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Assessing the Changing Employment Profiles in the Telecom Sector: Implications for Education and Training
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2008)The telecom sector in India has been growing very rapidly. This means that this sector offers attractive employment opportunities. To exploit these opportunities, the sector needs people with appropriate employment profiles ... -
An Optimization-Based Decision Support System for Strategic Planning in a Process Industry: The Case of an Aluminum Company in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)We describe how a generic multi-period optimization-based decision support system (DSS) can be used for strategic planning in process industries. The DSS is built on five fundamental elements- materials, facilities, ... -
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 ... -
When Culture Governs Business Practice…. A Look at Indian Diamond Cutting and Polishing Industry
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)In absence of the well-defined strategy, structure and processes in informal firms in emerging markets, it is the intangible aspect of organizing, specifically, the organizational culture that governs business practices. ... -
Investor protection and cash flow misclassification
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Research Question/Issue: We analyze whether cash flow misclassification is likely to be higher in the countries with weak investor protection. We also test whether managers use different strategies to misclassify cash ... -
Dispersion in macroeconomic volatility between the core and periphery of the international trade network
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)At the country level, macroeconomic volatility tends to correlate with trade openness although the direction of correlation is not stable across samples. Here I consider trade networks as sum of all pairwise trade linkages ... -
Economic incentives versus institutional frictions: migration dynamics within Europe
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The immobility puzzle in European Union takes the form that the observed level of migration within Europe is substantially less than is expected in an union which allows free labor mobility, indicating that there are ... -
In ationary e ects 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 ... -
Managing M&A from strategic intent to integration : IOC's acquisition of IBP and after
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)This paper, in the nature of a case study, discusses the entire range of managerial issues addressed by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOC) in the acquisition, subsequent merger and post-merger integration of IBP Co. ... -
Mega projects in India Environmental and Land Acquisition Issues in the Road Sector
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)Mega projects (primarily infrastructure) receive a sizable investment (~10%) of the gross fixed capital formation in India. Environmental clearances and land acquisitions have been the two major reasons for delays in the ... -
Effect of Mobiles on Socio-economic Life of Urban Poor
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)Using a survey of 1774 users and non-users in 84 slums in three metropolitan cities (Delhi, Ahmedabad and Kolkata), we try to understand the impact of mobiles on their social and economic lives. Urban slum dwellers spend ... -
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 ... -
Damages in a consumer sale contract: Reviewing the consumer protection bill, 2015
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Risk Management Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis for Derivative Exchanges
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)During the global financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, no major derivative clearing house in the world encountered distress while many banks were pushed to the brink and beyond. An important reason for this is that derivative ... -
Loyalty Programmes: Practices, Avenues and Challenges
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)Complexity of modern business requires managers to strive for innovative strategies to acquire and retain customers in any product market field. As acquiring new customers is getting costlier day by day, business organizations ... -
Linking Vertical and Horizontal Markets for Innovations at Grassroots: Sustainability Imperative
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)The supply chain management is at the core of globalising world. Today the large corporations are able to source materials from all around the world and sell it in the most interior parts of the developing and developed ... -
Managing Knowledge, Creating Networks and Triggering Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)In this paper, the author discuss the major knowledge gaps, stress the importance of peer learning and building upon farmers’ own innovations and suggest new initiatives for transforming extension strategies. He have ... -
Rethinking the Priorities for Indian Agricultural Research, Institutions and Policy: Learning from the Grassroots
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)Sometimes having succeeded in a mission, we fail because we tend to persist with the same strategy even when times have changed. The success, thus, becomes the reason for failure. Indian agriculture research has been an ... -
A Preliminary Estimate of Immediate Cost of Chikungunya and Dengue to Gujarat, India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)Background In this working paper, a preliminary estimate of the immediate cost of chikungunya and dengue to the Indian state of Gujarat has been estimated by combining nine earlier studies on major cost factors such as ...