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Taming Wicked Problems in Strategy Wicked Strategies and the Business of Humanity
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-22)
In business, some problems are easy, some problems are hard, and some problems are so complex, so intractable, and so threatening to organizations - or entire industries that they are best described as 'wicked'. These ...
Building legitimacy in an adverse foreign environment: when the liability of foreignness can become a source of competitive advantage?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-29)
Although the banking industry is by nature risk-prone, network-based and subject to strong institutional barriers, banks going international generally operate alone. Within a context of high liability of foreignness, how ...
Whatever it takes: The Real Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-04)
On July 26, 2012 the ECB’s President Mario Draghi announced to do “whatever it takes” to preserve the Euro and subsequently launched the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) Program, which led to a significant increase in ...
Do Programs Mandating Small Business Lending Disincentivize Growth? Evidence from a Policy Experiment
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-07-04)
Exploiting discontinuities in program eligibility, we show that small-firm lending mandates inhibit firm growth. Firms newly qualified under lending mandates near the upper threshold for treatment have lower growth in ...
Econometric Identification of Causal Effects: Graphical Causal Models in Practice
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-23)
It is well known that causal inference relies on untestable a-priori causal assumptions. Identification refers to whether a causal relationship can be inferred from observed statistical associations; it requires an ...
Licensing Intellectual Property and the Dissemination of Technology
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-05)
While the exclusive rights provided by intellectual property law are touted as promoting the creation and spread of new technologies, equally important is the role of contract law in supporting the dissemination of technology. ...
What is the future of the case method in management education in India?
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2005)
This colloquium serves as a conceptual and experiential platform to stage the insights generated on the case method by the faculty who have taught and/or trained at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA). It ...
Exports of Agri-Products from Gujarat: Problems and Prospects
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003)
This paper follows a narrow definition of agri-products that include products of agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, animal husbandry, and poultry. Like most other states in India, Gujarat has also prepared several ...
A Review on Bilevel Optimization: From Classical to Evolutionary Approaches and Applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018)
Bilevel optimization is defined as a mathematical program, where an optimization problem contains another optimization problem as a constraint. These problems have received significant attention from the mathematical ...
India's International Integration and Challenges to Sustaining Growth
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017)