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Policy barriers preventing access to emergency obstetric care in rural India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-11-01)
India with its one billion people contributes to about 20% of all maternal deaths in the world. Even though infant mortality has declined in India maternal mortality has remained high at about 540 per 100,000 live births. ...
Transformation of organizations through enhancing free energy of individuals, collectivity and the organization
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-08-01)
Organization identity is shaped by multiple factors. This shaping leads to transformation of the organization. An organization transforms its own identity with the help of free energy. It can also mobilize captive or frozen ...
GATS and educational services: Issues for India's response in WTO negotiations
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-10-01)
Under the auspices of WTO, negotiations on liberalization of trade in services are expected to begin soon. One agenda at the negotiating table will be trade in educational services. Trade in educational services is too ...
Narasimham committee report: some further ramifications and suggestions
(2010-03-31)
This paper while agreeing with the general thrust of the Narasimham Committee Report,
calls attention to some logical corollaries of the Report and analyses some possible
fallout from implementing the Report.
We agree ...
Does working for a not-for-profit organization affect the psychology of corruption? evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
The primary purpose of this study is to examine if volunteering for Not-for-Profit Organizations (NPO) which are involved in providing social welfare services and which actively promote socio-behavioral factors like social ...
Auditors’ consideration of material income-increasing versus material income-decreasing items: are conservatism and risk affected by company level information?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
Auditors tend to focus more on income-increasing items compared to income-decreasing items because they are trained to be more conservative and also because the risk of litigation is significantly higher for failing to ...
Learning decision models with multinomial logit model through pair-wise preferences
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
Our goal is to study the behavioral process of a decision maker (DM) that leads to his choice. To this end, we combine the established models of discrete choice with the recent algorithmic advances in the emerging field ...
Attitudinal choquet integrals for strategic decision making
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02)
The compensation capabilities of Choquet integral are augmented by providing it with an additional parameter to relate the same with the complex attitudinal character of a decision maker (DM). The resulting operator is ...
Interactive discrete choice models
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
The interaction among the criteria plays an integral part in the human decision making process. We propose new logit models of discrete choice to give the choice probability, taking into consideration the interaction among ...
On the class of attitudinal discrete choice models
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
The complex human attitudinal character plays an important role in the real world decision making. To this end, we present a family of extended probabilistic discrete choice models. The attitude-based variants of multinomial ...