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Trends in sales promotion literature
(2010-07-27)The objective of this study is to gain an insight into the trends of sales promotion literature published over 25 years. Data from 9 well-known foreign journals has been analyzed to provide a classification of framework, ... -
An operational study of CJ Patel Vegetable and Fruit Market of Ahmedabad
(2010-07-27)We present in this paper, an operational study of CJ Patel Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market (CJP Market) of Ahmedabad city. The market is viewed as a dynamic queuing system. A simulation model is constructed. Simulations ... -
Does futurology have a future in India?
(2010-07-27)A population growth rate of around 2 per cent per annum being the one certainty of India's future, predictions have varied between Malthusian nightmares and blissful utopias. The methods used for arriving at these conclusions ... -
Revisiting the concept and classification of distribution service outputs
(2010-07-27)Distribution service outputs structurally play a pivotal role in retail and channel management. This paper critically assesses the nature of Bucklinzs classic formulation, which is concerned with numerically expressible ... -
Revamping stock exchange operations some suggestions
(2010-07-27)Stock Exchanges have been playing a major role in mobilizing private savings for industrial growth. With increasing participation of general public in securities association of themselves to regulate trading and to protect ... -
Redefinition of social and organisational roles
(2010-07-27)This paper explores the institution of marriage and work organization as held by women. Both systems demand responses from women for which they are often not prepared. Their dreams of romanticised marriage and fantasy of ... -
Data system for environmental impact assessment for humld-tropical regions: relevant issues
(2010-07-27)Environmental problems encountered in most of the developing countries arise due to conditions of poverty and under development as well as the negative effects of development progrmmes which have been badly planned and ... -
Management training for municipal administration
(2010-07-27)This paper, on the basis of some empirical evidence discusses some aspects of management applications and management training for municipal government. In particular it attempts to discuss the following questions: (1) What ... -
Accounting for inflation - an empirical study
(2010-07-27)In recent years, there has been increasing criticism of financial statements prepared under the long-established cost conventions. The accounting profession all over the world has been debating various approaches to ... -
Delivery of credit to rural poor
(2010-07-27)Four questions that are raised in this paper are: (1) Why is it necessary to reserve formal credit for rural poor? (2) Is credit a constraint on increasing production and incomes of the rural poor? (3) Is existing credit ... -
Revealed preference and independence of irrelevant alternatives: a note
(2010-07-27)Our objective here is to establish an equivalence between the IIA axiom which plays a significant role in axiomatic models of bargaining, and a generalization of WARP which plays a significant role in demand analysis. -
Family planning place and personality profiles
(2010-07-27)This study examines the relationship between awareness, attitude and practice of family planning of people who belong to top and bottom performing districts of a state on one hand and on the other with seven biographic ... -
Preliminary report on marketing theory and its relationship to social enterprises
(2010-07-27)This paper is a review and critique simultaneously of marketing theory and social enterprise marketing. The scope, structure and aims of marketing theory are examined. It is shown that many structural weaknesses of the ... -
Changing perspective on rural credit between mid - 80s and mid - 90s - experiences of two West Bengal villages
(2010-07-27)Credit is a pure service transaction between two points of time rather than a spot market transaction in pure goods . Because of the time gap involved between sanction and realization of credit, the players in the market ... -
Lease accounting practies in India
(2010-07-27)Accounting for leases is a debatable subject in spite of variety of standards having been issued by the professional accounting bodies all over the world. Two important issues relate to the treatment of lease rentals and ... -
Axiomatic characterizations of solutions for rationing problems
(2010-07-27)Situations abound in the real world, where aggregate demand for a commodity exceeds aggregate supply. When such situations of excess demand occur, what is required is some kind of rationing. The literature on rationing ... -
Risk sensitivity in bargaining and a monotone to nash's bargaining problem
(2010-07-27)In this paper we show that for a new solution to Nash's bargaining problem, proposed by Lahiri (1988) ("Monotonicity with Respect to the Disagreement Point and a New Solution to Nash's Bargaining Problem", IIM, Ahmedabad, ... -
Analytical study of performance and regional variations in Indian agriculture in the post - green revolution period
(2010-07-27)The paper presents the results of an analysis of all-India and state level data on area, production and yield of major crops in the post-green revolution period. It reveals that there was a marked acceleration in the overall ... -
Comparative performance of farmers service societies and primary agricultural cooperative credit societies
(2010-07-27)This paper analyses performance of Farmers' Service Societies (FSS) and Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Societies (PACS) comparatively. Features of these two field-level rural financial institutions (RFIs) are ... -
Sustainability through biodiversity: designing crucibles of culture creativity and conscience
(2010-07-27)In this paper there is a widespread concern world over about non-sustainability of present development strategies and structures in both developed as well as developing world. Most debates have however, ignored the ...