Rajat Mishra

Stephen F. Austin State University · Department of Management, Marketing, and International Business

We investigate competitive interactions in the context of inventory management by examining how the leader firm’s past inventory management affects the challenger firm’s current inventory management and how the challenger firm’s past inventory management affects the leader firm’s current inventory management. The leader and the challenger firms in...

This research examines the motivation of undergraduate business students using the academic motivation scale. We examined the difference in motivation between business majors and a variety of nonbusiness majors. There were differences in the patterns of motivation, but business majors were not less motivated than nonbusiness students. As expected,...

The dynamics of strategic response among competing firms have been widely studied in strategic management literature—but this topic remains largely unaddressed in operations management. We develop and empirically test a competitive tactical response (CTR) framework for understanding action and reaction cycles. We use archival financial statement da...

This paper extends research on the relationship between quality management and sustainable operations initiatives. A functional quality system is widely regarded as a prerequisite for effective environmental management, but research on the interplay of specific quality management and sustainability techniques is scarce. This paper examines the rela...

Leading professional service firms strive to implement value-based pricing models. But the service operations management literature has not addressed value-based pricing with specific reference to professional service firms. This paper takes a first step to fill that gap by raising two research questions. First, what capabilities must professional...

The need for clarity in the healthcare management is a matter of frequent discussion and concern among healthcare professionals, practitioners, patients and academicians. Electronic Health Records would provide clarity, transparency, interoperability and transferability in the health care information and data of the patients. It will also reduce th...

Environmental management practices have evolved significantly over the past two decades. During that time, sustainable operations management practices have purportedly made positive contributions to overall firm performance. This paper develops two conceptual frameworks regarding the relationships among specific elements of environmental management...

Reverse logistics has gained significant attention in operations management research in recent years, but few studies have focused on firm characteristics that lead to the effective implementation of reverse logistics processes. Similarly, the effect of reverse logistics processes on firm performance has not been widely researched. This paper revie...