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    • Bermuda triangle and the Indian retail industry 

      Sinha, Piyush Kumar (2008-07-24)
    • Better evaluation of a lease 

      Raghunathan, V. (1987-09-22)
      In the October-December 1986 issue, Vikalpa published an article on leasing by I M Pandey who outlined an approach to lease evaluation, treating leasing as functionally equivalent to debt and using the borrowing rate ...
    • Between Aastha and Zee, mystery of the missing market for a weather channel 

      Deodhar, Satish Y.; Deka, Chayasmita (International Review of Business and Economics, 2019)
      Until a few decades ago, Doordarshan was the only channel which would broadcast TV programmes in black-&-white and that too for a few hours. It was a pure public good then, offered free of cost by the government. Today, ...
    • Between traditional classification and coordinate indexing 

      Ghose, Amitabha; Dhawle, Anand S. (1979-07-29)
      An ordering system for a global information network is necessary in order to enable the user to retrieve the particular information he is looking for. Classification has been one of the methods of ordering. The principle ...
    • Beyond investment: some lessons from development programmes 

      Paul, Samuel (1981-09-16)
      In studies of development programmes, three factors have been identified as critical to success : political support or commitment 9 resources and leadership. It is argued in this paper that while these factors are important ...
    • Beyond job security and money: driving factors of motivation for government doctors in India 

      Purohit, Bhaskar; Bandyopadhyay, Tathagata (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 ...
    • Beyond nongovernmental development action into social entrepreneurship 

      Sherry Chand, Vijaya (2009-04-15)
      This article presents a refl ective perspective on the scope that social entrepreneurship offers to non-governmental development work in the Indian context. Beginning with the early corporate efforts to do good to society, ...
    • Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) 

      Teltumbde, Anand; Tripathy, A.; Sahu, Amiya K. (2002-10-21)
      Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) embarked upon a major change initiative towards the end of 1996. It planned an enterprise-wide integration through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The objectives were to ...
    • Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd: Diagnosis 

      Ravichandran, N. (2003-10-22)
      Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) embarked upon a major change initiative towards the end of 1996. It planned an enterprise-wide integration through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The objectives were to ...
    • Bharat seaport authorities 

      Ramani, K. V. (1999-10-14)
    • Bharat seaport authority 

      Ramani, K. V. (1999-10-13)
    • BHP limited: risk management strategy 

      Sinha, Sidharth (2002-10-21)
      BHP Limited, a global natural resource company based in Australia, has traditionally hedged its market price risks with derivatives. Based on the analysis of a 'Cash Flow at Risk' model, which exploits the diversification ...
    • A Bibliometrics profile of Gujarat University, Ahmedabad during 2004-2013 

      Hanumappa, Anilkumar; Dora, Mallikarjun; Desai, Asha (Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, 2015)
      This study attempts to undertake bibliometric analysis of the research publications of Gujarat University during the ten-year period between 2004 and 2013. The data for this study was extracted from SCOPUS and included a ...
    • Bidding for cattle feed sources 

      Desai, D. K. (1969-05-18)
      The question was posed by the general manager of a leading cattle feed factory whether it would be possible to find out the cost of the nutritional elements in the cattle feed so that one could devise the pricing policy ...
    • The big picture: macro economics of outlays and outcomes 

      D'Souza, Errol (2005-10-25)
      The Fiscal Responsibility Act has been bypassed in the budget with a failure to achieve the fiscal deficit target and by a reduction in the share of capital expenditures. Special purpose vehicles and public-private ...
    • Big-4 auditors and audit quality: a novel firm life-cycle approach 

      Jain, Sonali; Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar (Emerald, 2022-08-12)
      Purpose: Firm-specific factors such as size, profitability, growth, risk and complexity, in addition to agency-related issues determine both auditor selection and firm life-cycle stage. This paper aims to examine whether ...
    • A bilevel conic optimization model for routing and charging of EV fleets serving long distance delivery networks 

      Sankaranarayanan, Sriram; Feijoo, Felipe; Subramanian, Vignesh; Melendez, Kevin; Das, Tapas K. (Elsevier, 2022-03-24)
      Recent unveiling of electric semi-trucks by a number of electric vehicle manufacturers indicates that part of the existing long-distance transportation fleets may soon be electrified. Operators of electric fleets will have ...
    • Bilevel optimization based on iterative approximation of multiple mappings 

      Sinha, Ankur; Lu, Zhichao; Deb, Kalyanmoy; Malo, Pekka (Journal of Heuristics, 2020)
      A large number of application problems involve two levels of optimization, where one optimization task is nested inside the other. These problems are known as bilevel optimization problems and have been studied by both ...
    • Binary knapsack problems with random budgets 

      Das, Shubhabrata; Ghosh, Diptesh (2003-10-21)
      The binary knapsack problem is a combinatorial optimization problem in which a subset of a given set of elements needs to be chosen in order to maximize profit, given a budget constraint. In this paper, we study a stochastic ...