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Approach and avoidance behaviour of managers
(2010-03-13)Organizational settings is continuing for long. This paper analyses the employee behaviour in terms of his various needs or motives. It presents the validity and reliability measures of an instrument developed to operationalize ... -
Approach for the agricultural strategy in the fifth five year plan of Gujarat
(2010-03-14)The basic principle in developing an approach for the agricultural strategy in the Fifth Five Year Plan is that instead of super-imposing a growth rate of agricultural sector to be achieved in the Fifth Five Year Plan, it ... -
Approach to the design of corporate identity
(2010-03-20)The corporate form of organization is being used in many spheres of economic and social activity. Public enterprises and development corporations have swelled the ranks of the mass of existing private sector companies. All ... -
Approaches to institution building
(2010-07-27)This paper traces the history of Behavioural Science approaches in India. The paper examines the task centered, and identity centered approach to organization development. It differentiates between the institutional and ... -
Appropriate measure of real value added and total factor productivity growth in Indian Manufacturing
(2010-03-29)It is a widely held hypothesis that the Indian industry experienced a significant turnaround in its Total Factor Productivity Growth (TEPG) during the decade of the eighties as compared to the seventies. Recently it is ... -
Approximate algorithm for reducing dummy-activities in a pert network
(2010-03-28)A project is an enterprise consisting of several activities which are to be carried out in some specific order. The activities and the order in which they need to be carried out can be represented by a pert network. Two ... -
Aquaculture: marketing and economic in India
(2010-03-25)The paper is designed to analyse the existing marketing systems for aquaculture produce and their impact on the economics of aquaculture from the point of view of fish farmers. The paper is divided into five parts. Part I ... -
Arbitrage constraints and behaviour of volatility components: evidence from a natural experiment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-10-06)Short-selling constraints are known to impede information flow into the financial markets, particularly that of negative information. We employ “Regulation SHO” as a natural experiment to examine how the lowering of short ... -
Arbitration by a Bayesian statistician and bounded rationality
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1990-01-01)In this paper we formalize the framework of an arbitration game, to accommodate a large class of situations where public decisions are implemented in a non-cooperative setting. We then present a method of computing the ... -
Arbitration games and approximate equilibria
(2010-03-15)In this paper we define an arbitration game in the context of a Bayesian Collective Choice Problem and derive an approximate equilibrium for such games under conditions of 'bounded rationality'. -
Are auditors unable to detect classification shifting or merely not willing to report it? evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Prior research suggests that Big-4 auditors fail to curb classification shifting in the countries with weak legal institutions. However, it is not known whether the auditors are unable to detect the use of this earnings ... -
Are big 4 audit fee premiums always related to superior audit quality? evidence from India’s unique audit market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)In this study we examine the fee premiums earned by Big 4 auditors (B4As) in India. We then try to determine the primary cause of the fee premiums in an Indian context. The B4As charge fee premiums for two primary reasons. ... -
Are investors ethics agnostic?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)In this paper we ask if the perception investors have regarding ethical nature of the management per se influences their action. In order to check for rent seeking behaviour that could arise when there is negative perception ... -
Are the temperature of indian cities increasing? : Some insights using change point analysis with functional data
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-08-10)In recent years there has been considerable concern expressed worldwide re- garding increase in temperature popularly called the global warming problem. In this paper we examine monthly temperature data of nine Indian ... -
Are you risk averse over other people's money?
(2010-04-03)We examine the question in the simplest possible setting using controlled laboratory experiments. We find a remarkable results: when an individual makes a decision for an anonymous stranger, he tends to exhibit less risk ... -
Area of study as a discursive field: some notes on method and an inquiry into the challenge of moral education
(2010-03-29)This is a paper on the nature of modern academic disciplines and an inquiry into the origin of their boundaries in the discourse of modernity and their contemporary inadequacy in the face of the challenges of the present ... -
Arima model for and forecaste on tea production in India
(2010-03-25)The paper explains the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) (Box-Jenkins) model in detail, develops an ARIMA model for tea production in India using monthly data for the period Jan. 1979 through July 1991, and ... -
Arrangements governing international trade in textiles: a summary view of issues and perspectives
(2010-03-12)This study has primarily been concerned with the issues and perspectives on the historical evolution and working of the arrangements governing international trade in textiles, particularly the latest such arrangement, ... -
An Arrested Virtuous Circle? Higher Education and High-Tech Industries in India
(2011-05-26)This paper provides a brief but comprehensive overview of linkages between higher education and the high-tech sector and study the major linkages in India. It finds that the links outside of the labour market are weak. ...