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Biodiversity and poverty vis-a-vis biotechnology and prosperity
(2010-03-22)The debate on intellectual property rights of third world farmers, pastoralists and artisans has almost always been guided by the fear that the industry in the developing countries (particularly drug industry) would be ... -
Biogas program in India and China: a comparative analysis of experiences
(2010-03-14)2his paper describes the historical processes and experiences in the biogas technology promotion programme in India and China. The comparative analysis of the experiences in India and China is an attempt to bring out the ... -
Biogas technology a case of Mahajida village
(2010-03-12)The household energy consumption accounts for nearly 50 percent of total energy consumption in the developing countries. It is primarily obtained from non-commercial sources such as firewood, animal waste, crop residues, ... -
Biogas technology: the Indian scenario
(2010-03-15)Energy in many forms is vital for nations, economic and social development. The importance of energy was brought into sharp focus since the 1970's oil shortage which escalated the prices of conventional energy. Since then ... -
Biotechnology: promises, concerns and options
(2010-04-05)Biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents. It is based on enhanced understanding of the genetic structure of organisms at the level of ... -
Blending cultural values indigenous technology and environment: the experience of Bhutan
(2010-03-15)How did an extremely less developed, isolated mountain country succeed in keeping its 64 per cent of the area under forest? How did it succeed in avoiding any case of widespread deprivation and keep ecological balance in ... -
Blending universal with local ethic: accountability towards nature, perfect stranger and society
(2009-12-12)Conserving the nature which surrounds us requires dealing with out perception of natureiii. Often we do not realize that the attribution of human feelings in our discourse with non-human sentient beings mimics rules of out ... -
Blinded tests n 2 x 2 cross-over trial
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Blowing ten myths about agroforestry: restoring the productivity of marginal dry regions
(2010-03-27)The ten myths discussed in this paper are: 1) Privatization of common lands leads to sustainable agro-forestry based land use, 2) Poor people have shorter time frame and have lesser trees in and around their fields, 3) ... -
Blueprint for the Design of a Human Settlement in Ahmedabad City
(2012-09-27)Presents a blueprint for developing an integrated human settlement in Ahmedabad city in the stretch of land on the east side of the Sabarmati River ad measuring approximately 3000 acres where the pirana sewage farm is ... -
Bonus payments in the Indian formal sector: 2008-2014 trends from pay check India data: Netherlands, India
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Brand adoption by BOP retailers
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)Previous studies with regard to brand adoption by retailers have focussed on large retailers who are approached directly by the brands. There is a lack of studies on how BoP retailers adopt brands who sell to a very different ... -
Brand Effect and Price Discrimination in the Video Rental Industry
(2013-11-21)What is the effect of competition on prices in a market where the product is offered at different quality levels? Would the increase in competition reduce the price of high quality good more than the low quality good? ... -
Brand specific associations and consumer involvement in the evaluation of brand extensions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-12-01)Research in the area of brand extensions has focused on the themes of simple affect transfer and category based affect transfer to explain attitude towards the extension. Subsequent research stresses the importance of ... -
Brave new world of young Indian decision elites
(2010-07-27)Among the young elite decision-makers in modern India, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) probationers and management graduates from institutions such as Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) rank high. They come from ... -
Breadth-first and best-first exact procedures for regular measures of the multi-mode RCPSP
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)The multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem (MM RCPSP) is a NP-hard problem representing a generalization of the well-studied RCPSP. Depth-first tree search approach by Sprecher & Drexl (1998) is the ... -
Breaking free from the bell curve: An alternate proposition for performance management
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Performance management processes that follow a Gaussian distribution (bell curve) and focus on past performance rather than a future promise have come under critical focus. Such systems have been found to foster short-term ... -
Bridging the creativity – innovation divide: an investigation of R&D professionals’ experiences from India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The present study presents a qualitative study of the process through which creative ideas are converted into new products. Based on a grounded-theoretic investigation of 52 interviews conducted with scientists working in ... -
Bringing about Changes at a Large Engineering College:Lessons for Designers and Implementers of Large Scale Change Efforts
(2009-08-22)This paper outlines a change management program undertaken at Maritime Engineering Institute in India. The intervention came in the form of a focused three month effort where the first author, a professor of OB at a leading ... -
Broadening the concept of sustainability and measuring its impact on firm’s performance
(2013-11-26)There is an enhanced awareness among the firms regarding the impact of their marketing and business activities on the environment and society largely due to consumer education, the role of activists and aftermath of some ...