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Life performance motivation ability opportunity: individual differences in predictive models
(2010-03-14)Previous research showed that prediction of life performance from information about motivation and ability follows the multiplying rule. The present experiment added a third supposedly multiplying factor, external opportunity, ... -
Lighting candles: Impact of leadership actions on institution building
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1983-05-01)This paper uses the metaphor of lighting candles to describe the process of institution building. To illustrate this, it drawn upon the actions of a prolific institution builder like Dr. Vikram Sarabhai in order to distill ... -
Lighting up lives through cooking gas and transforming society
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)The study, reported in the form of a case, narrates the story of a major attempt at social transformation through a simple mechanism of providing cooking gas (LPG) to the marginalized in society. Targeting about 100 million ... -
Likelihood integrated method for exploratory graphical analysis of chagne point problem with directional data
(2010-07-20)In this paper authors have introduced a new likelihood based method, called the likelihood integrated method, which is distnict from the well known integrated likelihood method. We use the likelihood integrated propose a ... -
A Lin-Kernighan heurisitic for single row facility layout
(2013-11-25)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 known ... -
Linear and Non-linear budgets Sets
(2012-10-03)In this paper we show that every choice problem in a finite-dimensional Euclidean space can be viewed as the budget set corresponding to an economic environment (possibly non- linear) in consumer choice theory. -
Linear programming model for optimal water transmission system: a case study for Ahmedabad
(2010-03-12)This paper presents a methodology for the optimal design of a water transmission system, given a source of supply and demand values for water from various zonal divisions in the city. The Linear Programming Model developed ... -
Linkages for lateral learning among farmers scientists and extension workers: story of match makers and lessons for link breakers
(2010-03-20)The linkages between farmers, scientists and extension workers have been studied through several angles. The barriers to learning at individual and organizational level have been listed. The relation between the type of ... -
Linking team leaders’ human & social capital to their team members’ career advancement
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper looks at a conceptual model depicting the impact of high performing Team Leaders (TL) on their team members‟ career advancement. Certain inherent factors present in high performing TLs are not usually linked to ... -
Linking Technical Education to Business Growth:
(2009-08-22)Education has been recognized as the most important source of competitive advantage for a nation. It is the key determinant of firm level productivity which in turn drives business growth and profitability. Technical ... -
Linking telecome technologies: complementarities, capabilities and policies
(2010-04-03)This paper is a preliminary exploration to develop a methodology for assessing the technological capabilities and needs of the telecommunications sector in India. It makes a case for strategic policy interventions to build ... -
Linking Vertical and Horizontal Markets for Innovations at Grassroots: Sustainability Imperative
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)The supply chain management is at the core of globalising world. Today the large corporations are able to source materials from all around the world and sell it in the most interior parts of the developing and developed ... -
Links in the Knowledge Journey of an Idea to Innovation: A Study in the Context of Development of Customized Cartons
(2009-08-03)This paper identifies and analyses the links in the knowledge journey of an idea to innovation. It tracks the links in the development of customized cartons for packaging tomatoes. The trigger points for the innovation, ... -
Litigating barbie: trade mark infringement, parody and free speech
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-07-15)In the contemporary marketplace, trade marks are not mere monikers of origin. While often regarded as commercial symbols, trade marks sometimes become part of the commonplace vocabulary and are indelibly linked to ... -
Livestock component of farming systems research
(2010-03-21)Farming systems research is an innovative approach to address the problems of resource poor farmers in less developed countries. FSR stemmed largely from the pioneering work of Collinson and that of Norman. The primary ... -
Load-factor measurement for road transport corporations
(2010-03-13)In order to plan its time-tables, a road transport corporation needs to have reliable information on the load-factors on various bus-trips that are currently operated. Existing informaiton does not permit determination of ... -
Local social decision functions: a survey
(2010-01-18)In Aleskerov (1999) can be found a property that social decision functions are required to satisfy. This property is called locality. In Arrowzs original work it was called independence of irrelevant alternatives. Social ... -
Localized and non-localized competition in the presence of consumer lock-in
(2010-03-31)This paper models localized competition between firms when there is consumer lock-in or loyalty. We derive the symmetric equilibrium mixed strategy price distribution under two alternative models, and compare them to ... -
Location identification for rapid evacuation from a disaster site: a case study from KAPS
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Robust plans need to be developed for rapidly evacuating victims from a nuclear disaster site. Although nuclear plants are constructed with multiple redundant safety features, the chances of a leak can never be zero. In ... -
Location of Indian cement industry
(2010-03-13)The paper examines four hypotheses about the location of the Indian Cement Industry, viz., (a) its location is not optimum, (b) it is not evenly distributed throughout the country, (c) its location is becoming more and ...