Working Papers: Recent submissions
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Mechanical properties of wood carton used for long distance transport of tomatoes
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)Tomatoes are produced and consumed year round. Wood carton is the dominant mode of packaging for produce coming to APMC Market, Ahmedabad from out-of-state. It has been known for long however that wood carton suffers from ... -
Intellectual property rights, farmer's rights and plant genetic conservation: An overview
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)The Indian Patents Act of 1970 excludes all living organisms from the scope of patent ability. However, under the Trade Related Intellectual Properties (TRIPs) negotiated under GATT the government is bound to provide some ... -
Path independence and choice acyclicity property
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-08-01)In this paper we study lower and upper approximations of choice functions and propose a necessary and sufficient condition for a choice function to have a path independent lower approximation. In an appendix to this paper ... -
One and two facility network design revisited
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-08-01)The one facility one commodity network design problem OFOC with flow costs considers the problem of sending d units of flow from a source to a destination where capacity is purchased in batches of C units. The two commodity ... -
Privatisation: theory practices and issues
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1997-03-01)The paper discusses the various forms of privatisation, its rationale, practices in India and abroad, and the issues facing the privatisation programme. It concludes that while privatisation programme is not easy to design ... -
The competitiveness conundrum: Literature review and reflections
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1997-01-01)The concept of competitiveness has been studied by researchers from a variety of perspectives using different methodologies. Though there is a large volume of literature on the subject, there seems to be a dearth of ... -
Monotonic solutions to productions planning problems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1992-12-01)A common problem in production planning for a public firm producing n distinct commodities in the same plant and facing a cost constraint, is the choice of the levels of output of the various commodities. This is a classical ... -
Narasimham committee report- some further ramifications and suggestions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1992-02-01)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 fall-out from implementing the Report . We agree ... -
Fujitsu Ltd. : A case of global management in telecomputers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-06-01)It is now almost axiomatic that the essence of corporate success lies in a felicitous combination of constancy of purpose and well coordinated operations. However, for global companies functioning in highly strategic ... -
Drought, deprivation and sustainable development: Why are the public policies so weak?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-04-01)National capacity to deal with the deleterious consequences of the drought has certainly increased in the recent years. But the' absence of death' as an indicator of success of public policies for drought mitigation is not ... -
In praise of caste: A tribute to manu the law giver an enquiry into the philosophy of work and stratification Part II
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-04-01)The Part I of this paper (W.P. 928) analyses the question: 'How is one work different from the other?' and proposes seven basic and thirteen other supplementary/corollary propositions. According to these, each work has ... -
In praise of caste: a tribute to Manu - the law giver an enquiry into the philosophy of work and stratification Part I
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-04-01)This paper analyses the question: ' How is one work different from the other? and proposes the following seven basic propositions: 1. Greater the degree of mental component in a work, higher will be the rating of that work ... -
Coarse cereals in Indian Agriculture: A review of performance and prospects
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-01-01)Emerging imbalances in Indian agriculture in Indian agriculture reflected in the differences in production performance of different crops are now well recognised. One of the causes of these uneven agricultural situations ... -
An Axiomatic characterization of the value function for bimatrix games
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1990-10-01)In this paper we obtain an axiomatic characterization of the value function for the class of all bi matrix games satisfying the equivalency and efficiency properties. -
The revelation principle for arbitration games
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1990-03-01)In this paper we prove the validity of the revelation principle for arbitration games and also establish that a large class of game forms can be represented as a Bayesian statistician. This adds force and appeal to the ... -
European economic community: Reactions abroad and in India
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Agro- climatic regional planning in India: Role of agro industries and infrastructure
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Computer graphics, peripheral vision and non Euclidian geometry
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1990-02-01)Computer graphics in Decision Support System is often confronted with the task of providing the decision maker with a visual picture of some object which is too large to fit on a computer screen unless the image is scaled ... -
The right to resource: Peasant knowledge, protocol of its 'extraction' and ethics of collaboration in extractions
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Lessons from learners
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1990-01-01)