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Urban Agriculture: Urban Planning and the Ahmedabad Experience
(2012-10-01)Cities all over the world are growing rapidly and the manifestations of the urban crisis in a variety of areas, viz., environment food, health, energy, land use, are quite evident. Urban landuse pattern are changing ... -
Urban Development Strategy for Bihar: A Management Perspective
(2009-07-30)Bihar is among the least urbanized states in India with a level of urbanization just above 10% in 2001. The present study suggests a four-stage strategy for the urban development of Bihar. The stages are- (i) Increase in ... -
Urban health status in ahmedabad city: GIS based study of baherampura, kubernagar, and vasna wards
(2010-07-26)In this working paper, we discuss our initiatives in a pilot study of urban health management in Ahmedabad city, the seventh largest mega city in India with a population of 3.5 million consisting of 1.5 million people ... -
Urban – rural income differential in major states: contribution of structural factors
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)In this paper, we have attempted to estimate the urban – rural income differential (URID) for 15 major states based on readily available data on GSDP by sectors, population and employment by sectors and urban – rural ... -
Urgent issues in drought management is it too late to act
(2010-03-23)Recent drought in western India is unique for many reasons. The most conspicuous is the fact that it has generated unprecedented apathy and indifference of intellectuals. The situation in Gujarat is all the more paradoxical.The ... -
Use and marketing of plant protection appliances
(2010-03-18)Research work is being conducted on use and marketing of plant protection appliances. The work has tried to analyse a hypothesis that the number of plant protection appliances tend to be concentrated in cash crop area and ... -
Use of family planning during the firs year postpartum in Ahmedabad India
(2010-03-31)Indians urban population taken together would rank as fifth largest country in the world. Dynamics of contraceptive use in this group during postpartum period is not well researched. This paper reports results of a sample ... -
Use of human respondents in research: problems and coping strategies
(2010-03-14)It has been argued that respondents behavior in research settings is not only determined by research manipulation but a variety of uncontrolled human factors/ Literature that suggests the existence of such factors is ... -
Use of non-cognitive instruments in personnel selection and appraisal
(2010-03-14)This paper discusses the scope for using non-cognitive instruments. The instruments have been dealt with at three levels: self, social interaction, and person-organization interaction. Examples have been cited where scope ... -
Using CEA to evaluate 29 Canadian textile companies - considering returns - to - Scale
(2010-07-26)In this paper we analyse the performance of some Canadian textile firms by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Using DEA we develop efficiency scores, efficiency frontiers and returns-to-scale for three segments of the ... -
Using personality traits to explain consumer behaviour: an experical examination
(2010-03-12)The use of personality theory in consumer behaviour research has met with more disappointments than success. The belief that individual differences in brand preference or choice behaviour are caused by personality differences ... -
Using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Investigate Patterns in Marketing Channels and International Marketing Strategies
(2009-09-02)Changed agenda and paradigms require marketing’s research methods and tools of enquiry to reflect fully the need to intensify theory-building programmes. We examine the evolution of the case research strategy in the context ... -
Using transaction utility approach for retail format decision
(2009-12-12)Transaction utility theory was propounded by Thaler to explain that the value derived by a customer from an exchange consists of two driveras : Acquisition Utilities and Transaction utilities. Acquisition utility represents ... -
Utilising the rural educated as change agents
(2010-03-13)The use of television and more recently of space communication has become an integral part of rural development programmes. If this medium can effectively communicate the many messages that are essential for rural education. ... -
Valid inequalities and facets for the capacitated lot-sizing problem with changeover costs
(2010-03-29)We study a scheduling problem with changeover costs and capacity constraints. The problem is NP-complete and combinatorial algorithms have not been very successful. We identify a general class of facets which subsumes as ... -
Valid inequalities and facets of the multi product capacitated lot-sizing problem with changeover costs
(2010-03-23)The polyhedral structure of various versions of the single item lot-sizing problem have been studies previously. These include the uncapacitated and capacitated versions of the problem, with and without changeover costs. ... -
Validity study of tests for executive selection
(2010-03-13)Several reasons have been offered for the depressed values of coefficients of correlation between performance evaluation scores and test scores for tests that otherwise seem to have high validity. This study was undertaken ... -
Valuation model for indeterminate convertibles
(2010-03-22)Many issues of convertible debentures in India in recent years provide for a mandatory conversion of the debentures into an unspecified number of shares at an unspecified time; the conversion ratio (i.e., the number of ... -
Valuation of environmental impacts of forestry projects
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A Value - based approach for sustainable supplier-customer relationships: the case of the Indian Steel Industry
(2009-12-12)The Indian steel industry has been at the receiving end for the last several months, as the unabated stream of media reports indicate. The steel industry, which has endured years of mediocre performance, due to a supply ...