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Implementation problems of management control system
(2010-03-13)The design of Management Control Systems has been essentially "standardized" for the past few years as a result of extensive research, writing, and practical experience. The specific objectives of this research project are ... -
Implementation problems of management control systems
(2010-03-13)To provide a deeper understanding and a systematic analysis of the implementation problems of management control systems in Indian companies and to determine the relationship, if any, between these problems on the one hand, ... -
Implementing a Public Private Partnership Model for Managing Urban Health in Ahmedabad
(2009-08-03)Governments in many developing countries acknowledge they are facing difficulties in their attempt to meet the basic health needs of their populations. They rely on contracting out to private (for-profit and not-for-profit) ... -
Implementing Tabu Search to Exploit Sparsity in ATSP Instances
(2009-07-28)Real life traveling salesman problem (TSP) instances are often large, sparse, and asymmetric. Conventional tabu search implementations for the TSP that have been reported in the literature, almost always deals with small, ... -
Implications of changes in the holding period and other parameters on systematic risk and performance of a security
(2010-03-22)The Capital Asset Pricing Model is a single period model which specifies a linear relationship between return on an asset and return on the entire market. The model is widely used in literature as if a portfolio of securities ... -
The implications of economic uncertainty for bank loan portfolios
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-10-02)This paper analyses the impact of economic uncertainty on the composition of bank credit across household and firm loans. Using bank-level data spanning 40 developed and developing countries, we find that higher economic ... -
Implications of Global Crisis: Integrate Sustainability with Organizational Culture
(2011-05-26)Understanding, assessing, and managing organizational culture can help create both stability and adaptability for organizations, thus helping supportive integration of the sustainability strategy into appropriate organizational ... -
Implications of Human Resource Practices and Other Structural Factors on Commitment of Public Medical Professionals in India
(2009-08-03)In this paper we focus on often neglected issue and inadequately studied area of commitment of public sector health professionals and some of the issues surrounding human resources as its determinants. The paper argues ... -
Implications of NAFTA on Indo Canadian trade
(2010-03-25)The changes in the global trading scenario, particularly the emergence of regional trading blocs have far reaching effects on world trade. The proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comprising of Canada, ... -
Implications of risk perceptions for long term future of nuclear energy in India: a sensitivity analysis around nuclear energy cost within an integrated assessment modeling framework
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2014-04)Nuclear energy for power generation is expected to be a vital pillar of India's energy policy as well as emission mitigation strategy. However, there are divergent views from various quarters about the risk and liability ... -
Implications of the sectoral targets of India's eighth five year plan
(2010-03-26)The paper examines critically the implications of the sectoral targets of income and employment growth coupled with the investment allocations as envisaged in Indias Eighth Five Year Plan. The implications are worked out ... -
Implications of WTO for Indian agriculture: the case of intellectual property rights and emerging biosafety protocol
(2009-12-12)Globalisation in trade and investment through harmonisation of national laws, particularly dealing with intellectual property rights is one of the major impacts of GATT/WTO. The contribution of knowledge as a factor of ... -
Implimenting an Inflation Accounting System: A Case Study
(2012-09-28)This article describes and analyses the experience of a large multi product and multiunit company in implementing a system of inflation accounting. Based on this analysis, suggestions for a company planning to implement a ... -
Importance of civil air transport to the Indian economy
(2010-03-13)The purpose of this is to aid civil aviation policy makers, legislators and members of the public in gaining better understanding of the economic ramifications of civil transport.The study, made for the Indian Airlines, ... -
Impossibility of anonymous ordinal solutions for two person bargaining problems
(2010-07-27)In this paper we prove the non-existence of pure bargaining solutions which satisfy Pareto optimality, Anonymity and Invariance With Respect to Allowable Ordinal Transformations. -
Improved procedure for economic order quantity with all unit price discounts
(2010-03-15)Suppliers often offer price discounts for large purchases. These discounts are generally of two types: all unit discounts and incremental discounts. This paper presents an improved procedure for determining the economic ... -
Improvement sensitivity and invariance of solutions to group decision making problems with claims
(2010-03-31)In this paper we have developed a very general framework for studying group decision making problems with claims which subsumes the set of problems studies in axiomatic models of bargaining. Subsequently we proceed to ... -
Improving In-plant Logistics by Process Reengineering: Case Study
(2009-09-02)This paper documents the experience of redesigning in-plant logistics operations of a large petrochemical complex in India. The complex under reference is expected to have a traffic volume of one truck per one minute by ... -
Improving the effectiveness of public managers: can MBO help?
(2010-03-12)The purpose of this article is to review some aspects of managerial process as observed in one specific governmental programme. -
In a freer WTO trade regime, food industry must focus on quality management
(2010-04-06)In the new WTO led freer trade environment, Indian food industry can compete globally only if it is price and quality competitive. While many have addressed price competitiveness, sensitising food industry on the importance ...