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Structured interviews and FRM acceptability
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Conserving, Augmenting and Sharing Water
(2013-11-28)There is a huge crisis for water all around the world, certainly in India with groundwater table going down and drinking water selling almost at the rate of toned milk. Who would have imagined two decades ago that a very ... -
Role of culture in celebrity endorsement: Brand endorsement by celebrities in Indian context
(2013-11-27)Celebrity endorsement is a big market in India and continues to grow bigger. However, inspite of prevalent use of celebrities for endorsement, not all celebrity endorsements have been successful. The list of unsuccessful ... -
Advertisement Placement in TV Programs: Different Roles of ELM and Mood Protection Mechanism
(2013-11-27)This study explores how involvement of the audience with cognitive/affective program influence their processing of advertisements aired in between the program because of varying involvement within program. An experimental ... -
Values in Vogue: Institutional Pathways for Sustaining Grassroots Innovations for Creating Public Goods
(2013-11-27)The institutional pathways through which grassroots struggles and initiatives can not only be articulated but also nurtured are crucial for inclusive development. It has been noted earlier that to institutionalize even a ... -
Conserving, Augmenting and Sharing Water
(2013-11-27)There is a huge crisis for water all around the world, certainly in India with groundwater table going down and drinking water selling almost at the rate of toned milk. Who would have imagined two decades ago that a very ... -
Science and Technology for Inclusive Social Development in 12th Five Year Plan
(2013-11-26)India has used science and technology for social development right from the beginning of planned development. The first time when television programmes were beamed through satellite, it was for education and not just ... -
Innovation, Investment, Enterprise: Generating Sustainable Livelihood at Grassroots through Honey Bee Philosophy
(2013-11-26)In memory of Dr. C.V. Seshadri, a maverick scientist and a social change agent, it is suggested that a new model for sustainable livelihoods is followed. The ex-ante and ex-post transaction costs of innovators, investors ... -
Eat, Drink and be Healthy: A Paradigm Shift for Linking Food and Beverages Industry with People’s Knowledge and Institutions
(2013-11-26)The food and beverages industry has not yet established strong and vibrant linkages with the local communities to develop value added products and share the benefits. The paper lists seven models for building such linkages. ... -
Roadmap for Educational Innovation in Institutions of Higher Learning: Towards Inter-University Centre for Innovation
(2013-11-26)It is ironic that while searching for models that promote excellence, we have not made the outstanding teachers and researchers the hub of future reforms. The fact that in any field of social investigation or higher ... -
IIMA in healthcare management: abstract of publications (2000-2013)
(2013-11-26)The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), was established in 1961 as an autonomous institution by the Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Gujarat and Indian industry. IIMA’s involvement ... -
Leadership and creativity in the Indian R&D laboratories: examining the role of autonomous motivation, psychological capital and justice perceptions
(2013-11-26)The present study investigates the association between R&D-specific leadership approach developed in the Indian context using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data analyses, employee autonomous motivation, ... -
Ownership trends in corporate India 2001 – 2011 evidence and implications
(2013-11-26)The first decade of the new millennium saw dramatic changes in the ownership patterns in major listed corporations in India. Two developments were striking: promoters especially in the domestic private sector bolstered ... -
Corporate governance: changing trends in interpreting fiduciary duty
(2013-11-26)One of the foremost requirements of corporate governance is transparency in the system, which ensures that individuals making decisions for and on behalf of a company do so in the best interest of the company and clearly ... -
Soaring on wings of aspiration and support: a study of married Indian women professionals staying away from families to pursue higher studies
(2013-11-26)As the work environment is changing globally, newer trends of work and career mobility are emerging. ‘Return to school’ for the enhancement of career is considered as a means to career mobility. The present study explores ... -
Lower bound for cost deviation in the newsboy model
(2013-11-26)Quality of decisions in inventory management problems depends on accuracy of param- eter estimates used for decision making. In many situations, error in decision making is unavoidable. In such cases, understanding ... -
Financial literacy among working young in urban India
(2013-11-26)The paper reports investigation of a study on the influence of various socio-demographic factors on different dimensions of financial literacy among the working young in urban India. While the influence of several factors ... -
Quotas under RTE: Leading towards an egalitarian education system?
(2013-11-26)Quotas for weaker sections in private schools have been one of the most controversial and contested instruments introduced as part of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. In this paper, ... -
A logarithmic goal programming approach to develop the utility function for railway travel
(2013-11-26)A railway passenger faces a dilemma of choosing the best train among several alternatives available in a particular route. A relative comparison of competing railways helps the passenger to make an informed choice before ... -
Four factor model in Indian equities market
(2013-11-26)We compute the Fama-French and momentum factor returns for the Indian equity market or the 1993-2012 period using data from CMIE Prowess. We di er from the previous studies n several signi cant ways. First, we cover a ...