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Does odd or even make a difference
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03-14)The evidence from literature on ultimatum games suggests that proposers often split the stake equally when they make an offer. In this study we investigate the effect of odd size stakes (OSS) in ultimatum games. OSS prevents ... -
Does pharmaceutical price regulation result in greater access to essential medicines? study of the impact of drug price control order on sales volume of drugs in india
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02-09)In this paper, we empirically examine whether price regulation of generic essential drugs in India results in social welfare (in terms of increase in sales volume post regulation). In 2013, the Indian government enacted ... -
Does the emotional labor of the service employee affect the self-concept of the consumer in service organization?
(2009-08-21)In service interactions the management of service employee’s emotion through emotional labor has gained prominence and is becoming an active method to affect consumer’s behavior. Several researches have indicated that ... -
Does the Gravity Model Explain India’s Direction of Trade? A Panel Data Approach
(2009-08-08)In this paper we apply the gravity model to the panel consisting of India’s yearly bilateral trade data with all its trading partners in the second half of the twentieth century. The main conclusions that emerge from our ... -
Does Trade Make Asian Children Healthier?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper empirically examines the impact of globalization and international trade on the child health status of the Asian countries. In contrast to previous studies we have introduced the initial level of development and ... -
Does type-a moderate the stress-anger relationship in case of managers
(2010-03-23)The study reported in this paper examines the moderating role of Type-A pattern of behavioural disposition on the relationship between role stress and state-trait anger. A set of three psychometric instruments, namely, ORS ... -
Does working for a not-for-profit organization affect the psychology of corruption? evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)The primary purpose of this study is to examine if volunteering for Not-for-Profit Organizations (NPO) which are involved in providing social welfare services and which actively promote socio-behavioral factors like social ... -
Dominance of affective over cognitive customer satisfaction in satisfaction-loyalty relationship in service encounters
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The paper reports on a study which aims to understand the role of cognitive and affective components of customer satisfaction in service encounters. The paper is structured to explore a brief synthesis of the extant ... -
Don’t bother me as long as the client has no issues: control and resistance in telework
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Downsizing: some aspects of communication & social impact
(2010-01-16)This study, being essentially empirical in nature, is based on primary data relating to Indian organizations. The primary data has been collected through a sample survey based on a questionnaire focusing on the following ... -
Drop out enrollment and poverty: policy implications
(2010-03-29)Debate around the factors responsible for the drop-out phenomenon in elementary education focuses largely on two positions: (a) that parents, under economic compulsions, tend to {withdraw| their children from school, (b) ... -
Drought, deprivation and sustainable development: Why are the public policies so weak?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-04-01)National capacity to deal with the deleterious consequences of the drought has certainly increased in the recent years. But the' absence of death' as an indicator of success of public policies for drought mitigation is not ... -
Dynamic demand analysis of India's domestic coffee market
(2010-03-28)Coffee, although an important commodity in India's agricultural exports, has faced fluctuating international prices and decreasing unit value realisation, especially in the post-reform period. Hence, domestic market for ... -
Dynamic optimization with integral state equations
(2010-03-21)In this paper we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality in dynamic optimization problems governed by integral state equations. -
A dynamic pricing approach on electricity prices in Indian context
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-12-07)In this paper, we study the mechanism of dynamic pricing of electricity and its opportunities in the Indian context. We compare the economic efficiency of dynamic pricing vis-à-vis the traditional flat tariff of electricity. ... -
Dynamic Pricing of Electricity: A Survey of Related Research
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)In this paper, we survey 82 papers related to revenue management and dynamic pricing of electricity and lists future research avenues in this field. Dynamic pricing has the potential to modify electric load profiles by ... -
Dynamic programming approach to determine optimal manpower recruitment policies
(2010-03-28)The manpower planning models available in literature have dealt with how changes takes place in a manpower planning system, under various operating and policy constraints. However none of these models have identified the ... -
The Dynamic Relationship between Price and Trading Volume: Evidence from Indian Stock Market
(2011-05-26)This study investigates the nature of relationship between price and trading volume for 50 Indian stocks. Firstly the contemporaneous and asymmetric relation between price and volume is examined. It examines the dynamic ... -
Dynamics of Land Use Competition in India: Perceptions and Realities
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Diversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses is an issue of public debate in every agrarian economy experiencing rapid urbanization and industrial development. However, the issue has become more complex and ... -
Dynamics of Team Teaching and Research in a Management School: Learning and Imperatives
(2009-08-13)This paper discusses the experience of team teaching to address the issues of integration of academic inputs by bringing multi-disciplinary perspective together and thereby enhance learning experience of participants. The ...