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Assessing NSE’s Daily Zero Coupon Yield Curve Estimates: A Comparison with Few Competing Alternatives
(2009-09-01)This study assesses and compares, on select criteria of evaluation, the time series of daily term structure estimates provided by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) [using the Nelson-Siegel (1987; NS) methodology] with ... -
Assessing the Changing Employment Profiles in the Telecom Sector: Implications for Education and Training
(2009-07-29)Telecom sector in India has been growing very fast and changing very rapidly in service delivery mechanisms used, target segments addressed, technological platforms for service delivery etc. Globally also the growth scenario ... -
Assessing the Changing Employment Profiles in the Telecom Sector: Implications for Education and Training
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2008)The telecom sector in India has been growing very rapidly. This means that this sector offers attractive employment opportunities. To exploit these opportunities, the sector needs people with appropriate employment profiles ... -
Assessing the Regional and District Capacity for Operationalizing Emergency Obstetric Care through First Referral Units in Gujarat
(2011-05-26)This study is part of a larger project for strengthening midwifery and Emergency obstetric care in India. The study apart from giving an in-depth insight into the functioning of various health facilities highlights the ... -
Assessment of density forecast for energy commodities in post-financialization era
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-07-31)Probability density for the future price of an asset can be estimated from historical asset prices or exchange-traded derivatives. In this paper, prices of futures and options contracts that embed the forward-looking ... -
An Assessment of the Impact of Distribution Channel Conflict on Channel Efficiency – Few Improvised Conceptual Models
(2009-08-21)The primary purpose of this study is to enhance the understanding of the impact of distribution channel conflicts on the channel efficiency, which has hitherto received little attention in distribution channel literature. ... -
Attitude and Social Cognition
(2012-09-28): This chapter reviews research in attitudes and Social cognition in India during 1975-84. The areas covered are attitudes, impression formation, attribution and judgment And decision. It is noted that quality of research ... -
Attitude toward computers: development of a scale
(2010-07-20)This study reports the development of an instrument to measure attitude toward computers. The importance of attitude in attaining the full potential of computerization is highlighted and possible uses for the attitude ... -
Attitudes of the Youth towards Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of India and China
(2009-08-13)This study argues that social support is an important enabler in entrepreneurial activity in a country or a region. One untested assumption in policy making on entrepreneurship development has been that all regions are ... -
Attitudes towards risk of forest dependent communities evidence from Andhra Pradesh
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)This study is an attempt to generate empirical evidence on attitude towards risk of forest dependent communities (FDCs). The FDCs covered in the study include two different geographical regions from the Indian state of ... -
Attitudes towards women as managers: do extent of exposure and satisfaction with exposure make a difference
(2010-03-23)For changing the discriminatory attitudes of male managers towards women as managers, two approaches are possible. The first one, suggesting organizational responsibility, assumes a positive relationship between the extent ... -
Attitudes towards work and family roles and their implications for career growth of women
(2009-12-14)In this paper the authors attempted to understand attitudes towards work and family roles of professional men and women in India. Propositions based on the adult development theories of men and women, regarding reward value ... -
Attitudinal choquet integrals for strategic decision making
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02)The compensation capabilities of Choquet integral are augmented by providing it with an additional parameter to relate the same with the complex attitudinal character of a decision maker (DM). The resulting operator is ... -
The attribution process in person perception: an attributional analysis of success and failures
(2010-03-29)How can we understand an individual? To understand him, there are several different sources of information, for e.g. his physical characteristics or collecting information indirectly through his friends and acquaintances, ... -
Auditors’ consideration of material income-increasing versus material income-decreasing items: are conservatism and risk affected by company level information?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Auditors tend to focus more on income-increasing items compared to income-decreasing items because they are trained to be more conservative and also because the risk of litigation is significantly higher for failing to ... -
Auditors’ negligence and professional misconduct in India: a struggle for a consistent legal standard
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-01-09)Gross negligence is a severe form of negligence. Its severity has been characterized using the presence of a mental element or mens rea accompanying the negligent act. Within the context of professional negligence, gross ... -
Augmenting career development for women: agenda for organizations and individuals
(2010-04-06)Women's career development in organizations is often different from that of men. Although competent women, like competent men aspire for top positions of leadership in organizations, such positions often elude them. This ... -
Auto-Havra Charvat entropic measures for stationary time series of categorical data
(2013-05)For stationary time series of nominal categorical data or ordinal categorical data (with arbitrary ordered numberings of the categories), autocorrelation does not make much sense. One can alternatively think of using some ... -
Autonomy of public sector enterprises
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Availability and work targets of bulldozers
(2010-04-05)Setting work targets for machines is an important task for engineering managers, especially where they operate large fleets with machines of different makes and ages. Setting uniform work targets is easier but it does not ...