15 research outputs found
Revisiting criminal law bills: An in-depth critical analysis of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Bill
No full textIn an attempt to revise the criminal laws, India has introduced three new criminal law bills in the Lok Sabha in August 2023, which later received a few recommendations from the parliamentary committee and recently got a nod from the President of India. These bills have been diligently formulated after consultation with the apex court, the high courts, some of the most renowned law universities in the country, and other experts in the field. However, there have been a lot of drafting errors in the new bills. Since the time it has been introduced, it has been highly criticized by all the scholars and lawyers across the nation. The idea of overhauling the criminal law acts was to go away from the colonial law provisions and frame the laws with Indian context. The IPC will be changed after around 163 years. However, the author believes that the colonial laws remain intact in the new bills. This article has seen all the changes that new bills are cringing providing special focus to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sahinta (BNS) and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS). The author has mentioned all the changes brought in the BNS and BNSS and the critiques of the new bills
Depression and coping strategies among haemodialysis patients of Bagmati Province, Nepal
No full textBackground: Haemodialysis is therapeutic procedure of purifying blood used for management of acute and chronic renal failure. Financial burden, dialysis and other treatment procedures also add as stressor among patients undergoing haemodialysis treatment. Depression is most frequent psychological problem reported by chronic kidney patients but is also underdiagnosed and underrated among them. The prevalence of depression is reported higher among chronic kidney patients undergoing dialysis treatment compared to general population with higher risk of deaths and hospitalization. This study aimed to assess the depression and coping strategies among haemodialysis patients of Bagmati Province.
Methods: Quantitative cross-sectional study design was used in this research to collect the data from 3 Haemodialysis Centre viz. Kathmandu, Chitwan and Manthali as it covered the haemodialysis patients from Bagmati province. 370 participants were selected from Bagmati province of Nepal via simple random sampling technique. Nepali language version of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Brief COPE Inventory scale were used to measure the depression and coping mechanism among the respondents. The descriptive and inferential statistics was used for data analysis.
Results: Nearly two-fifths (38.6%) of the respondents showed the symptoms of depression followed by no depression (35.9%) and borderline depression (25.4%). There was significant association between level of depression and coping strategies.
Conclusions: The finding from the study highlight the high prevalence of depressive symptoms. There is significant association between level of depression and coping strategies indicating need for targeted mental health intervention including promotion of effective coping mechanism in the targeted population
Returns on social development initiatives of MNEs: issues and perspectives
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Purpose
This paper aims to reflect on different issues and perspectives on returns on investments made by MNEs towards social development. Need for an inclusive society drives accountable and effective cooperation between different actors in a market. Although multinational enterprises (MNEs) that operate in developing markets invest in social development, their managers find it very challenging to incorporate social development agenda into their business practices. Therefore, academics should develop business models which can guide thoughts and actions of managers of MNEs towards social development while allowing them to hold on to the business objectives and targets.
Design/methodology/approach
A review of current literature with available anecdotes about business practices helped the author to form a viewpoint and make recommendations.
Findings
The objective of the eighth millennium development goal is to promote global partnership between MNEs and domestic firms with or without intervention of a subsidiary. Addressing the particular needs of developing countries, such as capability enhancement or poverty reduction by managers of MNEs in a global setting, becomes a very complex issue. Investments by MNEs in developing countries towards these objectives are driven by different factors such as operational transparency, technological efficiency, investment types, innovation capability, branding strategy, quality assurance, public–private partnership, market-based pricing, reciprocity, distribution for penetration, etc., apart from linkages they create for developing resource-based competencies required for survival in a competitive market.
Research limitations/implications
Empirical investigation of the viewpoint presented here will be required to convert recommendations into models applicable by managers of MNEs.
Practical implications
This study will help to enable managers of MNEs to perform need-based socially responsible actions.
Social implications
This study will facilitate participation of MNEs in social development through their contributions towards poverty reduction and capability enhancement.
Originality/value
This paper pushes managers and academic scholars to think about the strategies required to incorporate social agenda into business models of MNEs benefiting from developing markets.
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Returns on social development initiatives of MNEs: issues and perspectives
No full textPurpose
This paper aims to reflect on different issues and perspectives on returns on investments made by MNEs towards social development. Need for an inclusive society drives accountable and effective cooperation between different actors in a market. Although multinational enterprises (MNEs) that operate in developing markets invest in social development, their managers find it very challenging to incorporate social development agenda into their business practices. Therefore, academics should develop business models which can guide thoughts and actions of managers of MNEs towards social development while allowing them to hold on to the business objectives and targets.
Design/methodology/approach
A review of current literature with available anecdotes about business practices helped the author to form a viewpoint and make recommendations.
Findings
The objective of the eighth millennium development goal is to promote global partnership between MNEs and domestic firms with or without intervention of a subsidiary. Addressing the particular needs of developing countries, such as capability enhancement or poverty reduction by managers of MNEs in a global setting, becomes a very complex issue. Investments by MNEs in developing countries towards these objectives are driven by different factors such as operational transparency, technological efficiency, investment types, innovation capability, branding strategy, quality assurance, public–private partnership, market-based pricing, reciprocity, distribution for penetration, etc., apart from linkages they create for developing resource-based competencies required for survival in a competitive market.
Research limitations/implications
Empirical investigation of the viewpoint presented here will be required to convert recommendations into models applicable by managers of MNEs.
Practical implications
This study will help to enable managers of MNEs to perform need-based socially responsible actions.
Social implications
This study will facilitate participation of MNEs in social development through their contributions towards poverty reduction and capability enhancement.
Originality/value
This paper pushes managers and academic scholars to think about the strategies required to incorporate social agenda into business models of MNEs benefiting from developing markets
A Critical and Progressive Review on Maternal and Child Health Policies in India
No full textBackground: Mothers' survival and well-being are crucial for addressing major economic, societal, and child development issues. They are also significant in and of themselves. The current mother and child health situation in India is a complex topic with both hurdles and improvement. The Government of India has the foresight to reduce maternal mortality with the help of different programmes and healthcare facilities being introduced and cautiously implemented.
Objective: The author summarised the literature on maternal and child health programmes, investing in their impact, especially the programmes initiated through national health missions and analysed the programmes.
Result: This paper discussed the programmes and their current scenario with their benefits and problems. Some programmes are near to achieving their objectives such as Jannani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), and Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram (JSSK) but not at their full potential there is still some laguna in these programmes. In this direction reviewed research papers highlighted the problems in the implementation and utilisation of the programmes and suggested further steps that should be taken to fully utilise these programmes and improve maternal and child health.
Conclusion: Maternal deaths can be reduced if proper healthcare treatments are used to prevent or break the chains of problems. Although India outperformed the global average in terms of maternal mortality reduction between 1990 and 2016, we still have a long way to go to catch up with large economies such as Brazil (44), China (27) and Japan (5)
Influence of innovation capability and customer experience on reputation and loyalty
No full textAbstractThis research applies complexity theory to understand the effect of innovation capability and customer experience on reputation and loyalty. This study investigates the contribution of consumer demographics to such relationships. To this end, this article recognizes effective and intellectual experiences as the key elements of customer experience and proposes a conceptual framework with research propositions. To examine the research propositions, this study employs confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), using a sample of 606 consumers of international retail brands. The findings contribute to the literature on innovation, customer, and brand management. In addition, the results also provide guidelines for managers to create customer value in the retail environment through technical innovation capability (new services, service operations, and technology) and non-technical innovation capability (management, sales, and marketing). Furthermore, this article reflects on the link between the consumer shopping experience and firm reputation and loyalty
Conceptualizing corporate identity in a dynamic environment
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Emerald via the DOI in this record.Purpose – The study revisits the meaning of Corporate Identity (CI) in practice to identify its
key dimensions and the interrelationships between them, and to provide insights on how to
operationalize the construct.
Design/methodology/approach – This study is based on a comprehensive literature review
and qualitative research consisting of 22 semi-structured interviews with senior managers
from 11 UK-leading companies, and three in-depth interviews with corporate brand
consultants who worked closely with these firms in cognate areas.
Findings – The study identifies six key dimensions of CI in UK industry: communication,
visual identity, behavior, organizational culture, stakeholder management, and founder valuebased leadership.
Research limitations/implications – The focus on UK leading companies limits the
generalizability of the results. Further studies should be conducted in other sectors and
country settings to examine the relationships identified in the current study.
Originality/value – This study identifies the salient dimensions of CI and, for the first time,
the role of founder transformational leadership, employee identification and top management
behavioral leadership as key dimensions and sub-dimensions of CI. The study also provides
novel insights about the measurements for these dimensions. Additionally, this study
introduces a model for the interrelationships between CI dimensions and their influence on
corporate image, based on rigorous theoretical underpinnings, which lays the foundation for
future empirical testing
The local brand representative in reseller networks
No full textThis study investigates the characteristics of local individuals who represent a brand to its resellers by first conceptualizing these characteristics by employing complexity theory and then testing the conceptualization. This research revealed that four characteristics ‘native’, ‘entrepreneurial’, ‘advisor’, and ‘compatible’ are the main ones that influence reseller brand preferences. The study finds a link between reseller brand preference and reseller brand loyalty which is useful for managing business-to-business markets. The study closes with implications, limitations, and directions for future research. © 2016 The Author
IJCM_404A: Newborn deaths in Maharashtra: A qualitative thematic analysis of newspaper articles
No full textBackground:
As per statistics on infant mortality, the State of Maharashtra has done well in bringing down IMR from 33 to 16 per 1000 live births. However, in recent years many incidents come to light, especially in the case of institutional deliveries where newborns die either due to infrastructure failure or dysfunctional equipment. On a programmatic level, this has serious implications. Schemes such as Janani Suraksha Yojana promote institutional deliveries, but the institutes are unable to tend to the patient load efficiently. Analysing newspaper articles covering such incidents will throw light on actionable points for policy change. Experts from various fields tend to author such articles. Therefore it’s imperative to search every source available to bottleneck the areas for improvement.
Objective:
1. To understand the perspectives of authors about newborn deaths in Maharashtra 2. To derive major areas of concern raised by such articles possibly causing newborn deaths in Maharashtra
Methodology:
All newspaper articles published in the last 2 years about newborn deaths in Maharashtra were identified. They were segregated according to the Name of the newspaper, author, incident, period etc. A thematic analysis was performed on 12 such articles to uncover different themes and sub themes.
Results:
Major themes that emerged were related to infrastructure issues and equipment failure. Another important theme was the higher patient load on secondary care due to excessive referrals from primary health facilities. The schemes promoting institutional deliveries did not anticipate the additional workload on district and subdistrict hospitals. Strengthening primary care remains the major area of concern.
Conclusion:
Lack of quality assurance is the major bottleneck at the infrastructure level. Strengthening primary care will reduce the excessive workload on district and subdistrict hospitals. All these are part of the same chain of events
Marketing innovation : A consequence of competitiveness
No full textThis research uses complexity theory to probe the relationship between competiveness and innovation in the marketing practises of large manufacturing firms that offer their branded products in a foreign market by engaging a network of local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as resellers of their brand. A deductive, quantitative research approach was employed and data were collected over a nine-month period from resellers of international IT firms in India using a questionnaire. A structural equation modelling technique and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) were employed on a sample of 649 respondents to find answers to the questions raised. This research indicates that a successful business relationship between a brand and its resellers can enable both parties to compete in a competitive market. This study finds that innovativeness in the marketing initiatives of the brand can be a function of the contributions made by the brand to its competitiveness. Nevertheless, the findings are also subject to some limitations and provide direction for future research on the topic. © 2016 The Author
