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Pricing policy of forest based cellulosic raw materials for the paper industry in India
(2010-03-15)The state governments and the paper making companies have been entering into long term agreements which specify duration of supply of agreed quantities of bamboo and pulpwood, royalty rates (note price), extent and frequency ... -
Primal and Lagrangian heuristics for minimum weight rooted arborescence problem
(2010-07-27)Consider a rooted acyclic graph G with weights on arcs. In this graph, a minimum weight rooted arborescence (MRC) can be defined as one whose sum of arc weights is less than or equal to that of any other rooted arborescence ... -
Primary health care under the panchayati raj: Perceptions of officials from Gujarat
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-10-01)The 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution has raised hoped for improving many services in rural areas by handling them over to Panchayat. Gujarat was one of the first states to implement the Panchayati Raj system ... -
Priority areas for research in the operations of small enterprises
(2010-03-23)In the past few years, there has been a growing recognization of a role of small enterprises in promoting industrial development. Accordingly several efforts have been made to encourage the entrepreneurship and strengthening ... -
Priority service system optimization under service level constraints
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)We consider a service system that serves one class of customers, which is willing to pay a premium for a faster delivery, with priority over the other class, which is more price sensitive but is willing to wait longer. The ... -
Private corporate investment in Gujarat: the picture for 1980 and forecast for 1981
(2010-03-14)In this paper, an attempt is made to forecast the growth in private corporate investment in Gujarat in 1981. The term 'Corporate Investment' covers gross capital expenditure of all companies in the private and joint sectors. ... -
Privatisation in China: softly, softly does it
(2009-12-12)This paper examines China s record of privatisation to see whether it accords with popular perceptions. The record shows that China has been proceeded cautiously in its privatisation efforts. It has privatised that is, ... -
Privatisation programme in Britain and East European countries: some lessons for India
(2010-03-24)In 1979, when the Conservative party was elected in the UK, it was no more than a gut feeling, impatience and inability to improve the working of the nationalised industries, it was felt that the invisible hand of the ... -
Privatisation: Issues and evidence
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2000-09-01)Even as India s privatisation programme gathers steam, there is a perception, reflected in the pronouncements of ministers as well as in writings in the popular press, that the benefits of privatisation can be taken as ... -
Privatisation: Theory Practice and Issues
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Privatisation: theory practices and issues
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1997-03-01)The paper discusses the various forms of privatisation, its rationale, practices in India and abroad, and the issues facing the privatisation programme. It concludes that while privatisation programme is not easy to design ... -
Privatization of ports - framework for governmental action
(2010-04-05)Given the delays and congestions at ports, leading to extensive demurrage charges for ships, a lot of attention on improving port productivity through better management systems and infrastructure developments are being ... -
PRIVDAM: privacy violation detection and monitoring using data mining
(2010-04-03)Privacy, its violations and techniques to bypass privacy violation have grabbed the centre-stage of both academia and industry in recent months. Corporations worldwide have become conscious of the implications of privacy ... -
Problems and challenges in transferring and adapting knowhow management to india
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-03-01)Man has been an explorer for centuries. His exploration has taken him within and across continents, the seas and the oceans and how he explores the skies. His urge has been to discover, adventure, conquer, learn and ... -
Problems and challenges in transferring and adapting knowhow management to India
Indian organizations are in the process of transition. This process of transition is both at the organizational as well as societal level. As long as the Indian units of work were small and entrepreneurial in nature the ... -
Problems and prospects of leasing industry in India
(2010-07-27)This paper focuses mainly on the growth, problems and prospects of leasing industry in India. It starts with the definition and classification of leasing. The major problem areas identified include resource crunch, income ... -
Problems and prospects of village pasture development project in a mixed economy
(2010-03-18)The present case discusses the pasture development (PD) project in Sayla Block of Surendranagar District of Gujarat state in India. The PD project was identified as the key project for the block level plan (BLP) scheme in ... -
Problems in teaching of international marketing
(2010-07-27)The question of initiating the process of application oriented education in International Marketing in countries like India is examined. Problems and issues in offering suitable programmes in this area for students of ... -
Problems of fair division and the egalitarian solution: a reconsideration
(2010-01-16)The present paper attempts to provide simple proofs of two theorems in the literature of axiomatic bargaining with a variable population. Both theorems deal with axiomatic characterizations of the egalitarian solution due ... -
Procedures for generating an informationally efficient equitable solution
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-02-01)In this paper we consider two games which generate A- envy free allocations in a pure exchange economy with a fixed supply of resources and agents preferences being representable by utility functions. The first game is ...