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Financial Performance of Private Sector Hospitals in India: Some Further Evidence
(2009-09-01)
This paper analyses financial performance of private hospitals. The study is based on financial statement data of private hospitals for the years 1999 to 2004. Using 25 key financial ratios, the study finds six key ...
A Review of Theoretical Perspectives Applied to Sales Promotion and a New Perspective based on Mental Accounting Theory
(2009-09-05)
The paper reviews theoretical perspective applied to the study of consumer response to promotions. These include adaptation level theory, assimilation contrast theory, attribution theory, prospect theory, transaction utility ...
A Diagnostic Study of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust
(2009-09-01)
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), an autonomous body under the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963, was commissioned on 26th May, 1989. The port was originally planned to decongest the Mumbai port and serve as a hub port for ...
A Note on axiomatic characterizations of the Nash bargaining solution
(2009-12-12)
In this paper, to begin with we present a generalization of the independence of irrelevant expansions assumption to the situation with an arbitrary yet finite number of players, and with the help of a comparatively simpler ...
On Estimability of Parsimonious Term Structure Models: An Experiment with Three Popular Specifications
(2009-09-01)
This study addresses operational issues in estimation of parsimonious term structure models. When using price errors, objective function in term structure estimation is a highly non-linear function of the parameters. This ...
Checkmate! Winning the Game of Communication: A Study of Conversational Principles
(2009-09-01)
Managerial communication in organizations can well be studied by using drama as a heuristic device to gain an understanding of the complexities governing structure of communication, goals of participants and application ...
Exact Methods for the Preemptive Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem
(2009-09-01)
A simple best-first tree search scheme with pruning rules to minimize the completion time (makespan) of the project is described. A project consists of a set of activities partially ordered by precedence constraints. An ...
Measuring Retail Service Quality: Examining Applicability of International Research Perspectives in India
(2009-09-02)
Service quality measures developed internationally are often accepted as adequate in India. This study evaluates the Retail Service Quality Scale (RSQS) developed in the U.S. and considered valid across a variety of formats ...
Paradigms of Mentoring Process
(2009-09-05)
The paper “Paradigms of Mentoring Process” focuses on the terminology of mentoring and examines how this process of mentoring can be translated into an organizational setup. The paper talks about:
1. The critical dimensions ...
Assessing NSE’s Daily Zero Coupon Yield Curve Estimates: A Comparison with Few Competing Alternatives
(2009-09-01)
This study assesses and compares, on select criteria of evaluation, the time series of daily term structure estimates provided by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) [using the Nelson-Siegel (1987; NS) methodology] with ...