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Lexicographic composition of abstract games
(2010-01-18)In this paper we begin by obtaining a necessary and sufficient condition for a quasi transitive binary relation to be transitive. Then we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the lexicographic composition of two ... -
Harnessing multiple mental models and creating opportunities for learning about human resource issues among district health officers
(2010-01-18)This paper describes and evaluates the experience of using soft systems methodology (SSM), a problem structuring method of soft operations research (OR), to create learning opportunities about people issues among District ... -
Transparancy in economy: curbing corruption
(2010-01-18)Transparency International's year 1999 Corruption Perception Index places India as the 28th most corrupt country in the world. This is a Slippage Improvement of six positions over 1998 achievement, notwithstanding addition ... -
Vote aggregators : some axiomatic characterizations
(2010-01-18)In this paper a model for the aggregation of ballot profiles is considered. In this framework three new results are obtained: the characterization of oligarchic aggregators, the characterization of the plurality aggregator ... -
Requiem for shareholders? the acc takeover an`d the issues in perspective
(2010-01-18)The acquisition of a large block of shares owned by the Tata group in the cement giant. The Associated Cement Companies Limited (ACC) by the Gujarat Ambuja Cement group (GACL) in December 1999 has kicked up a major ... -
Corporate governance for shareholder value
(2010-01-18)In the last few years there has been serious debate about the generally poor quality of corporate governance in Indian companies and the need to improve the same. This has led to the publication of a recommended code of ... -
Wheat economy of India: a study of the growth, development and international trade prospects
(2010-01-18)India is now the second largest producer of wheat in the world even though it is only the seventh largest in land area. It produces about 70 million tons of wheat per year or about 12 per cent of the world production. Being ... -
Resourcefulness: a proximal conceptualisation of entrepreneurial behaviour
(2010-01-18)This paper highlights the confusions surrounding prevailing conceptualizations of entrepreneur/entrepreneurship that have limited our understanding and predictability of the phenomenon. An alternative conceptualisation ... -
Semiotic analysis
(2010-01-18)The present study is an application of the principles of semiotic analysis to the content and the expression of the advertisement of Horlicks produced in 1994. The study derived a framework for semiotic analysis, which ... -
Grounded exploration of sales and distribution channel structures in thirteen industries in India
(2010-01-16)Innovation is a fundamental virtue of marketing. In this paper, a case is made to promote the use of innovative and novel combinations of research methodologies to derive new insights of business phenomena. This study is ... -
Quest for aviation growth
(2010-01-16)Based on a review of the Airlines Alliances in various parts of the world, the paper comments on the choices before India. It develops the basic contours of strategy for growth of Indian aviation and notes the role of the ... -
Roadmap for logistics excellence: need to break the unholy equilibrium
(2010-01-16)This white paper attempts to provide a roadmap for India to move towards logistics excellence. Apart from raising issues that are currently relevant, it also draws from the issues that were raised in the previous three ... -
Emotional intelligence
(2010-01-16)We, as individuals, would have often felt that there is something much more than our traditional intellect or IQ, which opens the golden gates of success. This paper has attempted to answer as to what is this something . ... -
Leadership styles and influence tactics
(2010-01-16)Two hundred nine MBA (Masters in Business Administration) students of a management institute rated their leadership styles and influence tactics as a part of their classroom exercise. The findings indicated that they ... -
Preservation of proximity and merging functions
(2010-01-16)In this paper we are interested in a property due to Baigent (1987) called proximity preserving. In the conventional model of voting theory it was proposed by Baigent that aggregation procedures should be proximity preserving ... -
Comment on Icmeli and Erenguc's " a branch and bound procedure for the resourcen constrained project scheduling problem with discounted cash flows
(2010-01-16)In a recent paper, Icmeli and Erengue (1996) present an algorithm to maximize the Net Present Value (NPV) of a given project under renewable resource constraints. It is shown here, with the help of an example, that in some ... -
Determinants of export performance of Indian firms: a strategic perspective
(2010-01-16)This paper examines the export performance of firms with the help of balance sheet data of 557 firms for the years 1980-81 to 1995-96. The paper also draws certain strategic and policy implications likely to be relevant ... -
Modelling credit risk in Indian bond markets
(2010-01-16)Government bonds are subject only to interest rate risk. However, corporate bonds are subject to credit risk in addition to interest rate risk. Credit risk subsumes the risk of default as well as the risk of an adverse ... -
Union budget 2004-05 and the health sector
(2010-01-16)The budget documents is basic policy paper of the government and in some sense provides a mirror of government's priorities. However, one basic question remains how to translate these policies into implementable plans and ... -
One dimensional Kakutani's fixed point theorem in problems of fair division: a classroom capsule
(2010-01-16)In this paper, we provide a simple proof of the one-dimensional version of the Kakutani s fixed point theorem, which is required to prove the existence of a Walrasian equilibrium in a two commodity multi-agent economy where ...