Search results for “informal sector”

Who inherits the shop? Succession, daughters and firm survival in 1,100 informal Indian family businesses

Dr. Ananya Deshpande, Prof. Rajesh Iyer

Lighthouse Journal of Management & Organisation·2026·Business & Management·47 citations

…firms with documented ownership. We study succession in the informal sector, where ownership is undocumented and the transfer is social rather than legal. Following 1,100 informal family businesses across four Indian cities for six years, w…

https://doi.org/10.53456/ljmo.2026.11.4.512

The Informal Firm

Prof. Rajesh Iyer

Lighthouse Studies in Management·2026·Business & Management

Nine in ten firms in India are informal, and management research has almost nothing to say about them because they do not appear in the registries it samples from. Iyer draws on fifteen years of field enumeration across four cities to descr…

https://doi.org/10.53456/book.2026.informal-fir

Heat and the Indian City

Dr. Arvind Subramaniam, Prof. Leila Haddad

Lighthouse Proceedings·2026·Environmental Sciences

Selected and revised papers from the Lighthouse Symposium on Urban Heat, held in Ahmedabad in February 2026. Nineteen contributions across measurement, epidemiology, building science and policy, including the sensor-network results that pro…

https://doi.org/10.53456/book.2026.heat-and-the

Lighthouse Journal of Management & Organisation

Prof. Rajesh Iyer, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Quarterly · ISSN 2456-8155·2015·Business & Management

…es — strategy, operations, organisational behaviour and the informal firm.