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Breaking free from the bell curve: An alternate proposition for performance management
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Performance management processes that follow a Gaussian distribution (bell curve) and focus on past performance rather than a future promise have come under critical focus. Such systems have been found to foster short-term ...
Design Thinking a Fad or Reality
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Identity crisis faced by design as a discipline is not new. Richardson’s essay The death of the designer states that design is in the midst of a crisis of identity, purpose, responsibility and meaning, and ‘The viability ...
Effect of legal issues in infrastructure development: The case of container terminal bids in Jawaharlal Nehru port trust
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) is the largest container port in India, handling about 40% of India’s container traffic in 2014-15. JNPT has five container terminals (CT) out of which three have already been ...
Effect of tariff regulation in major port container terminals: The case of Jawaharlal Nehru port trust
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Tariff at India’s centrally-administered major ports, including privately operated terminals therein, are regulated and prescribed by the Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP). TAMP was set up under an amendment of the ...
Constituents of successful sports leagues in emerging markets
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand and identify the factors that contribute to the success of sports leagues in emerging sports markets. Design/ Methodology/ Approach: This paper uses a mixed methodology ...
Firm life cycle and real - activity based earnings management
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-12-15)
We examine real-activity based earnings management, i.e., cuts in discretionary innovation/marketing spending and overproduction for meeting the earnings benchmark of avoiding losses across firms’ life cycle. We use the ...
Throughput matching algorithm and stochastic models for analysis of open and closed manufacturing systems
(SSRN, 2015)
Order release policies such as card-controlled CONWIP policy aim at improving system responsiveness and minimizing system-wide inventory levels. It is not clear if order release policies (without card control) can be equally ...
Extended producer responsibility as an instrument for electronic waste management: a critical analysis of India’s e-waste rules
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) has been a widely used policy approach, in developed and developing countries alike, to manage the growing problem of electronic waste (e-waste). EPR assigns the responsibility of the ...
The effects of fraud risk factors and client characteristics on audit procedures
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
There has been very little prior research examining how the prescriptions of SAS No. 99 map into the auditors’ fraud risk assessment process. SAS No. 99 asks the auditors to consider two major types of fraud (fraudulent ...
Multi-processor exact procedures for regular measures of the multi-mode RCPSP
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MM RCPSP) is an NP-hard problem representing a generalization of the well-studied RCPSP. Depth-first tree search approach by Sprecher & Drexl (1998) is the ...