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Corporate planning practices in private sector companies in India
(2010-03-13)This paper summarises the results of a study of corporate planning practices in private sector companies in India Even though long term planning is not very widely practiced by companies in the private sector, those companies ... -
Corporate power and social responsibility: lessons from the west
(2010-03-22)Corporate social responsibility is fast becoming a fashionable phrase among businessmen, managers, management academics, economists, politicians, and the public at large. Before these diverse groups plunge into serious ... -
Corporate response to economic reforms in India
(2009-12-12)Recent economic liberalization in India has significantly changed the policy environment and has forced the domestic firms to review their strategies. As the situation is still evolving, the paper essentially explores ... -
Corporate restructuring for shareholder value
(2010-04-06)This paper takes an overview of two prime concerns of corporate management in the recent times, viz., shareholder value management and corporate restructuring. The paper begins with a brief discussion on the emergence of ... -
Corporate sickness and its prevention by financial institutions
(2010-03-14)Growing corporate sickness seems to be a global phenomenon, at least is the world's market-oriented economies. But the causes of sickness may differ as between Third World countries like India and the developed Western ... -
Corporate strategy revisited: towards developing a dynamic framework
(2010-04-05)Corporate strategy has become a major area of research especially in recent years. Strategy research has off-late shifted from the industrial organization paradigm of the 80s to the resources based view with the core ... -
Corporate takeovers in Malaysia: Discriminant analysis for bidder and target firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)The paper looks into 144 non-financial firms in Malaysia for period 1980-1993, which includes bidders, targets, control bidders and control targets. A set of five economic/financial variables has been identified to ... -
Correlated equilibria under bounded and unbounded rationality
(2010-03-19)In this paper we establish an isomorphism between the set of correlated equilibria of a game on the one hand and the set of ordered pairs of coordination mechanisms and equilibrium decision rules for the same game on the ... -
Correlation functions in reliability theory
(2010-03-13)The point process induced by the stochastic behaviour of a two-unit warm standby redundant repairable system is studied. Expressions for the product densities of the events corresponding to the entry into each of the states ... -
Cost and benefit of disinflation policy in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Current monetary policy stance is based on assertions that there is no trade-off between inflation and growth and that disinflation will result in more growth. Present study examines recent empirical evidence on India for ... -
Cost benefit analysis of malaria control and eradication programme in India
(2010-03-18)This paper analysed the malaria control and eradication activities in India from 1953-54 to 1976-77. The total cost of the disease to the nation with the control and eradication programme and what it would have been if the ... -
Cost of conservation of agrobiodiversity
(2010-01-16)The cost of conservation of germplasm stored in gene banks i.e., ex-situ collections has been studied in other parts of the world to estimate direct and indirect contributions by various actors involved in conservation. ... -
Cost of quality their determination and relationships
(2010-03-22)With a renewed emphasis on Management of Quality, the question of collecting and quantifying Cost of Quality (COQ) has assumed special significance. It is realized that organizations intending to launch quality improvement ... -
Costs of operations in agricultural financing by formal agencies
(2010-03-12)The purpose of this paper is to first briefly discuss the main elements of costs in agricultural finance operations of formal agencies. Secondly, the sources of high administrative costs are identified. And finally a ... -
Cotton in India: analysis of differing performance
(2010-04-01)This paper attempts to investigate the performance of Indian cotton sector and impact of economic and biological factors on acreage and yield of cotton in the major cotton growing states of the country using time series ... -
COVID-19 and period products usage among menstruating women in urban and rural India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-03)This paper estimates the impact of the lockdown across various zones on the period product consumption for menstruating women in India. We have used the national-level panel data from the CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household ... -
Covid-19 crisis, pandemic resilience and linkages to land: An exposition
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-05-08)For a COVID-19 like pandemic, the Achilles heel is an unsuspecting villain – rapid and global land use changes. The way governments, businesses and communities see, relate to and use land, not only influences the outbreak ... -
Creating demand systems in drought prone regions: random thoughts and personal field notes from a group action - research project - journal II
(2010-03-14)Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad had initiated an action-research project in three districts with similar ecological and social stress but dissimilar administrative system. A group of faculty members from Centre ... -
Creation of a Single National ID: Challenges & Opportunities for India
(2009-07-25)A National ID for all citizens and residents of India has long being considered a critical necessity, albeit the related projects have been in pilot mode for the past several years and no distinct road ahead seems to be ...