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Strategic Marketing Alliances, Partnerships and Networks – The Logic of Cooperation, Roots, Evolution and Advantage
(2009-07-25)
The marketing discipline is evolving and so is its agenda with the advent of relationship marketing, networks and other related sub-fields. Till recently, business literature focused largely on competition, and cooperation, ...
Factoring Affecting the Demand for Health Insurance in a Micro Insurance Scheme
(2009-08-08)
Health insurance schemes are increasingly recognised as preferable mechanisms to finance health care provision. In this direction micro health insurance schemes and community based health insurance schemes are assuming ...
Inter-Relationship between Economic Growth, Savings and Inflation in Asia
(2009-07-29)
The present study examines the inter-relationship between economic growth, savings rate and inflation for south-east and south Asia in a simultaneous equation framework using two stage least squares with panel data. The ...
Managerial Roles and Interfaces: Some Organizational Issues and Implications through Thematic Apperception Test
(2009-07-25)
Indian organizations are encountering transformations within the organization and in the external – both national and global environment. In this era of rapid transformations Indian managers need assess their role taking ...
Gender Differences in the Use of FTAs when Reporting Incidents of UI: An Indian Study
(2009-07-25)
The study, conducted in an Indian organization, aims to examine differences, if any, across genders in the use of face threatening acts (FTAs) while reporting incidents of upward influence (UI). The nature of incidents ...
Classification Using Association Rules
(2009-08-03)
Association rule mining is a well-known technique in data mining. Classification using association rules combines association rule mining and classification, and is therefore concerned with finding rules that accurately ...
Overcoming Managerial Challenges to Realize Growth Spurts: Insights from Cases of Three Enterprises
(2009-08-07)
Organizations face several managerial challenges during their growth period. Growth spurts are realized when organizations overcome these challenges. Though the literature is full of studies on the enterprise growth, the ...
International Outsourcing Hurdles in Value-added Services
(2009-07-29)
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 ...
Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations for Managing Resources, Institutions and Technologies Sustainably: A Case of Agriculture, Medicinal Plants and Biotechnology
(2009-07-25)
Communities living close to nature invariably evolve a language to understand and interpret the variations and discontinuities in nature. A flower of new colour, an unusually tall plant, an unseasonal germination or an ...
Urban Development Strategy for Bihar: A Management Perspective
(2009-07-30)
Bihar is among the least urbanized states in India with a level of urbanization just above 10% in 2001. The present study suggests a four-stage strategy for the urban development of Bihar. The stages are- (i) Increase in ...