Browsing Working Papers by Subject "India"
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The Logistics Sector in India: Overview and Challenges
(2009-08-22)The logistics industry in India is evolving rapidly and it is the interplay of infrastructure, technology and new types of service providers that will define whether the industry is able to help its customers reduce their ... -
Marketing of Seeds in India: Status and Issues
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Medical negligence and compensation inn India: how much is just and effective?
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2014-03-27)There is no denying the fact that human life is precious and in cases of medical negligence, the judges find it extremely difficult to decide on the quantum of compensation as the quantum is highly subjective in nature, ... -
A minimum buyback requirement in open market repurchases: impact on the signalling role
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-04-02)The paper investigates the impact of the imposition of a minimum buyback requirement on open market repurchases in India. We find that the regulatory change has led to a significant increase in the abnormal stock returns ... -
Modelling the impact of ovulatory cycle knowledge on the number of children and age of women at first birth
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-04)Unplanned pregnancies are an important public health issue, and 15% of unplanned pregnancies across the world happen in India. Ovulatory cycle knowledge (OCK) is an important yet relatively unexplored component in ... -
Moving to opportunity or isolation? network effects of a slum relocation program in India
(Indian Institute of Management 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 ... -
Mutation of the trademark doctrine: analysing actionable use to reconcile brand identities with constitutional safeguards
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-04-19)Trade marks serve as a storehouse of information, assuring consumers about the quality of a product by ensuring that products bearing the trade mark originate from a consistent source. The trade mark doctrine has ... -
A Need for Location Specific Rice Research in India
(2012-09-27)This paper pertains to the problems of agricultural research management in India. Rice research has not yielded results of the same order as wheat research. The paper goes in to the details of rice production, area and ... -
Performance of quality factor in Indian equity market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-12-06)We study the characteristics of Quality factor (QMJ) in India, which is the sec- ond largest emerging market. Dimensions of quality factor are impacted by the weaker enforcement of corporate governance norms in emerging ... -
The Pre-Kautilyan period: crucible of proto economic ideas and practices
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-10-03)A number of studies have been conducted in the recent past throwing light on Kautilya’s contribution to economic policy. In his treatise Arthashastra, Kautilya informs that his contribution was based on received knowledge ... -
Rise of quick commerce in India: business models And infrastructure requirements
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023-03)The democratisation of mobile internet, increase in e-commerce penetration and omnichannel distribution has led to an expansion of the e-commerce industry. The COVID19 pandemic and the subsequent control measures like ... -
The role of insolvency tests: implications for Indian insolvency law
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-04-01)Insolvency determination is central to the formal insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings of a debtor entity. In determining whether a company is solvent or insolvent, two tests are generally used by the bankruptcy courts ... -
Shukranitisara: a political economy text at the cusp of Indian kingdoms and colonial rule (Revised as on 15/03/3021)
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-08-02)Shukracharya’s treatise on political economy has been referred to in many ancient Indian texts such as Arthashastra, Buddhacharitam and Mahabharata. However, that treatise has been lost. A text titled Shukranitisara was ... -
Small and Medium Enterprise in India Today – Overcoming Policy Constraints to Achieving Rapid Growth in a Globalising Economy
(2009-08-08)Sustained very high rate of growth (above 8% in the context today in India) would be able to achieve (since a labour productivity growth of 4 to 4.5 % is to be factored in) a labour absorption rate of 3.5 to 4% which is ... -
Sociology for Indian Organization
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State of marketing analytics in India: prospects and potential challenges
(Indian Institute of Management 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 ... -
Strengthening corporate governance in India: A review of legislative and regulatory initiatives in 2013
(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 ... -
Trends in strategies and performance of the indian corporate sector what has changed in two decades of economic reforms?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-04)In the context of various policy initiatives made during the last two decades to reform the Indian economy in general and corporate sector in particular, this paper documents strategies followed by firms in this period and ... -
Vertical integration, market structure and competition policy: experiences of indian manufacturing sector during the post reform period
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-09-26)In the context of declining degrees of vertical integration in major industries of Indian manufacturing sector during the post-reform period, the present paper is an attempt to examine how such ‘vertical disintegration’ ...