Vipul Gupta

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

This chapter provides a review of the current state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication research and a theoretical framework on related topics. The analysis covers a period of twenty years (from 1997 to 2016) and statistically maps the streams of research advances on CSR communication, identifying top academic journals in the fie...

This article aims to analyze corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication in today's health care systems. The authors investigate the importance of CSR communication and the use of both traditional and interactive technologies for healthcare CSR communication, adopting quantitative research methodologies. In order to understand different app...

Health systems are currently facing a series of challenges dealing with continuous technology advances and social demands, which require changes at managerial and policy level that fully incorporate social responsibilities within healthcare organizations' strategy. Thus, communicating corporate social responsibility (CSR) takes an important role in...

This article reviews the literature to understand the current state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) application and communication in the healthcare sector. First, the authors provide a bibliometric analysis that quantifies the number of scientific publications regarding CSR in healthcare of the last ten years (2007-2016). Then, they presen...

This article reviews the literature to understand the current state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) application and communication in the healthcare sector. First, the authors provide a bibliometric analysis that quantifies the number of scientific publications regarding CSR in healthcare of the last ten years (2007-2016). Then, they presen...

In this paper, we develop an assessment framework to evaluate the systemic greenness of a tyre manufacturing unit by capturing the interactions between the green practices implemented. By reviewing the existing literature, we propose a stakeholder-based green practices framework comprising of operation strategy practices, process practices, employe...

This article reviews the literature to understand the current state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) application and communication in the healthcare sector. First, the authors provide a bibliometric analysis that quantifies the number of scientific publications regarding CSR in healthcare of the last ten years (2007-2016). Then, they presen...

e-businesses are becoming more and more popular with time, mainly due to the range of opportunities offered by the internet and other technologies. These new technologies have provided marketers with new ways of promoting their products or services to the public. This paper compares the traditional marketing media with the new ones and looks at mar...

This article describes how e-marketing is increasingly gaining interest within Islamic businesses. It is important to consider the extent to which it fits comfortably within principle notions of Islam and Sharia law. An Islamic business should ensure that its e-marketing strategy must be devoid of any contentious or exaggerated claims and there mus...

This article aims to analyze corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication in today's health care systems. The authors investigate the importance of CSR communication and the use of both traditional and interactive technologies for healthcare CSR communication, adopting quantitative research methodologies. In order to understand different app...

This paper presents task scheduling in cloud computing environment. Many parallel computing resources work simultaneously in cloud computing environment to process the jobs submitted by the end users. Each job is divided in the number of sub-tasks which can be processed independently. When a resource start processing a new sub-task, it requires pre...

This chapter provides a review of the current state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication research and a theoretical framework on related topics. The analysis covers a period of twenty years (from 1997 to 2016) and statistically maps the streams of research advances on CSR communication, identifying top academic journals in the fie...

This paper reviews the literature to understand the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) application and communication in the healthcare sector. First we provide a bibliometric analysis that quantifies the number of scientific publications regarding CSR in healthcare of the last ten years (2007-2016). Then, we present the theoreti...

This paper reviews the literature to understand the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communication. The authors analyze not only the importance of CSR communication for businesses but also review the literature that deals with both digital and traditional tools adopted for CSR communication. This is followed by a discussion on...

Even though tyre sector within rubber industry has been recognized to be the major contributor towards environmental pollution, hardly any study has been done to assess the processes involved and its associated wastes to reduce the detrimental impact on the environment. In addition, with the challenges and competitions existing in Indian manufactur...

This work aims to analyze Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communication in today‟s health care systems. We investigate the importance of CSR communication and the use of both traditional and interactive technologies for healthcare CSR communication, adopting quantitative research metho-dologies. The study examines and compares best practices...

This paper reviews the literature to understand the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communication. The authors analyze not only the importance of CSR communication for businesses but also review the literature that deals with both digital and traditional tools adopted for CSR communication. This is followed by a discussion on...

This work aims to understand the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the health care sector and investigates the use of traditional and interactive technologies for health care organizations’ CSR communication strategies. Based on a quantitative research methodology, we examine and compare CSR communication between two countries,...

There are many aspects that should be considered while implementing ISs in pharmaceutical companies. This is due to the various regulations and standards that the governmental authorities impose on these companies. In addition, any audit from US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or other authorities will require computer system validation to be pe...

To ensure better utilization and availability of the healthcare resources healthcare managers, planners and hospital staff need to develop policies. The hospital length of stay (LOS) of patients and therefore the resource requirements depend on many factors such as the covariates that represent the characteristics of the patients. Here we have used...

Abstract This work aims to understand the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the health care sector and investigates the use of traditional and interactive technologies for health care organizations’ CSR communication strategies. Based on a quantitative research methodology, we examine and compare CSR communication between two c...

The current business environment is becoming increasingly uncertain, unpredictable and turbulent. Organizations always keep themselves ready to face any eventuality. Flexibility is one of the ways to cope up with uncertainty. Supply chain flexibility refers to the ability to change the supply chain system as per the current business need. The purpo...

The authors are extremely grateful for the support extended by Speedo tyres. The authors acknowledge the active participation of the lower and middle level managers as well as the operating staff who helped consolidate the secondary data analysis, generation of ISM and lean template. Many thanks go to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable sugg...

Abstract Purpose – This case seeks to illustrate the specific problem of excessive defects in radial tyres produced in a renowned tyre manufacturing company in India. This paper aims to show how lean Six-Sigma methodology can be used to tackle the specific issues like defects reduction. Design/methodology/approach – The management took this problem...