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Educational tasks in development programmes
(2010-03-20)In the developing countries and those undergoing rapid change, the part played in the social field by education is of vital importance.This paper has looked at the educational tasks that confronts the grassroot level ... -
Effect of changing taxation and depreciation policies on the leasing industry
(2010-03-18)In the recent years the government's policy of reducing the corporate tax rate and increasing the depreciation rate has been welcomed by the industrial sector. The changes so obviously benefit the sector that it appears ... -
Effect of legal issues in infrastructure development: The case of container terminal bids in Jawaharlal Nehru port trust
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) is the largest container port in India, handling about 40% of India’s container traffic in 2014-15. JNPT has five container terminals (CT) out of which three have already been ... -
Effect of Mobiles on Socio-economic Life of Urban Poor
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)Using a survey of 1774 users and non-users in 84 slums in three metropolitan cities (Delhi, Ahmedabad and Kolkata), we try to understand the impact of mobiles on their social and economic lives. Urban slum dwellers spend ... -
Effect of overlapping price ranges on price perception: Revisiting the range theory of price perception
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02-09)The context in which a product is seen has an impact on the behavior of consumers. Specifically the impact of the context provided by the most and least extreme values, i.e., the range of stimuli presented has been well ... -
Effect of policy on export competitiveness: case of the Indian garment industry
(2010-04-06)The paper argues that policy should enable and encourage large firms to play a more active role in garment exports. This will allow India to exploit the high-volume segments of the world market more fully and appropriate ... -
Effect of sexual illustrations on brand - product recall: an experimental study
(2010-03-29)This research study has attempted to experimentally measure effect of sexual illustrations on brand - product recall. The study is an extension of the work done by M. Ste adman and M.W. Alexander and Ben Judd, Jr. Published ... -
Effect of tariff regulation in major port container terminals: The case of Jawaharlal Nehru port trust
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Tariff at India’s centrally-administered major ports, including privately operated terminals therein, are regulated and prescribed by the Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP). TAMP was set up under an amendment of the ... -
Effective corporate response to liberalisation: the Indian case
(2010-03-28)In most developing societies there has been a decisive shift towards economic liberalization, that is, towards deregulation and globalization of the economy. Liberalisation has two majhor consequences for the corporate ... -
Effective management styles: an Indian study
(2010-03-27)Management style is defined to be the distinctive way the management of an organization carries out its various functions, in this exploratory study, ten archetypal styles of top management are described, operationally ... -
Effectiveness of reflective insulation in box Solar cooker
(2009-12-12)In this paper, we present comparative performance of box solar cooker fitted with reflective insulation and the cooker with the usual glasswool insulation. It is found that reflective insulation made of Alseal with one air ... -
Effectiveness of varying sales style on consumer orientations
(2010-03-13)Using the role play technique, the effect of four different sales orientations on customers with four different need patterns was examined. In a factorial design, product-centred, company-centred, customer-centred, and ... -
Effects of climatic variations on child morbidity in Bundelkhand region of India: a panel data analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-07-29)Background Morbidity and mortality related impacts of climate change are increasingly becoming a public health challenge especially among vulnerable groups. India has made significant progress in reducing its child mortality ... -
The effects of fraud risk factors and client characteristics on audit procedures
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)There has been very little prior research examining how the prescriptions of SAS No. 99 map into the auditors’ fraud risk assessment process. SAS No. 99 asks the auditors to consider two major types of fraud (fraudulent ... -
The effects of group brainstorming on the auditor’s search for potential misstatements and assessment of fraud risk in the presence of pressures and opportunities
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper examines the effect of SAS No. 99 recommended group brainstorming on the auditor’s search for potential material misstatements and assessments of fraud risk in the presence of different levels of pressures and ... -
Efficiency of Several generalised least squares estimators
(2010-03-13)Econometric theory, as developed till today includes a number of estimation procedures whose small and large sample properties have been analysed at different places by different authors. Looking at these works one can ... -
An efficient algorithm for frequent pattern mining for real - time business intelligence analytics in dense datasets
(2010-04-03)Finding frequent patterns from databases has the most time consuming process in data mining tasks, like association rule mining. Frequent pattern mining in real-time is of increasing thrust in many business applications ... -
An efficient heuristic for the multi-product satiating newsboy problem
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Preference of satiation of a target performance over maximization of expected performance in uncertain situations is well-documented in the economics literature. However, the newsboy problem with satiation (of a pro t ... -
Efficient market Hypothesis: understanding and acceptance in India
(2010-03-22)In Spite of Some empirical evidence in favour of the capital market efficiency in weak form and mildly in favour of semi-strong form, the ca[pital markets participants allege that the market is excessively speculative and ...