• Effect of tariff regulation in major port container terminals: The case of Jawaharlal Nehru port trust 

  Raghuram, G; Prashanth Devakuma, Udayakumar (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2015)

  Tariff at India’s centrally-administered major ports, including privately operated terminals therein, are regulated and prescribed by the Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP). TAMP was set up under an amendment of the ...

• Consumers' need for uniqueness: A cross-cultural validation 

  Dheeraj, Sharma; Varsha, Verma (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  We conduct a cross-cultural validation of the Consumers’ Need for Uniqueness (CNFU) scale. Using confirmatory factor analysis, the cross-cultural reliability and validity of the CNFU scale developed by Tian, Bearden and ...

• Relationship marketing in online retailing - A meta-analytic approach 

  Varsha, Verma; Dheeraj, Sharma (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  This study is a meta-analysis of relationship marketing (RM) in online retailing. The study builds on the meta-analytic model suggested by Palmatier, Dant, Grewal, and Evans (2006) and extends the framework in the domain ...

• Strengthening corporate governance in India: A review of legislative and regulatory initiatives in 2013 

  Bala N, Balasubramaninan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)

  The passing of the long awaited Companies Act in 2013 is probably the single most important development in India's history of corporate legislation, next only to the monumental Companies Act 1956 which it replaces. While ...

• Ethics statements on websites of Indian companies 

  Meenakshi, Sharma (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)

  This paper examines the corporate code of ethics of Indian companies as displayed on their websites. With the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) having made it mandatory for listed companies to frame a code of ...

• Forecast accuracy along booking profile in the national railways of an emerging Asian economy: Comparison of different techniques 

  Goutam, Dutta; Divya, Pachisia (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  The National Railways of an Emerging Asian Economy (NREAE), the second largest railway network in the world, is facing growing challenges from low fare airlines. To combat these challenges, NREAE has to adopt revenue ...

• A tale of five cities: Heat waves, cold spells and mortality risk in urban India 

  Hem H, Dholakia; Amit, Garg (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  Background: Temperature extremes as a consequence of changing climate are known to have large morbidity and mortality impacts. Studies assessing mortality risk due to heat waves and cold spells are largely absent in urban ...

• Breadth-first and best-first exact procedures for regular measures of the multi-mode RCPSP 

  Madhukar, Dayal; Sanjay, Verma (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  The multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem (MM RCPSP) is a NP-hard problem representing a generalization of the well-studied RCPSP. Depth-first tree search approach by Sprecher & Drexl (1998) is the ...

• Issues in water rights, institutional design and pricing that need resolution 

  Sebastian, Morris (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  In this paper the core issues that need resolution before water development especially by the private sector, and efficient usage can happen are very briefly outlined. These are Water rights have to be defined more ...

• State of marketing analytics in India: Prospects and potential challenges 

  Arindam, Banerjee (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  The paper provides an overview of the state of the Marketing Analytics practice in India today, its contribution and its possible challenges for future growth. A diverse set of practitioners from multiple sectors of ...

• Moving to opportunity or isolation? Network effects of a slum relocation program in India 

  Sharon, Barnhardt; Erica, Field; Rohini, Pande (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  A housing lottery in a large Indian city provided 110 out of 497 participants the opportunity to move out of a slum and into improved housing on the city's periphery. Fourteen years after housing assignment, relative to ...

• Measurement issues in state income from registered manufacturing sector – Case of Gujarat 

  Ravindra H, Dholakia; Manish B, Pandya; Payal M, Pateria (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  The present paper discusses some important issues involved in estimation of state income originating in the registered manufacturing sector with illustrations drawn from Gujarat. It highlights the present practices in ...

• Tabu search for multi-period facility location: Uncapacitated problem with an uncertain number of servers 

  Amit Kumar, Vatsa; Diptesh, Ghosh (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  This paper supersedes the work presented in WP.No.2014-02-06. We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers (PHC). We model the problem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under ...

• Emergency medical service system design under service level constraints for heterogeneous patients 

  Sachin, Jayaswal (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  We study the problem of locating Emergency Medical Service (EMS) facilities in the presence of service level constraints for patients with acuity levels ranging from resuscitation to non-urgent. Each patient arriving at ...

• Determinants of the sources of FDI into India 

  Prathyush, Sarasa; Disha, Singh; Sebastian, Morris (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  Inward FDI flows over 2000-01 from many source countries into India, one of the fastest growing large developing economies in the period, have been explained by an extended gravity model and the an extended allometric ...

• Understanding psychological contract in pharmaceutical and FMCG industry: A comparative analysis 

  Promila, Agarwal (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  The influence of factors outside the boundaries of organization is largely ignored in the examination of psychological contract. The objective of the current research is to empirically examine the association between ...

• Economic geography and networks: Role of local and non-local ties in cluster evolution 

  Amit, Karna; Florian A, Taeube; Petra Sonderegger (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  The organization of geographic clusters plays an increasingly significant role due to the presence of network ties that exist within the location and beyond. This has proven to be particularly true for knowledge-intensive ...

• From well-heeled to tip-toed, shoe-shine to shoe-lace: Valuing product differentiation in men’s formal footwear 

  Vishal, Kumar; Satish Y, Deodhar (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  Gone are the days when the only branded footwear Indians knew was Bata. After years of economic liberalization, one finds many firms; local, national, and international jostling for consumer attention by producing various ...

• Assessing impact of mandatory CSR on food industry 

  Foram, Mehta (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  India is the only country in the world which has now made CSR spending mandatory. Food industry is not an exception to this requirement. In a developing country like India, food industry has a larger social purpose, for ...

• An efficient solution approach for combinatorial bandwidth packing problem with queuing delays 

  Sachin, Jayaswal; Navneet, Vidyarthi; Sagnik, Das (Indian Institute of Managemnt Ahmedabad, 2014)

  The Combinatorial bandwidth packing problem (CBPP), arising in a telecommunication network with limited bandwidth, is defined as: given a set of request, each with its potential revenue and consisting of calls with their ...

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