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Predicting new product success: role of product-category related variables
(2010-03-20)Can one identify the major characteristics of the product class that facilitate or hinder the initial success of new products? Answer to this question should be of considerable interest to marketing managements in India ... -
Prediction of exam performance by children: evidence for utilization of four pieces of information
(2010-03-14)Kindergarten through fourth grade children (n=120) predicted exam performance of stimulus students from information about their current motivation and ability. Each kind of information came from two independent sources and ... -
Prediction of job performance by Indian managers: four tests of the two - stage averaging - multiplying model
(2010-03-18)Prediction of job performance from information about motivation and ability of subordinates was studied. Experiment 1 made the first test by manipulating reliability of information with managers (n=22) and professors (n=22). ... -
Prediction of performance from motivation and ability: an appraisal of the cultural difference hypothesis
(2010-03-21)How do people integrate information about motivation and ability of a person when they predict his performance? As the dynamic motivation factor acts as an amplifier of the static capacity factor, a multiplying rule can ... -
Prediction of son's performance in easy through difficult exams by Indian parents
(2010-03-14)Prediction of exam performance from information about motivation and ability of students by Indian subjects always supported an adding-type rule. As this rule implies that motivation is equally effective with persons of ... -
Preferred organizations: Perceptions of prospective managers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-06-01)Formal management education in india has come a long way since its inception in the early sixties. Starting with the setting up of the indian institute of management in calcutta in 1961 today there are more than sixty ... -
Preliminary analysis of claims data to understand relationship between disease patterns and quality of care and its implications for health insurance in India
(2009-07-25)This paper provides preliminary analysis of claims data of Mediclaim insurance scheme to understand the relationship between disease pattern and the quality of health care. We use length of stay (LOS) and average length ... -
A Preliminary Estimate of Immediate Cost of Chikungunya and Dengue to Gujarat, India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)Background In this working paper, a preliminary estimate of the immediate cost of chikungunya and dengue to the Indian state of Gujarat has been estimated by combining nine earlier studies on major cost factors such as ... -
A preliminary note on rain shadow effect and strategic forestry
(2010-03-28)The purpose of this note is to present some tentative ideas on rain-shadow effect which may lead to further exploration of: a) The relationship between the rain-shadow effect of the Western Ghats (the Syhadri ranges) and ... -
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 ... -
A preliminary study of psychological aftereffects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) caused by earthquake: The Ahmedabad experience
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-04-01)The present study is a preliminary study intended to investigate a various psychological symptoms related to post-traumatic stress caused by an earthquake of severe magnitude. The main objective of this study was to ... -
Preparation and implementation of credit plans at district level
(2010-03-23)Under the multi agency approach to rural credit lead bank scheme (LBS) was introduced in December 1969 on the recommendations of the study group set up by the National Credit Council and the Committee of Bankers -
Preparation for the world of work: secondary and higher secondary education in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Secondary education is, perhaps, the most important part of an individual‟s education as it is during these years that a student decides what she is going to take up for further education and how she is going to earn her ... -
Preparing IAS officer trainees for the role of district magistrate: a competency-based approach
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers occupy a strategic position in Indian public governance system. Government has generally laid a lot of emphasis on the training programmes for IAS officers to ensure that ... -
Preservation of proximity and merging functions
(2010-01-16)In this paper we are interested in a property due to Baigent (1987) called proximity preserving. In the conventional model of voting theory it was proposed by Baigent that aggregation procedures should be proximity preserving ... -
Prevention of postpartum infections using ‘Appreciative Inquiry’
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)The objective of the present study was to explore how infection rates in study hospitals were affected by an intervention in six intervention hospitals in Gujarat, India. Infection control practices, human resource management, ... -
Price and lead-time differentiation and operations strategy in a competitive market
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Price and Volatility Spillovers across North American, European and Asian Stock Markets: With Special Focus on Indian Stock Market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)This paper investigates interdependence of fifteen world indices including an Indian market index in terms of return and volatility spillover effect. Interdependence of Indian stock market with other fourteen world markets ... -
Price behaviour in India :an explanation through a model of supply and demand fo money
(2010-03-13)The model in this paper seeks to explain changes in price level through the divergence between nominal money supply fixed by monetary authorities and warranted money supply determined by changes in real income. After ... -
Price elasticity of fertilizer demand in India: A review
(2010-03-29)The goverment of India has tried to assure a reasonable return to fertilizer industry so that indigenous production can keep pace with the projected increase in demand of fertilizers. At the same time the farmer have also ...