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    • Linking telecome technologies: complementarities, capabilities and policies 

      Basant, Rakesh; Chandra, Pankaj (2010-04-03)
      This paper is a preliminary exploration to develop a methodology for assessing the technological capabilities and needs of the telecommunications sector in India. It makes a case for strategic policy interventions to build ...

    • Linking Vertical and Horizontal Markets for Innovations at Grassroots: Sustainability Imperative 

      Gupta, Anil K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
      The supply chain management is at the core of globalising world. Today the large corporations are able to source materials from all around the world and sell it in the most interior parts of the developing and developed ...

    • Links in the Knowledge Journey of an Idea to Innovation: A Study in the Context of Development of Customized Cartons 

      Dixit, Mukund R.; Sharan, Girja (2009-08-03)
      This paper identifies and analyses the links in the knowledge journey of an idea to innovation. It tracks the links in the development of customized cartons for packaging tomatoes. The trigger points for the innovation, ...

    • Litigating barbie: trade mark infringement, parody and free speech 

      Ram Mohan, M.P.; Gupta, Aditya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-07-15)
      In the contemporary marketplace, trade marks are not mere monikers of origin. While often regarded as commercial symbols, trade marks sometimes become part of the commonplace vocabulary and are indelibly linked to ...

    • Livestock component of farming systems research 

      Rao, V. M. (2010-03-21)
      Farming systems research is an innovative approach to address the problems of resource poor farmers in less developed countries. FSR stemmed largely from the pioneering work of Collinson and that of Norman. The primary ...

    • Load-factor measurement for road transport corporations 

      Patel, Nitin R. (2010-03-13)
      In order to plan its time-tables, a road transport corporation needs to have reliable information on the load-factors on various bus-trips that are currently operated. Existing informaiton does not permit determination of ...

    • Local social decision functions: a survey 

      Lahiri, Somdeb (2010-01-18)
      In Aleskerov (1999) can be found a property that social decision functions are required to satisfy. This property is called locality. In Arrowzs original work it was called independence of irrelevant alternatives. Social ...

    • Localized and non-localized competition in the presence of consumer lock-in 

      Banerjee, Bibek; Kovenock, Dan (2010-03-31)
      This paper models localized competition between firms when there is consumer lock-in or loyalty. We derive the symmetric equilibrium mixed strategy price distribution under two alternative models, and compare them to ...

    • Location identification for rapid evacuation from a disaster site: a case study from KAPS 

      Roy, Debjit; Sharma, Anuj; Kumar, Ashish; Saurabh, Vivek (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
      Robust plans need to be developed for rapidly evacuating victims from a nuclear disaster site. Although nuclear plants are constructed with multiple redundant safety features, the chances of a leak can never be zero. In ...

    • Location of Indian cement industry 

      Gupta, G. S.; Patel, Kirit (2010-03-13)
      The paper examines four hypotheses about the location of the Indian Cement Industry, viz., (a) its location is not optimum, (b) it is not evenly distributed throughout the country, (c) its location is becoming more and ...

    • Locus of control as a moderator of role stress-satisfaction relationship 

      Pestonjee, D. M.; Singh, U. B. (2010-03-13)
      Present investigation is an attempt to study the effect of locus of control on the relationship between various role stressors and satisfaction with many off-the-job and on-the-job situations. 101 executives and engineers ...

    • A logarithmic goal programming approach to develop the utility function for railway travel 

      Dutta, Goutam; Ghosh, Priyanko; Wanchoo, Arushi (2013-11-26)
      A railway passenger faces a dilemma of choosing the best train among several alternatives available in a particular route. A relative comparison of competing railways helps the passenger to make an informed choice before ...

    • Logarithmic relative egalitarian solution: an axiomatic characterization 

      Lahiri, Somdeb (2010-03-27)
      In this paper we propose and axiomatically characterize the Logarithemic Relative Egalitarian Solution for social choice problems.

    • The Logistics Sector in India: Overview and Challenges 

      Chandra, Pankaj; Jain, Nimit (2009-08-22)
      The logistics industry in India is evolving rapidly and it is the interplay of infrastructure, technology and new types of service providers that will define whether the industry is able to help its customers reduce their ...

    • Long term financing of infrastructure 

      Sinha, Sidharth (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
      Infrastructure projects, given their long life, require long term financing. The main sources of long term financings are insurance and pension funds who seek long term investments with low credit risk. However, in India ...

    • Lost size model with discrete transportation costs 

      Gupta, Omprakash K.; Rao, Poornachandra P. (2010-03-24)
      The classical Harris-Wilson inventory model does not explicitly account for the costs incurred in transporting goods from the supplier to the buyer. Either such costs are assumed to be fixed and considered part of the ...

    • Lower bound for cost deviation in the newsboy model 

      Khanra, Avijit; Bandyopadhyay, Tathagata (2013-11-26)
      Quality of decisions in inventory management problems depends on accuracy of param- eter estimates used for decision making. In many situations, error in decision making is unavoidable. In such cases, understanding ...

    • Lower bound on fleet-size in variable-schedule fleet-size problem 

      Ankolekar, Suresh; Patel, Nitin R. (2010-03-14)
      This paper discusses an approach to compute a lower bound on fleet-size in variable-schedule fleet-size problem. The lower bound is computed in two stages. In stage one, a fixed-schedule fleet-size problem is solved for a ...

    • Loyalty Programme Applications in Indian Service Industry 

      Sahoo, Debajani; Vyas, Preeta H. (2009-07-25)
      Retaining all customers would not be a good idea for any business. In contrast, allowing the profitable customers to leave would be an even worse idea. Consequently the real solution rests in knowing the value of each ...

    • Loyalty Programmes: Practices, Avenues and Challenges 

      Vyas, Preeta H.; Sinha, Piyush Kumar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
      Complexity of modern business requires managers to strive for innovative strategies to acquire and retain customers in any product market field. As acquiring new customers is getting costlier day by day, business organizations ...