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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 ... -
Revisiting the conceptualisation and classification of distribution service outputs
(2009-12-14)Distribution service outputs structurally play a pivotal role in retail and channel management. This paper critically assesses the nature of Bucklin s classic formulation, which is concerned with numerically expressible ... -
Revitalizing the state 4. reinventing the democratic state
(2010-07-26)Although democracy evolved in the West, in this century it has been adopted by scores of developing societies, with several relapses to despotism and recoveries from it. The most common form of democracy is liberal democracy, ... -
Revitalizing the state: 1. models of the modern state
(2010-07-26)In this paper the complexity of the modern state is examined with reference to the pressures under which it operates, and the mechanisms it employs of differentiation and integration. The reasons for the very large increase ... -
Revitalizing the State: 2. resharing the bureaucracy
(2010-07-26)In Virtually any king of modern state, there is a huge role for the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is intended to be a rational system of administration. But it is prone to many bureaupathologies, and increasing size tends ... -
Revitalizing the State: 3. fragmenting the state for innovation
(2010-07-26)Organizational research indicates that large organizations involved in many different activities can counteract the diseconomies of size and complexity, tendency to bureaucratization, and to increasing resistance to ... -
Revitalizing the State: 5. slimming the state for effectiveness
(2010-03-31)Beginning with the eighties there has been a growing perception, in developed and developing countries alike, that the modern state has extended itself beyond its governance capacity. In many countries the state is perceived ... -
Revitalizing the state: 6. the performance of the Indian state
(2010-04-03)The performance of a state depends upon how effectively it copes with its crisis points. These crisis points can arise because of arbitrariness, excessive bureaucratizaiton, insufficient democratization, insufficient ... -
Revitalizing the state: 7. options for India
(2010-04-03)Successful experiments in governance the world over suggest a number of options for revitalizing the Indian state. Several options are first considered for revamping the political system. These include options for achieving ... -
Reviving Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation: An Aengda for Action
(2009-08-22)In this article, we examine in detail the reasons related to the declining operating and financial performance of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC). The contribution of various environmental and governance ... -
Rewarding creativity for conserving diversity in third world: can IPR regime serve the needs of contemporary and traditional knowledge experts and communities in third world
(2010-04-08)Regions of high biodiversity are often inhabited by the poorest people. The irony is that many of local healers and other herbal experts do not even charge for their services to the community. They conserve biological ... -
Right of recourse claims based on latent defects in the nuclear energy sector in India: brace yourself for factintensive disputes
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-05-01)This working paper is focused on trying to interpret the meaning of “latent defects” and analysing how a case were to unfold if an operator of nuclear installation were to exercise its right of recourse against a supplier ... -
Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Ordinance 2014: A Process Perspective
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper captures the policy processes leading to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RFCTLARR) Ordinance, 2014. It maps the role and the influence of the ... -
Right to research and copyright law: from photocopying to shadow libraries
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-03)Academic research and publishing are facing a crisis. The importance of access to academic literature in an interconnected world, the ever-growing cost of subscriptions to this literature, different revenue models of ... -
The right to resource: Peasant knowledge, protocol of its 'extraction' and ethics of collaboration in extractions
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Ripples on financial networks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)In the financial markets, asset returns exhibit collective dynamics masking individual impacts on the rest of the market. Hence, it is still an open problem to identify how shocks originating from one particular asset ... -
Rise of quick commerce in India: business models And infrastructure requirements
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023-03)The democratisation of mobile internet, increase in e-commerce penetration and omnichannel distribution has led to an expansion of the e-commerce industry. The COVID19 pandemic and the subsequent control measures like ... -
Risk information - normal markets and the COVID-19 pandemic period
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-10-06)The paper investigates how the market infers changes in the firm-level discount rate (risk information) in normal and turbulent times. The study focuses on two key sources of risk information, earnings announcements of ... -
Risk Management Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis for Derivative Exchanges
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)During the global financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, no major derivative clearing house in the world encountered distress while many banks were pushed to the brink and beyond. An important reason for this is that derivative ...