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Brand Effect and Price Discrimination in the Video Rental Industry
(2013-11-21)What is the effect of competition on prices in a market where the product is offered at different quality levels? Would the increase in competition reduce the price of high quality good more than the low quality good? ... -
Brand specific associations and consumer involvement in the evaluation of brand extensions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-12-01)Research in the area of brand extensions has focused on the themes of simple affect transfer and category based affect transfer to explain attitude towards the extension. Subsequent research stresses the importance of ... -
Brave new world of young Indian decision elites
(2010-07-27)Among the young elite decision-makers in modern India, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) probationers and management graduates from institutions such as Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) rank high. They come from ... -
Breadth-first and best-first exact procedures for regular measures of the multi-mode RCPSP
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)The multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem (MM RCPSP) is a NP-hard problem representing a generalization of the well-studied RCPSP. Depth-first tree search approach by Sprecher & Drexl (1998) is the ... -
Breaking free from the bell curve: An alternate proposition for performance management
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Performance management processes that follow a Gaussian distribution (bell curve) and focus on past performance rather than a future promise have come under critical focus. Such systems have been found to foster short-term ... -
Bridging the creativity – innovation divide: an investigation of R&D professionals’ experiences from India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The present study presents a qualitative study of the process through which creative ideas are converted into new products. Based on a grounded-theoretic investigation of 52 interviews conducted with scientists working in ... -
Bringing about Changes at a Large Engineering College:Lessons for Designers and Implementers of Large Scale Change Efforts
(2009-08-22)This paper outlines a change management program undertaken at Maritime Engineering Institute in India. The intervention came in the form of a focused three month effort where the first author, a professor of OB at a leading ... -
Broadening the concept of sustainability and measuring its impact on firm’s performance
(2013-11-26)There is an enhanced awareness among the firms regarding the impact of their marketing and business activities on the environment and society largely due to consumer education, the role of activists and aftermath of some ... -
Budget y2k1: An Irreverent View
(2009-09-02)Based on an analysis of the budget 2001, the paper highlights assumptions underlying the proposals that are expected to lead to national growth. It suggests that the budget should be evaluated in terms of the net outcome ... -
Budgetary subsidies in the health sector - a case of Gujarat state
(2009-12-12)Budgetary subsidies in the health sector in Gujarat are estimated by following the methodology of the White Paper on Subsidies in India (1997). It includes both the explicit and implicit subsidies for the merit and non-merit ... -
Building a world class organization: challenge and opportunities
(2010-01-16)This paper was presented by the author at the World HRD Congress held in January 2001 at Mumbai. The paper reflects upon past, present and future of Indian organizations. Indian organizations have not been able to keep ... -
Building core competence in a regulated economy
(2009-12-12)The significance of core competencies is now well recognized. Its role in enabling firms to respond to customers rapidly changing needs and combat competition is well documented. However, the applicability of this concept ... -
Building technological capabilities in a liberalising developing economy: firm strategies and public policy
(2009-12-14)As a consequence of economic reforms, the Indian manufacturing sector faces a variety of technology related challenges. It not only has to quickly develop world-class manufacturing capabilities, but also gear up to develop ... -
Building the infrastructure to reach and care for the poor: trends, obstacles and strategies to overcome them
(2010-07-26)Infrastructure forms a critical part of health service delivery in any country. Availability, Accessibility, Affordability, Equity, Efficiency and Quality of MNH services highly depend on the distribution, functionality ... -
Building upon grassroots innovations: articulating social and ethical capital
(2010-01-18)The healthy growth of democracy depends upon the emergence of decentralized, dispersed, polycentric spurs of social, ecological and economic entrepreneurship. Networking among these seemingly disparate cross currents some ... -
Building upon peoples ecological knowledge: Framework for studying culturally embedded CPR Institutions
(2012-10-17)We have earlier argued (Gupta 1990) that portfolio of activities evolved by household for adjusting with risks includes a combination of apparently rational strategies of livelihood. The portfolio is based on resources ... -
Bureaucracies and economic reforms: experience in India, China and South Korea
(2010-03-27)This paper draws mainly upon research in the state of Gujarat focusing both on administrative reform and the bureaucracy s response to a changing economic policy environment in the context of liberalization. For a comparative ... -
Bureaucracy for people's development: a contradiction or congruence?
(2010-03-13)This paper is based on several years experience of the author in working in close touch with Bureaucracy at several levels of administration. Based on this experience, the paper conceptualize the basic nature of bureaucracy ... -
Bureaucratization of drought conditions: a critique of drought policies
(2010-04-17)India s policies and programmes designed to address problems of drought prone areas represent a Bureaucratic ethos and a development regime . Hinged on naturalistic and technocratic approaches to the definition and ...