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Children in a Kirana store: building as case for retail communication
(2003-10-20)
This paper looks at child-retail communication interaction at the Kirana store, the Indian version of the US ‘mom and pop’ retail outlet, in New Delhi. The methodologies for data collection were the non-participatory ...
Mangalore chemicals and fertilizers limited: strategic renewal
(2003-10-22)
DP Mehta, the Managing Director (MD) of Mangalore
Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited (MCFL) gleaned over the
half-yearly financial results for the year 2001–2002. He was
pleased that MCFL, which was referred to the Board ...
What's in a drink you call a Chai? quality attributes and hedonic price analysis of Tea
(2003-10-21)
Although India is a leading producer of tea, her export
share is declining and her per capita consumption is extremely low. As a
buffer against sluggish exports, managers of tea industry may want to
expand domestic ...
Estimating term structure models for India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2003)
From a Manager to a Leader: Bridging a Gulf or Jumping a Chasm?
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003)
This paper argues that the transition from being a manager to becoming a leader is more like jumping a chasm than walking smoothly on a bridge over a gulf. Traditional methods of management education, training, and mentoring ...
Shopping orientation in the evolving Indian market
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003)
Studies on shoppers in India have largely been limited to their time and money spending pattern, demographic profile, and preferences for a particular format. It has been found in the studies in other countries that shoppers ...
Implementation of vrs in India
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003)
In today's Indian business environment, inter-organization rivalry has become intense. Most of the organizations in the erstwhile protected business environment had focused on production volumes, not necessarily on ...
The kinder cut: A macro communication strategy for delivering news of job termination
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003)
A Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) ought to be good news for employees; it gives them the freedom to retire early with a substantial sum of money, tax free, as compensation. But, in many Indian companies, VRS is retrenchment ...
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 ...
Advertising competition under consumer inertia
(INST OPERATIONS RESEARCH MANAGEMENT SCIENCES, 2003)
We construct a multistage game-theoretic model of advertising and price competition in a differentiated products duopoly, in which proportions of consumers exhibit latent inertia in favor of repeat purchase. Advertising ...