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How Can Indian Railways Service the Steel Sector Better?
(2011-05-26)The focus of this paper is on how Indian Railways can service the steel sector better. The steel sector is a core sector, with railways playing a critical role in its logistics. The paper examines the changing industry ... -
How close can you get - the effect of proxemics on LMX
(2010-07-26)The study of how human use space to communicate is termed as Proxemics. In an organizational setting, this behavior has been found to be culturally conditioned and thus may differentially affect the degree of mutual influence ... -
How Costly is the Deliberate Disinflation in India? Estimating the Sacrifice Ratio
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Methods followed in earlier studies for estimating the sacrifice ratio or the real cost of deliberate disinflation have focused only on aggregate supply side ignoring aggregate demand. The present study considers the ... -
How different are multinational subsidiaries from local firms in a developing economy: a study of Indian industry
(2009-12-12)The spell-overs associated with superior production and marketing practices of multinational (MNC) firms to local firms in a developing economy are germane only when MNC firms are significantly different from local firms ... -
How does it matter to be owned by government? Rejuvenation of a government owned automobile company in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-11-01)Governments undertake two roles relating to business environment. First, they frame rules, procedures and policies to regulate the business environment. Second, they invest resources in PSEs for political, ideological, ... -
How fairly is the fair - sex treated an agenda for resrarch on managerial women in a male dominatied organization
(2010-03-13)Though Indian women have been joining managerial ranks in growing numbers, little research has been conducted to investigate their problems in the male-dominated world of work. Based on a review of literature, this paper ... -
How firms make technological improvements: observations from a field study
(2010-04-17)The paper presents observational data impressionistic accounts emerging from a study aimed at understanding the determinants of technological dynamism, and the role that publicly funded technology institutions play in ... -
How has the Indian Corporate Sector Responded to Two Decades of Economic Reforms in India? An Exploration of Patterns and Trends
(2013-11-20)In the context of various policy initiatives made during the last two decades to reform the Indian economy in general and corporate sector in particular, the present paper attempts to assess how the firms have responded ... -
How informative are quantified survey data? evidence from RBI household inflation expectations survey
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-12-01)Quantification of the ordinal survey responses on inflation expectations ease and important preliminary step for undertaking further macroeconomic analysis of the data. In this paper, we briefly describe the standard ... -
How managers kindle learning processes
(2010-04-05)Organizational learning occurs when the insights and learnings of individual organization members are transferred to the larger organizational system. This paper examines how senior managers create processes which enable ... -
How many rupees worth of medicine does One need? comparison of medicine budgets in PHCs and expenditure on medicines for government employees
(2009-12-12)India has developed a large infrastructure for primary health care (PHC) unfortunately this infrastructure has not delivered results expected out of it. More and more clients are moving away from public to private health ... -
How much does money matter in India
(2010-03-23)How much money matters i.e. to what extent changes in the stock of money affect economic activity represented by nominal national income or real national income, has been hotly debated in the literature of monetary economics. ... -
How to get the best from your advertising agency
(2010-03-12)In this study has focused on what the client should do to get the best from his agency. -
HRD practices in Indian industry
(2010-03-13)The need for developing managerial capabilities among executives is being increasingly felt and attended to in Indian Industry in the recent past. Mechanisms like performance appraisal, potential appraisal, training, OD, ... -
HRD: old wine in a new bottle?
(2010-03-14)HRD is a new concept that has evolved in the last decade. HRD in USA is identified with training and development and it is only in the recent years other components of human resources development are being included under ... -
Hub interdiction & hub protection problems: Model formulations & exact solution methods
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-10-25)In this paper, we present computationally effcient formulations for the hub interdiction and hub protection problems, which are bi-level and tri-level mixed integer linear programs, respec- tively. In the hub interdiction ... -
Hub-based network analysis and change in the US air transport system (ATS)
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The US has been a pioneer w.r.t. the modern hub-and-spoke (HS) system which found near unequivocal support among aviation scholars over the last few decades. The author takes a more critical approach with regards to the ... -
Human Development in India: A Macro Perspective
(2012-10-11)During the 1950s and 60s the concept of development ignored the social dimension. However, during the last three decades several new concepts have emerged concerning “development” at the national and the global levels. ... -
Human development: 1993 - where do we go from here?
(2010-03-29)The UNDP Human Development Report of 1993 ranks India 134 out of a total of 173 countries. This raises serious questions about India s human development policies and procedures. This paper attempts to examine India s ... -
Human resource issues and its implications for health sector reforms
(2009-09-02)Given the growing complexities and challenges the health sector faces, reforms in this sector are inevitable. Often health sector reforms aimed to address many of these deficiencies and ensuring effectiveness and efficiency ...