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Uitlity theory and participation in unfair lotteries
(2010-03-13)This paper provides an alternative explanation for the observed behaviour of individuals, that is consistent with consumer choice theory. The basic hypothesis is that there are certain commodities, mainly luxuries, which ... -
Uncertainty modeling with information and probabilistic information granules
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02-29)Linguistic representations by human brain are often characterized with an intertwined combination of imprecision (due to incomplete knowledge), vagueness or uncertainty. A powerful framework of information and probabilistic ... -
Uncovered choice functions
(2010-01-16)An abiding problem in choice theory has been one of characterizing those choice function which are obtained as a result of some kind of optimization. Specifically, the endeavour has concentrated largely on finding a binary ... -
Understanding coefficient alpha: assumptions and interpretations
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-04)A procedure is developed for determining appropriate levels of scale reliability by examining coefficient alpha in conjunction with the standardized regression coefficient for each variable. Present study aims to examine ... -
Understanding political behaviour in organization: a framework
(2010-03-15)Although as an organizational phenomenon political behaviour has started attracting considerable research, most studies approach it in a segmented fashion. The present paper proposes and integrated model for understanding ... -
Understanding psychological contract in pharmaceutical and FMCG industry: a comparative analysis
(Indian Institute of Management 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 ... -
Understanding the Business Type: A Comparitive Analysis of Management Students and Business Executives
(2011-05-26)Study of personality type has contributed a lot to our understanding and prediction of human behaviour, especially in organizational contexts. A great deal of interest is especially focused on what types of people are most ... -
An uneasy look at work, nonwork and leisure
(2010-03-13)Better understanding of human problems associated with work, nonwork, and leisure has been a long standing concern of scholars of widely varied intellectual persuasion. Philosophers and theologians are interested in these ... -
Unified concept of bottleneck
(2010-07-20)The term 'bottleneck' has been extensively used in operations management literature. Management paradigms like the Theory of Constraints focus on the identification and exploitation of bottlenecks. Yet, we show that the ... -
A Unified Theory of Capability Building: Need and Response
(2009-08-07)Strategy literature is replete with isolated contributions to the jigsaw puzzle of building capabilities by firms. The isolation is primarily caused by the way resource-based view and capability literature has developed ... -
Union budget 2004-05 and the health sector
(2010-01-16)The budget documents is basic policy paper of the government and in some sense provides a mirror of government's priorities. However, one basic question remains how to translate these policies into implementable plans and ... -
Union Imperatives from Unionized White Collar Employees’ Perspective: The Case of Tata Employees Union
(2009-07-30)The paper examines the attitude of white collar unionized employees’ towards their union and management under three key themes – work related dimensions, union related dimensions and staff members’ loyalty towards union ... -
Unionizing Indian agricultural workers: problems and prospects
(2010-03-14)The paper is concerned with the problems and prospects of organizing agricultural workers. The motivation to unionize is analysed in terms of low income, insecurity of employment and social disparity faced by landless ... -
Unit Root Tests: Results from some recent tests applied to select Indian macroeconomic variables
(2009-09-03)Results from newly developed unit roots tests of ERS (1996), PN (1996), NP (2001) and LM (1994) are compared against their traditional counterparts (ADF, PP and KPSS) on select Indian macroeconomic data. Results from ERS, ... -
Universities and the horizons of the future
(2010-03-29)Ours is a time of fundamental changes. Changes in our economy and politics, revolutionary manifestation of new technologies and the whole host of contemporary forces are shattering our taken-for-granted assumptions about ... -
Unlocking the power of accelerators: the crucial role of institutions in boosting new venture performance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023-04-18)Accelerators are gaining popularity in the entrepreneurship ecosystem for accelerating new ventures by providing benefits such as sorting, signaling, and learning. However, existing empirical evidence on the impact of ... -
Unwanted consequences of large sample size in econometric estimation
(2010-03-21)This paper start with the problem of analyzing unwanted consequences of large sample size in econometric estimation and find that the problem can be framed as special case to general problem of estimating a model subject ... -
An upper bounding heuristic for nonlinear integer programs
(2010-03-13)Many optimization problems are formulated as nonlinear mixed integer programming problems. Often practioners, as well as theoreticians, are interested in finding an Upper bound on the objective minimum as fast as possible. ... -
Urban - Rural income differentials in India: an inter-regional analysis
(2010-03-13)The present study aims at 1) estimating the magnitude of urban-rural per capital income differentials in Indian economy, 2) measuring the extent of inter-state variations in the urban-rural per capita income differential, ...