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The potential of mobile coupons: current status and future promises
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Coupons continue to be one of the most favourite promotional tools for the marketers to influence, incentivize, and encourages customers towards trying the product. Mobile-coupon (m-coupon), an extension of the traditional ...
Measurement issues in state income from registered manufacturing sector – case of Gujarat
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The present paper discusses some important issues involved in estimation of state income originating in the registered manufacturing sector with illustrations drawn from Gujarat. It highlights the present practices in ...
A tale of five cities: heat waves, cold spells and mortality risk in urban India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Background: Temperature extremes as a consequence of changing climate are known to have large morbidity and mortality impacts. Studies assessing mortality risk due to heat waves and cold spells are largely absent in urban ...
Selective perceptions and group brainstorming: an investigation of auditors’ fraud risk assessment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Individuals in an organizational context are routinely faced with complex problems that are not well defined and that challenge their cognitive capacities. To deal with such complex issues, decision-makers construct ...
Indian administrative service (IAS) and crony capitalism: a review paper
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
According to international statistics, India is reckoned to be among the most corrupt countries of the world. One of the ways in which corruption can occur at the point of public service delivery is through payment of ...
Forecast accuracy along booking profile in the national railways of an emerging Asian economy: comparison of different techniques
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The National Railways of an Emerging Asian Economy (NREAE), the second largest railway network in the world, is facing growing challenges from low fare airlines. To combat these challenges, NREAE has to adopt revenue ...
A multi-period two stage stochastic programming based decision support system for strategic planning in process industries: a case of an integrated iron and steel company
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
The paper introduces the application of a generic, multiple period, two stage stochastic programming based Decision Support System (DSS) in an integrated steel company. We demonstrate that a generic, user friendly stochastic ...
The effects of group brainstorming on the auditor’s search for potential misstatements and assessment of fraud risk in the presence of pressures and opportunities
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
This paper examines the effect of SAS No. 99 recommended group brainstorming on the auditor’s search for potential material misstatements and assessments of fraud risk in the presence of different levels of pressures and ...
Endowment effects in bundles
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Behavioral experiments conducted so far to establish existence of endowment effect as propounded by prospect theorists typically endow subjects with a single good. In this paper we depart from this setting by giving subjects ...
What employers value in the MBAs they recruit: rebalancing the management education curriculum
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
This paper seeks to answer the question, “In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer on the knowing, doing and being dimensions of the formation of an MBA graduate, that management education institutes can ...