Faculty Publications (Bibliographic): Recent submissions
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A constrained nash bargaining approach to the stock rationing problem in multi-echelon supply chains
(International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2014)In order to survive in the global volatile market place, supply chain analysts are brainstorming to arrive at robust inventory control policies that prevents inventory worth of millions of dollars to get tied up in the ... -
Meta-analysis of test accuracy studies: an exploratory method for investigating the impact of missing thresholds
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)Background Primary studies examining the accuracy of a continuous test evaluate its sensitivity and specificity at one or more thresholds. Meta-analysts then usually perform a separate meta-analysis for each threshold. ... -
Efficient broadcasting for a MANET based peer-to- peer community radio service
(Inderscience Publishers Ltd., 2014)Ad hoc networks consisting entirely of simple mobile phones can be used to deploy village level telephony. We investigate a novel application for such networks – a peer-to peer community radio service. We envision a ... -
Enabling grassroots communication: a memory-aided broadcast mechanism for a community radio service on an ad-hoc device-to-device mobile network
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 2014)This paper investigates deploying a village level community radio application on an ad hoc network substrate comprising completely of basic mobile phones. We envision a system where any user in the network is equally ... -
The Indian health sector, governance and managerial challenges
(Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2014)The global health care industry estimated at $ 5 trillion, is one of theworld's largest and fastestRgrowing industries. India’s healthcare industry which is expected to be around $45 billion by the end of 2013 accounts for ... -
How much capital does a bank need?
(Economic & Political Weekly,2013, 2013)Most companies would think twice before operating at a debt to equity ratio (or leverage) of 2:1. Some capital-intensive businesses, such as shipping, opt for a ratio that is considered [...] -
Banking structure: plausible vision, flawed approach of RBI
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2013)F ollowing the crisis of 2007, there is renewed focus the world over on banking structure. This encompasses a number of related matters: the size, scope and number of banks, consolidation and concentration, and ... -
High speed rail in India
(Raghuram, G. (2014) "High speed rail in India" Traffic Infra Tech, Mass Transport, 2014)The Railways first proposed high speed rail routes during the 2007-08 Railway budget. One route each was proposed in the Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern regions of the country. The trains were proposed to run at ... -
Beyond job security and money: driving factors of motivation for government doctors in India
(Human Resources for Health, 2014)Background Despite many efforts from government to address the shortage of medical officers (MOs) in rural areas, rural health centres continue to suffer from severe shortage of MOs. Lack of motivation to join and continue ... -
Weighted profile likelihood-based confidence interval for the difference between two proportions with paired binomial data
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., 2014)Inference on the difference between two binomial proportions in the paired binomial setting is often an important problem in many biomedical investigations. Tang et al. (2010, Statistics in Medicine) discussed six methods ... -
Binomial confidence intervals for testing non-inferiority or superiority: a practitioner’s dilemma
(Statistical Methods In Medical Research, 2013)In testing for non-inferiority or superiority in a single arm study, the confidence interval of a single binomial proportion is frequently used. A number of such intervals are proposed in the literature and implemented in ... -
Impact of compensation practices on organizational reputation
(South Asian Journal of Management., 2014)Organizational reputation is not only about product market perceptions, external communication and advertising. Organizations have often found out that their reputations have been seriously damaged when questions are raised ... -
Change management: a case of state power utility in India
(Asian Case Research Journal, 2014)The article presents a case study of change management practices at Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (UPSEB), Uttar Pradesh, India. The topics discussed include deteriorating electricity supply in Uttar Pradesh, India, ... -
A predictive methodology of rough set theory used to analyse market segmentation and competitive environment for super market
(IUP Journal of Marketing Management, 2013)Supermarket retailing has a desirable property of stability of segment structure. Due to the heterogeneous needs and purchase power of customers, it is difficult to predict the lifetime of segments for retail supermarkets. ... -
A likelihood ratio test of quasi-independence for sparse two-way contingency tables
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)We consider a likelihood ratio test of independence for large two-way contingency tables having both structural (non-random) and sampling (random) zeros in many cells. The solution of this problem is not available using ... -
The limitations of markets
(Morris, Sebastian (2013) "The limitations of markets "Farmers’ Forum, 13, 4 (2013) , 20 - 36 https://issuu.com/Farmersforum/docs/ff_aug-sep_2013_final_full_low_res, 2013)Influential multilateral agencies and economists have for long been urging laissez-faire in agriculture that has met with limited success even in the rich countries. This is despite commitments under the WTO. Worse, ... -
Agricultural prices in a changing economy: an empirical study of Indian agriculture
(Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2013)This slim volume as the name suggests raises at a most opportune moment the important issue of the role of prices in coaxing up aggregate output in agriculture. The general consensus has been that while prices (variously ... -
Akshaya Patra, Gandhinagar: supply chain challenges
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2013)The article explores the supply chain challenges of the Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF), an initiative of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) which serves nutritious food for school children, in ... -
Impact of consumer social responsibility and brand social responsibility image on brand loyalty
(International Journal of Management and Business Research, 2013)The present paper focus on ITC notebook and try to understand consumer social responsibility for cause related brand and how their preference level changes with different firm donations, and how this activity leads to ... -
Coherence between health policy and human resource strategy: lessons from maternal health in Vietnam, India and China
(Health Policy & Planning, 2013)The failure to meet health goals such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is partly due to the lack of appropriate resources for the effective implementation of health policies. The lack of coherence between the ...