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Make in India: re-chanting the mantra with a difference
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Make in India is an old mantra. It was very much there during India‟s colonial period and the post-independence decades till 1991, and now it has been pronounced from the ramparts of Red Fort. The paper attempts to trace ...
Farmer producer organizations as farmer collectives: a case study from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Small and marginal farmers in India have been vulnerable to risks in agricultural production. Several organizational prototypes are emerging to integrate them into the value chain with the objectives of enhancing incomes ...
Managing emotions: emotional labor or emotional enrichment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Concept of „emotional labor‟ has undergone many transformations since Hochschild (1983) described it. Researchers have broadened its scope by including emotion management by professionals in different roles, exploring its ...
The legal structure and framework of luxury goods market in India: competitive or restrictive growth?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
It has been evident from our long human history that luxury has been present in one or other form of consumption practices and that the luxury goods have existed for ages, dating back to Roman times, where luxuries such ...
A study on the not-for-profit route to olympic gold
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate a Not-for-Profit (NFP) model for development and support of sports at elite level. This research investigates, Olympic Gold Quest, a NFP organization in India to ...
A new formulation and benders' decomposition for multi-period facility location problem with server uncertainty
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Facility location problems reported in the literature generally assume the problem parameter values (like cost, budget, etc.) to be known with complete certainty, even if they change over time (as in multi-period versions). ...
Role of clusters and certification in the internationalization of offshoring service providers from emerging markets: a study of Indian IT firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
We adopt a resource-based view to investigate the drivers of internationalization of emerging market offshoring service providers (OSPs). Using data from Indian IT firms between 1992 and 2002, we investigate the effect of ...
Climate change and India: adaptation GAP
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Climate change is projected to have severe adverse impacts on India’s population, natural eco-systems, and socio-economic parameters. India’s vulnerability to climate change impacts is profound since around 650 million ...
Stochastic Lotka-Volterra equations: a model of lagged diffusion of technology in an interconnected world
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
We present a model of technological evolution due to interaction between multiple countries and the resultant effects on the corresponding macro variables. The world consists of a set of economies where some countries are ...
Influence of board diversity and characteristics on CEO compensation: contingent effects of concentrated ownership
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The crisis in the financial and the banking sectors in 2008-2009 brought back into focus the issue of CEO and top management compensation. The unconscionably high compensations, unjustified even remotely by performance, ...