Agriculture and allied sectors are the mainstays of the Indian rural population and yet, the vast majority is still poor. The Indian government has introduced pro-farmer schemes and policies for their quality of life, but the improvement rate of their quality of life is still relatively slow. In this context, this paper presents a sustainable agricultural business model (SABM), which defines contexts, practices, and outcomes. This SABM is compared with the conventional agricultural business model (CABM). Innovative farmers were selected from different parts of India. Their practices are examined with key performance indicators (KPIs) regarding strategic focus, labor productivity, vital resources usage, soil maintenance, output quality, and revenue performance. Case study results suggest that farmers that adopt SABM are innovative and productive with a better quality of life. In contrast, those who follow CABM are characterized by relatively low productivity and continuous hardships. Lessons and implications, along with future study topics, are discussed.

Tweets seem to impact diverse assets, especially during stressful periods. However, their interrelations during stressful events may change. Cryptos are apparently more sensitive to the sentiment spread by tweets. Therefore, a construct could be formed to study such complex interrelation during stressful events. This study found an interesting outcome while investigating three major asset classes (namely, Equity, Gold and Bond) alongside negative sentiment (derived from tweets of Elon Musk) and Dogecoin (an emerging asset class) from 1 June 2015 to 20 February 2022. Negative sentiment emerged as the significant risk transmitter, while Gold emerged as the significant net recipient of shocks (risk). Interestingly, Dogecoin was found to be less impacted and not impactful (not transmitting shock and receiving tiny shocks) at the same time. In fact, the interconnectedness between negative sentiment (percolated through Twitter) and Dogecoin prices was found to be rather feeble. Further, the study showed that the COVID-19 breakout and Brexit referendum in 2016 were less stressful events compared to the Greek debt crisis back in 2015.

Purpose: School teachers had difficulty in monitoring and assessing the students during the COVID-19 lockdown. This study attempts to understand the assessment and teaching challenges during COVID-19 and how this problematic situation was reshaped by new normal teaching.Design/methodology/approach: The qualitative research included perspectives of 84 school teachers using an interview-based approach. Pedagogical assessment, societal assessment and personal assessment were considered in the study.Findings: Content switching, student involvement and individual assessment are the challenges in terms of pedagogy. Buying power of electronic equipment, digital skills, study environment and distraction are the challenges faced in terms of personal challenges. Personal connect and interaction intensity is the challenges faced in terms of social challenges. Teachers adapted to synchronous, blended, flipped and asynchronous modes of teaching.Originality/value: The authors’ study will support schools in developing their institutional plans to understand teachers' apprehensions better and to check the readiness of the schools towards teaching and learning approaches.

Purpose: The study aims to enhance our understanding of the quality of governance by discussing the impact of the sociocultural environment on the role of women occupying leadership positions in the academic sector in India. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from 250 women holding positions capacities like Principals, Vice-Principals, Deans, Directors, Deputy Directors and Heads of Departments in various Universities in North India. Findings: The findings revealed that socio-cultural environment (SCE) positively and significantly influences the quality of governance (QG) and, interestingly, job performance (JP) partially mediates the relationship between the SCE and QG. Originality/value: The novel contributions of this study highlight the delicate balance between how women academic leaders handle sociocultural expectations while manifesting superior QG. work-life balance (WB), job satisfaction (JS) and JP have a decisive, supportive role while augmenting the QG.

The research aims to study the Sustainable Business Practices (SBPs) of top Indian companies and how these companies are contributing towards attaining sustainable development goals (SDGs). The research was based on a mixed method approach where SBPs and their linkage have been analyzed using content analysis, and the impact on financial performance has been measured using correlation and regression analysis. The companies' annual reports and business sustainability reports have been used to collect secondary data related to the SBPs of companies. ESG scoring of the company, and the individual score of the E= Environment, S= Social, and G= Governance, have been derived from the ESG rating of “BLOOMBERG” for the last five years. The return on equity has been taken as a proxy variable for the financial performance of the companies. The current study has taken a sample of ten companies from eight different sectors/industries listed on the BSE ESG 100 Index. The data period of the study was from 2017 to 2022.