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Devendra Kodwani is lecturer in finance at The Open University Business School.

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Understanding the market Featuring: video,audio, The Open University

By Dr Devendra Kodwani (The Open University), Theo Paphitis (Guest)

01 May 2010

Theo Paphitis adapted La Senza to local demands. Devendra Kodwani says McDonalds illustrates why this makes sense.  Read more : Understanding the market

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A brief history of... business collapses Featuring: audio, Jupiter Images

By Dr Devendra Kodwani (The Open University), Ione Mako (Guest)

17 September 2009

Devendra Kodwani, Lecturer in Finance at The Open University Business School shows the parallels between the bank crisis and previous business meltdowns. Can we learn...  Read more : A brief history of... business collapses

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Past success and short termism trump foresight and wisdomCreative Commons Image Image by Shreyans Bhansali under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Dr Devendra Kodwani (The Open University)

13 March 2009

Even if they'd seen the recession coming, Devendra Kodwani asks whether businesses would have behaved differently?  Read more : Past success and short termism trump foresight and wisdom

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Sovereign wealth to the rescueCopyrighted Image Carsten Reisinger | Dreamstime.com

By Dr Devendra Kodwani (The Open University)

29 July 2008

In a time of dwindling credit, should companies take money from investment funds backed by foreign governments? Uncover their motives in sovereign wealth to the...  Read more : Sovereign wealth to the rescue

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Freezing out the cold callersBBC

By Dr Devendra Kodwani (The Open University)

22 October 2007

   Read more : Freezing out the cold callers

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Airlines face the Prisoner's DilemmaBBC

By Dr Devendra Kodwani (The Open University)

09 October 2006

If companies collude with each other, how can they minimise the damage to themselves once they're caught out?   Read more : Airlines face the Prisoner's Dilemma

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Kodwani, Devendra (2010). Infrastructure in India. In: Budhwar, Pawan S. and Varma, Arup eds. Doing Business In India. Abingdon, Oxford, UK: Routledge, pp. 79–100.

Moro, Andrea and Kodwani, Devendra (2010). Trust me, I'm an entrepreneur! Can trust help SMEs to gain the credit they need? In: 5th Workshop on Trust within and Between Organisations, 28-29 January 2010, Madrid, Spain.

Moro, Andrea; Lucas, Michael and Kodwani, Devendra (2010). SMEs and Banks: Investigating the link between trust and the pledging of personal collateral. In: International Conference on Business and Finance, 12-13 March 2010, Hyderabad, India.

Moro, Andrea; Lucas, Michael and Kodwani, Devendra (2010). Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and their cost of capital. In: International Conference on Management of SMEs 2010, 17-18 Sep 2010, Nagpur, India.

Kodwani, Devendra (2010). Governance mechanisms for telecommunications and electricity industries in India: 19th Century to 21st Century. In: International Conference on Regulation and Competition Policy for Development: Practice and Challenges, 27-28 Jan 2010, University of Jordan, Amman.

Daniel, Elizabeth; Kodwani, Devendra and Datta, Sanjukta (2009). The impact of ICT-enabled offshoring announcements on share prices. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 22(3), pp. 241–256.

Kodwani, Devendra (2009). Regulatory challenges in electricity markets in India. In: Mehta, Pradeep S. and Evenett, Simon J. eds. Politics Trumps Economics: Political Economy and the Implementation of Competition Law and Regulation in Developing Countries. New Delhi, India: Academic Foundation, pp. 361–409.

Datta, S. and Kodwani, D. (2009). M&A in utilities in Europe: testing for agency and hubris hypotheses. In: ESRC Conference on Corporate Governance and Development, 5 Sep 2009, Birmingham Business School.

Kodwani, Devendra and Schillinger, Marcia (2009). Accounting judgement test and teaching of ethics. In: Moral and Social Action Interdisciplinary Colloquium, 27-31 July 2009, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz.

Datta, S.; Kodwani, D. and Viney, H. (2008). Market for corporate control and privatised utilities. In: European Financial Management Association Annual Conference, 25-28 June 2008, Athens, Greece.

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The legacy of Empire: The Bengal FamineCreative Commons Image xeeliz under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University)

07 January 2008

Does the Bengal Famine shape the way Indians view the British?  Read more : The legacy of Empire: The Bengal Famine

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Devendra Kodwani is lecturer in finance at The Open University Business School. His research interests include the economic regulation of utilities and he has written several papers on privatisation and regulation.

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