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Auto-Havra Charvat entropic measures for stationary time series of categorical data
(2013-05)
For stationary time series of nominal categorical data or ordinal categorical data (with arbitrary ordered numberings of the categories), autocorrelation does not make much sense. One can alternatively think of using some ...
Bridging the creativity – innovation divide: an investigation of R&D professionals’ experiences from India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
The present study presents a qualitative study of the process through which creative ideas are converted into new products. Based on a grounded-theoretic investigation of 52 interviews conducted with scientists working in ...
Consumers' need for uniqueness: a cross-cultural validation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
We conduct a cross-cultural validation of the Consumers’ Need for Uniqueness (CNFU) scale. Using confirmatory factor analysis, the cross-cultural reliability and validity of the CNFU scale developed by Tian, Bearden and ...
Relationship marketing in online retailing - a meta-analytic approach
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
This study is a meta-analysis of relationship marketing (RM) in online retailing. The study builds on the meta-analytic model suggested by Palmatier, Dant, Grewal, and Evans (2006) and extends the framework in the domain ...
A framework for socially meaningful evaluations of technology based social innovations
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-11-07)
The social innovation space that tries to marry the pursuit of profits and social impact is at interesting cross-roads in developing countries like India. Among other things, the euphoria and subsequent deflation around ...
A constrained nash bargaining approach to the stock rationing problem in multi-echelon supply chains.
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-12-03)
In order to survive in the global volatile market place, supply chain analysts are brainstorming to arrive
at robust inventory control policies that prevents inventory worth of millions of dollars to get tied up in the ...
An expanded database structure for a class of multiperiod, stochastic mathematical programming models for process industries
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-12-05)
We introduce a multiple scenario, multiple period, optimization-based decision support system (DSS) for strategic planning in a process industry. The DSS is based on a two stage stochastic linear program (SLP) with recourse ...
Strategizing in Indian informal business settings: a case study of kirana shops in India.
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2014-03-04)
Small, informally organized retail grocery shops called kirana shops are ubiquitous in contemporary India and have historically existed as a dominant form of organizing in the Indian retail context. Despite increased ...
A dynamic pricing approach on electricity prices in Indian context
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-12-07)
In this paper, we study the mechanism of dynamic pricing of electricity and its opportunities in the Indian context. We compare the economic efficiency of dynamic pricing vis-à-vis the traditional flat tariff of electricity. ...