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Banking in backward regions: banks-NGO-poor interface alternatives for action
(2010-03-19)The problem of improving access of poor to formal banking system in risky ecological regions has acquired added importance in recent times. The ecological imbalances, reduced opportunities for productive investments, ... -
Bargaining with a variable population for games with a reference point
(2010-03-25)We consider axiomatic models of bargaining defined over a domain of problems containing different numbers of agents, define a concept called restricted monotonicity with respect of changes in the number of agents, and show ... -
Baroda's experiment in urban decentralization: a study of some administrative aspects
(2010-04-17)This is an exploratory study of some of the administrative problems of urban decentralization in the city of Baroda. It is an empirical study based on open and unstructured but indepth interviews with corporation officials, ... -
Bases of involment in work and family contexts
(2010-03-14)The paper reports on a bi-national study of involvement in work and family contexts. Using heterogeneous samples of managerial personnel in India and Canada, the explored the differential need patterns aroused in work and ... -
Bases of work motivation in development societies: a framework for performance management
(2010-03-25)In this essay authors endeavored to analyse and understand variables that adversely affect level of motivation and performance of people within work organizations in developing societies. The authors analyse and identify ... -
Basic Emergency Obstetric Care for mothers and newborns through 24 x 7 primary health centres A case study of three 24/7 PHCs from a high focus district in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The National Rural health Mission created 24X7 Primary Health Centres in order to provide basic emergency and obstetric services to women. The current study looked into how far the above NRHM objective has been met. Our ... -
The battle of sexes - ingratiation, gender and LMX
(2010-04-03)The hypothesis that subordinate ingratiation and subordinate gender will interact to influence LMX quality, such that ingratiation will have a stronger positive impact on LMX relationships for female subordinates than ... -
A Bayesian analysis of racial di erences in treatment among breast-cancer patients
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)It is a well known fact that race and ethnicity specific variations exist in the treatment and survival of cancer patients. Studies based on breast cancer patients admitted to community hospitals in U.S depicted that there ... -
A Bayesian Analysis of the Change Point Problem for Directional Data using SIR
(2009-07-25)In this paper we discuss a simple fully Bayesian analysis of the change point problem for the directional data in the parametric framework with circular normal distribution as the underlying distribution. We discuss ... -
Behaviour of excess stock return around earnings announcement day: A test of the efficiency of Kuala Lumpur stock exchange
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)This study is concerned with analyzing stock returns around periods of earnings announcements. Three hundred and sixty-four earnings announcement dates (events) were obtained from the annual earnings announcements of 91 ... -
Behaviour of firms subject to imperfect markets
(2010-03-13)Survey of available theories in economic literature would reveal that analysis of a firm's behavior is performed, either, under the assumption of perfect competition in factor as well as output markets or by letting ... -
Behaviour of income shares in a developing economy - the Indian experience
(2010-03-14)This paper makes an attempt to analyze the behaviour of relative factor shares in an underdeveloped country passing through the early stages of rapid economic development. The main purpose of the analysis is to advance ... -
Behaviour of integers: some peculiar properties
(2010-07-27)The intention of this paper is to highlight certain latent and interesting characteristics of natural numbers and their higher powers vis-a-vis the ultimate sum (single digit sum) of the digits in such integers and their ... -
The Behavioural Equivalence of Organizational Culture
(2011-05-26)Three decades of organizational cultural (OC) studies have seen change in both content and emphasis. This paper presents findings from an extensive review of literature on OC and highlights the relevance of OC with respect ... -
Benders decomposition for capacitated multi-period maximal covering location problem with server uncertainty
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Primary Health Centers (PHCs), which are single doctor clinics and vital to health care in rural areas of developing countries, often remain inoperative due to shortage of doctors. When doctors become available, the health ... -
Betting against beta in the Indian market
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Recent empirical evidence from diff erent markets suggests that the security market line is flatter than posited by CAPM. This flatness implies that a portfolio long in low-beta assets and short in high-beta assets would ... -
Between Aastha and Zee: mystery of the missing market for a weather channel
(2019-06-03)Until a few decades ago, Doordarshan was the only channel which would broadcast TV programmes in black-&-white and that too for a few hours. It was a pure public good then, offered free of cost by the government. Today, ... -
Bibliographical study of management research studies on Gujarat economy
(2010-07-20)This paper is basically intended to bring out a summary of research findings on Gujarat Economy Carried out by the researchers of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. The research papers included under the present ... -
Bilevel optimization: applications, models and solution approaches
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-05-17)Bilevel optimization is a difficult class of optimization problems, which contain an inner optimization problem as a constraint to an outer optimization problem. Such optimization problems are commonly referred to as ...