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Moving to opportunity or isolation? network effects of a slum relocation program in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)A housing lottery in a large Indian city provided 110 out of 497 participants the opportunity to move out of a slum and into improved housing on the city's periphery. Fourteen years after housing assignment, relative to ... -
Measurement issues in state income from registered manufacturing sector – case of Gujarat
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)The present paper discusses some important issues involved in estimation of state income originating in the registered manufacturing sector with illustrations drawn from Gujarat. It highlights the present practices in ... -
Tabu search for multi-period facility location: uncapacitated problem with an uncertain number of servers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)This paper supersedes the work presented in WP.No.2014-02-06. We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers (PHC). We model the problem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under ... -
Emergency medical service system design under service level constraints for heterogeneous patients
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)We study the problem of locating Emergency Medical Service (EMS) facilities in the presence of service level constraints for patients with acuity levels ranging from resuscitation to non-urgent. Each patient arriving at ... -
Determinants of the sources of FDI into India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)Inward FDI flows over 2000-01 from many source countries into India, one of the fastest growing large developing economies in the period, have been explained by an extended gravity model and the an extended allometric ... -
Understanding psychological contract in pharmaceutical and FMCG industry: a comparative analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)The influence of factors outside the boundaries of organization is largely ignored in the examination of psychological contract. The objective of the current research is to empirically examine the association between ... -
Economic geography and networks: role of local and non-local ties in cluster evolution
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)The organization of geographic clusters plays an increasingly significant role due to the presence of network ties that exist within the location and beyond. This has proven to be particularly true for knowledge-intensive ... -
From well-heeled to tip-toed, shoe-shine to shoe-lace: valuing product differentiation in men’s formal footwear
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)Gone are the days when the only branded footwear Indians knew was Bata. After years of economic liberalization, one finds many firms; local, national, and international jostling for consumer attention by producing various ... -
Assessing impact of mandatory CSR on food industry
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)India is the only country in the world which has now made CSR spending mandatory. Food industry is not an exception to this requirement. In a developing country like India, food industry has a larger social purpose, for ... -
An efficient solution approach for combinatorial bandwidth packing problem with queuing delays
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)The Combinatorial bandwidth packing problem (CBPP), arising in a telecommunication network with limited bandwidth, is defined as: given a set of request, each with its potential revenue and consisting of calls with their ... -
Data science for decision making in developing economies: A travesty of business investments
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)Based on a recent survey of Analytics Adoption in Indian business organization, the author makes a claim that for most organizations grappling with the problem of incomplete and unorganized data, the tools of data science ... -
Agribusiness franchising in India: experience and potential
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)Agribusiness or agricultural franchising is quite new in India, though it is quite commonly used in other businesses like fast food, hotel and other service industries where service quality is crucial to maintain brand ... -
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 ... -
Inflationary effects of monetary policies in newly industrialized economies with cross-sectoral labor and capital immobility
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper studies the effects of monetary policies in newly industrialized economies characterized by extremely low level of labor and capital mobility between urban and rural sectors. Policies are executed in the urban ... -
The consumer protection bill, 2015: (lack of) rights of the consumer to terminate sale contract
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Consumer protection law rests on the foundations of contract law and the law of sale of goods. A consumer law has to conceptually express this foundation and the modifications it is bringing about in these laws. Without ... -
Price and Volatility Spillovers across North American, European and Asian Stock Markets: With Special Focus on Indian Stock Market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)This paper investigates interdependence of fifteen world indices including an Indian market index in terms of return and volatility spillover effect. Interdependence of Indian stock market with other fourteen world markets ... -
Determinants of Small-Scale Farmer inclusion in Emerging Modern Agrifood Markets: A Study of the Dairy Industry in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)In response to structural transformations taking place in the Indian dairy sector mainly in processing segment this paper examines determinants of market channel choices of milk producers based on a survey of 390 farm ... -
Integrating Resource-Based and Rational Contingency Views:Understanding Design of Dynamic Capabilities of Organisations
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)Resource-based view of organisation emphasises that no organisation can be self sufficient and it will always be dependent on the environment for the fulfillment of resource needs. Further, this interaction with the ... -
Player Pricing and Valuation of Cricketing Attributes: Exploring the IPL Twenty-Twenty Vision
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)In April 2008, BCCI initiated Indian Premier League, a cricket tournament of Twenty-Twenty overs to be played among eight domestic teams. Team owners bid for the services of cricketers for a total of US$ 42 million. Not ... -
Lessons from Leveraging Land: A Case of Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor pioneered the idea of leveraging land for revenue generation to make a project viable. The project was conceived as early as 1988. It had the twin objectives of (i) connecting ...