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Purpose: This paper aims to focus on the housing situation in Indian cities and the various stakeholders involved in the housing sector. This study addresses the conflict in expectations of the supply and demand side of the housing and establishes the factors crucial to making housing successful for all the stakeholders, essential for sustainable urban development. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is developed using the content analysis of preceding independent reviews on housing sustainability by authors across the globe, a review of the current housing situation in Indian cities and a Pilot study of the desired qualitative aspects of housing by the consumer group. Findings: This paper identifies the challenges and constraints of the various stakeholders involved in the housing sector. A comprehensive list of all the parameters, both qualitative and quantitative, essential for successful housing implementation, focused on the preferences of the demand side, also referred to as the "Critical Success Factors (CSFs)" is generated. The results advocate a strict consideration and integration of these CSFs with the housing policies for all future housing projects. Research limitations/implications: Most of the studies conducted in the past have reviewed the housing situation in India from the perspective of the government authorities and the initiatives undertaken by them to improve the housing crisis. However, a gap exists in achieving a balanced understanding of the supply-side constraints, with the demand-side expectations from the housing. Focusing only on the supply without adequately understanding the consumption can only lead to further chaos in the already turbulent housing situation. Originality/value: To the best of author's knowledge, this is among the first attempts to address the housing scenario in urban centers of India, simultaneously from the perspective of both the demand side and the supply side of the housing, giving additional impetus to the expectations of the demand side which are often ignored. This study becomes more relevant in the ongoing pandemic situation to be able to provide appropriate and acceptable housing solutions to all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study identifies barriers faced by online e-waste collection platforms in India and proposes a novel approach to manage strategies that contribute towards making such online platforms economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable by mitigating their interacting barriers. Design/methodology/approach: The approach consists of a barrier assessment process and a strategy evaluation and planning process. The barrier assessment process uses multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) based method to evaluate the interactive effects of the barriers to derive their direct and indirect impacts on sustainability. The strategy evaluation and planning process evaluates the overall contribution value of strategies for mitigating interacting barriers and then categorizes them into planning zones based on their contribution and feasibility. Findings: The interaction among the barriers is a significant component of the overall impact of the barriers on sustainability. The most impactful barriers are the lack of dissemination of information, lack of government support, insufficient infrastructure, and awareness and attitude of consumers. Lack of government support is the most influential causal barrier. Lack of information dissemination is a significant causal barrier with the highest overall impact on sustainability. Priority strategies that must be implemented to ensure sustainability include government support, offering higher prices or discounts for giving up e-waste, and increasing information dissemination. Originality/value: Different from existing approaches for evaluating sustainability strategies, the strategies in this study are identified and evaluated based on their overall contribution towards mitigating interacting barriers to sustainability. The approach is applied in the Indian context to reveal the most influential barriers to the sustainability of online e-waste collection platforms and the most effective strategies for mitigating these barriers. The outcomes of this study contribute to strategy planning for sustainable online e-waste collection platforms in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over a last few decades, unintended or unplanned buying has been a heated topic under study owing to its constructive and unconstructive impacts on buyers. Many authors' concluded regret and switching intentions as after effects of post-purchase retaliation. So, considering the importance of the consumer loyalty and gratification in sustainability of players in the market, the focus of research on this topic is vital. This study has examined empirically certain aspects of the relationship between impulse or unintended buying and buyer's remorse in context of Indian consumers. The present study has also studied the association of sales promotion and bank-card usage with urge to buy impulsively. For this purpose, the paper employed empirical analysis utilizing a quantitative approach by conducting survey among 94 respondents from Chandigarh and Mohali region. Results indicated significant relationship of unintended buying with other variables except bank-card use. Thus, this study provided useful insights for the marketers which can be used while designing the various marketing strategies for their consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Green Marketing is not only a new buzz word now-a-days but is a need of prime importance for the betterment & sustainability of society, environment & industries by focussing on the triple-bottom-line and the automobile industry has a immense impact on it. This paper focuses on Indian consumer's perception towards green-cars & the need-gap analysis, identifies the improvement areas of the green-car makers which needs to be primarily focus on, also includes the best practices adopted worldwide which can also be implemented in India in order increase the acceptability level of Green-Cars to achieve a sustainable- competitive-advantage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]