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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 ...
Tabu search for multi-period facility location: uncapacitated problem with an uncertain number of servers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
This paper supersedes the work presented in WP.No.2014-02-06. We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers (PHC). We model the problem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under ...
Agribusiness franchising in India: experience and potential
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Agribusiness or agricultural franchising is quite new in India, though it is quite commonly used in other businesses like fast food, hotel and other service industries where service quality is crucial to maintain brand ...
Economic geography and networks: role of local and non-local ties in cluster evolution
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The organization of geographic clusters plays an increasingly significant role due to the presence of network ties that exist within the location and beyond. This has proven to be particularly true for knowledge-intensive ...
Priority service system optimization under service level constraints
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
We consider a service system that serves one class of customers, which is willing to pay a premium for a faster delivery, with priority over the other class, which is more price sensitive but is willing to wait longer. The ...
India’s agrarian crisis and smallholder producers’ participation in new farm supply chain initiatives: a case study of contract farming
(2009-08-03)
Indian agriculture is at crossroads and one of the major challenges is to reverse deceleration in agricultural growth. Main reason for deceleration in agricultural growth is declining investment particularly public investment ...
Strategies to improve urban water delivery in West Bengal, India: an analysis of water institutions and benchmarking of water delivery organizations
(2013-11-25)
The study examines the status of urban water delivery in India through a case
study of the state of West Bengal in India. The state has been selected as a unit
of study to bring out the regional variances that are not ...