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Technology non-affordances: exploring the political interactions in the designer-user- technology trio
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Technology strategies of large enterprises in Indian industry: some explorations
(2010-04-06)A firmzs technology strategy is influenced by the ytechnology regimez in which it operates. The regime is broadly defined by a combination of variables capturing industrial structure, nature of technical knowledge and the ... -
Technology strategy of Indian firms: Searching for the role of complementary assets and technology supply chains
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)As a consequence of economic reforms, the Indian manufacturing sector faces a variety of technology related challenges. It not only has to quickly develop world-class manufacturing capabilities but also gear up to develop ... -
Technology transfer in agriculture - Case of hybrid bajra
(2010-03-13)Efficient management of the process of the development of the adaptable technology and the transfer of technology is crucial in achieving economic growth. An adaptable technology may not be transferred if the process of ... -
Telecommunications: some social issues
(2010-07-20)In this paper we look at the technological developments in telecommunications over the years and their implications to the society in which we live. We realise that in this "Information Age" the World is only as far as the ... -
Temperature distribution in a Tomato carton
(2009-12-12)In this write-up, we present an analysis of temperature distribution in tomato carton using finite difference approximation. When freshly harvested tomatoes are placed in a rectangular heap, in a surrounding of 35 degree ... -
Temporal behaviour of rural-urban migration and extent of urbanization
(2010-03-14)he paper views the phenomenon of rural-urban migration in terms of relative growth of urban areas. Four factors influencing the relative growth of urban areas are identified. They are :- (i) dependency ratio in urban areas ... -
Term Structure Estimation In Illiquid Government Bond Markets: An Empirical Analysis For India
(2009-03-11)With increasing liquidity of the Indian sovereign debt market from 1997, it has become possible to estimate the term structure in India. However, several frictions that cause individual securities to be priced differently ... -
TERM STRUCTURE ESTIMATION IN ILLIQUID GOVERNMENT BOND MARKETS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS FOR INDIA
(2009-09-02)With increasing liquidity of the Indian sovereign debt market from 1997, it has become possible to estimate the term structure in India. However, several frictions that cause individual securities to be priced differently ... -
A test for strategic planning related to management
(2010-04-17)The evidence in favour of predicting managerial success from intelligence tests is mixed. It is difficult to support the predicability of intelligence tests for occupational success (Thornton & Byham, 1982). After reviewing ... -
A test for the two-sample problem using mutual information
(IIM-A Publication, 2013-05-06)For two independently drawn samples from continuous distributions, a statistical test based on the mutual information statistic is proposed for the null hypothesis that both the samples originate from the same population. ... -
Testing for and estimation of models subject to multicollinearity
(2010-03-22)The regression method for analyzing changes in variables over the time and cross-section has become very popular in the present day world. The method is undoubtedly very powerful but it is based on several assumptions and ... -
Testing the dependence structure of the components of hybrid processes using mutual information
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-06)Mutual information is a useful extension of the correlation coecient to study the dependence among multiple random processes. Hybrid processes are multivariate time series with some components continuous time series and ... -
Tests to determine employer-employee relationships in India: looking towards the future?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023-04-20)The underpinning of an employee’s social security benefits is an employer-employee relationship. Workers are traditionally classified as employees (contract of service) or independent contractors (contract for service). ... -
Theorem in utility theory revisited
(2009-12-12)We provide in this paper a simple proof of the proposition that comparability of first differences of utility implies cardinality when the range of the utility function is a connected subset of the reals. -
Theoretical and policy making contributions of research on agricultural economics: a success or failure or neither?
(2009-12-14)This paper discusses following five issues by briefly considering the historical context of agriculture, innate biological nature of production process in agriculture, and initial conditions that agriculture inherited at ... -
Theory of financial intermediation - a portfolio approach
(2010-03-13)In this study an attempt is made to explain the behavior of financial intermediaries in terms of portfolio theory using a preference function approach. The model developed here is largely theoretical in nature, and deals ... -
Theory of Planned Behaviour Approach to Understand the Purchasing Behaviour for Environmentally Sustainable Products
(2013-11-25)This study examines the purchasing behaviour for environmentally sustainable products using the framework of the Theory of Planned Behaviour. It investigates the determinants of the purchase intention for environmentally ... -
A theory of tax evasion in developing countries
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-04)The literature on tax evasion assumes that taxpayers wish to evade their taxes entirely and the only reason they do not do so is that there is some non-zero probability of being caught by the government. Also, it is assumed ... -
Third Party Administrators and Health Insurance in India: Perception of Providers and Policyholders
(2009-09-04)The advent of Third Party Administrators (TPAs) is expected to play an important role in health insurance market in ensuring better services to policyholders. In addition, their presence is expected to address the cost ...