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Strategies for Improving Indian Railways’ Market Share of Port Based Coal Traffic: A Diagnostic Study
(2009-09-02)
India is a vast country. After its independence in 1947, it steadily lost its position in international trade. With the beginning of economic liberalization in 1991, it has taken new initiatives in integrating itself with ...
Rethinking the Priorities for Indian Agricultural Research, Institutions and Policy: Learning from the Grassroots
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
Sometimes having succeeded in a mission, we fail because we tend to persist with the same strategy even when times have changed. The success, thus, becomes the reason for failure. Indian agriculture research has been an ...
If Technology is like Word, Institutions are like Grammar: Institutional Context of Technological Innovations and Knowledge Systems at Grassroots
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
Many developing countries have taken interest in learning from the Honey Bee Network experience for replicating the model. In a UNESCO conference, the author was asked to identify the key steps that national governments ...
Creation of a Single National ID: Challenges & Opportunities for India
(2009-07-25)
A National ID for all citizens and residents of India has long being considered a critical necessity, albeit the related projects have been in pilot mode for the past several years and no distinct road ahead seems to be ...
Entrepreneurial growth action and their financial consequences in a start-up: insight from a low-cost airline venture in a competitive environment
(2009-09-07)
This paper investigates the financial consequences of entrepreneurial growth
actions in a start-up. It argues that the growth actions in a start-up create an
imbalance in the demand for and supply of money for the start-up. ...
India’s agrarian crisis and smallholder producers’ participation in new farm supply chain initiatives: a case study of contract farming
(2009-08-03)
Indian agriculture is at crossroads and one of the major challenges is to reverse deceleration in agricultural growth. Main reason for deceleration in agricultural growth is declining investment particularly public investment ...
Indian call centres and business process outsourcing: a study in union formation
(2009-04-15)
In this exploratory study of union formation in the Indian call
centre/business process outsourcing sector, the authors draw
upon evidence from the first detailed survey of members of the
recently formed UNITES, and ...
Dynamics of Team Teaching and Research in a Management School: Learning and Imperatives
(2009-08-13)
This paper discusses the experience of team teaching to address the issues of integration of academic inputs by bringing multi-disciplinary perspective together and thereby enhance learning experience of participants. The ...
Directions for Reforms in the Health Sector: Reflections from a State in a Developing Country
(2009-09-04)
Meeting the health care needs of population goes beyond mere budget allocations. The organisation of programmes and commitment of people working in the health sector has significant bearing on sector performance and its ...
Maternal Health Financing – Issues and Options A Study of Chiranjeevi Yojana in Gujarat
(2009-08-08)
Government of Gujarat announced a “Chiranjeevi Yojana” in April 2005 to improve access to institutional delivery and at the same time provide financial protection to poor families in Gujarat. The scheme covers below poverty ...