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Mechanical properties of wood carton used for long distance transport of tomatoes
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)Tomatoes are produced and consumed year round. Wood carton is the dominant mode of packaging for produce coming to APMC Market, Ahmedabad from out-of-state. It has been known for long however that wood carton suffers from ... -
Mechanics of planning: need for formal replanning
(2010-03-13)Recent discussions on the rolling plan have brought to the fore issues relating to the mechanics of planning in this country. During the last 25 years the Indian planners have acquired a high degree of sophistication in ... -
Media selection models directions for future research
(2010-03-21)The work done in media selection both in India and abroad is reviewed. Two approaches that can be adopted immediately for media selection so as to maximise response are discussed and the results of empirical work using the ... -
Mediating effects in the relationship between 360-degree feedback and employee performance
(2010-07-26)360-degree feedback has been linked to several positive outcomes like improved performance, better interpersonal communication, smoother work relationships, etc. The paper empirically examines the mediating effects in the ... -
Mediating influence of top management styles on the relaitonship between external environment and Organisational structure: tests of some hypotheses
(2010-03-25)Three styles of top management, labelled entrepreneurial, professional, and conservative, were empirically derived from cluster analysis of policies and practices data from a sample of companies. Eleven hypotheses were ... -
Medical Negligence and Compensation in India: How Much is Just and Effective?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)There is no denying the fact that human life is precious and in cases of medical negligence, the judges find it extremely difficult to decide on the quantum of compensation as the quantum is highly subjective in nature, ... -
Medical negligence and compensation inn India: how much is just and effective?
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2014-03-27)There is no denying the fact that human life is precious and in cases of medical negligence, the judges find it extremely difficult to decide on the quantum of compensation as the quantum is highly subjective in nature, ... -
Medium to long term impacts of falling energy prices and welfare changes in agriculture sector
(2010-03-20)Since the first energy price shock of 1973 a number of studies have reported the impacts of rising energy prices on agriculture sector. However, in the recent years real energy prices are falling in the international market. ... -
Mega projects implementation: Issues for top management
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-08-01)Project implementation is a complex job. The entire field of project management can be broadly classified into three phases: I) project planning, II) project implementation, and III) project operation. certain amount of ... -
Mega projects in India Environmental and Land Acquisition Issues in the Road Sector
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)Mega projects (primarily infrastructure) receive a sizable investment (~10%) of the gross fixed capital formation in India. Environmental clearances and land acquisitions have been the two major reasons for delays in the ... -
A Memory-Aided Broadcast Mechanism for Enabling a Rural Community Radio on an Ad-Hoc Peer-To-Peer Mobile Network
(2013-11-25)This paper investigates deploying a village level community-radio application on top of a MANET comprising completely of basic mobile phones. We envision a system, where any user in the network is equally empowered to ... -
Merger control for IRPs: Do acquisitions of distressed firms warrant competition scrutiny?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-05-08)In July 2019, the Competition Law Review Committee Report had recommended that Insolvency Resolution Plans (IRP) which result in combinations should be green-channelled. This would mean that IRP combinations would be ... -
Mergers and acquisitions in Thailand: Case studies of two Thai companies
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-12-01)Countries in both developed and developing regions are placing more importance on the role of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in the growth of companies, and thereby to the economic development of their countries. M&A ... -
Meta Processes for Organizational Excellence in Developing Societies
(2012-10-17)As societies in transition, involved in modernization, nation building, socio-economic transformation, and increasing globalization of their economies, developing societies must evolve forms of organizational excellence ... -
Meta-analysis for online retail performance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-05)With continuous rise of business value and importance of online retail business (e-commerce), academic research has not been far behind to understand this recent market phenomenon. This has led to numerous studies exploring ... -
Metamorphosis of Entrepreneurial Ventures: A Holistic Paradigm from Two Tales
(2009-08-07)Some entrepreneurial ventures grow into large organizations within a relatively short duration. These startups rapidly increase their scale and scope to turn into matured organizations. Though the literature is replete ... -
A method for retail product selection using data mining
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)Product assortment planning is considered as one of the important problems in the retail business. Traditional approaches to product selection in the assortment are largely based on individual product popularity or margins. ... -
Methods for the Study of Downsizing: A Review
(2009-08-21)There has been a world-wide increase in the incidences of downsizing practice across economies and across organizations. This has been considered as the basis for coping with increasing competition. The present paper looks ... -
Metric rationalization of bargaining solutions
(2010-03-28)In this paper we represent bargaining solutions by means of a metric which is defined on games, whereby the solutions are precisely those payoffs which are closest to being unanimously highest. -
Metric rationalization of bargaining solutions and respect for unanimity
(2010-03-28)In this paper we represent bargaining solutions by means of a metric which is defined on games, whereby the solutions are precisely those payoffs which are closest to being unanimously highest. Subsequently we study the ...