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  • Kausik Gangopadhyay; Kousik Guhathakurta (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    While economics is a study of social system, physics is a science devoted to unraveling the mysteries of Nature. Econophysics, as the name suggests, is a new science which attempts a marriage of these apparently odd partners. ...
  • Kausik Gangopadhyay (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    Dr Eugene H. Stanley (1941–) is one of the most influenc-ing figures in the discipline of Econophysics. He was born in Oklahoma City, US, and was awarded the PhD in physics at Harvard University.1 In 1976 he joined Boston ...
  • Siew Ann Cheong (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    In this article, I have described an experimental econophysics course for advanced undergraduates in the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. This course was offered for the first time in Semester II ...
  • Marcel Ausloos (2013-07)
    For this special issue, the article aims at discussing a few econophysics problems studied so far rather successfully. The following ‘applications’ in micro-econophysics are considered: (i) financial crashes; it is emphasized ...
  • John Angle (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    The Inequality Process (IP) is a particle system model similar to that of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. The IP is a parsimonious model of competition among people for wealth. The IP explains a wide scope of stable patterns ...
  • Asim Ghosh (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    We discuss here researches on econophysics done in India in the last two decades. The term ‘econophysics’ was formally coined in India (Kolkata) in 1995. Since then many research papers, books, reviews, etc., have been ...
  • Taisei Kaizoji (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    In this study, we investigate the statistical properties of the returns and the trading volume. We show a typical example of power-law distributions of the return and of the trading volume. Next, we propose an interacting-agent ...
  • Ralph Abraham; Michael Nivala (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    A brief introductory article on the role of chaotic synchronization in the context of complex economic systems. The basic framework developed by the late Richard Goodwin in his book, Chaotic Economic Dynamics, of 1990 has ...
  • Ayan Bhattacharya; Rudra Sensarma (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    Efficiency and predictability of financial markets are inherently linked to the statistical properties of market indicators. While many papers have researched non-linearities in developed financial markets, this article ...
  • Mukundhan K. V. (Sage Publications, 2013-01)
    As economies undergo institutional transition, firms change their internationalization strategies to take advantage of the prevailing institutional environment of the time. Extant studies on firm internationalization have ...
  • Sebastian M. P.; Supriya K. K. (Sage Publications, 2013-01)
    Governments and public sector organizations around the globe are relying on information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reform the functioning of the system and provide better service delivery mechanisms for their ...
  • Payal S. Kapoor; Jayasimha K. R.; Ashish Sadh (Sage Publications, 2013-01)
    Social media has a lot to offer to the marketers in the form of a ‘web of brand-related-conversations’. With the popularity of social media, users indulge in ‘eword-of-mouth’ (eWOM) behaviour while interacting with other ...
  • Anil Gupta; Anish Yousaf Naik; Neelika Arora (Sage Publications, 2013-01)
    Sponsorships have not been subjected to extensive research in an emerging economy like India, till date, which is considered virgin in terms of sponsorship research. Having this in mind, the article focuses on mapping ...
  • Kousik Guhathakurta (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    While the term ‘econophysics’ is relatively new having been coined in the 1990s by the famous physicist Eugene Stanley, there are already quite a few books that deal with some aspects or the other of this new discipline. ...
  • Unknown author (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    Econophysics: Background and Applications in Economics, Finance, and Sociophysics is a collection of 10 chapters by six different contributors. The first part of the book consisting of two chapters lays down the philosophy ...
  • Nandakumar M. K.; Saptarshi Purkayastha (Sage Publications, 2013-01)
    Organizations in emerging economies are gaining greater relevance in the global economy and they exert a significant influence on organizations from developed economies (Khanna & Palepu, 2006). Resource accumulation process ...
  • Anand Gurumurthy; Gunjan Soni; Surya Prakash; Gaurav Kumar Badhotiya (Sage Publications, 2013-01)
    In India, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has gained significant importance due to opening up of domestic economy as a result of globalization. However, a review of literature revealed that not many papers are available which ...