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Transparancy in economy: curbing corruption
(2010-01-18)Transparency International's year 1999 Corruption Perception Index places India as the 28th most corrupt country in the world. This is a Slippage Improvement of six positions over 1998 achievement, notwithstanding addition ... -
Trappings of expertise and the pursuit of failure
(2010-03-26)This paper describes a computer simulation of a business organization used with 20 groups of participants. Each group had three members and was expected to manage 24 months of the organization in 3 hours of simulation time. ... -
Travel time prediction for gps taxi data streams
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-03-31)The analysis of data streams offers a great opportunity for development of new methodologies and applications in the area of Intelligent Transportation Systems. In this paper, we propose a new incremental learning approach ... -
Treating HIV/ AIDS patients in India with antiretroviral therapy: a management challenge
(2010-04-08)India stands at a critical junction of HIV pandemic. Controlling spread of HIV is critical. Ignoring this will lead millions of Indians in grip of this pandemic. Ever since HIV/AIDS was acknowledged as a problem, the ... -
Treatment of intellectual property license in insolvency: analysing Indian law in comparison with the U.S. and U K
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-08-01)A bankrupt debtor’s ability to escape unprofitable contracts, enshrined in Section 365 of the American Bankruptcy Code, is considered central to a successful reorganisation within Chapter 11. The ambit of this power and ... -
Trends in regional disparity in human and social development in India
(2010-04-03)In the present paper, we have examind trends in regional disparity in human and social development by considering numerous indicators other than state income. we found no support to the general impression prevailing in the ... -
Trends in sales promotion literature
(2010-07-27)The objective of this study is to gain an insight into the trends of sales promotion literature published over 25 years. Data from 9 well-known foreign journals has been analyzed to provide a classification of framework, ... -
Trends in strategies and performance of the indian corporate sector what has changed in two decades of economic reforms?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-04)In the context of various policy initiatives made during the last two decades to reform the Indian economy in general and corporate sector in particular, this paper documents strategies followed by firms in this period and ... -
Trends in Technical Progress in India Analysis of Input-Output Tables from 1968 to 2003
(2011-05-26)The paper is based on the eight input-output (I-O) tables for the Indian economy available over a period of 36 years from 1968-69 to 2003-4. The technical progress (TP) in the context of the I-O tables is based on the ... -
Trends in the economic efficiency of Indian railways
(2010-04-17)This paper aims at examining the performance of Indian railways based on the criterion of total factor productivity. The paper makes an attempt to analyse the available data on output and factor inputs to estimate the rate ... -
Trends of outpatient and inpatient admissions in public hospitals of ahmedabad, India over last 24 years
(2011-09-02)This paper tries to show the trend of registration of patients (indoor & outdoor) in various medical institutes of Ahmedabad which are run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in last 24 years (1971-94). The Civil ... -
Triangle Effect and the Connotative Meaning of Trust in Prisoner’s Dilemma
(2012-09-27)Two hundred and forty-nine male Postgraduate student of management played the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game (Deutsch) and filled out post game questioner measuring attitude toward the “other player”. Striking differences ... -
The trucking industry an introductory note
(2010-03-24)The paper concludes that considering the inability of Railways to provide piecemeal wagons, it is essential to encourage the movement of goods by roads. Inspite of the unorganized nature of the private companies engaged ... -
Trysem system
(2010-03-14)TRYSEM program is viewed as system with definite goal and an environmental of its own. The content of monitored information is analysed. It is suggested that the diagnostic value of the monitored data is low. The concurrent ... -
Tuberculosis control in developing countries: a generalized community health worker based model
(2009-12-12)This paper documents the BRAC model for TB control. We introduce the concept of value chain, in the context of TB control. Based on the concept of value cahin, the logic for the effectiveness of the BRAC model is discussed. ... -
‘Turnaround’ of Indian Railways: A Critical Appraisal of Strategies and Processes
(2009-08-13)Indian Railways (IR), which was declared to be heading towards bankruptcy as per the Expert Group on Indian Railways in 2001, is today the second largest profit making Public Sector Undertaking after ONGC. The fund balance ... -
‘Turnaround’ of Indian Railways: Increasing the Axle Loading
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Turning over a golden leaf? : Global liquidity and emerging market central banks’ demand for gold after the financial crisis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-04-12)The quantity of gold reserves held by central banks in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has risen sharply following the global financial crisis in 2008. This paper examines factors driving holding of gold ... -
Two characterizations of the independence of irrelevant alternatives assumption
(2010-03-25)In this paper we propose alternative characterizations of the Independence of irrelevant alternatives assumption, as conceived in bargaining theory. We provide two distinct characterizations, which allows us to view both ... -
Two commodity network design: the convex hull
(2010-04-01)We study the uncapacitated and capacitated one facility versions of the two commodity network design problem. We characterize optimal solutions and show that we can restrict the search for optimal solutions to feasible ...