Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) is a premier institute of science and technology established in 2008. IITH has been consistently ranked in the&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/reports/" rel="noopener noreferrer">top 10 institutes</a>&nbsp;in India for Engineering&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nirfindia.org/2021/EngineeringRanking.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">according to NIRF</a>&nbsp;making it one of the most coveted schools for science and technology in the country.

IITH offers&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/under-graduate/">undergraduate programs</a>&nbsp;in all the classical engineering disciplines, applied sciences, design, as well as several modern interdisciplinary areas. Students are given a flexibility to explore a broad set of areas, and potentially pursue a minor or double major in a discipline that is not their own. Students who wish to seek a deeper understanding of their own discipline are strongly encouraged to get involved in cutting-edge research with the help of a faculty to mentor them, and earn an Honors in their own field.

The very foundation of IIT Hyderabad is based on&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/research/">research and innovation</a>. The vibrant research culture is evident from the number of patents and publications that IITH produces consistently every year. IITH offers&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/programmes-offered/">graduate programs</a>&nbsp;at both a masters, and a doctoral level, in several diverse areas. There are separate programs for technology, design, science, and liberal arts. The&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/post-graduate/">MTech program</a>&nbsp;is offered in various modes and durations to cater to the ever-growing need of postgraduate level professionals in the country.

IITH encourages and supports&nbsp;<a href="https://iic-iith.netlify.app/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">innovation and entrepreneurship</a>&nbsp;at every stage. The minor program in entrepreneurship is open to all students of IITH, and many of the courses are offered by industrialists who are entrepreneurs themselves. There are various&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/research/centres-incubators/">innovation centers and incubators</a>&nbsp;that promote entrepreneurship and help mentor young innovators. IITH has been very successful in building tie-ups with leading academic institutions around the globe.

IITH enjoys a very special relationship with Japanese universities and industries that goes beyond academic and research collaborations. In fact, some of the iconic buildings in IITH campus will carry the signature of Japanese architecture.

IITH creates a unique holistic ecosystem for education that offers interactive learning, a very flexible academic structure, cutting-edge research, strong industry collaboration, and entrepreneurship. This is an environment which enables students and faculty to translate their dreams into realities.

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The application of a plethora of wireless technologies to support real-time food quality monitoring during transportation has significantly improved the performance of fresh food delivery systems. However, deployment of these technologies increases the capital and operational costs of food delivery and, hence, not all food delivery operations need to employ them. This paper looks at the trade-off of the costs involved in utilizing these technologies with the nature of food delivered, the length of transportation, and the perceived costs of food wasted using a linear programming model. The problem is formulated over a bi-echelon network with the possibility of transporting the fresh produce through dry vans, vans with temperature control but without monitoring capability, and vans with temperature control and monitoring capability. Results indicate that under situations of infinite vehicle resource availability, the optimal choice of the van type is independent of the demand levels; however, the optimal choice changes for different travel distances and the value of penalty costs (of allowing food to go waste). For example, technologies that maintain and monitor the temperature of storage conditions will be useful for food items that quickly become waste, especially when transported over longer distances and when the penalty costs are higher. © 2023 by the authors.

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A Decision Support Model for Cost-Effective Choice of Temperature-Controlled Transport of Fresh Food

The current research aims to understand the detrimental effects of job security (i.e., remaining in the same job), insecurity (i.e., concerns about continuing in the existing job), and burnout on employee organizational commitment. By investigating this context, the study also looks into how benevolent leadership may mitigate these negative effects. Employing event system theory, we conceptualize job insecurity, job security, and burnout effects as Covid-19-related events and how they may impact employee organizational commitment. Based to the findings, despite the mediation effects of benevolent leadership, job insecurity, and job burnout negatively impacted employee organizational commitment. Furthermore, job security was lowered by the mediating influence of benevolent leadership. The study findings have important implications for managers and organizations in dealing with future crises. © 2023 Elsevier Inc.

Journal of Business Research

The effect of job security, insecurity, and burnout on employee organizational commitment

Individuals with comorbidities (i.e., Diabetes Mellitus, hypertension, heart diseases) are more likely to develop a more severe form of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), thus, they should take necessary precautions to avoid infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its emerging variants and subvariants by getting COVID-19 vaccination and booster doses. In this regard, we used text analytics techniques, specifically Natural Language Processing (NLP), to understand the perception of Twitter users having comorbidities (diabetes, hypertension, and heart diseases) towards the COVID-19 vaccine booster doses. Understanding and identifying Twitter users' perceptions and perspectives will help the members of medical fraternities, governments, and policymakers to frame and implement a suitable public health policy for promoting the uptake of booster shots by such vulnerable people. A total of 176,540 tweets were identified through the scrapping process to understand the perception of individuals with the mentioned comorbidities regarding the COVID-19 booster dose. From sentiment analysis, it was revealed that 57.6% out of 176,540 tweets expressed negative sentiments about the COVID-19 vaccine booster doses. The reasons for negative expressions have been found using the topic modeling approach (i.e., risk factors, fear of myocardial fibrosis, stroke, or death, and using vaccines as bio-weapons). Of note, enhancing the COVID-19 vaccination drive by administering its booster doses to more and more people is of paramount importance for rendering higher protective immunity under the current threats of recently emerging newer Omicron subvariants which are presently causing a rise in cases in a few countries, such as China and others, and might lead to a feasible new wave of the pandemic with the surge in cases at the global level. © The Author(s) 2023.

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology

The Perspectives of Individuals with Comorbidities Towards COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Shots in Twitter: A Social Media Analysis Using Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling

The application domains of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Analytics are ever increasing, specifically in food production globally. The availability of huge amounts of data, machine-to-machine communications, cloud storage, blockchain and the emergence of newer methods of data analytics have helped to kindle renewed interest in AI developments for the European food sector. Some experiences from a large European project, called the REAMIT project, will be used in this chapter to discover the possibilities of using AI to identify causes, patterns, and solutions to the food wastage crisis. Approximately one-third of food produced gets wasted in both developed and developing nations. The REAMIT project uses Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to sense food quality. This chapter will uncover some promising potentials of using AI techniques with sensor data. The various criteria that influence the selection of the right AI tool under various scenarios of the IoT system implementation are captured through a hierarchical multi-criteria framework. This chapter also proposes an innovative analytics framework for food waste reduction which can be adapted widely by individuals and practitioners. © 2023 by The Editors.

Innovation Analytics: Tools for Competitive Advantage

Fighting Food Waste: How Can Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Help?

Breast cancer is one of the three most common cancers in the world. Most breast cancer cases occur in women aged 35–70 years, and the incidence rates are increasing. In this study, we are going to analyze breast cancer survivors’ attitudes towards breast cancer through advanced natural language processing techniques, namely sentiment analysis, and topic modeling. Our study helps mental health professionals understand the attitude of breast cancer survivors toward stress associated with breast cancer and its effects and improve the quality of life among breast cancer survivors. © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Journal of Loss and Trauma

Trauma and Stress Associated With Breast Cancer Survivors—A Natural Language Processing Study

For three decades, scholars have investigated the phenomena of organizational misconduct (OM) in the fields of business ethics, management, and organization studies. In recent years, the construct has gained increased attention due to widely reported corruption, bribery, crime, violations, and other acts of immorality undertaken by organizations, especially in emerging markets. Despite its popularity, review studies on OM are sparse, and no systematic review of research on OM in the context of emerging markets exists. This article attempts to fill this void by analyzing the literature on OM in the specific context of emerging markets based on a systematic review methodology and integration approach. Based on the findings of our literature review, we develop an integrative model of the antecedents and consequences of OM in emerging markets and discuss important moderators that may curtail the development of OM and alleviate its consequences. In doing so, we provide scholars with a conceptual model and overview of the current knowledge and findings on the topic. We further discuss important gaps in the literature and provide fruitful avenues for future work that we believe are promising to advance our understanding of OM in the context of emerging markets. © 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility

Diving deep into the dark side: A review and examination of research on organizational misconduct in emerging markets

Technological interventions are adopted in emerging economies to enable sustainable development and empower marginalized communities at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP). Emerging economies are becoming significant contributors in BoP development with the active initiatives from academia-driven organizations engaging in rural development. However, the technological development practice is fragmented and requires unified technology management practices to analyze salient features that lead to a sustainable rural transformation. This study adopts a case-study methodology and obtains primary and secondary data from two distinctive centers of an academia-born organization. The findings enfold three intrinsic characteristics of the technology development process targeted for the BoP sector: the emergence of demand-driven technology, inclusive innovation practices leading towards self-reliance and trends of sustainable green technology. The formative contribution of this research enriches the management of technologies at BoP by connecting the developer's perspective for innovation practice inclined towards knowledge sharing, inclusiveness, empowerment and sustainable development, thus creating a roadmap for effective policy development focusing on the sustainability of BoP technologies in emerging economies. © 2022 World Scientific Publishing Company.

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management

Role of Academic Initiatives for Technology Management at the Base of the Pyramid: Empirical Evidence From India

Appropriate technology’s significance has been growing due to the burgeoning interest in constraint-based innovation that transforms plausible challenges into practical solutions. However, the notion of technological appropriateness in appropriate technology management remains under-explored, following a prescriptive trajectory from earlier studies. This study assesses factors that establish appropriateness in a developing country context using a multi-case design approach. The cases involve both organisations and institutions that are engaged in the design, development, and dissemination of appropriate technologies. The empirical data obtained from the cases are analyzed using an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) to determine the appropriateness for the management of appropriate technology. The findings generate four factors that define appropriateness. They include entailing appropriate design for sustainability, participatory mode of development, sustainable rural delivery mechanism, and indigenous knowledge development. The seminal contribution of this study provides a predictive understanding of appropriateness for effective technology functioning at the grassroots. © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Technology Analysis and Strategic Management

Determining appropriateness for management of appropriate technology: an empirical study using factor analysis

Delhivery started in 2011 and was a key player in the Indian e-commerce logistics industry. It was ranked number one in terms of the number of shipments handled. The brainchild of Sahil Barua and Suraj Saharan, Delhivery began as a last-mile delivery partner of restaurants in Gurugram and, over the years, grew along with the e-commerce boom in India. The case provides a detailed note of Delhivery’s evolution from 2011 to 2019, especially focusing on the multifaceted development of Delhivery not limited to e-commerce delivery but also its initiative in building an ecosystem for e-commerce firms to operate in India. The competition was intensifying in the e-commerce logistics industry, and Delhivery was contemplating how it should sustain its competitive advantage, contain its losses and break-even at the earliest. © 2022 Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Asian Journal of Management Cases

Delhivery: Fulfilling E-commerce Delivery

The paper evidence the link between two paradigms - Industry 4.0 and Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) following an empirical study conducted in the automotive industry. 243 responses from the automotive supply chain professionals from Europe (including the UK) are used to test the developed hypotheses. An integrated, two-stage approach combining interpretive structural modelling and structural equation modelling develops a multi-level hierarchical structure for establishing the link between Industry 4.0 technologies, Green Supply Chain (GSC) practices and GSC performance. The study evidenced an indirect effect of Industry 4.0 technologies through GSC practices on GSC performance and and this link is found to be stronger than the direct effect of Industry 4.0 and GSC practices in the automotive supply chains. Future supply chains should focus on driving and linking technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Blockchain for effective implementation of GSC practices. GSC practices, mainly reverse logistics and green purchasing, are highly influenced by disruptive technologies and are critical for leading improvement in GSC performance. Identifying and linking key Industry 4.0 technologies with GSC practices will benefit organizations in making evidence-informed decisions for improved sustainability performance. © 2022