04. Humanities & Liberal Arts in Management
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This section is mainly deals with the publications of IIMK Community in the area of Social Science.
2024-03-29T09:10:07Z
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Linking social systems failure of marriages and firms: A short note
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Linking social systems failure of marriages and firms: A short note
Padhi, Sidhartha S.; Zangera, Ingmar; Wagnera, Stephan M.
This study investigates the failure of social systems and tries to find a plausible mechanism. We observe stretched exponential distributions for failure of marriages in the U.S., UK, and Germany and extend evidence for power laws in large firms’ failure in the U.S., and worldwide. Since summation of stretched exponentials leads to power laws, one can establish an underlying principle to link different types of social systems failure like marriages and firms. Moreover, we postulate the generation of these fat-tailed distributions in social systems failure can be explained by the least effort principle of Zipf and suggest to increase initial efforts at individual level through marriage counseling, or stakeholder synchronization to
reduce failures.
2444-569X/© 2017 Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. Published by Elsevier
2016-01-01T00:00:00Z
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The legacy of Hu Jintao
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The legacy of Hu Jintao
Venkat Raman, G.
As the curtains are drawn on the fourth generation of leadership under the stewardship of Hu Jintao and the stage being set for the fifth generation of leadership in China with the eighteenth party congress meeting scheduled on November 8, the time is ripe to look back and see what kind of legacy President Hu Jintao is leaving behind. Perhaps his biggest achievement is to bring into prominence the concept of ‘social governance’, something that was missing from the Chinese political lexicon ever since China embarked on the path of reforms and opening up...
http://newindianexpress.com/opinion/article1331846.ece?service=print
2012-11-07T00:00:00Z
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Higher Education Needs a Longer View
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Higher Education Needs a Longer View
Balakrishnan, Pulapre
The decline and fall of the publicly-funded higher education system in india has its origins in the fact that there has been a steady expansion of institutions without any concern for quality of the faculty. Unless such issues are addressed, merely increasing the number of the seats will prove counterproductive.
2006-08-12T00:00:00Z
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Ensuring equity with excellence
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Ensuring equity with excellence
Balakrishnan, Pulapre
Seminar 565 September 2006
2006-09-01T00:00:00Z