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When Culture Governs Business Practice…. A Look at Indian Diamond Cutting and Polishing Industry
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
In absence of the well-defined strategy, structure and processes in informal firms in emerging markets, it is the intangible aspect of organizing, specifically, the organizational culture that governs business practices. ...
Investor protection and cash flow misclassification
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Research Question/Issue: We analyze whether cash flow misclassification is likely to be higher in the countries with weak investor protection. We also test whether managers use different strategies to misclassify cash ...
A Quadratic Programming Formulation of the Equidistant Bi-directional Loop Layout Problem
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
A loop layout is a common layout used in flexible manufacturing. In such a layout, a set of stations or facilities are to be arranged in a closed loop so that the total cost of flow between each pair of facilities is ...
Dynamic Pricing of Electricity: A Survey of Related Research
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
In this paper, we survey 82 papers related to revenue management and dynamic pricing of electricity and lists future research avenues in this field. Dynamic pricing has the potential to modify electric load profiles by ...
Does Trade Make Asian Children Healthier?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
This paper empirically examines the impact of globalization and international trade on the child health status of the Asian countries. In contrast to previous studies we have introduced the initial level of development and ...
E-Retailing and the Consumer Protection Bill, 2015: Drawing from the European Union Consumer Directives
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
E-retailing has exponentially grown in the past decade. Alongside, consumer grievances have also started surfacing. The Consumer Protection Bill, 2015 addresses this by giving the right to the consumer to cancel a consumer ...
Will you buy if others touch it? Evaluation of products touched by others during shopping
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Research on multisensory nature of consumption has highlighted importance of smell, taste, and touch during product evaluation and subsequent purchase decisions. While sensory cues have a role to play in evaluation of ...
Consumer Rights in the New Economy: Amending the Consumer Protection Act, 1986
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Liberalisation and globalisation of the India economy, inaugurated in 1990, ushered in a qualitatively different economy. In these decades, there has been expansion of goods and services; diversification in the means of ...
Dynamics of Land Use Competition in India: Perceptions and Realities
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Diversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses is an issue of public debate in every agrarian economy experiencing rapid urbanization and industrial development. However, the issue has become more complex and ...
Exact Procedures for Non-Regular Measures of the Multi-Mode RCPSP
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem (MM RCPSP) is a generalization of the well-studied RCPSP. A literature review reveals applications of inexact heuristics or metaheuristics approaches for solving ...