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    • Barriers to biogas dissemination in India: A review 

      Mittal S.; Ahlgren E.O.; Shukla P.R. (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      Biogas has emerged as a promising renewable technology to convert agricultural, animal, industrial and municipal wastes into energy. Biogas development can be integrated with strategies to improve sanitation as well as ...
    • Batch service systems with heterogeneous servers 

      van Ommeren J.-K.; Baer N.; Mishra N.; Roy D. (Springer, 2020)
      Bulk-service multi-server queues with heterogeneous server capacity and thresholds are commonly seen in several situations such as passenger transport or package delivery services. In this paper, we develop a novel ...
    • Beliefs, Values, and Ethics 

      Singh S.P. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001)
      Ethics has been a perennial human problem: the gap between action based on reality 慳s it is' and ideals 慳s it ought to be.' Sometimes, the gap has been more and sometimes less, It has also differed with cultural differences. ...
    • Beyond job security and money: Driving factors of motivation for government doctors in India 

      Purohit B.; Bandyopadhyay T. (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 the technology-centric and citizen-centric binary: ontological politics of organizing in translation of the smart city discourse in India 

      Mittal, Harsh; Kandathil, George; Mathur, Navdeep (SAGE Publications, 2023-02-02)
      Smart city (SC) experts in India often center-stage citizens as an alternative to a technology-led transformation. A substantial body of literature on smart cities sustains this resultant binary between techno-centrism and ...
    • Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) 

      Teltumbde A.; Tripathy A.; Sahu A.K. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
      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 ...
    • BHP limited: Risk management strategy 

      Sinha S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
      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 bibliometric analysis of behavioral finance and behavioral accounting 

      Singh, Bharati (Pompea College of Business, University of New Haven, 2021-11)
      This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of relevant publications in the field of behavioral finance and behavioral accounting. The analysis shows that the emerging themes of research in recent years in behavioral finance ...
    • Blockchain in Finance 

      Varma J.R. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)
      Blockchain—the decentralized replicated ledger technology that underlies Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—provides a potentially attractive alternative way to organize modern finance. Currently, the financial system ...
    • Boom Country? The New Wave of Indian Enterprise 

      Mendonca V.; Jain R. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)
    • Brand affiliation and the hotel asset market 

      Liu, Peng; Freybote, Julia; Das, Prashant (ScienceDirect, 2023-01-21)
      Brand affiliation represents a signal about the future operating performance of a hotel that reduces information asymmetries between hotel buyers and sellers. However, information asymmetries vary across property-level and ...
    • Budget: A retrograde for agriculture 

      Desai B.M. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997)
      According to the author, though the budget has some positive initiatives for agriculture, they are unlikely to pull the sector out of its poor growth in postreform period. Moreover, the budget shows that the govern~ent ...
    • Building NGO-corporate partnership: An alternative perspective 

      Mote V.L. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000)
      In its Perspectives section, Vikalpa (Vol 25, No 2, April-June 2000) had published the views of Anil Bhatt on the theme "Building NGO-Corporate Partnership for Social Development.*" In this issue, V L Mote, while agreeing ...
    • Building world class educational institutions in India: Challenges and prospects 

      Narayana Murthy N.R.; Mote V.L.; Indiresan P.V.; Jayagovind A.; Balaram P.; Pental D.; Rao M.R.; Ballal H.S.; Bisoi A.K.; Narang P.; Ravichandran N. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007)
    • Business ethics: The next frontier for globalizing Indian companies 

      Seshadri D.V.R.; Raghavan A.; Hegde S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007)
      Nowhere is the fast changing nature of the global business landscape more perceptible than on the ethics front. With a spate of recent unethical behaviours by large corporations in the Western world, especially in USA, ...
    • Business Model Innovation for Inclusive Health Care Delivery at the Bottom of the Pyramid 

      Angeli F.; Jaiswal A.K. (SAGE Publications Inc., 2016)
      This article investigates business models innovation for delivering health care at the base of the pyramid (BoP). The examination of six health care organizational cases suggests that co-creation of patient needs, community ...
    • Can rigorous impact evaluations improve humanitarian assistance? 

      Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; Ghorpade, Yashodhan; Bruck, Tilman (Routledge, 2017)
      Each year billions of US-dollars of humanitarian assistance are mobilised in response to man-made emergencies and natural disasters. Yet, rigorous evidence for how best to intervene remains scant. This dearth reflects that ...
    • Carbon footprint of India’s groundwater irrigation 

      Rajan, Abhishek; Ghosh, Kuhelika; Shah, Ananya (Taylor & Francis, 2020-04-20)
      India has an intricate nexus of groundwater irrigation, energy and climate. Subsidized electricity supply has led to unregulated groundwater pumping, causing a decrease in groundwater level and increase in carbon emissions. ...
    • Characteristics of private medical practice in India: A provider perspective 

      Bhat R. (1999)
      Supply factors, depicted by input market conditions and government regulations, and demand factors, depicted by financing mechanisms and utilization patterns, are likely to determine the shape and character of private ...