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Primary education in India: current status and future challenges
(2009-04-15)
Education can act as a powerful tool for reducing poverty and unemployment,
improving health and nutritional standards, and achieving a sustained
human development-led growth1. Within the purview of overall education,
primary ...
Coal and energy security for India: role of carbon dioxide capture and storage
(2009-04-29)
Coal is the abundant domestic energy resource in India and is projected to remain so in future under
a business-as-usual scenario. Using domestic coal mitigates national energy security risks. However coal
use exacerbates ...
A rare Gujarati Muslim at IIM-A
(1/7/2009)
Understanding trade union existence in the Zeitgeist of the global: an interpretive journey
(2009-05-03)
Trade unions represent employee collec
tives ' voice to otherwise disaggregated
employees to check the arbitrary use of
managerial power. In the age of
globalisation, where state policy, free
movement of capital ...
The Satyam story: many questions and a few answers
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2009-11-11)
The unfolding of the shocking Satyam fraud has brought to the fore the wide ranging implications to a multiplicity of stakeholders in the company. The need to dialogue, share, discuss, and reflect is very important at this ...
Motivation and outcome of Malaysian take-overs: an international perspective
(2009-12-12)
This paper examines the potential motives and effects of corporate takeovers that occurred in Malaysia for period 1980-1993. Mueller s (1980) methodology which has been adopted in Australia, U.S, U.K, and five European ...
Analysis of misclassified correlated binary data using a multivariate probit model when covariates are subjected to measurement error
(2009-04-15)
A multivariate probit model for correlated binary responses given the predictors of interest has been
considered. Some of the responses are subject to classification errors and hence are not directly
observable. Also ...
Analysis of mixed outcomes: misclassified binary responses and measurement error in covariates
(2009-04-15)
This paper considers regression models for mixed binary and continuous outcomes, when the true predictor
is measured with error and the binary responses are subject to classification errors. The focus of the paper is
to ...
International service outsourcing: using offshore analytics to identify determinants of value - added outsourcing
(Strategic Outsourcing, 2009-11-09)
Purpose
– International outsourcing has been traditionally looked upon as a low end cost effective servicing option to take advantage of the cost arbitrage that exists across countries. Of late, many outsourcing vendors ...
Competitive advantage of India's exports: analytic case studies of four industries
(2009-12-12)
This paper examines the sources and sustainability of competitive advantage of India s exports on the basis of case studies of four labour intensive industries. By applying the conceptual framework of Ghemawat (1991), we ...