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Business model innovations for information and communications technology-based services for low-income segments in emerging economies
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
Although proliferation of mobile services in emerging economies like India has made it possible to provide a variety of services such as banking, health, education, etc. to low-income segments through mobiles, it is ...
Efficient solution of a class of location-allocation problems with stochastic demand and congestion
(Elsevier Ltd, 2014)
We consider a class of location–allocation problems with immobile servers, stochastic demand and congestion that arises in several planning contexts: location of emergency medical clinics; preventive healthcare centers; ...
Credit off-take from formal financial institutions in rural India: quantile regression results
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014)
Extending financial services to unbanked population in India has remained a central part of the policy thrust of the Indian government for decades. To that effect, a widespread formal credit delivery mechanism has been ...
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 ...
Enabling off-the-grid telephony: an adaptive probabilistic model for broadcasting in ad-hoc mobile phone networks
(Elsevier, 2014)
Ad-hoc peer-to-peer mobile phone networks (phone-MANETs) can enable village level telephony for cash-strapped, off-the-grid communities in developing regions. Broadcasting is a fundamental operation in such MANETs (Mobile ...
Blood bank inventory management in India
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014)
In this paper we provide an overview of the recent contributions in the area of blood bank inventory management and relate them to the challenges in the Indian context. We study the current blood-banking scenario in India ...
Bank privatisation by the backdoor
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2014)
The P J Nayak Committee on the governance of bank boards has proposed that the Bank Nationalisation Act and related legislation be repealed. It wants government shareholding in public sector banks to be transferred to a ...
At the helm: a memoir
(SAGE Publications, 2014)
This review focuses on the contributions made by VK in the three large PSUs. To provide a detailed background to the reader, the initiatives and the change management agenda at BHEL, MUL, and SAIL are summarized. The review ...
Responding to industry needs: reorienting management education
(SAGE Publications, 2014)
In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer institutes of management education that want to rebalance the knowing, doing, and being dimensions of their curricula? This paper uses data from interviews with ...
Reliability and validity of two scales of employee engagement
(Humanities and Social Science Studies, 2014)
Employee engagement is postulated as a holistic construct with cognitive, emotional and behavioural aspects. The study tries to determine the reliability and validity of two scales of engagement: the 9 – item Utrecht work ...