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Preparing IAS officer trainees for the role of district magistrate: a competency-based approach
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers occupy a strategic position in Indian public governance system. Government has generally laid a lot of emphasis on the training programmes for IAS officers to ensure that ...
The effects of fraud risk factors and client characteristics on audit procedures
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
There has been very little prior research examining how the prescriptions of SAS No. 99 map into the auditors’ fraud risk assessment process. SAS No. 99 asks the auditors to consider two major types of fraud (fraudulent ...
State of marketing analytics in India: prospects and potential challenges
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The paper provides an overview of the state of the Marketing Analytics practice in India today, its contribution and its possible challenges for future growth. A diverse set of practitioners from multiple sectors of ...
Moving to opportunity or isolation? network effects of a slum relocation program in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
A housing lottery in a large Indian city provided 110 out of 497 participants the opportunity to move out of a slum and into improved housing on the city's periphery. Fourteen years after housing assignment, relative to ...
Multi-processor exact procedures for regular measures of the multi-mode RCPSP
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MM RCPSP) is an NP-hard problem representing a generalization of the well-studied RCPSP. Depth-first tree search approach by Sprecher & Drexl (1998) is the ...
Make in India: re-chanting the mantra with a difference
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Make in India is an old mantra. It was very much there during India‟s colonial period and the post-independence decades till 1991, and now it has been pronounced from the ramparts of Red Fort. The paper attempts to trace ...
Farmer producer organizations as farmer collectives: a case study from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Small and marginal farmers in India have been vulnerable to risks in agricultural production. Several organizational prototypes are emerging to integrate them into the value chain with the objectives of enhancing incomes ...
Managing emotions: emotional labor or emotional enrichment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Concept of „emotional labor‟ has undergone many transformations since Hochschild (1983) described it. Researchers have broadened its scope by including emotion management by professionals in different roles, exploring its ...
The legal structure and framework of luxury goods market in India: competitive or restrictive growth?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
It has been evident from our long human history that luxury has been present in one or other form of consumption practices and that the luxury goods have existed for ages, dating back to Roman times, where luxuries such ...
A study on the not-for-profit route to olympic gold
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate a Not-for-Profit (NFP) model for development and support of sports at elite level. This research investigates, Olympic Gold Quest, a NFP organization in India to ...