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Broadening the concept of sustainability and measuring its impact on firm’s performance
(2013-11-26)
There is an enhanced awareness among the firms regarding the impact of their
marketing and business activities on the environment and society largely due to
consumer education, the role of activists and aftermath of some ...
Inter-sectoral terms of trade and aggregate supply response in Gujarat and Indian agriculture
(2013-11-26)
In this paper we empirically investigate the role of inter-sectoral terms of trade in
determining the growth performance of agriculture in Gujarat and All India during the
period 1960-2011. Terms of trade reflects price ...
Planning the activities of doctors in a teaching hospital
(2013-11-26)
Doctors in a teaching hospital perform a variety of teaching, research, seminar, and
in-patient care activities in addition to managing outpatient volumes. In this paper,
we study the weekly activities of a doctor in a ...
Academic research productivity: what may be “reining” in the Indian B-school?
(2013-11-26)
The article points at some historic reasons for poor productivity in research,
including unproductive competition among institutions due to a false sense of self
sufficiency, lack of adequate research infrastructure at ...
Exploring openness in information technology (IT) innovation projects
(2013-11-26)
Open innovation paradigm considers that, in order to advance technologies and markets, firms
can and should leverage internal and external knowledge, ideas, expertise, and paths to
market. Open innovation being an emerging ...
The way out of the current macroeconomic mess: a note
(2013-11-25)
The current situation of a large CAD, low growth, and plunging rupee is a result the
combination of early withdrawal from the fiscal stimulus and the RBI’s monetary
conservatism. There is possibly a way out if credit can ...
Online retailing paired with kirana – a formidable combination for emerging markets
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
The World Wide Web was launched in 1991 by Tim Berners Lee and shortly after that, in 1994, Pizza Hut delivered its first pizza after receiving an online order. Electronic commerce is one of the boons of internet and the ...
High frequency manipulation at futures Expiry: the case of cash settled Indian single stock futures
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
Futures markets are known to be vulnerable to manipulation, and despite the presence of a variety of mechanisms to prevent such manipulation, instances of market manipulation have been found in some of the largest and most ...
Sacrifice ratio and cost of inflation for the Indian economy
(Indian Institute of Managment, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Traditional concept of the Sacrifice Ratio measures the loss of potential output sustained by the society in the medium term to achieve reduction in the long-run inflation by one percentage point. This concept is critically ...
Urban – rural income differential in major states: contribution of structural factors
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
In this paper, we have attempted to estimate the urban – rural income differential (URID) for 15 major states based on readily available data on GSDP by sectors, population and employment by sectors and urban – rural ...