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    ENERGY 2040: Aligning Innovation, Economics and Decarbonization
    with Deepak Divan
    Springer Nature Switzerland. 2024.
  • This chapter considers the problem of divine hiddenness as an issue potentially if not explicitly addressed by the prominent 20th century proponent of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda (1896-1977). In a four-part argument, Prabhupāda’s identifying Kṛṣṇa as the perfect teacher, particularly in his role as Arjuna’s teacher in the Bhagavad-Gītā, enables consideration of how the divine hiddenness issue is resolvable, particularly by framing awareness of God’s existence and und…Read more
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    Communication: An Inevitable Aspect of Medical Tourism in India
    with Hetal S. Patel, Dilip C. Patel, and Ritesh S. Patel
    In Bhupinder Chaudhary, Dinesh Bhatia, Mahesh Patel, Sunaina Singh & Sushman Sharma (eds.), Medical Tourism in Developing Countries: A contemporary approach, Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 245-252. 2024.
    Communication is an essential part of human life, which makes human beings different from other creatures on this universe. It is through communication that the whole world is connected, and thus, it has become a global village in this twenty-first century. In the field of medical tourism, one cannot ignore the role of communication. In fact, communication is the heart of medical tourism that makes it possible. Medical tourism in India is an emerging concept nowadays, and it will not be possible…Read more
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    Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions: Assuring Quality services for Medical Tourism in India
    with Anil Kumar Chillimuntha and Eliah Srikakolli
    In Bhupinder Chaudhary, Dinesh Bhatia, Mahesh Patel, Sunaina Singh & Sushman Sharma (eds.), Medical Tourism in Developing Countries: A contemporary approach, Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 229-243. 2024.
    Quality of patient care is how a hospital delivers care for the patients and they ensure safe, effective, efficient, and equitable medical services, which conform to accreditation standards. Accreditation is a formal process to ensure delivery of safe, high-quality healthcare based on standards and processes devised and developed by healthcare professionals for healthcare services. The concept of Accreditation dates back to the 1860s when Florence Nightingale collated hospital statistics and ana…Read more
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    Medical Tourism: Exigency for Economy
    with Nishi Gandhi, B. S. Dhillon, Kesha Bhadiyadra, and Monika
    In Bhupinder Chaudhary, Dinesh Bhatia, Mahesh Patel, Sunaina Singh & Sushman Sharma (eds.), Medical Tourism in Developing Countries: A contemporary approach, Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 137-144. 2024.
    Medical tourism is the across-border travel for healthcare services by patients from various European and Asian countries. India is one of the preferred choices for medical treatments being the low-cost healthcare service provider along with the holistic quality care. Globalization and Liberalization are two important factors leading to the potential growth of the medical tourism market all over the globe.The current study undertakes the evaluation of potential factors for the growth of the medi…Read more
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    Regulatory Policies and Medical Ethics of Medical Tourism in Developing Countries
    with Sursinh Barad, Kesha Bhadiyadra, and Bhupinder Chaudhary
    In Bhupinder Chaudhary, Dinesh Bhatia, Mahesh Patel, Sunaina Singh & Sushman Sharma (eds.), Medical Tourism in Developing Countries: A contemporary approach, Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 215-228. 2024.
    Medical tourism (also called medical travel or health tourism) refers to the practice of traveling across international borders to obtain healthcare. The main motivation that attracts foreign patients is the low cost of medical treatment. Other factors included excellent medical facilities and cultural and religious similarities. Medical tourism also helpful for developing country and help to strengthening of health services to developing countries. Therefore, The Ministry of India, Tourism and …Read more
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    Medical Tourism Overview
    with Kesha Bhadiyadra, Bhupinder Chaudhary, B. S. Dhillon, and Nishi Gandhi
    In Bhupinder Chaudhary, Dinesh Bhatia, Mahesh Patel, Sunaina Singh & Sushman Sharma (eds.), Medical Tourism in Developing Countries: A contemporary approach, Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 199-213. 2024.
    Medical tourism happens when people travel to a different country to get therapeutic, surgical, or dental services. Medical tourists may visit developing or developed nations for the most prevalent types of medical reasons. Medical tourism, a rapidly growing component of the healthcare industry, has unique issues for both public health and clinical medicine. Patient travels for medical tourism services may have an impact, depending on whether nations such as India, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, T…Read more
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    Medical Tourism in Developing Countries: A contemporary approach (edited book)
    with Bhupinder Chaudhary, Dinesh Bhatia, Mahesh Patel, and Sunaina Singh
    Springer Nature Singapore. 2024.
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    Analysing the relationship between ethical leadership and the voice of Malaysian Muslim employees
    with Zulham Zulham, Qurratul Aini, Nasir Mehmood, A. Heri Iswanto, Ismail Suardi Wekke, Anna Gustina Zainal, Elena Pavlovna Panova, and Natalia Fedorova
    HTS Theological Studies 78 (4). 2022.
    Ethical behaviour, in its simplest terms, means knowing and doing what is right. Nevertheless, the main difficulty is how to define the word 'right'. For this purpose, various individuals, cultures and religions have thus far portrayed it in different ways. The present study reflected on the Islamic society, wherein ethical leadership has been one of the most effective factors in its continuation of life and success, with a vital role in its growth, development and progress. Accordingly, the rel…Read more
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    Although spiritual practices such as prayer are engaged by many to support well‐being and coping, little research has addressed nurses and prayer, whether for themselves or facilitating patients' use of prayer. We conducted a qualitative study to explore how prayer (as a proxy for spirituality and religion) is manifest—whether embraced, tolerated, or resisted—in healthcare, and how institutional and social contexts shape how prayer is understood and enacted. This paper analyzes interviews with 2…Read more
  • RETRACTED ARTICLE: A review of 45 candidate genes: Association of single nucleotide polymorphism to schizophrenia Risk (review)
    with Indu Priya, Isar Sharma, Ritu Mahajan, and Nisha Kapoor
    New Genetics and Society 38 (3). 2019.
    The following article has been retracted from publication in the Taylor & Francis journal New Genetics and Society. I. Priya, S. Sharma, I. Sharma, R. Mahajan and N. Kapoor, A review of 45 candidate genes: association of single nucleotide polymorphism to schizophrenia risk, New Genetics and Society https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2018.1481740. Version of Record published online 13 July 2018. The editorial office of the journal inadvertently processed the paper through the online submission syst…Read more
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    The Contingent Influence of Organizational Capabilities on Environmental Strategy in North American and European Ski Resorts
    with J. Alberto Aragón-Correa and Antonio Rueda
    Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 17 201-206. 2006.
    The influence of externally focused organizational capabilities on the generation of proactive environmental strategies was examined under contingenteffects of uncertainty in the general business environment in 134 North American and European ski resorts. Capabilities of strategic proactivity and continuous innovation were found to be associated with proactive environmental strategies. Managerial perceptions of uncertainty in the general business environment were found to moderate the deployment…Read more
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    Drivers of Sustainability Strategy in Family Firms
    Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 20 194-205. 2009.
    Family ownership and/or involvement in the business have rarely been adopted as a discriminating variable in organizations and the natural environment or sustainability research. Family firms introduce a dynamic that is different from professionally run firms. This paper develops a theoretical framework to show that family firms whose dominant family coalition shares a vision of sustainability will be more likely to develop and deploy their organizational capabilities for a sustainability strate…Read more
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    Stakeholder Engagement for Organizational Innovation
    Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 16 347-352. 2005.
    Balancing the often conflicting objectives of promoting social equity, ecological integrity and economic growth creates complexity in strategic decision-makingbecause of the number and diversity of stakeholders impacted. Therefore, sustainability solutions transcend organizational boundaries and an effective understanding requires an integration of perspectives from a wide range of stakeholders. Integrating diverse stakeholder perspectives can influence organizational innovation at two levels: b…Read more
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    Exploring Factors Behind Offline and Online Selfie Popularity Among Youth in India
    with Sanchita Srivastava, Puja Upadhaya, and Kaveri Gupta
    Frontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.
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    The Engagement of Firms in Environmental Collaborations: Existing Contributions and Future Directions
    with Raymond Paquin and Ulrich Wassmer
    Business and Society 53 (6): 754-786. 2014.
    The engagement of firms in environmental collaborations has become a ubiquitous phenomenon in today’s business landscape. Yet much of the research to date is fragmented across multiple disciplines and lacks a clear framework to support future study. The authors consolidate and synthesize existing contributions into a conceptual map comprised of antecedents, consequences, and contingencies to better understand environmental collaborations. This map offers a perspective on how firms develop strate…Read more
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    `So Far So Good...': La Haine and the Poetics of the Everyday
    with Ashwani Sharma
    Theory, Culture and Society 17 (3): 103-116. 2000.
    Representations of urban youth and its cultures of display have become an increasing focus of attention for contemporary cinema. The film La Haine received critical acclaim for its raw depiction of `ghetto life' for alienated `minority' youth in France. In this article, we use this text as a way of exploring the cultural politics of such filmic practices. La Haine's aesthetic strategies of an affective `hyper-realism' and postmodern authenticity are scrutinized for their racialized politics of r…Read more
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    So Far So Good..
    with Ashwani Sharma
    Theory, Culture and Society 17 (3): 103-116. 2000.
    Representations of urban youth and its cultures of display have become an increasing focus of attention for contemporary cinema. The film La Haine received critical acclaim for its raw depiction of `ghetto life' for alienated `minority' youth in France. In this article, we use this text as a way of exploring the cultural politics of such filmic practices. La Haine's aesthetic strategies of an affective `hyper-realism' and postmodern authenticity are scrutinized for their racialized politics of r…Read more
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    Nationalism and the Scope of Freedom
    Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 35 (2): 315-331. 2018.
    The world that we live in today is now dominated by strict national identities, where this national allegiance is given paramount importance. This holds true today as it did during the time Rabindranath Tagore expressed his dissent over such strong patriotic feelings. The main issue that emerges with such a rigid sense of belonging is putting a limit around the scope of individual freedom. How creative or independent can an individual be in an environment whose fate is getting sealed by a mechan…Read more
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    It is no secret that there have been radical changes in the way we produce and consume food ever since the introduction of industrial methods of production to food. Such changes have raised several ethical concerns about loss of biodiversity, ethical treatment of animals, nutritional quality of industrial food, safety of genetically modified food, and adequate working conditions of people in agricultural sector among many others. Food ethics has recently started to respond to some such concerns.…Read more
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    Drivers of Proactive Environmental Strategy in Family Firms
    with Pramodita Sharma
    Business Ethics Quarterly 21 (2): 309-334. 2011.
    Globally, family firms are the dominant organizational form. Family involvement in business and unique family dynamics impacts organizational strategy and performance. However, family control of business has rarely been adopted as a discriminating variable in the organizations and the natural environment (ONE) research field. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior we develop a conceptual framework of the drivers of proactive environmental strategy (PES) in family firms. We argue that family i…Read more
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    Advancing Research on Corporate Sustainability: Off to Pastures New or Back to the Roots?
    with J. Alberto Aragón-Correa, Frank Figge, and Tobias Hahn
    Business and Society 56 (2): 155-185. 2017.
    Over the last two decades, corporate sustainability has been established as a legitimate research topic among management and organization scholars. This introductory article explores potential avenues for advances in research on corporate sustainability by readdressing some of the fundamental aspects of the sustainability debate and approaching some novel perspectives and insights from outside the corporate sustainability field. This essay also sketches out how each of the six articles of this s…Read more
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    Changes in corporate social responsibility activity during a pandemic: The case of COVID‐19
    with Kamel Mellahi, Belaid Rettab, Mathew Hughes, and Paul Hughes
    Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S3): 270-290. 2023.
    This study examines the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) during COVID-19. Little is known about how organizations practice CSR during acute exogenous crises. Overlooking how CSR practices change during a crisis matters because organizations are compelled into trade-offs that carry implications for their CSR initiatives. Analysis of interview data with CSR managers, from 21 Dubai-based business organizations during COVID-19, uncovers changes in the content and process of CSR duri…Read more
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    Music & Politics
    Theory, Culture and Society 17 (3): 55-63. 2000.
    This is an introduction to the section on Music and Politics including a description of the context of these essays, their individual contributions and their thematic interrelations.
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    Demand and Supply: Association between Pediatric Ethics Consultation Volume and Protected Time for Ethics Work
    with Meaghann S. Weaver, Christopher Wichman, and Jennifer K. Walter
    AJOB Empirical Bioethics 14 (3): 135-142. 2023.
    Background Despite national increase in pediatric ethics consultation volume over the past decade, protected time and resources for healthcare ethics consultancy work has lagged.Methods Correlation study investigating potential associations between ethics consult volume reported by recent national survey of consultants at children’s hospitals and five programmatic domains.Results 104 children’s hospitals in 45 states plus Washington DC were included. There was not a statistically significant ass…Read more
  • The treatment of animals in India
    with B. K. Sharma
    In Andrew Linzey & Desmond Tutu (eds.), The global guide to animal protection, University of Illinois Press. 2013.
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    Gandhi's teachers: Henry David Thoreau
    Gujarat Vidyapith. 2013.