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Tabu search for multi-period facility location: uncapacitated problem with an uncertain number of servers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)This paper supersedes the work presented in WP.No.2014-02-06. We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers (PHC). We model the problem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under ... -
Tabu search for the single row facility layout problem using exhaustive 2-opt and insertion neighborhoods
(2013-11-20)The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem is ... -
A tale of five cities: heat waves, cold spells and mortality risk in urban India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)Background: Temperature extremes as a consequence of changing climate are known to have large morbidity and mortality impacts. Studies assessing mortality risk due to heat waves and cold spells are largely absent in urban ... -
Talent and the pioneering innovating motive
(2010-03-14)The paper argues that the wish to pioneer and innovate is essential if talented persons are to give their best to society. The paper reports the relationships between the pioneering - innovating and five other motives, ... -
Talent management systems in Indian pharmaceutical firms: exploring an emerging typology
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2016-03)This study has explored the implementation of talent management process in pharmaceutical industry in India through a case study approach. Data was collected from top management and senior managers in HR, marketing and ... -
Tapping Economies of Scale and Scope in Consumer Cooperation – A Case Analysis of Possible Cooperation among Selected Cooperatives
(2009-08-21)Because of its narrow and negative perspective of safeguarding the interests of only poor consumers against unethical practices of the private traders, consumer cooperation in India seems to have failed, except probably ... -
Target debt maintenance under alternative net present value specifications and implications for investment and finance decisions
(2010-03-22)Two alternative specifications of weighted average cost of capital are prevalent in finance literature. Though both the specifications result in consistent accept/reject or ranking decisions the net present value arrived ... -
Targeted interventions: consumption dynamics and distributional effects
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-02)Income distribution-based targeted interventions are quite common in developing economies. However, often due to institutional frictions, identification of the recipients happens at a lower frequency than the frequency of ... -
Tax Experiences of Indo-American Joint Venture
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Tax functions under imperfect markets
(2010-03-14)This paper provides tax functions when product and input markets are subject to imperfection simultaneously. These functions are estimated for the industrial sector of the Indian economy. It comes out clearly that such ... -
Technical change and market price effects on income distribution in Indian rice economy
(2009-12-12)The study suggests that while non-product price policies encouraging technical change and market infrastructure development would be beneficial to both PCC and NPC, the rice price support would be needed once technical ... -
Technical progress in Indian agriculture: temporal analysis
(2010-07-27)An attempt has been made in this paper to estimate the extent of technical progress in Indian agriculture during the period 1950-51 to 1988-89. An analysis of the sources of growth of Indian agriculture is also presented ... -
Techniques of mobilizing rural people to support rural development programme
(2010-03-13)The general socio-economic conditions prevailing in most of the developing countries in Asia and Africa have brought added urgency to the quest for more effective programmes and institutions to assist rural population, ... -
Technological and institutional variables in the evolution of rules for community plantations of a scheduled caste in a backward area of Gujarat
(2010-03-27)This paper examines the nexus between new technology for an open access land resource and an institutional set-up for establishing and managing tree plantations as a common pool resource. For the Vankars, a scheduled caste ... -
Technology acquisition and assimilation in a fertilizer firm: a case study of GNFC
(2010-03-21)International technology transfer has for long been an important source of technical know-how for Indian firms. In recent times the importance of this sources of know-how has increased substantially because of the increasing ... -
Technology development and diffusion in tree growers cooperatives in a coastal saline region of Gujarat: a learning environmental approach
(2010-03-20)This paper examines the nexus between new technology for an open access land resource and an institutional set-up for establishing and managing tree plantations as a common pool resource. The Vankars, a scheduled caste of ... -
Technology development in the Indian foundry industry: a case of choked potential
(2010-03-26)The paper presents the results of a field study covering 25 foundries and 5 institutions involved in education, consultancy, and R&D in the foundry sector. The field study was supplemented by interviews with foundry experts ... -
Technology Development in the Indian textile Industry: Interaction Between Government Policy, firms and cooperative Research Associations
(2012-10-11)This Study presents the findings of a study of technology development in the Indian textile industry undertaken by the authors as part of a large international study led by the World Bank. The study methodology included a ... -
Technology finance entrepreneur linkages
(2010-03-23)Development of entrepreneurship depends not only on the supply of credit, but also on appropriate technology especially in backward areas. There have been several credit facilities offered to small firms, and there have ...