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Neighbourhood search heuristics for the uncapacitated facility location problem
(2003-10-22)
The uncapacitated facility location problem is one of choosing sites among a set of candidates in which facilities can
be located, so that the demands of a given set of clients are satisfied at minimum costs. Applications ...
Freedom Related Practices and Corporate Effectiveness: An Exploratory Study
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2003)
This study explores the relationship between the practices embedded in the notion of
freedom within the corporate context and corporate effectiveness. It hypothesizes that those
corporate organizations that grant greater ...
Environmental Compliance: A case study of the Alang ship-breaking yard
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2003)
A study of the Alang Ship-breaking Yard, Gujarat was undertaken to examine the factors responsible for environmental non-compliance. Levels of pollution can be lowered through effective environmental regulations. The ...
Integrated assessment of energy and environment future: linking policy to implementation
(2003)
Integrated assessment combines knowledge from different disciplines to analyse real world problems to provide solutions to decision-makers. In recent years,integrated assessment has attracted the attention of policymakers ...
Energy security in South Asia: integrating the primary energy and electricity markets
(2003)
Energy security has influenced world events during the past century. In the last decade, the Asian region has emerged as the new growing consumer of energy. South Asia, a fast growing region is faced with the issue of ...
Determinants of managerial role competency utilization of IT project managers
(2003)
Organizations have widely implemented Competency based HR systems in the last decade. Competency profiling, gap analysis, competency based assessment and compensation/selection based on competencies has all gained international ...
The Effect of prices and exchange rates on India's foreign trade flows: an empirical study
(2003)
After independence India followed an industrial policy based on import substitution, assuming that price related measures are ineffective due to lower demand elasticities of both, exports and imports. Moreover the exports ...
The Role of 'Contact' in shaping and reducing inaccuracies in gender stereotypes of women managers
(2003)
Various theoretical perspectives in gender literature have tried to answer questions like “why are women treated differently in organizations?" and “what is responsible for the different t:raits and characteristics exhibited ...