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Regional imbalance under federal structure: a comparison of Canada and India
(2006-10-29)
The problem of regional disparity in economic development in geographically large democratic
countries gets inseparably linked with macro public policies and the economic philosophies
behind them. Two such countries, ...
Gender, affect, and upward influence
(2006-10-29)
With the rapid influx of women in organizations, more specifically in the
Indian context, “gender” becomes an important construct in the study of
upward influence strategies, by which the member is able to influence ...
Credit, indebtedness and farmer suicides in Punjab: some missing links
(2006-11-01)
The EPW Review of Agriculture (June
30, 2006) with two papers (P Satish,
‘Institutional Credit, Indebtedness and
Suicides in Punjab’ and A Gill and L Singh,
‘Farmers’ Suicides and Response of Public
Policy’) on suicides ...
Planet Health (A)
(2006-10-29)
I
n early 2001, Mr Rohit Patel, Managing Director, Sagar Group of Industries (SGI)
was reviewing the plans for entering the retail business of pharmacy and healthcare
products. On the basis of a report submitted by SGI’s ...
Winning legally
(2006-10-29)
Ethics and law are different. Non-compliance of
law, in most of the cases, results in sanctions but
ethical non-compliance cannot be penalized. Law
is the means by which the individual will is harmonized
with the general ...
Expansion of IIMs: myths, realities, and policy choices
(2006-10-29)
This article suggests a roadmap for IIM Ahmedabad to increase
its student intake substantially within all available resources
offered by its flagship programme, i e, the postgraduate
programme in management. A broadly ...
Managing hospital supplies: process re-engineering at Gujarat cancer research institute, India
(2006-11-01)
Purpose – Aims to give an overview of the re-engineering of processes and structures at Gujarat
Cancer Research Institute (GCRI), Ahmedabad.
Design/methodology/approach – A general review of the design, development ...
Artificial neural network models for forecasting stock price index in the Bombay stock exchange
(2006-10-29)
ANN has been shown to be an efficient tool for non-parametric modeling of data in a variety of different contests where the output is a non-linear function of the inputs. These include business forecasting, credit scoring, ...
A proof of the divergence of the harmonic series using probability theory
(2006-10-29)
In this note a new proof of the divergence of the harmonic series is given based on
the expected life of a parallel system with independent exponentially distributed
component lifetimes.