Working Papers: Recent submissions
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Mandatory IPO Grading: Does It Help Pricing E ciency?
(2013-11-25)The paper examines the market impact of a unique IPO certi cation recently introduced in India mandatory grading of IPOs by a credit rating agency. The grading was expected to improve the IPO pricing e ciency by providing ... -
Organizational Transformation in India: Developing a Typology
(2013-11-25)Organizational transformation, which is frequently credited with turning around the fortunes of many organizations, has remained an underrated concept in India. This paper is an attempt to study the transformations that ... -
Development of Modern Retailing in India: It’s Impacts on Distribution and Procurement Networks and Changing Consumption Pattern
(2013-11-25)The Indian retail industry is estimated to be $470 billion. The organized or modern retailing with 6% share stands at $26 billion. It is projected to reach US$ 1.3 trillion by 2018 with the organized retail market estimated ... -
Whether Cross-Listing, Stock-speci c and Market-wide Calendar Events impact Intraday Volatility Dynamics? Evidence from the Indian Stock Market using High-frequency Data
(2013-11-25)Using high-frequency stock price data, we investigate the e ect of various stock- speci c and market-wide events on intraday volatility dynamics in the Indian market. Modeling intraday volatility dynamics using FFF ... -
Organized Retailing of Horticultural Commodities
(2013-11-25)Owing to rapid urbanization and changing consumption patterns, more and more retailers are trying to put their best efforts to discover new avenues of success when it comes to the sales of horticultural commodities. There ... -
Sensitivity Analysis for the Single Row Facility Layout Problem
(2013-11-25)The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is an important combinatorial optimization problem where a given set of facilities have to be arranged in a single row so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances ... -
Scatter search algorithms for the single row facility layout problem
(2013-11-25)The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, with the objective of minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The ... -
A competitive genetic algorithm for single row facility layout
(2013-11-25)The single row facility layout is the NP-Hard problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. Owing to the computational ... -
On the Choice of Optimization Routine in Estimation of Parsimonious Term Structure Models: Results from the Svensson Model
(2013-11-25)Objective function in term structure estimation with price errors is not only nonlinear but also non-convex in parameters. This makes the final results sensitive to both the choice of the optimization routine as well as ... -
Strategies to improve urban water delivery in West Bengal, India: an analysis of water institutions and benchmarking of water delivery organizations
(2013-11-25)The study examines the status of urban water delivery in India through a case study of the state of West Bengal in India. The state has been selected as a unit of study to bring out the regional variances that are not ... -
Development of a Causal Framework Linking High Performance HRM Practices, Positive Psychological Capital, Creative Behaviors and Performance
(2013-11-25)Synthesizing the ideas of high-performance Human Resource Management (HRM), positive psychological capital, and componential theory of creativity, the present study develops a multi-level causal framework linking ... -
A Memory-Aided Broadcast Mechanism for Enabling a Rural Community Radio on an Ad-Hoc Peer-To-Peer Mobile Network
(2013-11-25)This paper investigates deploying a village level community-radio application on top of a MANET comprising completely of basic mobile phones. We envision a system, where any user in the network is equally empowered to ... -
Corporate Governance: Financial Regulators and Courts Need To Be On the Same Page
(2013-11-25)Real corporate governance requires tough financial regulators which effectively work to safeguard investors’ interests in securities and endeavour to create a proper environment for the securities market to develop. The ... -
Key Account Management
(2013-11-25)This note tries to explain concept of key account management (KAM), factors leading to importance of this emerging concept, criteria to determine key accounts from customer base, benefits to both buyers and sellers ... -
Indian QSR Industry – Opportunities and Strategies to Harness Them
(2013-11-25)In a country with more than a billion people, opportunities in India are abound. This has led to a rapid growth of the QSR industry. However, simultaneously, it has also created a canvass that has many failures and ... -
Minimizing Customer Waiting Costs for Rental Vehicle Providers using Threshold Reservation Policies
(2013-11-23)Vehicle rental providers o er di erentiated services to reserve and walk-in customers. In this research, we study one such service di erentiation strategy, a vehicle threshold policy, which is to hold vehicles for reserve ... -
Concentration and Other Determinants of Innovative Efforts in Indian Manufacturing Sector: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
(2013-11-23)The relationship between market concentration and innovative efforts by firms has attracted a lot of attention by researchers. However, a consensus is yet to emerge on the conceptual underpinnings and empirical manifestations ... -
Policy Gaps for Promoting Green Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge in Developing Countries: Learning from Indian Experience
(2013-11-23)Society for Research and Initiatives for Technologies and Institutions [SRISTI] has pioneered a knowledge intensive model for transforming institutional context of problem solving at community level. In this paper, the ... -
Explaining Access to Credit by Rural Households: Results based on a Study of Several States in India
(2013-11-23)Against the backdrop of evolution of rural credit system in India as well as its observed failure to be inclusive in character, this paper makes use of a fairly large data set of the Center for Mangement in Agriculture ... -
Path relinking for single row facility layout
(2013-11-22)The single row facility layout problem is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem is NP-hard. In ...