a practice in seeking fleeting intimacies with strangers, queer theorists have argued that the practice of cruising sheds ontological, epistemic, and ethical insights into intimacy with objects made possible in precisely the contexts where long-term commitment is precluded. This article draws from queer theoretical insights to suggest a model that takes seriously ethnographic encounters made possible through fleeting, short-term encounters. As a mobile, multisited, and highly embodied act, cruising is theorized as a model for a methodology that draws inspiration from two otherwise disparate approaches, namely, that of feminist reflexivity and that of what I call the “cartographic” approach of mapping diverse actors and objects, typically associated with descriptions of networks. Cruising as a methodology, at once, draws on these approaches while interrogating norms that presuppose how intimacy with objects should proceed in the field and be represented later in the write-up
Consumer Attention and Price Competitiveness in Telecommunications Market
No full textThe paper discusses the transformation of the competitive landscape of telecom sector post-privatization. Price competition is a consistent factor, driven by technological advancements and consumer behaviour. The study explores global variations in the price competitive structure of the telecommunications market, utilizing unsupervised machine learning – topic modelling to analyze research articles. Six topic models reveal key themes, emphasizing the roles of firms, customers, and government entities in the oligopolistic market. The models highlight the impact of entry costs, spectrum license ownership, and quality of service on market players. The impending 5G technology is expected to influence service quality and differentiation. The study highlights the importance of regulation to prevent customer exploitation, given the high switching costs. It also anticipates the evolving competitive landscape with the introduction of novel services like mobile commerce. The analysis contributes to telecom literature by presenting optimized topic models that are both statistically and semantically relevant, shedding light on the industry's current trends and potential future directions
India Will Remain Immune To Protest Waves Engulfing Neighbourhoo
Full text linkSo long as Indians do not find a true watchdog for the government, people will have to keep choosing the lesser evil. Youth are well aware of the situation of Arab countries post-revolution. In South Asia, although Sri Lanka and Nepal have been able to consolidate power to some extent, Bangladesh remains in a frenzy with rampant human rights violations, religious persecution and no legitimate government in sight. Hence, Indian youth prefer to seek reform from within rather than a full-blown revolution without any vision for the futur
Rise of Unpaid Family Workers: Evidence on Distress-driven Employment Growth in India
No full textWhile the surge in India’s labour force participation rate and worker population ratio since 2017–18 has reversed the earlier decline in female labour force participation, it raises the crucial question of whether this trend is driven by robust economic growth or underlying economic hardship. This paper addresses this debate by focusing on the rapid increase in the most vulnerable employment categories: unpaid family helpers and own-account workers. Our findings indicate that helpers exhibit significantly lower productivity compared to any category of paid workers, with matched estimates showing their attributable daily earnings around ₹50. The real average daily earnings for OAWs, the largest employment group, dropped by around 8% between 2017–18 and 2023–24. The evidence strongly supports the interpretation that the recent expansion in employment reflects economic distress leading to subsistence work
Digitization assisted circular economy: a business strategy to attain sustainability in global supply chains
No full textContemporary businesses that aim for sustainable global supply chains (GSCs) through circular economy (CE) models has been a crucial topic of research and practice for addressing the climate change risks and resource scarcity. This study identifies and prioritizes the critical success factors (CSFs) for digitalization assisted CE for sustainability in GSCs using a modified multi criteria decision making technique, Grey Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL). Analysing the cause-and-effect relationships among 14 identified CSFs for digitization assisted CE in GSCs offers actionable insights for organizations and policymakers seeking to enhance sustainability efforts by navigating the complexities of integrating digitization and CE practices. The findings from the study reveal that process improvement and optimization through digitization and human centric sustainable operations towards CE as the highest ranked CSFs. The results suggest that managers shall invest in digital integration, prioritize transparency, and foster collaboration to create resilient and sustainable supply chain ecosystems and this will serve as the initial step towards the future digital transformations. This study provides a strategic roadmap for managers and policymakers aiming to integrate CE principles through digital transformation