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Forecast accuracy along booking profile in the national railways of an emerging Asian economy: comparison of different techniques
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The National Railways of an Emerging Asian Economy (NREAE), the second largest railway network in the world, is facing growing challenges from low fare airlines. To combat these challenges, NREAE has to adopt revenue ...
A multi-period two stage stochastic programming based decision support system for strategic planning in process industries: a case of an integrated iron and steel company
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
The paper introduces the application of a generic, multiple period, two stage stochastic programming based Decision Support System (DSS) in an integrated steel company. We demonstrate that a generic, user friendly stochastic ...
The effects of group brainstorming on the auditor’s search for potential misstatements and assessment of fraud risk in the presence of pressures and opportunities
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
This paper examines the effect of SAS No. 99 recommended group brainstorming on the auditor’s search for potential material misstatements and assessments of fraud risk in the presence of different levels of pressures and ...
Endowment effects in bundles
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Behavioral experiments conducted so far to establish existence of endowment effect as propounded by prospect theorists typically endow subjects with a single good. In this paper we depart from this setting by giving subjects ...
What employers value in the MBAs they recruit: rebalancing the management education curriculum
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
This paper seeks to answer the question, “In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer on the knowing, doing and being dimensions of the formation of an MBA graduate, that management education institutes can ...
Organisational mechanisms for national knowledge network and outcomes in the Institutes of Higher Education & Research: moderating role of needs & ecosystem
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
We have looked at the relationship between organisational processes/ mechanisms for development, adoption and implementation of national knowledge network in the institutes of higher education and research and the ...
Database structure for a multi stage stochastic optimization based decision support system for asset – liability management of a life insurance company
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
We introduce a stochastic optimization based decision support system (DSS) for asset-liability management of a life insurance firm using a multi-stage, stochastic optimization model. The DSS is based on a multi-stage ...
Preparation for the world of work: secondary and higher secondary education in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Secondary education is, perhaps, the most important part of an individual‟s education as it is during these years that a student decides what she is going to take up for further education and how she is going to earn her ...
Exploring antecedents of technology usage and stress
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The ubiquitous and pervasive use of ICT (Information communication technology) has transformed the contemporary workplace. ICT has enabled blurring of geographical boundaries leading to freedom from being restricted to the ...
Location identification for rapid evacuation from a disaster site: a case study from KAPS
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Robust plans need to be developed for rapidly evacuating victims from a nuclear disaster site. Although nuclear plants are constructed with multiple redundant safety features, the chances of a leak can never be zero. In ...