Search
Now showing items 71-80 of 114
Intellectual property rights, farmer's rights and plant genetic conservation: An overview
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)
The Indian Patents Act of 1970 excludes all living organisms from the scope of patent ability. However, under the Trade Related Intellectual Properties (TRIPs) negotiated under GATT the government is bound to provide some ...
Behaviour of excess stock return around earnings announcement day: A test of the efficiency of Kuala Lumpur stock exchange
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)
This study is concerned with analyzing stock returns around periods of earnings announcements. Three hundred and sixty-four earnings announcement dates (events) were obtained from the annual earnings announcements of 91 ...
Primary health care under the panchayati raj: Perceptions of officials from Gujarat
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-10-01)
The 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution has raised hoped for improving many services in rural areas by handling them over to Panchayat. Gujarat was one of the first states to implement the Panchayati Raj system ...
Corporate takeovers in Malaysia: Discriminant analysis for bidder and target firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)
The paper looks into 144 non-financial firms in Malaysia for period 1980-1993, which includes bidders, targets, control bidders and control targets. A set of five economic/financial variables has been identified to ...
Mechanical properties of wood carton used for long distance transport of tomatoes
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)
Tomatoes are produced and consumed year round. Wood carton is the dominant mode of packaging for produce coming to APMC Market, Ahmedabad from out-of-state. It has been known for long however that wood carton suffers from ...
One and two facility network design revisited
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-08-01)
The one facility one commodity network design problem OFOC with flow costs considers the problem of sending d units of flow from a source to a destination where capacity is purchased in batches of C units. The two commodity ...
Role stress and job satisfaction amongst doctors
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)
The present study was undertaken with the intention of examining the nature of role stress and job satisfaction among doctors, and to explore the relationship between these variables. A group of 35 junior doctors working ...
Macroeconomic analysis of the union budget 1998-99
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)
Union Budget 1998-99 was the maiden budget of the newly elected coalition government led by the BJP. There were apprehensions about the economic philosophy of the new government indicating the possibility of a reversal of ...
Path independence and choice acyclicity property
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-08-01)
In this paper we study lower and upper approximations of choice functions and propose a necessary and sufficient condition for a choice function to have a path independent lower approximation. In an appendix to this paper ...
Need and challenges of management education in primary health care system in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)
Primary Health Care System in India is very large and covers almost all the parts of the country. It has more than 20,000 PHCs and 140,000 Sub-centres spread in more than 400 districts. This system consumes large amount ...