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Castor revolution in Gujarat, India: what made it successful?
(2010-03-31)This paper explains why castor hybrids had a spectacular success in Gujarat. It develops a model and uses it to explain step by step changes that took place in the castor economy of Gujarat. -
Catalysing Indian agriculture
(2009-12-12)This somewhat non-technical and brief paper synthesizes the literature on what to catalyse for the Strategy for agriculture and how to accomplish this strategy through public policies for government expenditure, reorganization ... -
Causal linkages among dimensions of perceived organizational environment
(2010-03-14)The paper highlights the importance of environmental perceptions of management for a strategic conti theory of organizational functioning. Based on data from 75 Indian organizations, the paper examines the temporal stability ... -
Causality between money and price level in India revisited
(2010-03-22)In this paper we have reexamind the issue of causality between money and price level in India and have used only granger's test for this purpose. we have found that there exists a unidirectional causality running from M1 ... -
Cause related marketing - an Indian overview
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The Indian market has witnessed all types of organizations ranging from national to multinational to regional as well as local adopting cause related marketing (CRM) practice since the late nineties. They started partnering ... -
CBD and TRIPS: empowering knowledge rich, economically poor people through IRP reforms
(2010-07-20)The discussion in the recent COP 8 meeting ending on March 31,2006 the subject of prior Informed Consent and protection of intellectual property rights of knowledge holders remained very contentious. Here discuss various ... -
Central excise revenues from major commodities and the sources of their growth
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1988-09-01)Indirect taxes are the mainstay of India's tax system, currently accounting for about 86% of the total tax collections.The major indirect taxes are: central excise duty, customs duty, sales tax, state excise duty, vehicle ... -
The challenge of governance in India today
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-10-01)This paper attempts to delineate the possible role of governance oriented reform in India today. We raise conceptual and historical difficulties with the notion that sees governance failure as the cause of poor economic ... -
Challenges in sustaining a hospital: lessons for managing healthcare institutions
(2009-09-03)One of the important components of the private health care sector has been health care facilities set up by corporate sector. The financial sustainability of these facilities is closely linked to the financial performance ... -
Challenges of Indian organization in the twenty first century
(2009-12-14)This paper was explored and identified organizational realities through a process of discussion and the dialogues with CEO s employees across various levels of hierarchy of the organization. This paper has identified five ... -
Change and innovations: a select bibliography of books for the use of those who are concerned with educational innovations
(2010-03-21)It is a classified annotated bibliography of recent books on various aspects of change and innovation. The bibliography is meant for those who are concerned with educational innovations. The bibliography has been classified ... -
Changes in land ownership pattern - an aspect of structural change in Indian agriculture
(2010-03-12)In this paper, discussed about the changes in the structure of land holdings in India during 1960s, vairous processes by which the changes have come about, and the underlying causes which could explain these changes. -
Changing context of trade mark protection in India: a review of the trade marks act, 1999
(2010-03-31)With liberalisation and globalisation of the Indian economy, it has become possible for anyone to get into production and services in most of the sectors. This has led to rampant misuse and appropriation of trade marks. ... -
Changing landscape of logistics in India with Multimodal logistics parks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023-02)Logistics costs in India account for a higher proportion of total value of goods compared to other developed countries. According to the Ministry of Road Transportation and Highways (MoRTH), it was around 13-14% in 2015 ... -
Changing patterns of women's identity
(2010-07-27)This paper examines the identify and role taking of Indian women over a period of time. The transition from the agrarian to the industrial/ technological era has had a significant impact on the identify patterns of women ... -
Changing perspective on rural credit between mid - 80s and mid - 90s - experiences of two West Bengal villages
(2010-07-27)Credit is a pure service transaction between two points of time rather than a spot market transaction in pure goods . Because of the time gap involved between sanction and realization of credit, the players in the market ... -
Characterizing the equal income market equilibrium choice correspondence: Average envy freeness instead of individual rationality from equal division
(2010-04-01)In problems of fair division of a given bundle of resources, amongst a finite number of agents, individual rationality from equal division plays a significant role. In a society, where all resources are socially owned, one ... -
Checkmate! Winning the Game of Communication: A Study of Conversational Principles
(2009-09-01)Managerial communication in organizations can well be studied by using drama as a heuristic device to gain an understanding of the complexities governing structure of communication, goals of participants and application ... -
Chemistry of effective management
(2010-03-18)A number of dimensions of top management philosophy or style are identified. Management philosophy may be considered risk taking or conservative, technocratic or oriented and seat-of-the-pants methods, participatory or ...