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Lighting up lives through cooking gas and transforming society
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
The study, reported in the form of a case, narrates the story of a major attempt at social transformation through a simple mechanism of providing cooking gas (LPG) to the marginalized in society. Targeting about 100 million ...
Privatisation: Issues and evidence
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2000-09-01)
Even as India s privatisation programme gathers steam, there is a perception, reflected in the pronouncements of ministers as well as in writings in the popular press, that the benefits of privatisation can be taken as ...
Does ghee sold by any brand smell as sweet? : quality attributes and hedonic price analysis of ghee
(2010-04-06)
In the post-WTO scenario processed food industry is witnessing intra-industry
trade, i.e., trade in similar products. It also means that there will be intense
competition between foreign and Indian companies in the ...
WTO agreements and Indian agriculture: retrospection and prospects
(2010-03-28)
By the end of 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) will complete its five years of existence. At that time, re-negotiation on Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) will also begin. It is time to take a retrospective look at what ...
Indo-US Trade in Wheat and Mango: A Game-Theoretic Approach to SPS Standards
(2009-07-30)
The gradual elimination of quotas and tariffs from international agricultural trade has given way to non-tariff barriers such as the SPS measures. SPS standards are mostly based solely on agro-biological scientific evidence. ...
HACCP: a quest for quality as a competitive strategy for agribusiness
(2010-03-28)
While consumption of food gives material pleasure and a healthy life, contaminated food can
be dangerous to health. Therefore, quality of food is very important. Even from the producers’
point of view, selling high quality ...
Monitoring the government policy environment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1986-03-01)
Recent favourable and unfavourable changes in the government policies have prompted many corporations to review their corporate strategies. This has pointed to the need for monitoring the government policy environment ...
Project management: comparison of practices in India and U.K.
(2010-03-27)
Resources are committed primarily for two purpose. In one case it is spent on meeting ongoing requirements and in other case for creating new facilities. The first category is classified as operational requirements and the ...
Learning by doing: Technology transfer to an indian manufacturing firm
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-11-01)
This paper present an indepth case study of technology transfer to an indian manufacturing firm in the tractor industry and highlights the complexities involved as a result of the interaction of a number of factors both ...
A comparison of technical efficiency in the public and private sectors in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-12-01)
The paper examines the impact of lay-off and suggests that while individual impact is important in its own right, the research suggests that the effects of lay-offs go well-beyond the physical, material and psychological ...