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    • Managing career plateau: case of Aster Retail, UAE 

      Trivedi, Bhumi Mahesh; Varkkey, Biju (Emerald, 2020-11-15)
      Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how Aster Retail (AR), UAE, handled career plateau challenge by adopting multiple strategies and earning employee commitment and motivation for business growth. Design/ ...

    • Mandatory IPO Grading: Does it Help Pricing Efficiency? 

      Jacob J.; Agarwalla S.K. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015)

    • Market Driven Manufacturing : A Requirements Analysis 

      Basu K.; Chandra P. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996)
      In this paper, Kunal Basu and Pankaj Chandra develop a framework for market driven manufacturing that identifies market conditions and success requirements for determining the necessary manufacturing focus. These are then ...

    • A market value analysis of buyer–supplier relationship building awards 

      Verma, Nishant Kumar; Jha, Ashish Kumar; Bose, Indranil; Ngai, Eric N. T. (IEEE, 2023-01-04)
      The purpose of this article is to study the signaling potential of “supplier awards” in creating shareholder value for the award-giving and the award-receiving firm. We use event study methodology with supplier awards as ...

    • Marketplace literacy as a pathway to a better world: evidence from field experiments in low-access subsistence marketplaces 

      Viswanathan, Madhubalan; Umashankar, Nita; Sreekumar, Arun; Goreczny, Ashley (SAGE Publications, 2021-02-10)
      Multinational companies increasingly focus on subsistence marketplaces, given their enormous market potential. Nevertheless, their potential is untapped because subsistence consumers face extreme constraints. The authors ...

    • Mass Migration from Rural India: A Restudy of Kunkeri Village in Konkan, Maharashtra, 1961�87�17 

      Vartak K.; Tumbe C.; Bhide A. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)
      This article examines a particular village桲unkeri梚n Konkan, Maharashtra, characterized by persistent mass outmigration for over five decades, by combining a field study in 2017 with detailed ethnographic and statistical ...

    • Maternal health in Gujarat, India: A case study 

      Mavalankar D.V.; Vora K.S.; Ramani K.V.; Raman P.; Sharma B.; Upadhyaya M. (International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
      Gujarat state of India has come a long way in improving the health indicators since independence, but progress in reducing maternal mortality has been slow and largely unmeasured or documented. This case study identified ...

    • Maternal health situation in India: A case study 

      Vora, Kranti S.; Mavalankar, Dileep; Ramani, K. V.; Upadhyaya, Mudita; Sharma, Bharati; Iyengar, Sharad; Gupta, Vikram; Iyengar, Kirti (International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
      Since the beginning of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, India has accounted for at least a quarter of maternal deaths reported globally. India's goal is to lower maternal mortality to less than 100 per 100,000 livebirths ...

    • Maternal healthcare financing: Gujarat's Chiranjeevi scheme and its beneficiaries 

      Bhat, R.; Mavalankar, D.V.; Singh, P.V.; Singh, N. (International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
      Maternal mortality is an important public-health issue in India, specifically in Gujarat. Contributing factors are the Government's inability to operationalize the First Referral Units and to provide an adequate level of ...

    • Measuring Complexity in Financial Data 

      Yadav, Gaurang Singh; Guha, Apratim; Chakrabarti, Anindya S. (FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2020)
      The stock market is a canonical example of a complex system, in which a large number of interacting agents lead to joint evolution of stock returns and the collective market behavior exhibits emergent properties. However, ...

    • Measuring gender attitudes: developing and testing Implicit Association Tests for adolescents in India 

      Jain, Tarun; Dhar, Diva; Kapoor, Vrinda; Kapur, Vrinda; Raj, Anita (PLOS, 2022-06-16)
      We develop and test gender attitude measures conducted with a school-based sample of adolescents aged 14–17 years in India. We test a measure with survey items and vignettes to capture gender-based value and stereotypes, ...

    • Measuring Retail Service Quality: An Empirical Assessment of the Instrument 

      Parikh D. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2006)
      Retailing in India is growing at the rate of about 18-20 per cent per annum. As part of its strategy to gradually open it up to foreign competition, the government is also in the process of increasing foreign direct ...

    • Measuring retail service quality: Examining applicability of international research perspectives in India 

      Kaul S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007)
      Service quality is being increasingly perceived as a tool to increase value for the consumer; and as a means of positioning in a competitive environment to ensure consumer satisfaction, retention, and patronage. Existing ...

    • Medical education in Maharashtra: The student perspective 

      Hira R.S.; Gupta A.K.; Salvi V.S.; Ross M.W. (2009)
      Background: There is hardly any structured study reporting the perspective of medical students, with regard to the medical education system in Maharashtra, which is facing challenges. Aim: A perception study of students ...

    • Methods and models for costing carbon mitigation 

      Sathaye J.; Shukla P.R. (2013)
      Using the results of more than 20 different global models with a particular emphasis on two rapidly growing large countries (China and India), this paper discusses the cost estimation methods that are used in setting up ...

    • Modeling and design of container terminal operations 

      Roy, Debjit; Koster, Rene De; Bekker, Rene (Informs, 2020-04-23)
      The design of container terminal operations is complex because multiple factors affect operational performance. These factors include numerous choices for handling technology, terminal topology, and design parameters and ...

    • Movies, stigma and choice: evidence from the pharmaceutical industry 

      Aggarwal, Mayank; Chakrabarti, Anindya S.; Chatterjee, Chirantan (Wiley, 2023-02-02)
      Do movies reduce stigma, increasing healthcare product choices offered by firms? We provide causal evidence on this question in the context of Indian pharmaceutical markets. For unpacking these effects, we use an exogenous ...

    • Moving towards "mobile warehouse": Last-mile logistics during COVID-19 and beyond 

      Srivatsa Srinivas S.; Marathe R.R. (Elsevier Ltd, 2021)
      Supply chains in general and last-mile logistics in particular, have been disrupted due to COVID-19. Though several innovative last-mile logistics solutions have been proposed in the past, they possess certain limitations, ...

    • Multi-model comparison of the economic and energy implications for China and India in an international climate regime 

      Johansson D.J.A.; Lucas P.L.; Weitzel M.; Ahlgren E.O.; Bazaz A.B.; Chen W.; den Elzen M.G.J.; Ghosh J.; Grahn M.; Liang Q.-M.; Peterson S.; Pradhan B.K.; van Ruijven B.J.; Shukla P.R.; van Vuuren D.P.; Wei Y.-M. (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2015)
      This paper presents a modeling comparison on how stabilization of global climate change at about 2牥C above the pre-industrial level could affect economic and energy systems development in China and India. Seven General ...

    • Multiple allocation hub location with service level constraints for two shipment classes 

      Jayaswal, Sachin; Vidyarthi, Navneet (Elsevier, 2023-02-07)
      In this paper, we study a hub network design problem arising in the context of a third-party logistics (3PL) service provider, which acts as an intermediary between shippers and carriers. A 3PL service provider usually ...