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Strengthening corporate governance in India a review of legislative and regulatory initiatives in 2013-14
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
The passing of the long awaited Companies Act in 2013 is probably the single most important development in India’s history of corporate legislation, next only to the monumental Companies Act 1956 which it replaces. While ...
Police and the rule of law: recent developments in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
For a country like India, which is committed to the rule of law, the role of police is undergoing changes very rapidly. It is primarily due to the fact that the country has transformed from a police state to welfare state ...
Understanding psychological contract in pharmaceutical and FMCG industry: a comparative analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The influence of factors outside the boundaries of organization is largely ignored in the examination of psychological contract. The objective of the current research is to empirically examine the association between ...
Betting against beta in the Indian market
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Recent empirical evidence from diff erent markets suggests that the security market line is flatter than posited by CAPM. This flatness implies that a portfolio long in low-beta assets and short in high-beta assets would ...
What determines performance gap index of healthcare in Gujarat?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Health performance of Gujarat viewed in terms of the Human Development Index (HDI) portrays it as a medium performer in the country. However, the index of health component for Gujarat is found to be positively contributing ...
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 ...
From well-heeled to tip-toed, shoe-shine to shoe-lace: valuing product differentiation in men’s formal footwear
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Gone are the days when the only branded footwear Indians knew was Bata. After years of economic liberalization, one finds many firms; local, national, and international jostling for consumer attention by producing various ...
Cause related marketing - an Indian overview
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
The Indian market has witnessed all types of organizations ranging from national to multinational to regional as well as local adopting cause related marketing (CRM) practice since the late nineties. They started partnering ...
An efficient heuristic for the multi-product satiating newsboy problem
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Preference of satiation of a target performance over maximization of expected performance in uncertain situations is well-documented in the economics literature. However, the newsboy problem with satiation (of a pro t ...