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Package Attributes and Nutrition Knowledge Influencing Health Food Purchase Behaviors Among Urban Women.
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Worldwide, unhealthy diet and lifestyles are impacting lives due to spiraling health care costs, resulting in impoverishment. Nutrition has been identified as a major modifiable determinant of chronic non-communicable ... -
Patterns of Utilization of Maternal Healthcare Services in Haryana
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Perceived Differences In Culture, Environmental Hostility And Firm Performance: A Study Of Indian Organizations Using Competing Value Framework
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper explores a relationship between corporate culture and the performance of the firm within the context of varying environmental hostility. We collected data from 70 firms and tried to identify the impact of ... -
Performance of local governance: Social capital or Institutional structures?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper critically evaluates the debate on what makes local governments more effective, higher social capital or stronger institutional structures. This study aims at understanding the relationships and processes through ... -
Power And Status Struggles: A Hierarchical Perspective Of Conflict In Groups
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Power and status, two distinct yet related bases of social hierarchy, are intensely sought resources in groups. In this article, we propose a theoretical framework that examines how power and status motives of individuals ... -
Pre-Opening Call Auction of Stock Price Discovery using Multivariate Lognormal Montecarlo Simulation
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Market microstructure design and testing of efficient market hypotheses have been of long interest in security research. Market microstructure discussions also include the impact of call auctions in price discovery and ... -
Predicting Policy Renewal Probability in Auto Insurance Sector
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)We are entering a new phase of the information era, in which organizations query and analyze huge volumes of diverse data in real-time to improve outcomes for their most critical business processes. In today’s competitive ... -
Predicting Risk of Diabetes in Non-Diabetic Population
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic debilitating disease affecting a major population of the developed and developing countries. The occurrence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is rising rapidly among middle-aged American ... -
Predicting risk of Rejection in Non-Submitted claims
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)A 2011 study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that claim denial rates vary significantly among states and health insurers. Of the small number of states tracking such information, denials ranged between ... -
Predictive Analytics For Better Health And Disease Reduction
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Predictive analytics can be used effectively to evaluate enormous data generated by health care industry to extract useful information and establish relationships amongst the variables. In our country, health care providers ... -
Presence of Children in Advertisements and its impact on Consumers’ Purchase Behaviour
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Advancement of technology has enabled households to access different media of communications like television, radio, newspapers, magazines, billboards and several online media. It is nearly impossible to escape the ... -
Price Discovery and Impact on Volatility: A Study of Indian Derivatives Market
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Process Mining of Suture Manufacturing Firms with DMAIC
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Profile Creation and Usage in Social Networking Sites
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Research on the creation of profiles in social networking has been an area of interest in the past few years, and they are used as a major source of information by recruiters and other interested stakeholders. For the ... -
Provision of Emergency Obstetric Services in Rural Gujarat, India: Challenges and Solutions
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Background: The importance of emergency obstetric services in saving mothers’ lives and the inadequacy of these services in less developed regions of the world has been documented by many agencies. The development of private ... -
Psychological Contract Fulfilment and Its Impact on Employees’ Job Attitudes: Does Generations Make Any Difference?
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)In recent years, there has been, particularly among human resource management practitioners, a view that inter-generational differences exist among employees which provide challenges to employers in effectively managing ... -
Public-Private Partnership In Healthcare In India : Analysis Of Success Factor Using Quantitative Content Analysis
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Public/Private Partnerships (PPP) in healthcare in India forms a part of recent health sector reforms. With increasing percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) being spend on healthcare, it is important to analyze the ... -
Quality of Work Life plays the Mediating role in between Workplace Empowerment and Employee Commitment: A Study on Healthcare Employees of an Indian State
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)The changing priorities in healthcare can only be pursued through innovation in systems and strategies, sustained by a competent and dedicated workforce. Quality of work life (QWL) is being accepted as the foremost criterion ... -
Questioning the Corporate responsibility Department Alignment with the Business model of top Indian Companies
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The Response Report (2007) insisted on the necessity to focus on internal stakeholder instead of external stakeholders. In that sense, this contribution provides some insights concerning the importance of the alignment of ... -
Rational And Emotional Appeals In Polio Eradication Campaign In India: A Comparative Study Before And After 2002-03
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Polio eradication Campaign was one of the most successful Health Communication Campaign in India. The WHO announced India as Polio free Nation in 2012. Before 2002-03, Polio cases were reported on large scale in India, but ...