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Sustainability through biodiversity: designing crucibles of culture creativity and conscience
(2010-07-27)In this paper there is a widespread concern world over about non-sustainability of present development strategies and structures in both developed as well as developing world. Most debates have however, ignored the ... -
Sustainable development of Indian agriculture: green revolution revisited
(2010-03-18)Indian experience of technological change through 'Green Revolution' in now an internationally acclaimed achievement. Several countries in Africa are being advised to follow Indian experience. We have reappraised the lessons ... -
Symbolic role models and identity patterns of Indian women
(2010-03-18)Woman is a phenomenon yet to be explored, experienced, and understood in all her viccisitudes, multiplicities, contradictions, and complexities. As she begins her journey in life at the dawn of birth and proceeds through ... -
Symbols, themes and liking: a study of advertisements
(2009-12-14)Advertisers use various strategies to make an advertisement effective. The use of symbols and themes is one of these strategies. This is a qualitative study aiming to understand whether the presence of some symbols and ... -
Synchronous innovation the new trend in manufacturing management
(2010-03-21)In this paper, we discuss a recent development in the area of manufacturing management-aptly called "Synchronous Innovation". This is a strategy which calls for synchronous deployment of technological and administrative ... -
Synergy in government policies and global competitiveness of two Indian industries: an empirical study
(2010-04-05)The paper analyzes the role of Government policies in influencing the competitiveness of two Indian industries: Automobile Components and Leather. These industries were chosen due to their good export performance, prima ... -
Synthesis Paper on Strengthening Policy Reforms for Transport Infrastructure Development
(2010-07-20)This paper presents the results of a series of eight resserach papers commissioned by the Asian Development Bank and the Dept. of Economic affairs, in the area of transport infrastructure development in India. The research ... -
Synthetic daily rainfall data generation
(2010-03-27)Long sequences of daily rainfall are often needed for simulation. These (when available) are cumbersome to input. Also in many cases historical data are to short to include all possible patterns. Hence the need for synthetic ... -
System dynamic study of apple movement from orchards to wholesale market
(2010-07-27)Two northern states, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and Himachal Pradesh (HP) account for most of the apple grown in India. Fruit is graded and packed near orchards and sent to Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC), Delhi ... -
System dynamics simulation model of a blast furnace
(2009-12-12)In this paper, we present a simulation model of a blast furnace. In a blast furnace the quality and productivity of the output (hot metal) depends on a large number of input variables and operating variables. The complex ... -
Tabu search for multi-period facility location: uncapacitated problem with an uncertain number of servers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)This paper supersedes the work presented in WP.No.2014-02-06. We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers (PHC). We model the problem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under ... -
Tabu search for the single row facility layout problem using exhaustive 2-opt and insertion neighborhoods
(2013-11-20)The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem is ... -
A tale of five cities: heat waves, cold spells and mortality risk in urban India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)Background: Temperature extremes as a consequence of changing climate are known to have large morbidity and mortality impacts. Studies assessing mortality risk due to heat waves and cold spells are largely absent in urban ... -
Talent and the pioneering innovating motive
(2010-03-14)The paper argues that the wish to pioneer and innovate is essential if talented persons are to give their best to society. The paper reports the relationships between the pioneering - innovating and five other motives, ... -
Talent management systems in Indian pharmaceutical firms: exploring an emerging typology
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2016-03)This study has explored the implementation of talent management process in pharmaceutical industry in India through a case study approach. Data was collected from top management and senior managers in HR, marketing and ... -
Tapping Economies of Scale and Scope in Consumer Cooperation – A Case Analysis of Possible Cooperation among Selected Cooperatives
(2009-08-21)Because of its narrow and negative perspective of safeguarding the interests of only poor consumers against unethical practices of the private traders, consumer cooperation in India seems to have failed, except probably ... -
Target debt maintenance under alternative net present value specifications and implications for investment and finance decisions
(2010-03-22)Two alternative specifications of weighted average cost of capital are prevalent in finance literature. Though both the specifications result in consistent accept/reject or ranking decisions the net present value arrived ... -
Targeted interventions: consumption dynamics and distributional effects
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-02)Income distribution-based targeted interventions are quite common in developing economies. However, often due to institutional frictions, identification of the recipients happens at a lower frequency than the frequency of ... -
Tax Experiences of Indo-American Joint Venture
(2012-09-27)