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    • Wages in India: towards a national policy 

      Verma, Pramod (2010-03-13)
      The objective of this paper is to review the empirical understanding of wage trends and wage differentials in Indian industries. The studies undertaken by various researchers differ in terms of their variables, coverage ...

    • War for talent HR challenge of our times 

      Parikh, Indira J. (2010-04-06)
      The concept of modern management is primarily concerned with the planning and development of HR. the man behind the machine has rightly become the focus of attention with a sense of responsibility to make most of the ...

    • Watering system for potted plants 

      Sharan, Girja; Kumar, Sanjay; Kumar, M. Krishna (2010-03-31)
      This paper deals with design of a watering system for a large number of potted plants that form part of a landscape. Installation of the system was motivated by a desire to save labour, time and water. The system now in ...

    • The way out of the current macroeconomic mess: a note 

      Morris, Sebastian (2013-11-25)
      The current situation of a large CAD, low growth, and plunging rupee is a result the combination of early withdrawal from the fiscal stimulus and the RBI’s monetary conservatism. There is possibly a way out if credit can ...

    • Weak localization and the utilitarian choice function: a note 

      Lahiri, Somdeb (2009-12-12)
      In axiomatic bargaining (choice theory), a choice function of some importance is the utilitarian choice function. Basically, this choice function selects the vector of utilities whose sum is greatest, among all utility ...

    • Web content analysis of online grocery shopping web sites in india 

      Banerjee, Arindam; Banerjee, Tanushri (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03-04)
      In this paper the authors evaluate online grocery shopping web sites catering to customers primarily in India. The process of evaluation has been carried out in 3 parts; by comparing the web content on their homepages, ...

    • Weighted fair division problem 

      Lahiri, Somdeb (2010-01-18)
      The exact problem we are concerned with in this paper is of the following nature. There are a finite number of producers each equipped with a utility function of the standard variety, which converts and input into a producer ...

    • Weighted-additive versus reference-dependent models of bundle evaluation: evidence from discount framing on product bundles with surcharges 

      Sahay, Arvind; Mukherjee, Sumitava (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
      Attractiveness of product bundles largely depends on how prices are framed. There is considerable disagreement among two contemporary models that posit how product bundles with discounts are evaluated. According to the ...

    • The welfare consequences of patent protection, pricing and licensing in the Indian oral anti-diabetic market 

      Chatterjee, Chirantan; Kubo, Kensuke; Pingali, Viswanath (IIM Ahmedabad, 2015-03)

    • What determines performance gap index of healthcare in Gujarat? 

      Iyengar, Shreekant; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
      Health performance of Gujarat viewed in terms of the Human Development Index (HDI) portrays it as a medium performer in the country. However, the index of health component for Gujarat is found to be positively contributing ...

    • What does matched bank-firm data tell us about the moral hazard in lending decisions of state-owned banks in india? 

      Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-11)
      In this study, we examine quality of the lending decisions of public sector banks (PSBs) in India with a novel dataset which allows the identification of both the banks by the ownership types and their borrowers. We use a ...

    • What Drives the Shareholer Value? 

      Pandey, I. M. (2009-07-25)
      In the strategy literature a lot of emphasis is placed on growth as a dominant business strategy. Is growth always desirable? The finance literature, on the other hand, focuses more on economic profitability and value. ...

    • What Emotional Labor is: A Review of Literature 

      Mishra, Sushanta Kumar (2009-08-13)
      The dominance of customer over the production/service employee, and as a result of this, increasing use of emotional labor in the workplace furthers the need to understand what emotional labor is. In this regard, the present ...

    • What employers value in the MBAs they recruit: rebalancing the management education curriculum 

      Rao, T. V.; Saxena, Siddhartha Satish; Sherry Chand, Vijaya; Narendran, Rajeshwari; Bharathan, Kandaswamy; Jajoo, B. H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
      This paper seeks to answer the question, “In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer on the knowing, doing and being dimensions of the formation of an MBA graduate, that management education institutes can ...

    • What makes a data-story work? a framework for effective visual data narratives 

      Kapoor, Amit; Ranganathan, Kavitha (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
      Stories have been recognized for their power of communication & persuasion for centuries and we need to operate at that intersection of data, visual and stories to fully harness the power of data. Online journalism has ...

    • What's keeping the apples way? addressing the market integration issue 

      Deodhar, Satish Y. (2010-04-03)
      Apples have been grown in India for a century. At present apple production exceeds 1.4 million tonnes a year. Still, there are wide variations in the apple prices across the country. We test the price data for market ...

    • Wheat economy of India: a study of the growth, development and international trade prospects 

      Gandhi, Vasant P.; Zhon, Zhang-Yue; Mullen, John (2010-01-18)
      India is now the second largest producer of wheat in the world even though it is only the seventh largest in land area. It produces about 70 million tons of wheat per year or about 12 per cent of the world production. Being ...

    • Wheat Marketing and its Efficiency in India 

      Gandhi, Vasant P.; Koshy, Abraham (2009-08-08)
      The study examines the marketing of wheat in India, focusing on the private marketing system, the marketing efficiency and quality. Wheat is now a major food staple in India, crucial to India’s food economy and security. ...

    • When AAA means B: the state of credit rating in India 

      Ragunathan, V.; Varma, Jayanth R. (2010-03-29)
      As in many other countries, India's five year old credit rating industry has grown rapidly amidst persistent doubts about the quality of the rating service. This paper evaluates the ratings given by India's leading credit ...

    • When are rewards bad for creativity? examining the role of leadership and integrated extrinsic motivation 

      Gupta, Vishal (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
      The relationship between common creativity antecedents and creative performance is seldom clarified and the assertion that employee attitudinal and work environment factors spur creative performance has rarely been tested. ...