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Mortality impact evaluation of chiranjeevi scheme of government of Gujarat
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The maternal mortality ratio of Gujarat was 148/100,000 live births in 2009 (SRS, 2011a) and the infant mortality rate 41/1000 live births in 2011 (SRS, 2011b). The government of Gujarat announced Chiranjeevi Yojana in ... -
Impact of consumer social responsibility and brand social responsibility image on brand loyalty
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The present paper focus on ITC notebook and try to understand consumer social responsibility for cause related brand and how their preference level changes with different firm donations, and how this activity leads to brand ... -
Cause related marketing - an Indian overview
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The Indian market has witnessed all types of organizations ranging from national to multinational to regional as well as local adopting cause related marketing (CRM) practice since the late nineties. They started partnering ... -
Dominance of affective over cognitive customer satisfaction in satisfaction-loyalty relationship in service encounters
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The paper reports on a study which aims to understand the role of cognitive and affective components of customer satisfaction in service encounters. The paper is structured to explore a brief synthesis of the extant ... -
My journey with IIMA: an autobiographical account
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Organizations and Institutions are platforms of learning and growth. It is left for us to choose our path and give and get the best during the time we are associated with it as a stake holder. This paper is a narrative of ... -
Weighted-additive versus reference-dependent models of bundle evaluation: evidence from discount framing on product bundles with surcharges
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Attractiveness of product bundles largely depends on how prices are framed. There is considerable disagreement among two contemporary models that posit how product bundles with discounts are evaluated. According to the ... -
Examining the influence of service quality on customer satisfaction and patronage intentions in convenience store industry
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)This paper explores perceptions of service quality in the convenience store (c-store) industry. The study applies the extant SERVQUAL models (Parasuraman, Berry, and Zeithmal, 1988; Dabholkar, Thorpe, and Rentz, 1996) in ... -
Air pollution in Indian cities: short term mortality impacts and interactions with temperature
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Background: Indian cities are among the most polluted globally, yet assessments of short term mortality impacts due to pollution have been limited. Furthermore, studies examining temperature – pollution interactions on ... -
Medical Negligence and Compensation in India: How Much is Just and Effective?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)There is no denying the fact that human life is precious and in cases of medical negligence, the judges find it extremely difficult to decide on the quantum of compensation as the quantum is highly subjective in nature, ... -
Midwifery education within the integrated nursing and midwifery programmes in India
(Indian Institute of Managment, Ahmedabad, 2014)Staff nurses (nurse-midwives) in India are expected to provide normal birth services in health facilities under the maternal health strategy of the National Rural Health Mission. Under the integrated nursing and midwifery ... -
Sacrifice ratio and cost of inflation for the Indian economy
(Indian Institute of Managment, Ahmedabad, 2014)Traditional concept of the Sacrifice Ratio measures the loss of potential output sustained by the society in the medium term to achieve reduction in the long-run inflation by one percentage point. This concept is critically ... -
What makes a data-story work? a framework for effective visual data narratives
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Stories have been recognized for their power of communication & persuasion for centuries and we need to operate at that intersection of data, visual and stories to fully harness the power of data. Online journalism has ... -
Multi-period facility location problem with an uncertain number of servers
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers. We model the prob- lem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under uncertainty. The problem is unconventional in that the uncertainty ... -
Basic Emergency Obstetric Care for mothers and newborns through 24 x 7 primary health centres A case study of three 24/7 PHCs from a high focus district in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The National Rural health Mission created 24X7 Primary Health Centres in order to provide basic emergency and obstetric services to women. The current study looked into how far the above NRHM objective has been met. Our ... -
Cost and benefit of disinflation policy in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Current monetary policy stance is based on assertions that there is no trade-off between inflation and growth and that disinflation will result in more growth. Present study examines recent empirical evidence on India for ... -
Long term financing of infrastructure
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Infrastructure projects, given their long life, require long term financing. The main sources of long term financings are insurance and pension funds who seek long term investments with low credit risk. However, in India ... -
Model risk in pricing path-dependent derivatives: an illustration
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Model selection and model uncertainty go hand-in-hand. However, while there is uncertainty associated with the selection of any model, the context is paramount. This study is an illustration of issues surrounding model ... -
Betting against beta in the Indian market
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Recent empirical evidence from diff erent markets suggests that the security market line is flatter than posited by CAPM. This flatness implies that a portfolio long in low-beta assets and short in high-beta assets would ... -
Preparing IAS officer trainees for the role of district magistrate: a competency-based approach
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers occupy a strategic position in Indian public governance system. Government has generally laid a lot of emphasis on the training programmes for IAS officers to ensure that ... -
What employers value in the MBAs they recruit: rebalancing the management education curriculum
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)This paper seeks to answer the question, “In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer on the knowing, doing and being dimensions of the formation of an MBA graduate, that management education institutes can ...