Academic (post-corporate career)
a) Vivek Vivek, Tapan Kar, Sesha Meka, and Deepak Malghan. “Combining Price and Non-Price Interventions for Water Conservation.” Environmental Research Letters 19, no. 10 (September 2024): 104066.
doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad747b
b) Vivek Vivek, Veena Srinivasan, Susan Varughese, Adarsh Dalavi, W R Raman, and James L Wescoat Jr. “Planning for India’s Rural Drinking Water in the Jal Jeevan Mission Era,” December 1, 2023. globalwaters.org
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24357.27367
c) Vivek Vivek, Deepak Malghan, and Kanchan Mukherjee. ‘Toward Achieving Persistent Behavior Change in Household Water Conservation’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 24 (2021). doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023014118
d) Vishal K Mehta, Daniel Simcha Spivak, Vivek Vivek, and Deepak Malghan. “Urban Groundwater in India: The Role of Information in Effective Governance,” 2017, 12. bangalore.urbanmetabolism.asia
e) Vivek Vivek. Rainwater Harvesting in Chennai: What Made It Work? IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review. 2016. 5(1) 1–16. 10.1177/2277975215617272.
CONFERENCE PAPERS (partial list)
a) Behavior of the affluent: can theoretically-grounded behavioral interventions drive conservation? Behavioral Science and Policy Association (BSPA) Annual Conference. May 6, 2022.
b) Persistent conservation behaviour in affluent households: Use of a theoretically-grounded intervention. Indian Institute of Human Settlement Urban Annual Research Conference (IIHS Urban ARC). Jan 13 2022.
c) Are groundwater laws in Bangalore adequate? Lessons for sustainable groundwater management. IIM Bangalore Annual International Public Policy Conference 2015.
Earlier Papers and Reprts (pre-PhD)
The following broad set of papers were written (some with co-authors) during corporate career at Infosys:
As lead or sole author:
a) Analysis of Utilities Sector
b) EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and Utilities
c) CIS (Customer Information System) – A report on CIS Products in the Utilities Market
d) Business Process Exception Management – Business Benefits of Technology-Led BPR (Business Process Reengineering) with Billing as an Illustration
e) Applying Technology to Billing – “as-is” and “to-be” process models using InFlux™ Process Analysis
f) The Application of IT to Power Distribution in India
g) IT Task Force Report for Power Distribution in India
h) ASP (Application Service Providers) and Utilities
i) Utilities Sector Trends
j) Primers on the utilities sector and deregulation
Co-authored:
a) Automatic Meter Reading
b) Billing Application: Functionality and Product Comparison
c) FRC (Full Retail Contestability) Solution for Australian Electricity Market
d) e-business: Trends and Opportunities
e) Electricity Trading
f) Trends in Energy Retailing
g) Trading and Risk Management in Competitive Generation Markets: A Need for Integration
h) Formation of ISO (Independent System Operator)
i) Commercial Production Management for Competitive Generation Business
j) Commercial Generation Markets: Business and System Imperatives
k) Thinking Pervasive – A Services-based Approach & Architecture for Enterprise-wide Wireless
l) Application of web services to Energy Trading
m) Trading & Risk Management Products and Comparison
n) Integrated Trading System – Best Practices
o) Commodity Tender Management System
p) Towards a new market – The position of utilities in a changing industry (Australia focus)
q) California Electric Market – A brief history, what went wrong and lessons
Miscellaneous:
A podcast on water conservation – Buzzing Sustainability https://open.spotify.com/episode/62iKnCy4O76hBKBfPn59mT
